Life history shifts in an exploited African fish following invasion by a castrating parasite

Data_usipa_all_wissman.txt (used for analyses and figures 2-3 & A2) Month2 – continuous month count (1=January 2005) Day – calendar day Month – calendar month Year – calendar year Season – dry/wet season Length_usipa – body length in mm Weight_usipa – body weight in g Sex_usipa - sex Maturity_stage – maturity stage Maturity_status – 0: stages I-III, 1: stages IV-VII Postmaturity_status – 0: stages I-IV, 1: stages V-VII Ligula_count – number of individual parasites found Infection – 0: non-infected, 1: infected Weight_gonad – wet weight of gonads Number_eggs – number of eggs counted in gonads Somatic_weight – calculated as (total weight – weight of gonads) GSI – gonadosomatic index in % Condition_factor – Fulton index Repro_status – 0: pre-spawn, 1: ready to spawn or post-spawn Yearlydata.txt (used for analysis and figures 3 & A3) Year – calendar year Inf_peakfec – number of infected fish at stages IV-V Total_peakfec – total number of fish at stages IV-V Prev_peakfec – prevalence at stages IV-V Inf_mature- number of infected fish at stages IV-VII Total_mature – total number of fish at stages IV-VII Prev_mature – prevalence at stages IV-VII Inf_immat - number of infected fish at stages I-III Total_immat - total number of fish at stages I-III Prev_immat – prevalence at stages I-III Inf_all – number of infected fish, all stages Total – total number of fish Prev_all – prevalence, all stages Rel-abund_immat – relative abundance of stages I-III Rel-abund_peakfec – relative abundance of stages IV-V Rel-abund_mat – relative abundance of stages IV-VII LM50_all – LM50 for all fish LM50_inf – LM50 for infected fish only LM50_uninf – LM50 for uninfected fish only Number_of_fishermen – number of fishermen registered Fishing_pressure – number of fishermen per tonne landed Landed_per_fisherman –number of tonnes landed per fisherman