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medfly25: Number of eggs laid daily from medflies

Description

A dataset containing the eggs laid from 789 medflies (Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata) during the first 25 days of their lives. This is a subset of the dataset used by Carey at al. (1998); only flies having lived at least 25 days are shown. At the end of the recording period all flies were still alive.

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source

http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~mueller/data/medfly1000.html

References

{Carey, J.R., Liedo, P., Mueller, H.G., Wang, J.L., Chiou, J.M. (1998). Relationship of age patterns of fecundity to mortality, longevity, and lifetime reproduction in a large cohort of Mediterranean fruit fly females. J. of Gerontology --Biological Sciences 53, 245-251. }