To lose is to win: long-term co-occurrence of two asexual populations realized by a dormant strategy of the inferior competitor

Asexual organisms are ubiquitous. While they are the same single species with the same ecological requirements, multiple asexual genotypes within a species are often found in a single habitat. Niche partitioning in time and space among genotypes has been proposed to explain this phenomenon. However, it is not clear whether these different genotypes co-occur in the long term. Therefore, we examined the population dynamics of two asexual Daphnia cf. pulex genotypes (JPN1 and JPN2) over nine years in a small mountain lake. These two genotypes consistently occurred in the same seasons and layers, suggesting that niche partitioning cannot explain their long-term co-occurrence. The abundance of JPN1 was typically higher in most years. However, the abundance of dormant eggs in lake sediments was at the same level between the genotypes. The laboratory experiment showed that JPN1 excluded JPN2. However, many JPN2 individuals produced the dormant eggs before JPN1 competitively excluded them from ..., , , # Data for: To lose is to win: long-term co-occurrence of two asexual populations realized by a dormant strategy of the inferior competitor

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Suggested dataset citation: Maruoka et al. (2024). Data for: To lose is to win: long-term co-appearance of two asexual populations realized by a dormant strategy of the inferior competitor. Data DOI: [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9p8cz8wms](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9p8cz8wms)

### File Structure

The \"Data_tables\" folder contains nine data sets.

#### Data table 1:

Data of the individual number of *Daphnia* cf. *pulex* JPN1 and JPN2 genotypes in the sample and the individual abundance of these genotypes in Lake Hataya Ohnuma as shown in Fig 1 of the paper above.

* M: collection month
* J1, J2: individual number in the sample on the day of collection
* N: total individual number of JPN1 and JPN2 in the sample
* AJ1, AJ2: indivi...