Environmental stress influences reproductive success in male spider mites

Environmental stressors can limit access to resources in numerous ways, shaping an organism's condition and fitness within and across generations. Resource constraints are especially important for sexual selection, as many components of mating behaviour, from sexual signalling to sperm production, are condition-dependent. Environmental stress can therefore be an important ecological mediator of patterns of sexual selection. In this study, we measured condition-dependent male reproductive success in the haplodiploid spider mite Tetranychus urticae. Males were placed in different host-plant environments, generating different stress levels (bean = low stress, tomato = intermediate, and tomato with cadmium = high stress) during their juvenile stage. The impact of the male juvenile environment was measured by placing males, once adult, with females from a low-stress environment. We measured several fitness traits for males, including mating success, partner fecundity, number of female offspr..., , # Data from: Environmental stress influences reproductive success in male spider mites

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.tx95x6b9x](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.tx95x6b9x)

## Description of the data and file structure

### Files and variables

#### File: Noel_et_al_Ecol_Ent.xlsx

**Description:** This is an excel file containing the data from the experiment.

##### Variables

* 'ind’ is an individual number identifier for each replicate male in the experiment.

- ‘block’ denotes the two different temporal blocks in the experiment ‘A’ and ‘B’.

* ‘box’ is the box the different replicates were contained in during the experiment.

- ‘Male_environment’ is the plant environment the males experienced as juveniles; bean, tomato or tomato cadmium.

* ‘Virgin_mother’ states whether the male came from a virgin or non-virgin mother. Note there are some blank cells as data was missing for some males. 

- ‘Fecundity’ is the number of eggs laid by the female.

* ‘Female_survival’ is whether the female t...,