%ASah, Pratha%AMéndez, José%ABansal, Shweta%BJournal Name: Scientific Data; Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Related Information: CHORUS Timestamp: 2022-12-17 00:10:56 %D2019%INature Publishing Group %JJournal Name: Scientific Data; Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Related Information: CHORUS Timestamp: 2022-12-17 00:10:56 %K %MOSTI ID: 10153723 %PMedium: X %TA multi-species repository of social networks %XAbstract

Social network analysis is an invaluable tool to understand the patterns, evolution, and consequences of sociality. Comparative studies over a range of social systems across multiple taxonomic groups are particularly valuable. Such studies however require quantitative social association or interaction data across multiple species which is not easily available. We introduce the Animal Social Network Repository (ASNR) as the first multi-taxonomic repository that collates 790 social networks from more than 45 species, including those of mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, and insects. The repository was created by consolidating social network datasets from the literature on wild and captive animals into a consistent and easy-to-use network data format. The repository is archived athttps://bansallab.github.io/asnr/. ASNR has tremendous research potential, including testing hypotheses in the fields of animal ecology, social behavior, epidemiology and evolutionary biology.

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