Trees trees trees..

My friend Dominic has done a really good job on trying to create a KLM tree using Nexus, just like we learned in our Phyloinformatics course, our problem is that we should give our tree some dimensions in space. So I decided to play a little with the content of the data.. I chose to work with one family of species, the one that we have the most species on. so I filtered our table in order to show only the order Rodentia and the family of Cricetidae.

First I've tried to see if the iphylo Mashup could give me some information...but, unfortunately, no luck in getting a tree from TreeBase. so then I though...ok I'll look in NCBI: and found the Taxonomy ID: 9989 for Rodentia and then found the uBio classification of Rodentia but no further information about our new species. Blasting the ID code also gave me a tree, but I could not associate it with our data. Then I repeated the search in NCBI while doing a Cricetidae search. This time I think I got better results for the Taxonomy ID: 337677. and I can also download a csv file for that one. I will need to try and figure out how can I match those results into our "New mammal Data" and merge that into a nexus file to make a KLM 3D Google Earth tree. ...Interestingly enough, there are soooo many ways to create a phylogeny trees. HERE is a list of programs that can be used. I will experiment and try to make a tree by using TreeView.