Data on the body size and arm girth of male and female Australian Quacking Frogs (Crinia georgiana)

Morphology information on arm girth and overall body size was collected by Buzatto et el as part of a study of sexual selection in the Australian Quacking Frogs.

frogarms

Format

A data frame of frog morophology data.

i.row

Row of data

i.frog

frog Id

sex

Sex of each frog (male or female)

mass

mass of each frog in grams

sv.length

snout-vent length in mm

forearm

forearm girth (?) in mm

arm

arm girth in mm

Source

https://figshare.com/articles/Data_Paper_Data_Paper/3554424

References

Buzatto BA, Roberts JD, Simmons LW. 2015. Sperm competition and the evolution of precopulatory weapons: Increasing male density promotes sperm competition and reduces selection on arm strength in a chorusing frog. Evolution 69: 2613-2624. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12766

Buzatto BA, Roberts JD, Simmons LW. 2015. Data from: Sperm competition and the evolution of precopulatory weapons: Increasing male density promotes sperm competition and reduces selection on arm strength in a chorusing frog. Dryad Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cr2n4

Examples

## Load packages
library(ggplot2)
library(ggpubr)

## Plot data
### boxplot
ggboxplot(data = frogarms, y = "mass", x = "sex")

### Scatter plot (Figure 1 a of Buzatto et al 2015)
ggscatter(data = frogarms, y = "arm", x = "sv.length",
 color = "sex",
 shape = "sex",
 ylab = "Arm girth (mm)",
 xlab = "Snout-vent length (mm)")
#> Warning: Removed 7 rows containing missing values (geom_point).