+ CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.5-4
+
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+ o There is now an 'as.list' method for the class "DNAbin".
+
+ o dist.dna() can compute the number of transitions or transversions
+ with the option model = "Ts" or model = "Tv", respectively.
+
+ o [node|tip|edge]labels() gain three options with default values to
+ control the aspect of thermometers: horiz = TRUE, width = NULL,
+ and height = NULL.
+
+
+
+ CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.5-3
+
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+ o The new function mixedFontLabel helps to make labels with bits of
+ text to be plotted in different fonts.
+
+ o There are now replacement operators for [, [[, and $ for the class
+ "multiPhylo" (i.e., TREES[11:20] <- rmtree(10, 100)). They possibly
+ check that the tip labels are the same in all trees.
+
+ o Objects of class "multiPhylo" can be built with c(): there are
+ methods for the classes "phylo" and "multiPhylo".
+
+ o The internal functions .compressTipLabel and .uncompressTipLabel are
+ now documented.
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+ o bind.tree(x, y, where, position = 0) did not work correctly if 'y'
+ was a single-edge tree and 'where' was a tip.
+
+ o rTraitCont() did not use the square-root of branch lengths when
+ simulating a Brownian motion model.
+
+
+
+ CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.5-2
+
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+ o There is now a print method for results from ace().
+
+ o There is a labels() method for objects of class "DNAbin".
+
+ o read.dna() has a new option 'as.matrix' to possibly force sequences
+ in a FASTA file to be stored in a matrix (see ?read.dna for details).
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+ o as.phylo.hclust() used to multiply edge lengths by 2.
+
+ o A minor bug was fixed in rTraitDisc().
+
+ o ace() sometimes failed (parameter value was NaN and the optimisation
+ failed).
+
+
+DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
+
+ o evolve.phylo() and plot.ancestral() have been removed.
+
+ o chronogram(), ratogram(), and NPRS.criterion() have been removed.
+
+
+OTHER CHANGES
+
+ o nj() has been improved and is now about 30% faster.
+
+ o The default option 'drop' of [.DNAbin has been changed to FALSE to
+ avoid dropping rownames when selecting a single sequence.
+
+ o print.DNAbin() has been changed to summary.DNAbin() which has been
+ removed.
+
+
+