Perceived mate availability does not influence variation in egg-laying patterns in the Hawaiian Pacific field cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

Here we study whether cues that reflect perceived mate availability (presence of acoustic sexual signals) influence egg-laying patterns in Teleogryllus oceanicus. Further, we are interested in understanding if variation in egg-laying patterns affect females’ future egg-laying or total reproductive output. This work is motivated by an interest in understanding whether trade-offs in temporal reproductive allocation over the course of an individual's lifetime can help females balance the costs and benefits of multiple mating. Our data consist of the number of eggs laid by females across the study period, and individual measures of body size, age, and other treatment variables. We find that on hearing male calling song to simulate high mate availability, females did not alter their egg-laying patterns relative to those that did not hear song. Neither investing highly in current over future egg-laying, nor having a highly variable egg-laying pattern, appeared to be costly in this species.
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## Description of the data and file structure

The data were generated through monitoring the egg-laying patterns of *Teleogryllus oceanicus* crickets in the lab over 2 weeks, after exposure to a song or no song treatment simulating extremes of mate availability.

### Files and variables

#### File: egglayingdata.csv

**Description:** The file is an .csv file containing data collected during the experiment and some later processing for analysis. Each line represents a a single individual. Missing values were represented by '-'.

##### Variables

* cricketno - individual identification number for each cricket
* genotype - representing if the female was from the flatwing (FW) or normal-wing (NW) colony in the lab
* sex - all were females (F)
* female_pw - female pronotum width measured in mm
* eclosiondate - date of adult eclosion for each female...,