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OpenTree Get Mrca

Find the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) of a set of taxa in the Open Tree of Life synthetic phylogeny. Takes two or more OTT IDs and returns their MRCA with its taxonomic name and rank. Essential for understanding evolutionary relationships between species. Example: OTT IDs 770315 (Homo sapiens) and 417950 (Pan troglodytes) gives MRCA in subfamily Homininae.

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Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

JSON · 12 lines · 354 chars

Examples (1)

Default OpenTree Get Mrca call

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JSON · 3 lines · 19 chars
Expected response keys: success

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Catalog ID
tu_OpenTree_get_mrca
Tool name
OpenTree_get_mrca
Added
2026-04-30 22:47Z
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