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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
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19
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
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  University of Leeds - Emily Churchill
Author
  University of Leeds - Churchill, E.R.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0910-8600
Author
  University of East Anglia - Fowler, E.K.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5290-7630
Author
  University of East Anglia - Friend, L.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5728-9384
Author
  Pennsylvania State University - Archetti, M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8303-1632
Author
  University of East Anglia - Yu, D.W.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8551-5609
Author
  University of East Anglia - Bourke, A.F.G.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5891-8816
Author
  University of East Anglia - Chapman, T.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2401-8120
Author
  University of Leeds - Bretman, A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4421-3337
Owner
  University of Leeds
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  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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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
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EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
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.
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0854f2de-137f-472f-9c0c-9ae1f69e7f19 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
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nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
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Date stamp
2025-08-13T17:29:48
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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