This Dental Development in Mandrillsreadme.txt file was generated on 2020-05-22 by Jo Setchell


GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: Dental Development in Mandrills

2. Author Information
	A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
		Name: Dr Joanna M Setchell
		Institution: Durham University
		Address: South Road, Durham DH1 3LE
		Email: joanna.setchell@durham.ac.uk

	B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
		Name: Dr Wendy Dirks
		Institution: Retired

3. Date of data collection (2013-2017)

4. Geographic location of data collection <Durham & Newcastle, UK>: 

5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Data collection funded by Leverhulme project Leverhulme project grant RPG-2012-753 “Stress, life history, and dental development in primates” to Setchell & Dirks. The Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Gabon, maintains the mandrill colony from which we obtained specimens.


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: None

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: Wendy Dirks, Lemmers SAM, Ngoubangoye B, Herbert A, Setchell JM. In press.  Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI to come.

3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: None

4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: None

5. Was data derived from another source? no

6. Recommended citation for this dataset: Dirks W, Lemmers, Barthélémy Ngoubangoye, Anaïs Herbert, Joanna M Setchell. In press.  Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI to come. 


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1. File List: 
Dental Development in Mandrills.csv 


METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

Methods in Wendy Dirks, Lemmers SAM, Ngoubangoye B, Herbert A, Setchell JM. In press.  Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI to come.


DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: Dental Development in Mandrills.csv

1. Number of variables: 5

2. Number of cases/rows: 1043 (including header row)

3. Variable List: 
tooth
id
sex (1=female, 2=male)
crown extension rate (μm/day)
calibrated enamel dentine junction length (μm)

4. Missing data codes: 
N/A

5. Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: 
Tooth names follow standard practice, with names of cusp for molars
I1 = incisor 1
I2 = incisor 2
P3 = premolar 3
P4 = premolar 4