Dataset for the article: Investigating the unaccounted ones: insights on age-dependent reproductive loss in a viviparous fly

English, Sinead, Leyland, Robert, Lord, Jennifer and Haines, Lee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8821-6479 (2022) Dataset for the article: Investigating the unaccounted ones: insights on age-dependent reproductive loss in a viviparous fly. [Data Collection]

Summary

This is the information file for the data and code used in the paper "Investigating the unaccounted ones: insights on age-dependent reproductive loss in a viviparous fly".

Any comments or questions, please contact Sinead English: sinead.english@bristol.ac.uk

DATA
3 data files are provided:

metaData.xlsx -- an Excel file with two tabs, explaining the column names for the following datasets colonyAbortions.csv -- a CSV file which describes reproductive output per tray of the LSTM colony indLarvipositionDat.csv -- a CSV file which describes reproductive output per individual during a nutritional stress experiment

CODE
The following analysis files are provided:

colonyAnalysisCode.R -- R source code to analyse age- and stage-specific patterns of abortion in the LSTM colony individualAnalysisCode.R -- R source code to estimate presumed abortions, to investigate how abortions change with female age, and the consequences of abortion for subsequent reproduction