title: Data for spatial analysis of growth anomaly lesions onMontipora capitatacoral colonies using 3D reconstruction techniques.
abstract: Ten annotated 3D reconstructions ofMontipora capitatacoral colonies contain x,y,z coordinates for all growth anomaly (GA) lesions affecting these corals. The 3D reconstructions are available as Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) files, and the GA lesions coordinates are in accompanying text files. The VRML models and GA lesion coordinates can be spatially analyzed using Matlab. Matlab scripts are provided for three spatial statistical procedures in order to assess clustering of the GA lesions across the coral colony surfaces in a 3D framework: Ripley׳s K, Moran׳s I, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Please see the research article, "Investigating the spatial distribution of Growth Anomalies affectingMontipora capitatacorals in a 3-dimensional framework" (J.H.R. Burns, T. Alexandrov, E. Ovchinnikova, R.D. Gates, M. Takabayashi, 2016) [1], for further interpretation and discussion of the data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2538 McCarthy Mall, Edmondson Hall Room 216., Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
authors.forename: John H R
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.affiliation: Structural and Computational Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Theodore
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Alexandrov
authors.affiliation: Structural and Computational Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Katya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ovchinnikova
authors.affiliation: Hawai׳i Institute of Marine Biology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai׳i, Kāne׳ohe, Hawai׳i 96744, USA.
authors.forename: Ruth D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Gates
authors.affiliation: Marine Science Department, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, 200 W. Kawili St., Hilo, HI 96720, USA.
authors.forename: Misaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takabayashi