Data Set “Morphology and function of the sternal gland in two species of mason bee”

Authors: Stephanie Krueger, Karsten Seidelmann


Files:
BeahvTests_bicornis.txt
BeahvTests_cornuta.txt

File format:
Tab delimited ASCII, decimal separator "."

Data structure:
Samples (individual test results) in rows
Variables (running number, Year, Day, Date, Trial, Male, Treatment, Ester-Conc, EsterKlass, Inspections, Contacts, Approaches, Copul-Attempts, CopulPerContact, PropContacts) in columns

Variables:
Year - year of experiment
Date - date of the test
Trial - number of experiment
Male - number of male in the experiment
Treatment - applied substance or status of the male
Ester-Conc - ammount of ester applied in terms of gland equivalents
EsterKlass - classification of treatment
Inspections - number of darting flights towards the tethared male without landing on it with a short contact “on the wing” within 5 minutes
Contacts - number of flights towards the tethered male with landing on or next to the test male with physical contact
Approaches - summ of inspections and contacts
Copul-Attempts - number of intromission attempts by males that had landed on the tethared male within 5 minutes
CopulPerContact - mean number of intromission attempts per contact
PropContacts - proportion of physical contacts on all approaches

Content of files:
BeahvTests_bicornis.txt - data set of Osmia bicornis
BeahvTests_cornuta.txt - data set of Osmia cornuta