Data: Maternal Glucocorticoids Have Persistent Effects On Offspring Social Phenotype Irrespective Of Opportunity For Social Buffering

Data accompanying: Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering (accepted in Journal of Animal Ecology, 2025). This work was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Marie Skłodowska Curie grant no. 799025, to KJM).   Any queries or questions, please direct them to me at k.macleod [at] bangor.ac.uk. Contents: R code file (RMarkdown format) - all code used to generate statistical models and plots Datafiles - data used for analysis of morphology and behaviour. See markdown file, and paper and associated supplementary material for more details (DOI to come).  Metadata notes: with reference to maternal treatment, C denotes "control" and S denotes "glucocorticoid treatment" throughout TL = total length, SVL = snout vent length MumDose refers to number of control/CORT doses each female received between capture and parturition LitInt_Date is litter initiation date Recap refers to recapture (ie. RecapMass is mass at recapture from enclosures) DaysOut refers to number of days a lizard was in enclosures, vs Obs (number of unique observations, of which there could be multiple a day), vs Nb_days_out which was number of days a lizard was seen (collapsing individual observations into a daily binary seen/not seen) Ref to Pallets in enclosure activity data - these were habitat sites within the outdoor enclosures (literally pallets) that were either large (major) or small (minor). We recorded the number of big/small pallets each lizard visited to generate a score of activity.  Total distance, in terms of enclosure activity, was generated from tracks of where lizards were observed, to give a metric of how far they moved Exploration (binary) - did they ever visit the dispersal side of the enclosures? Dispersal (binary) - did they settle on the dispersal side of the enclosures? Social network metrics as reported in social network datasheets were calculated by ABH. Code available on request (I did not write this).
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