soap {ABCp2}

Sperm Precedence Data from the Soapberry Bug

Description

Offspring counts and proportional paternity by mating order for a breeding experiment of the soapberry bug conducted by SP Carroll (1991).

Usage

data(soap)

Format

A data frame with 18 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

S. P. Carroll (1991) The adaptive significance of mate guarding in the soapberry bug, Jadera haematoloma (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae), Journal of Insect Behavior, 4, 509-530.

Examples

#Fit soapberry bug data to the normal distribution and test goodness of fit.
data(soap)
fit_dist_norm(soap$Total_Offspring)