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Cortexa research tool·biomedical·opentree
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
public-safeinput
JSON · 3 lines · 19 chars
Expected response keys: success
Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_OpenTree_get_mrca
- Tool name
- OpenTree_get_mrca
- Added
- 2026-04-30 22:47Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse