Analysis of Biological Data


Teaching

Datasets

Suggestions

Corrections

Roberts&Co.

Orders


Here are the data sets used in The Analysis of Biological Data in chapter 18, in .csv (comma-separated) format. Most data sets used in the book are grabbed from graphs and tables in papers, and the values may not be exact.

Examples:

Example 18.1: Mouse empathy
----Langford, D. J.,et al. 2006.  Science 312: 1967-1970.

Example 18.2: Zooplancton
----inferred from Svanbäck, R. and D. I. Bolnick. 2007. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 274: 839–844.

Example 18.3: Intertidal algae
----Harley, C. D. G. 2003. Ecology 84: 1477–1488.

Example 18.4: Mole rats
----inferred from Scantlebury, M., J. R. Speakman, M. K. Oosthuizen, T. J. Roper and N. C. Bennett. 2006. Nature 440: 795-797.

Problems:

Question 18.6: Hippocampus lesions
----Broadbent, N. J., L. R. Squire, and R. E. Clark. 2004. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101: 14515–14520.

Question 18.7:Bee genes
----Ben-Shahar, Y., et al. 2002. Science 296: 741–744.

Question 18.9: Neanderthal brains
----Ruff, C. B., E. Trinkaus, and T. W. Holliday. 1997. Nature 387: 173-176.

Question 18.11: Larval fish
----Hsieh, C. H., et al. 2006. Nature 443: 859-862.