diff --git a/recipes/phabox/meta.yaml b/recipes/phabox/meta.yaml
index 963dcd8a3cc7a..4d013011fbaa8 100644
--- a/recipes/phabox/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/phabox/meta.yaml
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ requirements:
     - biopython >=1.84 
     - datasets
     - kcounter >=0.1.1
-    - fasttree >=2.1.11
-    - mafft >=7.525
     - networkx >=3.4.2
     - numpy >=1.26.4
     - pandas >=2.2.3