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)