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medfly25: Number of eggs laid daily from medflies

Description

A dataset containing the eggs laid from 789 medflies (Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata) during the first 25 days of their lives. This is a subset of the dataset used by Carey at al. (1998); only flies that lived at least 25 days are included, i.e, at the end of the recording period [0,25] all flies are still alive.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 19725 rows and 3 variables:

ID

: Medfly ID according to the original dataset

Days

: Day of measurement

nEggs

: Number of eggs laid at that particular day

nEggsRemain

: Remaining total number of eggs laid

References

Carey, J.R., Liedo, P., Müller, H.G., Wang, J.L., Chiou, J.M. (1998). Relationship of age patterns of fecundity to mortality, longevity, and lifetime reproduction in a large cohort of Mediterranean fruit fly females. J. of Gerontology --Biological Sciences 53, 245-251.