soap dataset

Sperm Precedence Data from the Soapberry Bug

Sperm Precedence Data from the Soapberry Bug

Offspring counts and proportional paternity by mating order for a breeding experiment of the soapberry bug conducted by SP Carroll (1991). data

data(soap)

Format

A data frame with 18 observations on the following 4 variables.

  • Female: a numeric vector to identify females.
  • P2: proportional paternity of the second male.
  • Total_Offspring: total number of offspring for the female.
  • No_2nd_Male: number of offspring sired by the second male.

Source

S. P. Carroll (1991) The adaptive significance of mate guarding in the soapberry bug, Jadera haematoloma (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae), Journal of Insect Behavior, 4 , 509-530.

Examples

#Fit soapberry bug data to the normal distribution and test goodness of fit. data(soap) fit_dist_norm(soap$Total_Offspring)
  • Maintainer: M. Catherine Duryea
  • License: GPL-2
  • Last published: 2016-02-04

About the dataset

  • Number of rows: 18
  • Number of columns: 4
  • Class: data.frame

Column names and types

  • Female:integer
  • P2:numeric
  • Total_Offspring:integer
  • No_2nd_Male:integer