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Egg laying locations from fruit flies in a social environment manipulation experiment
This dataset contains data on egg laying rate and site choice of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies). Data were collected from laboratory studies to investigate oviposition decisions in Drosophila melanogaster. We manipulated the social environment (flies kept in solitude, pairs, groups of four, or groups of eight) and observed egg locations over 24 hours to understand socially-driven changes in laying rates and site choices. These data were used in the model, to investigate whether location patterns differed significantly from a random null distribution. The model output list K (clustering preference) values produced from Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests run on each fly vial tested. All data were collected at the University of Leeds, besides data on maternity of eggs which were collected at the University of East Anglia. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-07-24
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19
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Churchill, E.R., Fowler, E.K., Friend, L.A., Archetti, M., Yu, D.W., Bourke, A.F.G., Chapman, T., Bretman, A. (2025). Egg laying locations from fruit flies in a social environment manipulation experiment . NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Leeds Emily Churchill
Point of contact University of Leeds Churchill, E.R. Author University of East Anglia Fowler, E.K. Author University of East Anglia Friend, L.A. Author Pennsylvania State University Archetti, M. Author University of East Anglia Yu, D.W. Author University of East Anglia Bourke, A.F.G. Author University of East Anglia Chapman, T. Author University of Leeds Bretman, A. Author University of Leeds EMAIL NOT PROVIDED
Owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
- Keywords
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- Animal behaviour
- Ecosystem services
- Evolutionary ecology
- Modelling
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Cooperative oviposition
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Laying rate
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Public goods
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Density
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Fitness
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Drosophila melanogaster
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Churchill, E.R., Fowler, E.K., Friend, L.A., Archetti, M., Yu, D.W., Bourke, A.F.G., Chapman, T., Bretman, A. (2025). Egg laying locations from fruit flies in a social environment manipulation experiment . NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Distribution format
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19 Download the data
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19.zip Supporting information
- Hierarchy level
- Non geographic dataset
- Other
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nonGeographicDataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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All data were collected from observation counts under laboratory settings from females kept in solitude, pairs, or groups of four or eight. Eggs were observed under a microscope, and counts were collected on paper and subsequently digitised.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Non geographic dataset
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nonGeographicDataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:24:59
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
