[Babase] Male ranks 2008A completed

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Wed Mar 4 12:23:53 EST 2009


Susan and I just spoke, and yes, I will put that on my list of things to 
check each month with the incoming data.

Thanks!
Lacey

kfenn wrote:
> Lacey Maryott wrote:
>>
>> 4. Esien, new male in Nya, immigrated March 2008. He is a juvenile 
>> and has testes NOT E. We did NOT assign him a matured date. Tabby, 
>> did you checkto confirm that the team put him on their scrotal 
>> assessment sheet?
>>
> ESI was put on the scrotal development sheets, but I see that the team 
> did not include his name in Dec 08.  I though he might have left the 
> group again, but just checked the Dec and Jan census sheet and he is 
> still there.  I did not get a Jan scrotal sheet for Nyayos from team 
> although it was checked off on list.  This is one of the questions I 
> asked them.  I still have not received any answers to my Nov, Dec, and 
> Jan data questions although they said they were working on them last 
> week.
> It sounds like this requires a follow-up question to the team but I'd 
> rather that Lacey initiate it (and harrass the team for an answer if 
> it isn't forthcoming) because it will likely to fall off my radar 
> screen since I don't deal with the males ranks.
>
> I've never established a protocol for checking new immigrants against 
> scrotal development sheets AND making sure that the team doesn't drop 
> them off the sheets month to month.  I don't have a sense of when a 
> male should be put on the scrotal sheet based on age or immigration 
> status because I don't pay attention to male ages or maturity.  I'm 
> not opposed to trying to do this, but I doubt I'll do a very good job 
> of cross-checking the info.  I just won't see the holes very readily.  
> Lacey, since you are now getting copies of all the monthly data, do 
> you want to do this type of proofing?  We've discussed before how we 
> need to check for new immigrant male hybridity sheets and age sheets 
> and I've added that to my proofing checklist... but this one just 
> seems to make more sense with you.
>
> Tabby
>

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Lacey Maryott
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
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