Comparative data

This is a repository of comparative data useful for neuroanatomy and neuroscience more generally.

How to contribute

If you find tabular data as a picture, you can use http://www.onlineocr.net/ to convert it to text. Other alternatives are http://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/ or using the Naphta extension for Chrome https://projectnaptha.com/.

For data in scatter plots, bar plots and others, you can use http://arohatgi.info/WebPlotDigitizer/app/.

For each data table, create a .tsv file and use the DOI of the paper where the data comes from as name for the .tsv file. DOI codes have symbols that are not allowed in a file name. Convert them to an acceptable name using http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/.

Provide a correctly formatted .tsv file with the data (GitHub will let you know if there are any problems), and add further comments or legends in a file with the same DOI name plus .ReadMe.md.

Finally, to enjoy the fruit of your work, you can use http://rawgraphs.io/ and pass a https://rawgit.com link to the .tsv file to get beautiful d3 plots.

We recently started using https://observablehq.com/ which lets you create interactive notebooks using JavaScript.

Data

• Table S1 from Mota and Herculano-Houzel 2015 Total surface area, thickness and folding index for 65 species
• Table S9 from Lewitus et al 2013 Neurone number and gyrification index for 25 species
• Figure 2 from Herculano-Houzel et al 2013 Number of neurones and volume of 18 cortical regions of the mouse
• from Lewitus et al 2013 Brain weight, neurone density, astrocyte density, grey matter thickness, ventricular volume and gyrification index for 66 species.
• Table from Burger et al. 2019. An interactive plot of this data can be found at https://observablehq.com/@katjaq/comparative-data-brushable
• Table 2 from Isler et al 2008 Differences between ECV of wild and captive primates in our compilation.
• Table 7 from Isler et al 2008 Least-squares regressions for ln(ECV) versus ln(Body mass) within different primate species.
• Tree from Isler et al 2008 Phylogenetic tree of primates (176 species, Nexus format).
• Table S1 from Isler et al 2008 Endocranial volumes and body mass data (individual specimens).
• Table S2 from Isler et al 2008 Endocranial volumes and body mass data (species means).
• Table S3 from Isler et al 2008 Data on basal metabolic rate, gestation and lactation length.

References

• Burger et al (2019). The allometry of brain size in mammals. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz043
• Herculano-Houzel et al (2013). Distribution of neurons in functional areas of the mouse cerebral cortex reveals quantitatively different cortical zones. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2013.00035
• Lewitus et al (2013). Conical expansion of the outer subventricular zone and the role of neocortical folding in evolution and development. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00424
• Lewitus et al (2014). An Adaptive Threshold in Mammalian Neocortical Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002000
• Mota and Herculano-Houzel (2015). Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa9101
• Isler, K., Christopher Kirk, E., Miller, J. M. A., Albrecht, G. A., Gelvin, B. R., & Martin, R. D. (2008). Endocranial volumes of primate species: scaling analyses using a comprehensive and reliable data set. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.08.004