Fecal hormones

This dataset includes the data for our third analysis, which examined fecal glucocorticoids (fGC), fecal estrogens (fE), and fecal progestogens (fP) during PPA as a function of the number of months to sexual cycle resumption, or during the various phases of the sexual cycles (early or late follicular and luteal) as a function of the number of cycles to conception. For fGC and fE we had a total of 5,470 hormone samples collected between 2000 and 2014 for 138 females during 549 IBIs. Of these samples, 4,150 fecal samples were collected during PPA, and 1,320 were collected during cycling. Each female contributed fecal samples from an average of 4 IBIs (range: 1-11) with an average of 10 hormone samples per IBI (range: 1-55) and an average total number of 40 samples per female (range: 1-145). For fP, we had a smaller sample size of 4,095 hormone samples collected between 2003 and 2014 for 130 females during 456 IBIs; 2,922 were collected during PPA and 1,173 during cycling. Each female contributed samples from an average of 3.5 IBIs (range 1-8), with an average of 9 (range 1-47) samples per IBI, for an average total number of 32 (range 1-141) samples per female.