Daphnia Longevity

Number of spores and host longevity in the crustacean Daphnia magna.

Usage

DaphniaLongevity

Format

A data frame with 32 observations on the following 2 variables.

longevity

a numeric vector

sqrt.spores

a numeric vector

Source

Jensen, K.H., T.J. Little, A. Skorping, and D. Ebert. 2006. Empirical support for optimal virulence in a castrating parasite. PLoS Biology 4(7): e197

References

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040197

Examples

str(DaphniaLongevity)
#> 'data.frame':	32 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ longevity  : int  23 24 25 26 42 39 39 46 51 50 ...
#>  $ sqrt.spores: int  1 1 1 1 1206 1355 1687 1594 1651 1854 ...
xyplot(sqrt.spores ~ longevity, DaphniaLongevity)