Analysis of Biological Data


Teaching

Datasets

Suggestions

Corrections

Roberts&Co.

Orders


Here are the data sets used in The Analysis of Biological Data in chapter 12, in .csv (comma-separated) format. Most data sets used in the book are grabbed from graphs and tables in papers, and the values may not be exact.

Examples:

Example 12.2: Blackbird testosterone
----Hasselquist, D., J. A. Marsh, P. W. Sherman, and J. C. Wingfield. 1999. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 45: 167–175.

Example 12.3: Horned lizards
----Young, A. J., et al. 2006. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 103: 12005–12010.

Example 12.4: Brook trout/chinook
----Levin, P. S., S. Achord, B. E. Fiest, and R. W. Zabel. 2002. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 269: 1663–1670.

Problems:

Question 12.2: No Smoking Day
----Waters, A. J., M. J. Jarvis, and S. R. Sutton. 1998. Nature 394: 137.

Question 12.3:Iguanas
----Wikelski, M., and C. Thom. 2000. Nature 403: 37–38.

Question 12.5:Monogamy and Testes
----Hosken, D. J., and P. I. Ward. 2001. Ecology Letters 4: 10–13.

Question 12.9: Cichlids
----Haeslery, M. P., and O. Seehausen. 2005. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 272: 237–245.

Question 12.10: Tobacco
----East, E. M. 1916. Genetics 1: 164–176.

Question 12.11: "Will"s and presidents

Question 12.13: Ostrich temperatures
----Fuller, A., et al. 2003. The Journal of Experimental Biology 206: 1171–1181.

Question 12.15: Primate WPCs
----Nunn, C. L., J. L. Gittleman, and J. Antonovics. 2000. Science 290: 1168–1170.

Question 12.16: Stalkie eyespan
----David, P., T. Bjorksten, K. Fowler, and A. Pomiankowski. 2000. Nature 406: 186–188.

Question 12.19: Electric fish
----Fernandes, C. C., J. Podos, and J. G. Lundberg. 2004. Science 305: 1960–1962.

Question 12.23: Weddell seal dives
----Williams, T. M., L. A. Fuiman, M. Horning, and R. W. Davis. 2004. The Journal of Experimental Biology 207: 973–982.