Heritability of Body Condition in Dung Beetles

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

Usage

DungBeetles

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dung_beetle

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6829/abs/410684a0.html

Examples

str(DungBeetles)
#> 'data.frame':	36 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ id                 : int  1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 ...
#>  $ offspring.condition: num  0.82 0.44 0.92 0.35 0.19 1.39 0.12 0.84 0.16 0.49 ...
xyplot(offspring.condition ~ factor(id), DungBeetles,
  xlab='Dung Beetle',
  ylab='offspring condition')