Data and code from: Partitioning variance in a signaling trade-off under sexual selection reveals among-individual covariance in trait allocation

Understanding the evolution of traits subject to trade-offs is challenging because phenotypes can (co)vary at both the among- and within-individual levels. Among-individual covariation indicates consistent, possibly genetic, differences in how individuals resolve the trade-off, while within-individual covariation indicates trait plasticity. There is also the potential for consistent among-individual differences in behavioral plasticity, although this has rarely been investigated. We studied the sources of (co)variance in two characteristics of an acoustic advertisement signal that trade off with one another and are under sexual selection in the gray treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis: call duration and call rate. We recorded males on multiple nights calling spontaneously and in response to playbacks simulating different competition levels. Call duration, call rate, and their product, call effort, were all repeatable both within and across social contexts. Call duration and call rate covaried n..., , , # Data and code from:Partitioning variance in a signaling trade-off under sexual selection reveals among-individual covariance in trait allocation

Michael S. Reichert, Ivan de la Hera, Maria Moiron

Evolution 2024

Summary: Data are measurements of the characteristics of individual calls from a study of individual variation in calling in Cope's gray treefrog, *Hyla chrysoscelis*.

## Description of the Data and file structure

Note: There are some NA entries in the data files because these are outputs of R data frames. NA corresponds to an empty cell (i.e. no data are available for that variable for that row).

List of files:
TreefrogVariance.csv
-This is the main raw data file. Each row contains the data from a single call. Variables are as follows:
CD - call duration, in seconds
CR - call rate, in calls/second *Note that the intercall interval (ICI), which is analyzed in the supplement as an alternative to call rate, is not directly included in this data file but can be calculated a...