Molecular, morphological and fossil input data for inferring relationship among viviparous brotulas (Bythitidae) - Resulting in a family status change for Dinematichthyidae

Steen Wilhelm Knudsen; Peter Rask Møller; Werner Schwarzhans; Jørgen G Nielsen

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.05.055

Molecular, morphological and fossil input data for inferring relationship among viviparous brotulas (Bythitidae) - Resulting in a family status change for Dinematichthyidae

Data Brief. 2016 May 30:8:461-4. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.05.055. eCollection 2016 Sep.

Authors

Steen Wilhelm Knudsen¹, Peter Rask Møller¹, Werner Schwarzhans¹, Jørgen G Nielsen¹

Affiliation

¹ Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.

Abstract

This article comprise the data related to the research article (Møller et al., 2016) [1], and makes it possible to explore and reproduce the topologies that allowed [1] to infer the relationship between the families Bythitidae and Dinematichthyidae. The supplementary data holds nexus-input files for the Bayesian analysis and the '.xml'-input files - with and without nucleotide data - that are used in the fossil-calibrated phylogenetic analysis with a relaxed clock model. The resulting topologies are provided as '.new'-files together with a characters matrix file for traits to trace across the inferred phylogenies.

Keywords: Aphyonidae; Bythitinae; Cave fishes; Coral reef fishes; Deepsea fishes; pedomorphism.