A lookup table mapping a species name to reproductive parameters used across
the package. It keys the gestation window in
getPotentialParents through getSpeciesGestation
and the minimum
breeding ages in the Genetic Value Analysis unknown-parent mean-kinship
correction through getSpeciesMinBreedingAge.
Species names are matched case- and whitespace-insensitively; any species not
present falls back to 210 days for gestation and 2 years for the breeding
ages. Rhesus gestation is 210 days (the historical conservative bound;
typical rhesus gestation is about 165 days, per Vinson & Raboin 2015), and
rhesus minimum breeding ages are male = 4, female = 2.5. The table is
populated for the common colony NHP species, with gestation
values as conservative upper bounds; making the values user-configurable is
a separate planned enhancement. Extend or adjust it by editing
data-raw/speciesGestation.R and re-running that script.
- species
– character species name (e.g. "RHESUS").
- gestation
– integer maximum gestation period in days (a conservative upper bound).
- minMaleBreedingAge
– numeric minimum age in years at which a male of the species can sire offspring.
- minFemaleBreedingAge
– numeric minimum age in years at which a female of the species can bear offspring.
Usage
data(speciesGestation)Examples
library(nprcgenekeepr)
data("speciesGestation")
speciesGestation
#> species gestation minMaleBreedingAge minFemaleBreedingAge
#> 1 RHESUS 210 4.0 2.5
#> 2 CYNOMOLGUS 170 4.0 2.5
#> 3 JAPANESE MACAQUE 180 5.0 4.0
#> 4 PIG-TAILED MACAQUE 175 4.0 3.0
#> 5 BABOON 187 6.0 4.0
#> 6 VERVET 170 4.0 3.0
#> 7 AFRICAN GREEN MONKEY 170 4.0 3.0
#> 8 SQUIRREL MONKEY 170 3.5 2.5
#> 9 COMMON MARMOSET 145 1.0 1.0
#> 10 COTTON-TOP TAMARIN 185 1.5 1.5
#> 11 OWL MONKEY 140 2.0 2.0
#> 12 CAPUCHIN 160 6.0 4.0
#> 13 CHIMPANZEE 240 12.0 8.0
#> 14 BONOBO 240 12.0 8.0