--------------------------- *** General information *** --------------------------- These datasets contain data from: Simon Tragust, Line Vej Ugelvig, Michel Chapuisat, Jürgen Heinze, Sylvia Cremer (2012) Pupal cocoons affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections in ant colonies. BMC Evolutionary Biology. Data collectors: Simon Tragust, Line V Ugelvig and Sylvia Cremer performed the experiments Email addresses: Simon.Tragust@uni-bayreuth.de, Line.Ugelvig@ist.ac.at, Michel.Chapuisat@unil.ch, Juergen.Heinze@biologie.uni-regensburg.de, Sylvia.Cremer@ist.ac.at Datasets are saved as txt files. There are no special symbols for missing data. Missing data are simply empty cells. ----------------- *** File list *** ----------------- TRAGUST_Daily-Brood-intake_data.txt TRAGUST_Daily-Brood-removal_data.txt TRAGUST_Correlation-Removal-FungalOutgrowth_data.txt TRAGUST_NrBrood_Presentation_Intake_Removal_FungalOutgrowth_data.txt TRAGUST_GroomingFrequency_data.txt -------------------------------- *** Description of the files *** -------------------------------- TRAGUST_Daily-Brood-intake_data.txt This file contains the data of the day brood was taken into the brood chamber with the correspoding brood status (0=no intake, 1=intake) for the between species comparison and the within species comparison Columns: - "replicate": Number of experimental nest per species - "brood.treatment": Treatment of the brood - "brood.type": Brood type - "day.brood.intake": Day brood was taken into the brood chamber - "status.brood.intake": Status of the brood upon intake into the brood chamber - "species": Ant species used in the between and within species comparison - "colony.origin.workers": Origin colony of ant workers in experimental nest - "colony.origin.brood": Origin colony brood in experimental nest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- TRAGUST_Daily-Brood-removal_data.txt This file contains the data of of the day brood was removed from the brood chamber with the correspoding brood status (0=no removal, 1=removal) for the between species comparison and the within species comparison Columns: - "replicate": Number of experimental nest per species - "brood.treatment": Treatment of the brood - "brood.type": Brood type - "day.brood.removal": Day brood was removed from brood chamber - "status.brood.removal": Status of the brood upon removal from the brood chamber - "species": Ant species used in the between and within species comparison - "colony.origin.workers": Origin colony of ant workers in experimental nest - "colony.origin.brood": Origin colony brood in experimental nest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- TRAGUST_Correlation-Removal-FungalOutgrowth_data.txt This file contains the data of the day brood was removed from the brood chamber and the day removed brood showed fungal outgrowth Columns: - "replicate": Number of experimental nest per species - "brood.treatment": Treatment of the brood - "brood.type": Brood type - "day.brood.removal": Day brood was removed from brood chamber - "day.brood.fungal.outgrowth": Day brood showed fungal outgrowth - "species": Ant species used in the between and within species comparison ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- TRAGUST_NrBrood_Presentation_Intake_Removal_FungalOutgrowth_data.txt This file contains the data of the number of brood presented, the number of brood taken into the brood chamber, the number of brood removed from the brood chamber and the number of brood showing fungal outgrowth according to brood type, species and brood treatment Columns: - "nr.brood.presented": Number of brood items presented - "nr.brood.intake": Number of brood items taken into the brood chamber - "nr.brood.removed": Number of brood items removed from the brood chamber - "nr.intake.brood.fungal.outgrowth": Number of brood items showing fungal outgrowth - "species": Ant species used in the between and within species comparison - "brood.treatment": Treatment of the brood - "brood.type": Brood type ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- TRAGUST_GroomingFrequency_data.txt This file contains the data on the grooming frequency Columns: - "replicate": Number of experimental nest per species - "brood.treatment": Treatment of the brood - "brood.type": Brood type - "grooming.frequency": Grooming Frequency - "species": Ant species used in the between and within species comparison - "colony.origin.workers": Origin colony of ant workers in experimental nest - "colony.origin.brood": Origin colony brood in experimental nest