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.
A data frame with 19725 rows and 3 variables:
: Medfly ID according to the original dataset
: Day of measurement
: Number of eggs laid at that particular day
: Remaining total number of eggs laid
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.