#GENERAL STATEMENT, PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE USING THE DATA The attached archived file(s) contain data derived from the long term field project monitoring individual Soay sheep on St Kilda and their environment. This is a request to please let us know if you use them. Several people have spent the best part of their careers collecting the data. If you plan to analyse the data, there are a number of reasons why it would be very helpful if you could contact c.e.regan@sms.ed.ac.uk before doing so: 1) Occasionally we discover and correct errors in the data. 2) The data are complex and workers who do not know the study system may benefit from advice when interpreting it. 3) At any one time quite a few people within the existing project collaboration are analysing data from this project. Someone else may already be conducting the analysis you have in mind and it is desirable to prevent duplication of effort. 4) In order to maintain funding for the project(s), every few years we have to write proposals for original analyses to funding agencies. It is therefore very helpful for those running the project to know what data analyses are in progress. If you are interested in analysing the detailed project data in any depth you may find it helpful to have our full relational database rather than the file(s) available here. If so, then we have a simple process for bringing you onto the project as a collaborator. The sheep identifiers, birth years and sheep years have been recoded and should therefore not be linked with data archived from other papers using the Soay sheep data. #-----------------------------------------------------------------------# #README INVERSE GENOMIC RELATEDNESS MATRICES For each trait the complete genomic relatedness matrix has been restricted to contain only individuals with the necessary phenotypic data. The files are named as follows: Birth weight - 'GRM for birth weight.txt' Birth date - 'GRM for birth date.txt' August weight - 'GRM for august weight.txt' Jaw length - 'GRM for jaw length.txt' Metacarpal length - 'GRM for metacarpal length.txt' Data structure: matrix containing relatedness information for every pair of animals for which phenotypic data were available. Row and column names correspond to the recoded IDs of these individuals. #-----------------------------------------------------------------------# #README HOME RANGE OVERLAP MATRICES/S MATRICES Each of the following files contains spatial overlap metrics for every pair of individuals for which there was phenotypic data available. The files are named as follows: Birth weight - 'Birth weight S matrix.txt' Birth date - 'Birth date S matrix.txt' August weight - 'August weight S matrix.txt' Jaw length - 'Jaw length S matrix.txt' Metacarpal length - 'Metacarpal length S matrix.txt' Data structure: matrix containing home range overlap metrics (calculated using Bhattacharyya's affinity) for every pair of individual for which phenotypic data were available. Row and column names correspond to the recoded IDs of these individuals. #-----------------------------------------------------------------------# README PHENOTYPIC DATA This consists of three early-life traits (lamb birth date, lamb birth weight and lamb August weight) and two adult/late-life traits (jaw length and metacarpal length) #DATA STRUCTURE #1: BIRTH WEIGHT FILE: Birth weight data.txt COLUMNS: MOTHER: Maternal ID ANIMAL: Sheep ID BWEIGHT: Weight of the lamb at the time of first capture (kilograms) CAPAGE: Age when weighed (days) BYEAR: Lamb's year of birth SEX: 1=female, 2=male TWIN: 0=singleton, 1=twin CAPAGE: Age when weighed (days) MATAGE: Maternal age when offspring was born (years) MATAGEQUAD: MATAGE^2 col: recoded easting of the mother's average lifetime location row: recoded northing of the mother's average lifetime location #2: BIRTH DATE FILE: Birth date data.txt COLUMNS: MOTHER: Maternal ID ANIMAL: Sheep ID SEX: 1=female, 2=male TWIN: 0=singleton, 1=twin BYEAR: Lamb's year of birth MATAGE: Maternal age when offspring was born (years) MATAGEQUAD: MATAGE^2 JBDATE: Lamb birth date in Julian days col: recoded easting of the mother's average lifetime location row: recoded northing of the mother's average lifetime location #3: AUGUST WEIGHT FILE: August weight data.txt COLUMNS: MOTHER: Maternal ID ANIMAL: Sheep ID SEX: 1=female, 2=male BYEAR: Lamb's year of birth TWIN: 0=singleton, 1=twin WEIGHT: Lamb's August weight (kilograms) AGE: Age of the lamb at the time of the August measurement (days) MATAGE: Maternal age when offspring was measured (years) MATAGEQUAD: MATAGE^2 col: recoded easting of the mother's average lifetime location row: recoded northing of the mother's average lifetime location #4: JAW LENGTH FILE: Jaw length data.txt COLUMNS: MOTHER: Maternal ID ANIMAL: Sheep ID BYEAR: Individual's birth year JAW: Jaw length measurement (mm) AGE: Age at the time of measurement (months) col: recoded easting of the individual's average lifetime location row: recoded northing of the individuals's average lifetime location #5: METACARPAL LENGTH FILE: Metacarpal length data.txt COLUMNS: MOTHER: Maternal ID ANIMAL: Sheep ID BYEAR: Individual's birth year LEG: Metacarpal length measurement (mm) AGE: Age at the time of measurement (months) col: recoded easting of the individual's average lifetime location row: recoded northing of the individuals's average lifetime location