Bulb Mite Male Morph Expression Under Nutritional Stress

Experimental data from a study on the bulb mite Rhizoglyphus robini, quantifying how diet quality influences the developmental threshold for male fighter or scrambler morphs. The dataset, created by Isabel Smallegange, is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated in April 2026. It comprises 24.4 KB of data stored in R and TXT file formats.

Use Cases

• Modeling condition-dependent phenotype expression based on body size and diet mentioned in the description
• Analyzing genetic variation in developmental threshold responses across isofemale lines described in the study
• Investigating the interaction between nutritional stress and body size on male morph determination in mites

Strengths

• Data is derived from a controlled experiment with defined diets (high-quality yeast vs. low-quality oats).
• Explicitly quantifies the shift in developmental thresholds between nutritional treatments.
• Includes genetic variation data from multiple isofemale lines.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's 24.4 KB size indicates a very limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Isabel Smallegange via figshare

Collection Method

Laboratory experiment rearing bulb mite isofemale lines on different diets and quantifying male morph expression.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 10:41:07; freshness should be verified.