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What are Marked Species?

DESCRIPTION

All species have a flag which can be set to FALSE or TRUE. All species with the flag set to TRUE are called marked species. Normally this flag is used to specify a subgroup of species for editors, tree building programs ...

 

EXAMPLES

Mark queried species:

  1. Select 'Search' from the ARB main window
  2. Perform a search
  3. Use 'Mark Listed Unmark Rest' to mark all queried species

Mark selected species:

  1. Select a species (in tree, editor, search result etc.; see ´Selected species´)
  2. Open the ´SPECIES INFORMATION´
  3. Check the 'Marked?' toggle.

Mark all species in selected tree or subtree:

  1. Unmark all species: <ARB/Species/Mark species/Unmark all Specie>
  2. <ARB/Species/Mark species/Species in Tree/Mark species in Tree>

or
  1. Select the <MARK MODE> 2a. Press the left mouse button somewhere outside the tree to mark the whole tree. 2b. Press the left mouse button at a subtree to mark it.

or
use any of the keyboard shortcuts defined for the tree display (see ´Tree display keyboard reference´).

Save/Restore sets of marked species: