The Earth BioGenome Project Phase II: Illuminating the Eukaryotic Tree of Life. Data file underpinning Figure 2A and Figure 2B

These datasheets accompany the article "The Earth BioGenome Project Phase II: Illuminating the Eukaryotic Tree of Life" in Frontiers in Science

This file contains data processed from Catalog of Life on 31 December 2023. The catalog was downloaded and post-processed to

remove prokaryotic taxa

remove extinct and fossil taxa

remove taxon names that were listed as junior synonyms

remove taxon names listed as "invalid"

Total living, valid eukaryotic genera 167,085

The taxa were sorted by the nomenclatorial Code under which they were declared (to avoid namespace clashes)

International Code for Algae, Fungi and Plants https://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php

Algal, Fungal, Plant code genera 31,076

International Code of Zoological Nomenclature https://www.iczn.org/the-code/the-code-online/

Zoological code genera 136,009

The Code-sorted taxa were aggregated by the generic portion of their names, and two plots were generated:

a plot aggregating the cumulative number of species in genera sorted by species number (Figure 2A)

a plot illustrating the distribution of the size of genera (Figure 2B)

This data file gives access to these processed data for

Figure 2 A Data

Figure 2 B Data

The original data including the intermediate calculations of values, and the plotted graphs, are available as a GoogleDoc at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V-bTtWjIRasC3AgID0jGlyToKqI-H9h1aPeSxUpNrjk/edit?usp=sharing