This is the official repository for the Dragon Phylogeny Project: a phylogenetic exploration of dragons, dragon-kin and dragonkind, as depicted in historical works of art
This project began as a diversionary exercise at the tail end of Dr. Colautti's PhD Thesis, and it now lives as as part of a suite of undergraduate tutorial for teaching data structures and phylogeny building in R (https://colauttilab.github.io/DragonPhylogenyTutorial.html). It was rescued with the help of several enthusiastic and talented students. Thanks to their hard work, we have re-released the image on a set of customizable t-shirts for purchase:
https://dragonphylogeny.threadless.com/
100% of profits from the t-shirt support projects and grants that will help to diversify STEM research, particularly in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
A step-by-step tutorial written for undergraduate biology students. If you are not familiar with R, you may want to try this R Crash Course first.
List of traits, with coding used in DragonMatrix.net
Binary-coded trait matrix (NEXUS format)
Weightings used on trait matrix, with a brief rationale for each
Trait matrix, raw data, unencoded
NOTE Large file size (9.4MB) PDF containing images of all dragons used in the original Dragon Phylogeny
The official, original design of the Dragon Phylogeny T-Shirt on Threadless.com
io9/Gizmodo Article
io9.com A nice write-up about the project on the blog io9.com (now part of Gizmodo).
CBC.ca Interview
cbc.ca Interview with CBC radio, later posted on their website.
Facebook Site
facebook.com Facebook site created for the phylogeny and then never used again
Nature Article (Not directly related)
Dragons and climate change. Good read, but no direct link to the Dragon Phylogeny