From: Competitive males have higher quality sperm in a monogamous social bee
Selection episode | Model | Response | Probability distribution | Predictors | Random effect |
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Colony -Aggregation | sperm viability | proportion of live to dead sperm cells | Binomial | sampling site and number of days in incubator | colony and malea |
sperm length | sperm length | Normal | sampling site | colony and male | |
sperm length variation | sperm CV | Normal | sampling site | colony | |
Persistence time in the aggregation | sperm viability | proportion of live to dead sperm cells | Binomial | days at aggregation | aggregation and malea |
sperm number | number of sperm cells | Poisson | days at aggregation | aggregation and male | |
sperm length | sperm length | Normal | days at aggregation | aggregation and male | |
sperm length variation | sperm CV | Normal | days at aggregation | aggregation |