Guppies: Ornamentation and Attractiveness in Guppies

In abd: The Analysis of Biological Data

Description

The father's ornamentation (composite score of color and brightness) and son's attractiveness (relative rates of visits by females) in male guppies (Poecilia reticulata).

Format

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

father.ornament

a numeric vector

son.attract

a numeric vector

Source

inferred from Brooks, R. 2000. Negative genetic correlation between male sexual attractiveness and survival. Nature 406: 67-70.

References

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6791/abs/406067a0.html

Examples

str(Guppies)
xyplot(son.attract ~ father.ornament,
  Guppies,
  xlab = "Father's ornamentation",
  ylab = "Son's attractiveness"
  )

Example output

Loading required package: nlme
Loading required package: lattice
Loading required package: grid
Loading required package: mosaic
Registered S3 method overwritten by 'mosaic':
  method                           from   
  fortify.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame ggplot2

The 'mosaic' package masks several functions from core packages in order to add 
additional features.  The original behavior of these functions should not be affected by this.

Attaching package: ‘mosaic’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:dplyr’:

    count, do, tally

The following object is masked from ‘package:Matrix’:

    mean

The following object is masked from ‘package:ggplot2’:

    stat

The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:

    binom.test, cor, cor.test, cov, fivenum, IQR, median, prop.test,
    quantile, sd, t.test, var

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    max, mean, min, prod, range, sample, sum

'data.frame':	36 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ father.ornament: num  0.35 0.03 0.14 0.1 0.22 0.23 0.3 0.32 0.31 0.31 ...
 $ son.attract    : num  -0.32 -0.03 0.11 0.28 0.31 0.18 0.29 0.27 0.19 0.12 ...

abd documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:14 p.m.