Leaffooted Bug Symbiont Acquisition Delay Impacts on Host Performance
by Liam T. Sullivan·Updated 1mo ago
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Description
An experimental dataset measures the fitness costs of delayed acquisition of the soil-dwelling bacterial symbiont Caballeronia by Leptoglossus zonatus nymphs. The data includes acquisition success, juvenile survivorship, development time, adult mass, and midgut organ development across seven delay intervals from 0 to 24 days and a negative control. The dataset was authored by Liam T. Sullivan and uploaded to figshare in May 2026.
Use Cases
Modeling the relationship between symbiont acquisition delay and host survivorship based on the described experimental treatments.
Analyzing the impact of symbiont timing on development time and adult mass as described in the experimental results.
Investigating the development of the midgut symbiotic organ relative to the timing of symbiont acquisition.
Comparing host performance metrics between delayed acquisition treatments and the immediate (0-day) acquisition control.
Strengths
Experimental design includes seven distinct symbiont acquisition delay intervals and a negative control, enabling gradient analysis.
Multiple host performance metrics are measured, including survivorship, development time, mass, and organ morphology.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
The dataset is small at 2.0 MB, indicating limited scale.
Provenance
Source
Liam T. Sullivan
Collection Method
Controlled laboratory experiment splitting a cohort of Leptoglossus zonatus nymphs among eight treatments with varying symbiont acquisition delays.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-14 05:34:06
Primary data file is a DOCX document; data extraction and structuring may be required for analysis.