newt: Sperm Precedence Data from the Rough-Skinned Newt

Description Usage Format Source Examples

Description

Offspring counts from two clutches and proportional paternity by mating order for a breeding experiment of the rough-skinned newt conducted by Jones et al., (2002)

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 10 observations on the following 10 variables.

Female

a numeric code to identify females.

No_1st_Clutch

total offspring in the first clutch.

P2_1

proportional paternity of the second male for the first clutch.

No_2nd_Male_1st_Clutch

total offspring sired by the second male from the first clutch.

No_2nd_Clutch

total offspring in the second clutch.

P2_2

proportional paternity of the second male for the second clutch.

No_2nd_Male_2nd_Clutch

total offspring sired by the second male from the second clutch.

Total_2nd_Male

total offspring sired by the second male from both clutches.

Total_Offspring

total offspring for both clutches.

Total_P2

total overall proportional paternity of the second male for both clutches.

Source

A. G. Jones, E. M. Adams, and S. J. Arnold (2002) A mechanism of first-male precedence in a vertebrate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99, 2078-2081.

Examples

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#Fit newt data to the Poisson distribution and test goodness of fit.
data(newt)
fit_dist_pois(newt$Total_Offspring)

ABCp2 documentation built on May 1, 2019, 6:31 p.m.

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