Cichlids: Cichlid Mating Preference

In kmiddleton/abd: The Analysis of Biological Data

Cichlid Mating Preference

Description

Preference index in F1 and F2 crosses of two species of cichlids from Lake Victoria, Pundamilia pundamilia and P. nyererei.

Usage

Cichlids

Format

A data frame with 53 observations on the following 2 variables.

genotype

a factor with levels F1 and F2

preference

a numeric vector

Source

Haeslery, M.P. and O. Seehausen. 2005. Inheritance of female mating preference in a sympatric sibling species pair of Lake Victoria cichlids: implications for speciation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 272: 237-245.

References

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/272/1560/237.full.pdf

Examples

str(Cichlids)

summary(preference ~ genotype, Cichlids, fun = favstats)

if (require(plyr)) {
ddply(Cichlids, .(genotype),
  function(df)c(mean = mean(df$preference),
                standard.deviation = sd(df$preference),
                n = length(df$preference)))
}

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