TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

GOLOBOFF, PABLO A.; FARRIS, JAMES S.; NIXON, KEVIN C.

CLADISTICS (PRINT)

Blackwell Publishing

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2008 vol. 24 p. 774 - 786

0748-3007

Since the first breakthrough in parsimony analysis with the release of Hennig86 (Farris, 1988), parsimony programs have continued to improve, culminating in TNT (Goloboff et al., 2003b), which includes several new methods to facilitate phylogenetic analysis (for reviews see Hovenkamp, 2004; Giribet, 2005; Meier and Ali, 2005).   Under an agreement between the Willi Hennig Society and the authors, TNT is now available as a free program.  A version of TNT licensed for single-user, academic use can be downloaded from http://www.zmuc.dk/public/phylogeny/TNT.  The purpose of the present paper is to provide a general overview of the program and some guidance for beginners.