Data for: Anthropogenic light impacts life-history traits and induces a trade-off in female field crickets

Human-induced rapid environmental changes introduce animals to novel selection pressures that may impact how individuals allocate resources to life-history traits. One pervasive anthropogenic stressor, artificial light at night (ALAN), extends into remote areas and masks the day:night cycles to which animals are attuned. Here we ask how animals use this environmental input to dictate their investment in survival and reproductive traits and whether they must trade off investment in these traits in female Gryllus veletis field crickets. Using the second generation of field-collected individuals from a location absent from ALAN, we reared females from the antepenultimate instar through adulthood in either a control environment or one with ALAN. We then measured their investment in survival through two aspects of immunity, encapsulation and lysozyme activity, and their reproductive investment as the number of eggs within a female. We found that ALAN reduced one aspect of immunity, lysozyme ..., , , # Data for: Anthropogenic light impacts life-history traits and induces a trade-off in female field crickets

This README_ALANfemaletrade-off.txt file was generated on 2024-07-16 by Darren Rebar

## GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: Data for: Anthropogenic light impacts life-history traits and induces a trade-off in female field crickets
2. Author Information
A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
Name: Darren Rebar
Institution: Emporia State University
Address: 1 Kellogg Circle, Campus Box 4050, Emporia KS 66801
Email: [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])
3. Data collected from 2020-08-01 to 2021-04-01
4. Information about the geographic location of data collection: data generated from the second generation of laboratory population established from individuals collected at the Ross Natural History Reservation (38° 29´ N, 96° 20´ W)

## DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1. File List: [ALAN female trade-off.csv] contains all data that support the findings...