Behavioral data for: Effect of experience on mating behaviour in male Heliconius melpomene butterflies

This is the data file that corresponds to \"Effect of experience on mating behavior in male Heliconius melpomene butterflies\" by P.A. Rather, A.E. Herzog, D.A. Ernst, & E.L. Westerman, published in Animal Behaviour. It contains two spreadsheets, one with all the mating outcome data, and one with the corresponding behavioral data for the training and testing assays. Due to electrical issues with the data recording device during some of our assays, we do not have behavioral data, other than courtship and time to courtship (which were recorded both electronically and by hand) for all our assays, though we do have complete behavioral data for most of our assays. In our study, we show that H. melpomene males who have been previously exposed to a female but did not mate during that prior exposure are less likely to court during a second exposure than a naive male of the same age. This effect appears to be driven by H. m. malleti males, as H. m. malleti males exhibited a strong response to ...

本数据集对应P.A. Rather、A.E. Herzog、D.A. Ernst与E.L. Westerman发表于《动物行为》(Animal Behaviour)的论文《经验对雄性诗神袖蝶(Heliconius melpomene)交配行为的影响》。该数据集包含两张电子表格：其一收录全部交配结果数据，其二对应训练与测试试验的行为学数据。由于部分试验中数据记录装置存在电气故障，除求偶行为及求偶耗时（该两类数据同时通过电子设备与人工方式记录）外，其余行为学数据未覆盖全部试验，但多数试验的行为学数据完整。本研究表明，曾接触过雌性个体但未在首次接触时完成交配的雄性诗神袖蝶，在第二次接触雌性时的求偶概率低于同龄未接触过雌性的naive雄性。该效应似乎由诗神袖蝶马拉蒂亚种(H. m. malleti)雄性介导，因该亚种雄性对……表现出显著响应。