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BeeGenes: Foraging Gene Expression

Description

Levels of expression of the foraging gene (for; Expression) in two worker types (type) in three bee colonies (colony). Note that colony is not coded as a factor.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 6 observations on the following 3 variables.
type
a factor with levels forager nurse
colony
a numeric identifier
expression
expression level of the for gene

Source

Ben-Shahar, Y., A. Robichon, M.B. Sokolowski, and G.E. Robinson. 2002. Influence of gene action across different time scales on behavior. Science 296: 741-744.

Examples

Run this code
str(BeeGenes)
BeeGenes
xtabs( expression ~ type + colony, BeeGenes )

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