You can watch a video of the singing mouse here (from Assignment Problem 31). Good luck hearing its 20 kHz song with human ears!
We used R to analyze all examples in chapter 15. We’ve put the code here so that you can too.
Download a .zip file with all the data for chapter 15 in .csv format here.
Download a .zip file with all data sets in the book here.
All data sets and their sources are listed individually below.
Disclaimer: Most data sets used in the book are grabbed from graphs and tables in the original publications, and the values may not be exact. Contact the original authors for the raw data.
Example 15.1. Knees who say night
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Nosil, P. and B. J. Crespi. 2006. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 9090-9095.
Singaravelan, N., G. Nee’man, M. Inbar, and I. Izhaki. 2005. Journal of Chemical Ecology 31:2791-2804.
These data are unpublished.
04. Plant population persistence
Molofsky, J. and J.-B. Ferdy. 2005. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 102: 3726-3731.
07. Disorders and gene expression
Tkachev, D., et al. 2003. Lancet 362: 798-805.
Cook, M. J., et al. 1993. The Lancet 342: 1391-1394.
Kotiaho, J. S., L. W. Simmons and J. L. Tomkins. 2001. Nature 410: 684-686.
13. Ricketsiella and aphid color
Tsuchida, T., et al. 2010. Science 330: 1102-1104.
Bouyer, J., et al. 2007. Biology Letters 3: 113-116.
15. Eelgrass genetic diversity
Reusch, T. B. H., A. Ehlers, A. Hämmerli, and B. Worm. 2005. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 2826-2831.
Hairston N. G., Jr., et al. 1999. Nature 401: 446.
Nosil, P. and B. J. Crespi. 2006. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 9090-9095.
Edelaar, P. and C. W. Benkman. 2006. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 1651-1659.
Huey, R. B. and A. E. Dunham. 1987. Evolution 42: 1116-1120.
Fang, W., et al.. 2011. Science 331: 1074-1077.
Eriksson, K. 2012. Judgment and Decision Making 7:746–749.
Kacsoh, B. Z., Z. R. Lynch, N. T. Mortimer, and T. A. Schlenke. 2013. Science 339: 947-950.
Darnell, M. Z., and P. Munguia. 2011. American Naturalist 178: 419-428.
Khan, I., et al. 2018. The American Naturalist 191: 306-317.
Theys, K., et al. 2018. PLoS Genetics 14(6): e1007420.
Pasch, B., B. M. Bolker, and S. M. Phelps. 2013. The American Naturalist 182: E161–E173.