Multiple Mating in Pseudoscorpions

Successful numbers of broods (Number.of.successful.broods) in two groups of female pseudoscrpions (Cordylochernes scorpioides), one mated to the same male twice and one to two different males.

Usage

Pseudoscorpions

Format

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

treatment

a factor with levels DM SM

successful.broods

a numeric vector

Source

Newcomer, S.D., J.A. Zeh, and D.W. Zeh. 1999. Genetic benefits enhance the reproductive success of polyandrous females. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 96: 10236-10241.

References

http://www.pnas.org/content/96/18/10236.long

Examples

str(Pseudoscorpions)
#> 'data.frame':	36 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ treatment        : Factor w/ 2 levels "DM","SM": 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
#>  $ successful.broods: int  4 0 3 1 2 3 4 2 4 2 ...
bwplot(successful.broods ~ treatment, Pseudoscorpions)

aggregate(successful.broods ~ treatment, Pseudoscorpions, favstats)
#> Warning: corrupt data frame: columns will be truncated or padded with NAs
#>   treatment successful.broods
#> 1        DM                 0
#> 2        SM                 0