DOI: 10.5061/dryad.n0513
title: Data from: Direct and indirect genetic and fine-scale location effects on breeding date in song sparrows

description: Quantifying direct and indirect genetic effects of interacting females and
 males on variation in jointly expressed life-history traits is central to
 predicting microevolutionary dynamics. However, accurately estimating
 sex-specific additive genetic variances in such traits remains difficult
 in wild populations, especially if related individuals inhabit similar
 fine-scale environments. Breeding date is a key life-history trait that
 responds to environmental phenology and mediates individual and population
 responses to environmental change. However, no studies have estimated
 female (direct) and male (indirect) additive genetic and inbreeding
 effects on breeding date, and estimated the cross-sex genetic correlation,
 while simultaneously accounting for fine-scale environmental effects of
 breeding locations, impeding prediction of microevolutionary dynamics. We
 fitted animal models to 38 years of song sparrow (Melospiza melodia)
 phenology and pedigree data to estimate sex-specific additive genetic
 variances in breeding date, and the cross-sex genetic correlation, thereby
 estimating the total additive genetic variance while simultaneously
 estimating sex-specific inbreeding depression. We further fitted three
 forms of spatial animal model to explicitly estimate variance in breeding
 date attributable to breeding location, overlap among breeding locations
 and spatial autocorrelation. We thereby quantified fine-scale location
 variances in breeding date and quantified the degree to which estimating
 such variances affected the estimated additive genetic variances. The
 non-spatial animal model estimated nonzero female and male additive
 genetic variances in breeding date (sex-specific heritabilities: 0·07 and
 0·02, respectively) and a strong, positive cross-sex genetic correlation
 (0·99), creating substantial total additive genetic variance (0·18).
 Breeding date varied with female, but not male inbreeding coefficient,
 revealing direct, but not indirect, inbreeding depression. All three
 spatial animal models estimated small location variance in breeding date,
 but because relatedness and breeding location were virtually uncorrelated,
 modelling location variance did not alter the estimated additive genetic
 variances. Our results show that sex-specific additive genetic effects on
 breeding date can be strongly positively correlated, which would affect
 any predicted rates of microevolutionary change in response to sexually
 antagonistic or congruent selection. Further, we show that inbreeding
 effects on breeding date can also be sex specific and that genetic effects
 can exceed phenotypic variation stemming from fine-scale location-based
 variation within a wild population.
description: Main_DatasetThis file contains the phenotypic data for the joint univariate animal model analysis of breeding date.Numeric_PedigreeThis file contains the numeric pedigree used to construct the inverted A (relationship) matrix for the joint univariate animal model analysis of breeding date.Unique_ID_All_Cell_SizesThis file contains the identity of each grid cell a given nest was located in for each version of the 'Grid' joint univariate animal model analysis of breeding date presented in the above paper.Overlap_Buff_50m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 50m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '50 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_100m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 100m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '100 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_150m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 150m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '150 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_200m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 200m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '200 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_250m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 250m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '250 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_300m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 300m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '300 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_400m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 400m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '400 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_500m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 500m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '500 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_600m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 600m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '600 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_700m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 700m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '700 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_800m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 800m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '800 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_900m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 900m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '900 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_1000m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 1000m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '1000 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_1500m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 1500m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '1500 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paperOverlap_Buff_2000m_All_NestsThis file contains a list of all overlapping nest buffers (buffer area = 2000m^2) used to construct the S matrix for the '2000 m overlap' animal model presented in the supporting information of the above paper