zebra_bacteria {Biostatistics}R Documentation

Data on bacterial adaptation to host gut environments.

Description

Data from a study on bacterial adaptation to host gut environments. These data are measures of the competitive ability a bacterium called Aeromonas veronii after either 4 or 18 passages through the gut of an otherwise germ-free larval zebrafish.

Usage

data("zebra_bacteria")

Format

A data frame with 208 observations on the following 4 variables.

Line

Which of three lines

Host

Wild type (WT) or an immunodeficient myd88- mutant

Passage

Number of passages

CI

Competitive index

Source

https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Experimental_bacterial_adaptation_to_the_zebrafish_gut_reveals_a_primary_role_for_immigration/7445246

References

Robinson, C.D., Klein, H.S., Murphy, K.D., Parthasarathy, R., Guillemin, K. & Bohannan, B.J.M. (2018) Experimental bacterial adaptation to the zebrafish gut reveals a primary role for immigration. PLoS biology, 16, e2006893.

Examples

data(zebra_bacteria)
str(zebra_bacteria)

[Package Biostatistics version 1.0.4 Index]