[Babase] new sexskin error_death while ppa

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Wed May 14 14:24:02 EDT 2008


Hi again Karl,

The sexskin sizes are no longer failing to upload due to the Mdate 
error..  I don't know if the mdates are actually going in correctly or 
not.  That is still on my list of things to check, but I'm not get stuck 
on that old error message.

My newest error is rather befuddling:

ERROR: Sxid 12946: Cid 20263: 2000-02-14: There is no sexual cycle 
(CYCLES) to which this row can be assigned

I checked a few things:
SOU  last zdate is 1999-08-22.
She gives birth on 2000-02-14
All her observed sizes after the problematic date (2000-02-14)  are size 
0 (obviously she's ppa).
She dies in 2000-11-27.

I have run into a similar error with two other females (SOU and FED) and 
there are a  few recurring themes here:  1)  the program starts 
complaining about "no sexual cycle" after the birth 2) The female dies 
relatively soon (within a few months or a year) or the date in the error 
message without having a cycle.

So the female is ppa and there shouldn't be a row for her in cycles, yet 
there are observations that she is ppa and we don't want to simply lost 
those data.  How are other ppa females treated and why do you suppose 
death during ppa is causing problems with the CYCLES validations?


Thanks,
Tabby

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Tabby Fenn
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Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Princeton University
Princeton, NJ  08544

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