Vibrations act like primer pheromones in termites

These data were collected on 16 colonies of the species termite Reticulitermes flavipes (column: colony_id). New reproductives were counted every day. They were recognized thanks to the elongated abdomen and color changes. The day of differentiation of an individual ranged from 0 to 60 (column: day). Six different treatments were used: (i) two playbacks with a conserved original structure of the peaks recorded in the presence of reproductives (column treatment: Original +) and in the absence of reproductives (column treatment: Original -); (ii) two playbacks with a structure randomly transformed from the original recordings (called random) were recorded in the presence of reproductives (column treatment: Random +) and in the absence of reproductives (column treatment: Random -); (iii) two controls composed of 100 workers in the presence (column treatment: Control +) or absence (column treatment: Control -) of 2 reproductives (1 female and 1 male; brachypterous neotenics). The differentiation of an individual is annotated as 1 (column: diff_ergat), associated with the day of differentiation (column: day). Note that many individuals did not differentiate into reproductives during the experiment (column: day = 60, column: diff_ergat = 0 in the dataset). The sex of the differentiated individuals is indicated in the column "diff_mal" (=1 if the differentiated individual was a male, and 0 if not) and in the column "diff_female" (=1 if the differentiated individual was a female, and 0 if not). The R script called "Script_vibrations_differenciation.R" allows to perform statistical analyses of the data file "Raw_data.csv". The README.md file includes a description of dataset, data analysis, figures produced, and software and packages versions.本数据集采集自16个黄肢散白蚁（Reticulitermes flavipes）群落，对应列名为`colony_id`（群落ID）。研究人员每日对新生繁殖蚁进行计数：此类个体可通过延长的腹部与体色变化进行辨识。个体的分化日龄范围为0至60，对应列名为`day`（分化日龄）。本实验共设置6种处理方式： 1. 两类保留原始峰值结构的播放处理：分别对应列`treatment`取值为`Original +`（繁殖蚁存在条件下录制的信号）与`Original -`（繁殖蚁缺失条件下录制的信号）； 2. 两类基于原始录制信号随机变换峰值结构的播放处理：分别对应列`treatment`取值为`Random +`（繁殖蚁存在条件下录制的随机变换信号）与`Random -`（繁殖蚁缺失条件下录制的随机变换信号）； 3. 两类对照处理：分别为列`treatment`取值为`Control +`的组（包含100头工蚁与2头繁殖蚁——1雌1雄短翅型幼态繁殖蚁），以及列`treatment`取值为`Control -`的组（仅包含100头工蚁）。 个体的分化状态通过列`diff_ergat`标注：当个体发生繁殖蚁分化时，该列值为1，同时关联其分化日龄（列`day`）。需注意，实验过程中多数个体未发生繁殖蚁分化，此类样本的`day`值为60，且`diff_ergat`值为0。分化个体的性别通过两列标注：列`diff_mal`取值为1时代表该个体为雄性，取值为0时则反之；列`diff_female`取值为1时代表该个体为雌性，取值为0时则反之。 名为`Script_vibrations_differenciation.R`的R脚本可用于对数据集文件`Raw_data.csv`开展统计分析。`README.md`文件包含数据集说明、数据分析流程、生成图表以及所用软件与依赖包的版本信息。