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Data and reproducible analysis scripts for Metazoan diversification characterised by elevated rates of evolution during the middle Ediacaran to earliest Cambrian. Zhiqing Guo (23695581) Palaeontology (incl. palynology) Cambrian explosion phenotypic evolution molecular evolution evolutionary rates MrBayes <p dir="ltr">This archive contains all input data, analysis files, control files, and plotting scripts required to reproduce the molecular and phenotypic evolutionary rate analyses presented in this study.</p><p dir="ltr">The archive is organized into four main directories:</p><p dir="ltr"><b>00_Morphological_Matrix</b></p><p dir="ltr">This folder contains the morphological character matrix analysed in this study together with its accompanying documentation.</p><p dir="ltr">· <b>00.1_Phenotype_matrix_description.docx</b></p><p dir="ltr">This document describes the construction and modification of the morphological character matrix used in this study.</p><p dir="ltr">· <b>00.2_Phenotype_matrix.xlsx</b></p><p dir="ltr">The complete morphological character matrix analysed in this study, including the full phenotype matrix and functional classifications of characters into the five functional categories.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr"><b>01_Molecular_MCMCTree</b></p><p dir="ltr">This folder contains molecular evolutionary rate estimates inferred using <b>MCMCTree</b> under two relaxed-clock models.</p><p dir="ltr">· <b>01A_MCMCTree_GBM: </b>Results generated using the autocorrelated relaxed-clock model.</p><p dir="ltr">· <b>01B_MCMCTree_IGR: </b>Results generated using the independent-rates relaxed-clock model.</p><p dir="ltr">Each model contains analyses performed under three alternative fossil calibration strategies: (1) Carlisle, (2) dos Reis, (3) Budd. Each calibration directory contains the corresponding MCMCTree outputs used to estimate lineage-specific molecular evolutionary rates.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr"><b>02_Phenotype_MrBayes</b></p><p dir="ltr">This folder contains morphological evolutionary rate analyses performed using <b>MrBayes</b>.</p><p dir="ltr">· <b>02A_All_Phenotype_Characters</b></p><p dir="ltr">Morphological evolutionary rates estimated using the complete morphological character matrix. Analyses were performed under the following three calibration strategies:(1)Carlisle, (2) dos Reis, (3) Budd. Each directory contains the MrBayes output files for the corresponding analysis.</p><p dir="ltr">· <b>02B_Phenotype_Categories_characters_mrbayes</b></p><p dir="ltr">Morphological evolutionary rate analyses conducted separately for the five functional character categories.</p><p dir="ltr">Each functional category was analysed independently under the same three calibration strategies: (1) Carlisle, (2) Dos Reis, (3) Budd and Mann. The five functional character categories are: (1) Development, (2) Nervous system, (3) Feeding, (4) Locomotion, (5) Fossilization. Each directory contains the corresponding MrBayes output files for that functional dataset.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>03_Rscripts</b></p><p dir="ltr">This folder contains the R scripts used to generate the figures and analyses presented in the manuscript.</p> 2026-09-23T23:51:13Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.31970895.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_and_reproducible_analysis_scripts_for_Metazoan_diversification_characterised_by_elevated_rates_of_evolution_during_the_middle_Ediacaran_to_earliest_Cambrian_/31970895 CC BY 4.0 Open Access after 2026-12-01