0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:24:59 UK GEMINI 2.3 Egg laying locations from fruit flies in a social environment manipulation experiment 2025-07-24 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19 10.5285/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19 doi: 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 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 Emily Churchill University of Leeds e.r.churchill@leeds.ac.uk pointOfContact Churchill, E.R. University of Leeds e.r.churchill@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0910-8600 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Fowler, E.K. University of East Anglia e.fowler@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5290-7630 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Friend, L.A. University of East Anglia l.friend@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5728-9384 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Archetti, M. Pennsylvania State University mua972@psu.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8303-1632 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Yu, D.W. University of East Anglia douglas.yu@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8551-5609 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Bourke, A.F.G. University of East Anglia a.bourke@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5891-8816 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Chapman, T. University of East Anglia tracey.chapman@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2401-8120 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Bretman, A. University of Leeds a.j.bretman@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4421-3337 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author University of Leeds EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Animal behaviour Ecosystem services Evolutionary ecology Modelling Cooperative oviposition Laying rate Public goods Density Fitness Drosophila melanogaster otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions 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 English utf8 environment Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 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 2010-12-08 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.