READ ME File For 'Supporting Data: Mechanical Properties of Primary Feathers'

Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D1452

ReadMe Author:  Christian M Laurent, University of Southampton
				ORCID: 0000-0002-2946-9705
				Scopus ID: 56622270700

This dataset supports the thesis: Mechanical Properties of Primary Feathers by Christian M Laurent. 

This dataset supports the publication:
AUTHORS: Laurent, Christian, Dyke, John, Cook, Richard, Dyke, Gareth and De Kat, Roeland
TITLE:  Spectroscopy on the wing: investigating possible differences in protein secondary structures in feather shafts of birds using Raman spectroscopy
JOURNAL:  Journal of Structural Biology
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107529

This dataset contains 3 parts:
	1. Data supporting Chapter 4 of the thesis, which presents data on pseudo-elliptical holes within the feather cortex, measured using the BoneJ plugin for FIJI. Method statements can be found in Chapter 3 of the thesis. 
	2. Data supporting Chapter 5 of the thesis, which presents results on Raman spectra of the feather cortex. Method statements can be found in Chapter 3 of the thesis or in the paper listed above. 
	3. Data supporting Chapters 6 and 7 of the thesis, which present results from tension test, and an interpretation using classical laminate mechanics. Method statements can be found in Chapter 3 of the thesis.

Date of data collection: October 2015 - October 2019

Information about geographic location of data collection: Some data (CT) is archived at the Muvis Centre for X-ray Imaging, and the author also has a copy. If possible please contact the author before contacting Muvis, because archives are spread across many disks. The contact information on ORCID should be up-to-date, alternatively, contact information should be available on www.christianlaurent.me

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND -- please contact Christian Laurent for additional permissions. Collaboration is encouraged. Please note that should work using these data result in publication **contribution should be recognised with co-authorship**.

Date that the file was created: June 2020