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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2025

'gitana' (phyloGenetic Imaging Tool for Adjusting Nodes and other Arrangements), a tool for plotting phylogenetic trees into ready-to-publish figures.

Cristina Galisteo, Rafael R de la Haba

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Cristina GalisteoDepartment of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, 41012, Sevilla, Spain.
Rafael R de la HabaDepartment of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, 41012, Sevilla, Spain. rrh@us.es.

Funding

MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and ERDF/EU PID2020-118136GB-I00 and PID2023-148654NB-I00
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPhylogenetic trees are essential diagrams used in different sciences, such as evolutionary biology or taxonomy, and they depict the relationships between a given set of taxa sharing a common ancestor. So far, a multitude of tools have already been developed to infer phylogeny, and even more to visualize the resulting trees. However, editing generated graphical plots to obtain ready-to-publish figures is still a major issue. Most available tools do not take into consideration important aspects in nomenclature, such as the use of italics for taxon names or the superscript

resultsHere, we present a tool named 'gitana', running in Linux/Windows/Mac operating systems with R software installed. It creates ready-to-publish trees with formatting taxon nomenclature and editing options such as rerooting, clade highlighting or collapsing, among other features. Moreover, 'gitana' performs node comparisons among phylogenies comprising the same taxa to identify conserved branches.

conclusions'gitana' is a user-friendly tool to output high-quality and ready-to-publish phylogenetic trees for users without R-coding skills. It combines dedicated functions of popular R packages for phylogeny and graphical visualization into an easy one-line-command. The users' manual and source code are freely available at https://github.com/cristinagalisteo/gitana .

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Computational BiologyComputer GraphicsPhylogenySoftwareConserved nodesNomenclaturePhylogenetic treeReady-to-publish treeTree editionTree formatting

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