e7797949-8b96-423e-870e-69e8314dbe90 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 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 2025-11-21T09:56:00 UK GEMINI 2.3 Phenotypic data, elemental composition and photographs of three-spined sticklebacks from quantitative trait locus (QTL) experiments 2025-03-21 publication 2024-07-22 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e7797949-8b96-423e-870e-69e8314dbe90 10.5285/e7797949-8b96-423e-870e-69e8314dbe90 doi: Dean, L., MacColl, A.D.C.M. (2025). Phenotypic data, elemental composition and photographs of three-spined sticklebacks from quantitative trait locus (QTL) experiments. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e7797949-8b96-423e-870e-69e8314dbe90 This dataset contains phenotypic information for three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) that were raised from a single marine x freshwater cross from populations on North Uist, Scottish Outer Hebrides for approximately 5 generations in a freshwater pond in Nottinghamshire, UK. The fish were then used in a quantitative trait loci (QTL) experiment to determine the genomic regions associated with various phenotypic traits in the fish. The phenotypic information includes body length, body weight, sex, whether species of the parasite Schistocephalus was observed in the body cavity, and the composition of the body of the fish (determined by ICPMass Spectromotry) including the following elements: B, Na, Mg, P, S, K, Ca, Ti, Li, Be, Al, V , Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Rb, Sr, Mo, Ag, Cd, Cs, Ba, Tl, Pb, U Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e7797949-8b96-423e-870e-69e8314dbe90 Dean, L. University of Nottingham laura.dean@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4711-0931 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 Dean, L. University of Nottingham laura.dean@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4711-0931 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 MacColl, A.D.C.M. University of Nottingham andrew.maccoll@nottingham.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2102-6130 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 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Nottingham EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Phenotypic plasticity bony armour stickleback phenotype fish morphology Gasterosteus aculeatus otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Dean, L., MacColl, A.D.C.M. (2025). Phenotypic data, elemental composition and photographs of three-spined sticklebacks from quantitative trait locus (QTL) experiments. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e7797949-8b96-423e-870e-69e8314dbe90 English utf8 biota Comma-separated values (CSV) jpeg NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/e7797949-8b96-423e-870e-69e8314dbe90 Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e7797949-8b96-423e-870e-69e8314dbe90.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 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 Data were collected between October and December 2022 in Aquaria at the University Park campus of the University of Nottingham. Fish were euthanised using an overdose of anaesthetic (MS222). Each fish was blotted to remove excess water, photographed using a Nikon digital SLR camera, weighed to the nearest milligram using a fine balance, and fish length was measured (from the tip of the snout to the tip of the caudal peduncle) to the nearest millimetre using handheld callipers. Fish heads were removed by dissection, sex was determined by dissection of the body and the body was then freeze dried and used to determine the elemental composition of the individual using Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).