Data from: Resources for phylogenomic analyses of Australian terrestrial vertebrates

High-throughput sequencing methods promise to improve our ability to infer
the evolutionary histories of lineages and to delimit species. These are
exciting prospects for the study of Australian vertebrates, a group
comprised of many globally unique lineages with a long history of
isolation. The evolutionary relationships within many of these lineages
have been difficult to resolve with small numbers of loci, and we now know
that many lineages also exhibit substantial cryptic diversity. Here, we
present a set of phylogenetically diverse transcriptome resources to
enable exon-based sequence capture studies of Australian vertebrates,
including transcriptome sequences for four species of birds, four frogs,
seven lizards and seven mammals. We also use exon data from the marsupial
transcriptomes we generated to examine an approach for choosing a moderate
number (dozens or hundreds) of phylogenetically informative exons based on
a single transcriptome sequence, and a relatively distant reference
genome.