Evolution tree with legend figures

Question

[Shicheng Guo]

Any Phylogenies tools could provide Phylogeny tree and legend photo together as the following:

[Michael]

As a rule of thumb, a good instructive and professional looking figure can rarely be generated completely automagically, but requires human effort. On the other hand, the species pictograms are somewhat dispensable, and a tree can be generated with many phylogeny packages. There is to my knowledge no such software that could add a pictogram for each and every species automatically, while some might be able to pull the Ensembl species. The Ensembl species Icon font is possibly the closest you get: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/web_guidelines/EBI-Icon-fonts/v1.2/#EBI-Species

Answer 1

[Kevin Blighe]

The tree itself was most likely generated using dendextend.

Other possibilities include:

• ape package
• ggtree

See also: ggtree: phylogenetic tree visualization and annotation

For adding the animals, go to your local farm, take some polaroids, and then add these manually in a graphics editor or directly in R. You can do this via the raster functions, as per Adding a picture to plot in R

Kevin

[Kevin Blighe]

Actually, in the ggtree link that I added, they add animal figures to the tree at the very end. It may not exacty be what you need, though:

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