Converts an epidemiological time tree into a phylogenetic tree by scaling
branch lengths by a mutation rate and optionally simulating the coalescent
process using the multispecies coalescent framework.
Usage
sim_phytree(timetree, murate = 0, theta = 0)
Arguments
- timetree
An object of class phylo (from the ape package).
- murate
Numeric. Mutation rate used to scale the time tree branch lengths.
- theta
Numeric. Population size parameter for the coalescent simulation.
If 0, a simple scaling is performed.
Value
An object of class phylo representing the simulated gene tree.
