Data: Spore carriage by flies

Data for experiment on spore carriage by flies after exposure to fruiting bodies. Formatted as tab-delimited text file for use with R. Columns and values described in comments (lines beginning with #)

Cumulative frequency of foundress behaviors.

<p>Foundresses that initiate nests (n = 30) are indicated as filled diamonds, joining foundresses (n = 57) as open diamonds, and moving foundresses (n = 34) as filled triangles. In addition, adoptions are marked with @ signs on the day of adoption. Below the graph, the timing of moving events is divided into switching, deserting, and visiting (mean and range), showing that switchers moved earlier than other movers. A full explanation of the behaviors is given in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0045386#pone-0045386-t001" target="_blank">Table 1</a>.</p

Fig. 2 - Images of flies carrying spores

High resolution version of Figure 2, showing composite images of D. melanogaster after exposure to fruiting bodies of D. discoideum genetically marked to express red fluorescent protein

Definition and number of behavioral choices (n = 125) foundresses made during the pre-emergence period in the study population.

<p>Definition and number of behavioral choices (n = 125) foundresses made during the pre-emergence period in the study population.</p

Cumulative number of foundresses appearing and disappearing from the population.

<p>Foundresses appearing (n = 104) are indicated as diamonds, foundresses disappearing from the population (n = 54) as triangles. Below the graph, the date when eggs, larvae and pupae started appearing in the nests is indicated.</p

A map showing location of the study nests and moving of foundresses.

<p>The field site was a c. 10 ha section of pecan/oak forest in Brazos Bend State Park, TX. The yellow area on the left is an open prairie; the green area on the right is a swamp, superior and inferior foraging areas, respectively. In <i>panel A</i>, nests marked with a larger font and a bolded circle are nests that survived until the end of the field period. Nests with a smaller font and a non-bolded circle are the ones that failed before the end of the field period. A red circle shows the nests that were adopted during the field period. Movements of the wasps are indicated with arrows. Purple, red, and blue arrows show switching, deserting and visiting, respectively, with the arrowhead indicating the target nest. Nests inhabited by full sister foundresses are filled with consistent colors (green nests: 14, 26; yellow: 29, 33 34; red: 7, 44, 45, 46; blue: 32, 35, 42, 43); nests not filled with a color were inhabited by a single foundress or full sister foundresses restricted to that nest. In <i>panel B</i>, the arrows indicate the direction of the moves, black arrows show switching and deserting (combined) and blue arrows visiting. The figures above the arrows (mean ±SD) show how much movers increased/decreased their distance from/to prairie/swamp by moving between nests (in meters); the figures below the arrows are the expected increases in distance had the movers selected their target nests randomly; all increases in distance were as expected (Mann-Whitney, all P’s >0.31).</p

Proportion of movers that were alone, dominant, or subordinate foundresses at their original and target nests.

<p>Proportion of movers that were alone, dominant, or subordinate foundresses at their original and target nests.</p

Expansion rate

Comparison of the expansion rates across a nutrient agar plate of NC28.1 and EC28.2