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Does brain size affect mate choice? An experimental examination in pygmy halfbeaks

Cite this dataset

McNeil, Rebecca; Fitzpatrick, John; Devigili, Alessandro; Kolm, Niclas (2021). Does brain size affect mate choice? An experimental examination in pygmy halfbeaks [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.280gb5mpr

Abstract

This dataset allows for an examination into the repeatability between external and internal brain measurements in pygmy halfbeaks and the repeatability between observers of external measurements (part 1). It also allows an examination of whether mate choice is affected by female brain size and the difference in sexual ornamentation between two males when a female is choosing in a dichotomous choice chamber, using both categorical and continuous variables (part 2). The code allows for these to be statistically investigated.

Methods

Methods are described in full in McNeil et al (2021). 

Usage notes

Full ReadMe file contains a list of abbreviations within the dataset.

Funding

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Swedish Research Council, Award: 2017-04680

Swedish Research Council, Award: 2016-03435