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.
-- character species name (e.g. "RHESUS").
-- integer maximum gestation period in days (a conservative upper bound).
-- numeric minimum age in years at which a male of the species can sire offspring.
-- numeric minimum age in years at which a female of the species can bear offspring.
data(speciesGestation)An object of class data.frame with 14 rows and 4 columns.
library(nprcgenekeepr)
data("speciesGestation")
speciesGestation
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