Data from: Replicated divergence in cichlid radiations mirrors a major vertebrate innovation

Decoupling of the upper jaw bones—jaw kinesis—is a distinctive feature of the ray-finned fishes, but it is not clear how the innovation is related to the extraordinary diversity of feeding behaviours and feeding ecology in this group. We address this issue in a lineage of ray-finned fishes that is well known for its ecological and functional diversity—African rift lake cichlids. We sequenced ultraconserved elements to generate a phylogenomic tree of the Lake Tanganyika and Lake Malawi cichlid radiations. We filmed a diverse array of over 50 cichlid species capturing live prey and quantified the extent of jaw kinesis in the premaxillary and maxillary bones. Our combination of phylogenomic and kinematic data reveals a strong association between biting modes of feeding and reduced jaw kinesis, suggesting that the contrasting demands of biting and suction feeding have strongly influenced cranial evolution in both cichlid radiations.SRA-files.xlsxAccession numbers for raw-reads in NCBI SRA.trinity-assemblies-for-dryad.tar.gzDe novo Trinity (trinityrnaseq_r2013-02-25) assemblies of raw-reads for all individuals included in study.outgroup-data.tar.gzOutgroup data included in analysis from genome-enabled cichlids.11-20-2014-malfaro-cichlids-taxa.confConfiguration file used with PHYLUCE for taxon-set extraction.skull-mobility-contig-and-alignment-data.tar.gzUCE contigs, alignments, trimmed alignments, coverage information, and configuration and log files used in all phylogenetic analyses.mafft-gblocks-clean-95p-complete-raxml.tar.gzPartition-finder and RAxML input/output files for ML analysis of the 95 % complete data set.mafft-gblocks-clean-95p-complete-EXABAYES.tar.gzExaBayes output files for Bayesian analysis of the 95 % complete data set.mafft-gblocks-clean-75p-complete-raxml.tar.gzPartition-finder and RAxML input/output files for ML analysis of the 75 % complete data set.mafft-gblocks-clean-75p-complete-EXABAYES.tar.gzExaBayes output files for Bayesian analysis of the 75 % complete data set.phylogenetic-analysis-steps.txtSteps used during the phylogenetic analysis. All used the PHYLUCE software package (available from: https://github.com/faircloth-lab/phyluce).analysis-steps.txtfish-uce-1k-probes.fasta.gzFasta file detailing probes targeting UCEs in Acanthomorphs.all-tre-files.tar.gzAn archive of all trees generated for the manuscript text in Newick format