alifestd_count_children_of_asexual

alifestd_count_children_of_asexual(phylogeny_df: DataFrame, parent: int, mutate: bool = False) → int

How many taxa are direct descendants of the given parent?

Input dataframe is not mutated by this operation unless mutate set True. If mutate set True, operation does not occur in place; still use return value to get transformed phylogeny dataframe.