Whole body elongation drives coordinated vertebral shape evolution in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes

Introduction Supplementary data associated with: "Whole body elongation drives coordinated vertebral shape evolution in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes". Data deposited here includes: 1) details about all of the specimens included in the study (all_specimen_data.xlsx), 2) lateral images of the uCT-scans of each specimen used for collection of body shape measures (Specimen Lateral Images.zip), 3) all vertebral coordinate data (Vertebrae Coordinates (Json).zip), 4) ply files for all of the vertebrae used in the study (Vertebrae Models.zip) and, 5) specimen and species data used in the analysis, including specimen lengths (specimen_lengths.csv); centrum aspect ratios (vertebral_aspect_ratios.csv); intervertebral distances (intervertebral_distances.csv) and species data (species_data.csv) subsetted from another dataset (10.5281/zenodo.19315359). All code used in analysis has been deposited on GitHub and can be accessed here: https://github.com/callumbucklow/lake-malawi-vertebral-shape. This includes code to convert the JSON files into various formats for analysis. Acknowledgments This research was supported by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) studentship (Grant No. 2445747), the John Fell Fund at the University of Oxford (Grant No. 0009780) and a European Research Council Starting Grant (No. 101163722, Counts). We thank Richard Durbin for the uCT-scans of the specimens in the CAMZM collection used in this study that were uCT-scanned at the Cambridge Biotomography Centre. The specimens were collected ethically under prescribed permits, and the results and data are published under an Access and Benefit Sharing agreement with the Government of Malawi. We acknowledge the contributions of Hannes Svardal, Karl Svardal, Richard Zatha, Bosco Rusuwa, George Turner and colleagues, and the Malawi Department of Fisheries and the Government of Malawi for their assistance in the collection of samples. We thank Liz Martin-Silverstone at the XTM Facility, Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol for scanning the Maylandia zebra used in this study. Thank you to the fish whose lives were sacrificed for this work. Contact Details Do not hestitate to contact me if you have any questions on: [e-mail] or [e-mail]## 引言 本数据集关联研究论文：《全身伸长驱动马拉维湖慈鲷鱼类脊椎形状协同演化》。 本数据集所存储的数据包括： 1. 本研究涉及所有标本的详细信息（all_specimen_data.xlsx） 2. 用于采集体形测量数据的各标本的uCT扫描侧视图（Specimen Lateral Images.zip） 3. 全部脊椎坐标数据（Vertebrae Coordinates (Json).zip） 4. 本研究所用全部脊椎的PLY格式模型文件（Vertebrae Models.zip） 5. 分析所用的标本与物种数据，包括从另一数据集（10.5281/zenodo.19315359）中提取的标本体长数据（specimen_lengths.csv）、椎体长宽比数据（vertebral_aspect_ratios.csv）、椎间隙距离数据（intervertebral_distances.csv）以及物种元数据（species_data.csv）。 本研究分析所用的全部代码已存储于GitHub，可通过以下链接获取：https://github.com/callumbucklow/lake-malawi-vertebral-shape。该代码库包含将JSON格式文件转换为多种分析可用格式的代码。 ## 致谢 本研究得到英国生物技术与生物科学研究委员会（Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, BBSRC）博士生奖学金（项目编号：2445747）、牛津大学约翰·费尔基金（项目编号：0009780）以及欧洲研究委员会初创研究基金（项目编号：101163722，Counts）的资助。 感谢Richard Durbin为本研究提供CAMZM馆藏标本的uCT扫描数据，相关扫描工作于剑桥生物断层扫描中心完成。 本研究的标本采集严格遵循相关许可要求，符合伦理规范；研究结果与数据集的发布已与马拉维政府签署获取与惠益共享协议。 感谢Hannes Svardal、Karl Svardal、Richard Zatha、Bosco Rusuwa、George Turner及其团队，以及马拉维渔业部与马拉维政府在标本采集过程中提供的协助。 感谢布里斯托尔大学古生物学研究组XTM实验室的Liz Martin-Silverstone，其为本研究完成了梅氏真丽体鱼（Maylandia zebra）的扫描工作。 谨以此文致敬为本次研究牺牲的鱼类样本。 ## 联系方式 如有任何疑问，可通过以下邮箱联系作者： [e-mail] 或 [e-mail]