Data from: Sex differences in the relationship between maternal and foetal glucocorticoids in a free-ranging large mammal

Description

This registration contains the data and scripts used for the analysis in the manuscript "Sex differences in the relationship between maternal and neonate cortisol in a free-ranging large mammal" (https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.04.538920). All versions and additional material are posted on the OSF project page: https://osf.io/4ymc8/ 

Important to note: this is an updated registration from a previous version (www.osf.io/wynke). OSF currently does not allow to change the files that were uploaded previously, which is why we switched to Zenodo. Future updates to the dataset and scripts will take place here. 

Changes to previous version

Following our review process at PCI Ecology, we made some changes (mostly additions) to the previous version. This includes the addition of more raw data. 

Changes to the previous version include: 

-    We added the raw faecal data (“Raw_faecal_data.csv) along with a script (“Faecal exploration .R”), which loads the raw faecal datafile and does some minor investigations on it. These include checking whether the sampling time or day matter, and calculating a repeatability estimate.
-    In “Faecal exploration.R”, we highlight the outlier that we removed. 
-    We have added the t-test reported in the manuscript to the script “Analysis.R”.
-    In “Analysis.R”, we now also run the analysis both with as well as without the outlier. We also have adapted our code to plot the outlier in the figure along with the other values. 
-    We have updated the README file to include a description of both the data files and the scripts.