rove {ABCp2}

Sperm Precedence Data from the Rove Beetle

Description

Offspring counts and proportional paternity by mating order for a breeding experiment of the rove beetle conducted by T Benken et al., (1999).

Usage

data(rove)

Format

A data frame with 17 observations on the following 4 variables.

Female

a numeric vector to identify females.

Total_Offspring

total number of offspring for the female.

P2

proportional paternity of the second male.

No_2nd_Male

number of offspring sired by the second male.

Source

T. Benken, A. Knaak, C. Gack, M. Eberle, and K. Peschke (1999) Variation of sperm precedence in the rove beetle, Aleochara curtula (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), Behaviour 136, 1065-1077.

Examples

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