Fungi: The Fungi dataset

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The Fungi dataset

Description

This dataset is the result of an experiment aiming at assessing how the heat and pre-exposure to heat influences the growth rate and survival of two species of fungi in petri dishes.

Usage

Fungi

Format

A data frame with 8 variables:

colony

An identifier indicating the colony

species

An identifier referring to the species

T36

A binary indicating if the heating treatment was 36 degrees

T38

A binary indicating if the heating treatment was 38 degrees

PT36

A binary indicating if a pre-treatment at 36 degrees was performed

PT38

A binary indicating if a pre-treatment at 38 degrees was performed

alive

A boolean indicating if the fungi was alive at the end of the experiment

growth

A quantitative measure of the growth rate

Details

This dataset has not yet been published, so the identity of the species and the exact protocol of the experiement will not be revealed.

The experiement ran in two steps: (i) a pre-treatment was performed on some but not all fungi, during which the fungi are kept at elevated temperature (36 or 38 degrees) for some time. (ii) the treatment, during which all fungi are kept for some time at an elevated temperature (36 or 38 degrees). The growth rate and survival status of the fungi were recorded at the end of the experiement.

Before being put in petri dishes each species were grown in three different batches referred to as colonies. Each row of the dataset corresponds to a different petri dish.

Source

Bachelor thesis of Magdalena Nagel, FU Berlin.

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