How female × male and male × male interactions influence competitive fertilization in Drosophila melanogaster
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Abstract
Data were collected experimentally by staging competitive matings between males and females. Flies were observed, measured, dissected and processed as described in the Methods section of the article.
The dataset contains missing data because not all variables could be measured for each individual because, for example, not all females ejected a sperm mass (or it could not be found), or the precise start or end time of copulation or female sperm ejection were missed. If the ejected mass was missing, the number of first-male sperm residing in the female reproductive tract at remating, or the number of sperm transferred by the second male, were also missing by extention. However, the numbers of sperm stored by the female after sperm ejection would have been affected. Very few further specimens had missing data due to accidents during dissection (e.g. losing a spermatheca or bursting the female reproductive tract, preventing assignment of leaked sperm to specific storage organs). Rather than including only those females with complete data, we included all females that mated twice, but excluded those records with missing data for any given analysis.