Sperm whale DNA profiles and sample information

• Main Authors: Alexander, Alana, Steel, Debbie, Hoekzema, Kendra, Mesnick, Sarah, Engelhaupt, Daniel, Kerr, Iain, Payne, Roger, Baker, Charles
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Population Genetics - Empirical; Sex-biased dispersal; mtDNA; Microsatellite genotypes; Cetacea; population expansion; Galapagos; Indian; New Zealand; Pacific; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.112411; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2q4r0/1

Tab delimited file (column names if different from column description are given in parentheses) of: sample name (Sample_ID); individual code (Individual_ID); latitude; longitude; date/time of sampling in format yyyy-mm-dd:T24:59 (Date_Time); region with abbreviations as follows: ALD: Aldabras, ATL: Atlantic crossing, AUS_SAUS: Australia, BAH: Bahamas, C_ATL: Central Atlantic, CNI: Canary Islands, COC: Cocos Island, E_MED: E. Mediterranean, GCA: Gulf of California, GPG: Galapagos, IO: Indian Ocean crossing, KR: Kiribati, MAL_CHG: Maldives_Chagos, MAU: Mauritius, MED: Mediterranean, N_MED: N. Mediterranean, NZ: New Zealand, OR: Oregon, PNG: Papua New Guinea, PX: Pacific crossing, SEY: Seychelles, SRI: Sri Lanka (Region); Sex with F: female, M: male (Sex); mtDNA 400 bp haplotype as defined in Supp. Mat. 1 (Haplotype); 26 columns of microsatellite data with two columns per locus containing the first and second allele (columns prefixed "L_" followed by locus name); and social group code (Occurence_ID). Data provided for Odyssey and stranding samples that passed QC. Missing data left blank, except for microsatellite genotypes (missing data encoded as '0').