abd (version 0.2-8)

Beetles: Beetle Wings and Horns

Description

Relative size of the horns and wings in 19 female Onthophagus sagittarius beetles.

Format

A data frame with 19 observations on the following 2 variables.

horn.size

a numeric vector

wing.mass

a numeric vector

Source

Emlen, D.J. 2001. Costs and the diversification of exaggerated animal structures. Science 291: 1534-1536.

References

http://www.scienceonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/291/5508/1534

Examples

str(Beetles)
xyplot(wing.mass ~ horn.size, Beetles)