Data from: Interacting phenotypic plasticities: Do male and female responses to the sociosexual environment interact to determine fitness?
Data files
Aug 21, 2024 version files 36.46 KB
-
README.md
-
Simmons___Lovegrove_2024.xlsx
Abstract
Socially induced plasticity in reproductive effort is a widely documented phenomenon. However, few empirical studies have examined how male and female plastic responses to the social environment might interact in determining fitness outcomes. In field crickets, Teleogryllus oceanicus, males respond to rival song by increasing expenditure on seminal fluid proteins that enhance competitive fertilization success at the cost of reduced embryo survival. It remains unknown whether plastic responses in females could moderate the effects of male competitiveness on offspring performance. Here we used a fully factorial design to explore the interacting effects on fitness of male and female plasticity to the sociosexual environment. We found that female crickets exposed to male song increased the number of eggs produced during early life reproduction, which came at a cost of reduced offspring size. There was evidence, albeit weak, that interacting effects of male and female sociosexual environment contributed to variation in the hatching success of eggs laid by females. Lifetime offspring production was unaffected by the sociosexual environments to which upstream male and female plastic responses were made. Our data offer a rare test of the theoretical expectation
README: Data from: Interacting phenotypic plasticities: Do male and female responses to the sociosexual environment interact to determine fitness?
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rfj6q57jw
Description of the data and file structure
The file Simmons & Lovegrove2024.xlsx contains the data to reproduce the analyses presented in Simmons & Lovegrove, Interacting phenotypic plasticities: Do male and female responses to the sociosexual environment interact to determine fitness? Evolution, 2024.
Male and female crickets from two sociosexual environments (song/no-song) were paired in all possible combinations:
Files and variables
File: Simmons___Lovegrove_2024.xlsx
Treatment A: male song / female song
Treatment B: male song / female no-song
Treatment C: male no-song / female song
Treatment D: male no-song / female no-song
The experiment was conducted in two blocks, block 1 and block 2.
For each case the environment (S/NS) for the male and female in each pair is given, along with data on the male’s weight (mg), male’s pronotum width (mm), female’s weight (mg), female’s pronotum width (mm), the sperm viability (proportion sperm alive) for males, the number of eggs laid by females in weeks 1-3 (eggswkn), the average weight of eggs (mg) laid in weeks 1-3 (avg wt wkn), the proportion of eggs hatching in weeks 1-3 (hatch wkn), the total number of offspring hatched during the female’s lifespan, and the female’s lifespan in weeks.
Empty cells indicate missing values.