fungus {ABCp2}

Sperm Precedence Data from the Fungus Beetle

Description

Offspring counts and proportional paternity by mating order for a breeding experiment of the fungus beetle conducted by JK Conner (1995).

Usage

data(fungus)

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 4 variables.

Female

a numeric vector to identify females.

P2

proportional paternity of the second male.

Total_Offspring

total number of offspring for the female.

No_2nd_Male

number of offspring sired by the second male.

Source

J. K. Conner (1995) Extreme variability in sperm precedence in the fungus beetle, Bolitotherus cornutus (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae), Ethology Ecology & Evolution 7, 277-280.

Examples

#Fit fungus beetle data to the normal distribution and test goodness of fit.
data(fungus)
fit_dist_norm(fungus$Total_Offspring)