e5854431-6fa4-4ff0-aa02-3de68763c952 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:24:09 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Data on immunological expression and phenotypes in a natural population of field voles in Kielder Forest, UK 2015-2017 2022-03-25 publication 2022-03-01 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e5854431-6fa4-4ff0-aa02-3de68763c952 10.5285/e5854431-6fa4-4ff0-aa02-3de68763c952 doi: Paterson, S., Jackson, J., Jackson, I., Bradley, J., Begon, M., Wanelik, K., Taylor, C. (2022). Data on immunological expression and phenotypes in a natural population of field voles in Kielder Forest, UK 2015-2017. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e5854431-6fa4-4ff0-aa02-3de68763c952 Data comprise morphometric measurements, sex determination, maturity and immunological analysis of blood pathogens from wild field voles (Microtus agrestis) in Kielder Forest, Northumberland, UK in 2015-17. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e5854431-6fa4-4ff0-aa02-3de68763c952 Paterson, S. University of Liverpool s.paterson@liverpool.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1307-2981 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Paterson, S. University of Liverpool s.paterson@liverpool.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1307-2981 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Jackson, J. University of Salford J.A.Jackson@salford.ac.uk author Jackson, I. University of Salford ida.jackson0@gmail.com author Bradley, J. University of Nottingham Jan.Bradley1@nottingham.ac.uk author Begon, M. University of Liverpool mbegon@liverpool.ac.uk author Wanelik, K. University of Liverpool klara.wanelik@zoo.ox.ac.uk author Taylor, C. University of Nottingham Christopher.Taylor@nottingham.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Microtus agrestis Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation Kielder Forest GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Animal behaviour Field vole otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions University of Liverpool otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Paterson, S., Jackson, J., Jackson, I., Bradley, J., Begon, M., Wanelik, K., Taylor, C. (2022). Data on immunological expression and phenotypes in a natural population of field voles in Kielder Forest, UK 2015-2017. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e5854431-6fa4-4ff0-aa02-3de68763c952 textTable 1 English utf8 biota 2015-01-01 2017-12-31 -2.62 -2.53 55.21 55.25 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/e5854431-6fa4-4ff0-aa02-3de68763c952 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e5854431-6fa4-4ff0-aa02-3de68763c952.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Wild field voles Microtus agrestis were trapped in Kielder Forest, Northumberland, UK. Trapping was conducted over a total of 46 sessions from March to October in 2015-17, at approximately two week intervals. At each session we trapped voles at four different sites at least 1 km apart. During the course of the study, three sites were reassigned due to practical constraints, giving a total of seven different sampling sites. At each site, 197 Ugglan traps were laid out in a grid pattern with approximately 5m between traps. Trapping sessions lasted three days, with traps checked morning and afternoon. Voles were marked with unique PIT tags on first capture. On the first capture of each session for a given individual, we recorded sex and reproductive status (ascended or descended testes for males; pregnant, lactating, perforate or imperforate vagina for females) from visual inspection. We measured body length from snout to vent and total body mass. A small blood sample (up to 50 µl) was taken from the tip of the tail and stored in RNAlater at -20°C for a maximum of 5 days before being transferred to -80°C for longer term storage.