Vibrations act like primer pheromones in termites

<p>These data were collected on 16 colonies of the species termite Reticulitermes flavipes (column: colony_id). New reproductives were counted every day. They were recognized thanks to the elongated abdomen and color changes. The day of differentiation of an individual ranged from 0  to 60 (column: day). Six different treatments were used: (i) two playbacks with a conserved original structure of the peaks recorded in the presence of reproductives (column treatment: Original +) and in the absence of reproductives (column treatment: Original -); (ii) two playbacks with a structure randomly transformed from the original recordings (called random) were recorded in the presence of reproductives (column treatment: Random +) and in the absence of reproductives (column treatment: Random -); (iii) two controls composed of 100 workers in the presence (column treatment: Control +) or absence (column treatment:  Control -) of 2 reproductives (1 female and 1 male; brachypterous neotenics).</p> <p>The differentiation of an individual is annotated as 1 (column: diff_ergat), associated with the day of differentiation (column: day). Note that many individuals did not differentiate into reproductives during the experiment (column: day = 60, column: diff_ergat = 0 in the dataset). The sex of the differentiated individuals is indicated in the column "diff_mal" (=1 if the differentiated individual was a male, and 0 if not) and in the column "diff_female" (=1 if the differentiated individual was a female, and 0 if not).</p> <p>The R script called "Script_vibrations_differenciation.R" allows to perform statistical analyses of the data file "Raw_data.csv". The README.md file includes a description of dataset, data analysis, figures produced, and software and packages versions.</p&gt

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