Data on the multilocus molecular phylogenies of the Neotropical fish family Prochilodontidae (Teleostei: Characiformes)

Benjamin W Frable; Bruno F Melo; Brian L Sidlauskas; Kendra Hoekzema; Richard P Vari; Claudio Oliveira

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.08.015

Data on the multilocus molecular phylogenies of the Neotropical fish family Prochilodontidae (Teleostei: Characiformes)

Data Brief. 2016 Aug 18:9:128-42. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.08.015. eCollection 2016 Dec.

Authors

Benjamin W Frable¹, Bruno F Melo², Brian L Sidlauskas³, Kendra Hoekzema⁴, Richard P Vari⁵, Claudio Oliveira⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA; Marine Vertebrate Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
² Departamento de Morfologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
³ Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA; Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴ Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.
⁵ Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
⁶ Departamento de Morfologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil.

Abstract

The data presented herein support the article "Molecular phylogenetics of the Neotropical fish family Prochilodontidae (Teleostei: Characiformes)" (B.F. Melo, B.L. Sidlauskas, B.W. Frable, K. Hoekzema, R.P. Vari, C. Oliveira, 2016) [1], which inferred phylogenetic relationships of the prochilodontids from an alignment of three mitochondrial and three nuclear loci (5279 bp) for all 21 recognized prochilodontid species and 22 related species. Herein, we provide primer sequences, museum voucher information and GenBank accession numbers. Additionally, we more fully describe the maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of the concatenated dataset, detail the Bayesian species tree analysis, and provide the maximum likelihood topologies congruent with prior morphological hypotheses that were compared with the unconstrained tree using Shimodaira-Hasegawa tests.

Keywords: *BEAST; Characiformes; Phylogenetics; Prochilodontidae; Shimodaira–Hasegawa test.