Description

A dataset containing the eggs laid from 789 medflies (Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata) during the first 25 days of their lives. This is a subset of the dataset used by Carey at al. (1998); only flies that lived at least 25 days are included, i.e, at the end of the recording period [0,25] all flies are still alive.

Format

A data frame with 19725 rows and 3 variables:

ID

: Medfly ID according to the original dataset

Days

: Day of measurement

nEggs

: Number of eggs laid at that particular day

nEggsRemain

: Remaining total number of eggs laid

Source

https://anson.ucdavis.edu/~mueller/data/medfly1000.html

References

Carey, J.R., Liedo, P., Müller, H.G., Wang, J.L., Chiou, J.M. (1998). Relationship of age patterns of fecundity to mortality, longevity, and lifetime reproduction in a large cohort of Mediterranean fruit fly females. J. of Gerontology –Biological Sciences 53, 245-251.