Primary data for Jun-Hoe Lee, Kevin M Lewis, Timothy W Moural, Bogdan Kirilenko, Barbara Borgonovo, Gisa Prange, Manfred Koessl, Stefan Huggenberger, ChulHee Kang and Michael Hiller. Building superfast muscles: insights from molecular parallelism in fast-twitch muscle proteins in echolocating mammals. The directory contains - AllAlignments14406Proteins.tar.gz All protein alignments with Prank of all species used for the genome-wide screen. - ParallelSubstitutions.ML.txt.gz All parallel substitutions detected with a Maximum Likelihood approach. - ParallelSubstitutions.Bayes.txt.gz All parallel substitutions detected with a Bayesian approach. - assembledTranscriptome.fa The assembled transcriptome of P.parnellii muscle tissue The columns in the ParallelSubstitutions file are - Ensembl gene ID - pair of branches - alignment position - substitution - classification (radical/conserved)