Burrower Bug Trophic Egg Production Response to Injury

Experimental data from a study on the burrower bug Adomerus triguttulus, authored by Hiromi Mukai. The dataset likely contains measurements of trophic egg production and nutlet-carrying speed for female bugs subjected to different injury treatments (hind-leg removal, forewing removal, control).

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between injury type and trophic egg production based on the experimental group variable.
• Compare nutlet-carrying speed performance between injured and control groups.
• Investigate compensatory reproductive strategies in arthropods based on the described provisioning ability trade-off.

Strengths

• Data originates from a controlled experiment with three distinct treatment groups (hind-leg removal, forewing removal, control).
• The dataset is small (8.8 KB), facilitating quick download and initial exploration.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Controlled laboratory experiment on Adomerus triguttulus bugs.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 00:45:59; freshness should be verified.