Data from: The herbivorous fish family Kyphosidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) represents a recent radiation from higher latitudes ...

• Main Authors: Knudsen, Steen Wilhelm, Choat, John Howard, Clements, Kendall D.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2019
• Subjects: Paleogene; Neogene; Girella cyanea; Girella nebulosa; Girella fimbriata; Kyphosus ocyurus; Paleocene; Kuhlia mugil; Kyphosus bigibbus; Girella nigricans; Girellidae; Medialuna california; Girella zebra; marine herbivorous fishes; Oligocene; Kyphosus cinerascens; Kyphosus vaigiensis; Atypichthys strigatus; Girella simplicidens; Kyphosus; Scorpis violaceus; sea chubs; Kyphosus sydneyanus; Hyperoglyphe antarctica; Oplegnathus woodwardi; Kyphosus azureus; Scorpis lineolata; Eocene; Kyphosus sectatrix; Kyphosus cornelii; Kyphosus elegans; Graus nigra; Microcanthus strigatus; Girella tricuspidata; Kyphosidae; Kyphosus hawaiiensis; Kyphosus gladius; Girella punctata; Neoscorpis litophilus; Indian; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3dv23p2; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.3dv23p2

Aim: Herbivorous reef fishes are considered to have difficulty digesting plant material at extratropical temperatures, and are thus largely restricted to tropical waters where they are thought to have evolved. However, the herbivorous Kyphosidae, with both temperate and tropical species, provides an ideal opportunity to test this view. Previous studies have resolved the taxonomy and distribution patterns of all species. Here, we use a calibrated phylogeny to analyse the age, geographical origin and pattern of diversification of kyphosids to determine their origins in space and time, and thus refine hypotheses on the evolutionary origins of herbivory in reef fishes. Location: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Western Australia. Methods: The age and geographic origin of Kyphosidae were determined by incorporating fossil calibrations and species distributions onto a phylogeny of all extant species based on fragments from mitochondrial markers and three nuclear markers, and using Bayesian modelling to ... : High_latitude_origin_of_sea_chubs_Knudsen_etal_2019_J_BiogeogrThe tar.gz file holds multiple directories with bash codes for unix and R-codes for analysis of time calibrated phylogenetic trees and xml-files to be used with BEAST v1.8.4. The tar.gz file can be uncompressed in a unix terminal, and can also be git cloned from this bitbucket repository: https://[e-mail]/xanthic_Rudderfish/high_latitude_origin_of_sea_chubs_suppl_info_knudsen_etal_2019.git . The README file has instructions and guides on how the different files and directories can be used to rerun the analysis and reproduce the phylogenetic trees presented in the publication. The supporting information associated with this publication also holds information and instructions to how the analysis were done.High_latitude_origin_of_sea_chubs_Knudsen_etal_2019.tar.gz ...