abd (version 0.1-21)

SticklebackPlates: Number of Lateral Plates in Sticklebacks

Description

Number of lateral plates (plates) in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with three different Ectodysplasin genotypes (mm, Mm, and MM).

Usage

data(SticklebackPlates)

source

Colosimo, P.F., C.L. Peichel, K. Nereng, B.K. Blackman, M.D. Shapiro, D. Schluter, and D.M. Kingsley. 2004. The genetic architecture of parallel armor plate reduction in threespine sticklebacks. PLoS Biology 2: 635-641. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020109

References

Colosimo P.F., K.E. Hosemann, S. Balabhadra, G. Villarreal, M. Dickson, J. Grimwood, J Schmutz, R.M. Myers, D. Schluter, D.M. Kingsley. 2005. Widespread parallel evolution in sticklebacks by repeated fixation of ectodysplasin alleles. Science307: 1928-33. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5717/1928

Examples

data(SticklebackPlates)

aggregate(plates ~ genotype, SticklebackPlates, favstats)

histogram(~plates | genotype, SticklebackPlates, 
  layout=c(1,3),
  n=15,
  xlab = "Number of Lateral Body Plates"
  )

densityplot(~plates | genotype, SticklebackPlates, 
  xlab = "Number of Lateral Body Plates",
  layout=c(1,3)
  )