frogarms: Data on the body size and arm girth of male and female...

In brouwern/wildlifeR: Wildlife biology and animal ecology datasets with example analyses.

Description

Morphology information on arm girth and overall body size was collected by Buzatto et el as part of a study of sexual selection in the Australian Quacking Frogs.

Usage

frogarms

Format

A data frame of frog morophology data.

i

frog Id

sex

Sex of each frog (male or female)

mass

mass of each frog in grams

sv.length

snout-vent length in mm

forearm

forearm girth (?) in mm

arm

arm girth in mm

Source

https://figshare.com/articles/Data_Paper_Data_Paper/3554424

References

Buzatto BA, Roberts JD, Simmons LW. 2015. Sperm competition and the evolution of precopulatory weapons: Increasing male density promotes sperm competition and reduces selection on arm strength in a chorusing frog. Evolution 69: 2613-2624. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12766

Buzatto BA, Roberts JD, Simmons LW. 2015. Data from: Sperm competition and the evolution of precopulatory weapons: Increasing male density promotes sperm competition and reduces selection on arm strength in a chorusing frog. Dryad Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cr2n4

Examples

## Load packages
library(ggplot2)
library(ggpubr)

## Plot data
### boxplot
ggboxplot(data = frogarms, y = "mass", x = "sex")

### Scatter plot (Figure 1 a of Buzatto et al 2015)
ggscatter(data = frogarms, y = "arm", x = "sv.length",
 color = "sex",
 shape = "sex",
 ylab = "Arm girth (mm)",
 xlab = "Snout-vent length (mm)")

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