Guppies {abd}

Ornamentation and Attractiveness in Guppies

Description

The father's ornamentation (composite score of color and brightness) and son's attractiveness (relative rates of visits by females) in male guppies (Poecilia reticulata).

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 2 variables.

father.ornament

a numeric vector

son.attract

a numeric vector

Source

inferred from Brooks, R. 2000. Negative genetic correlation between male sexual attractiveness and survival. Nature 406: 67-70.

References

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6791/abs/406067a0.html

Examples

str(Guppies)
xyplot(son.attract ~ father.ornament,
  Guppies,
  xlab = "Father's ornamentation",
  ylab = "Son's attractiveness"
  )