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DungBeetles

Heritability of Body Condition in Dung Beetles

Description

Body condition (offspring.condition) in 36 dung beetles (Onthophagus taurus) from 12 males each mated to 3 different virgin females.

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 2 variables.

id

a numeric vector

offspring.condition

a numeric vector

Source

inferred from Kotiaho, J.S., L.W. Simmons, and J.L. Tomkins. 2001. Towards a resolution of the lek paradox. Nature 410: 684-686.

References

Examples

str(DungBeetles)
xyplot(offspring.condition ~ factor(id), DungBeetles,
  xlab='Dung Beetle',
  ylab='offspring condition')
abd

The Analysis of Biological Data

v0.2-8
GPL-2
Authors
Kevin M. Middleton <middletonk@missouri.edu>, Randall Pruim <rpruim@calvin.edu>
Initial release
2015-07-02

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