Independent Transitions to Fully Planktonic Life Cycles Shaped the Global Distribution of Medusozoans in the Epipelagic Zone

Datasets and code related to the article "Independent Transitions to Fully Planktonic Life Cycles Shaped the Global Distribution of Medusozoans in the Epipelagic Zone" The file Boosten-Sant-et-al-2025_codes.zip contains three folders: 'data' – Input files used in the analyses. 'figure_codes' – Scripts used to generate the main figures, supplementary figures, and tables. 'otu_assignment_codes' – Scripts for OTU assignment, including pplacer analyses and 18S sequence alignment.