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. 2006 May 9:6:40.
doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-40.

JMATING: a software for the analysis of sexual selection and sexual isolation effects from mating frequency data

Antonio Carvajal-Rodriguez  1 , Emilio Rolan-Alvarez
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JMATING: a software for the analysis of sexual selection and sexual isolation effects from mating frequency data

Antonio Carvajal-Rodriguez et al. BMC Evol Biol. .

Abstract

Background: Many different sexual isolation and sexual selection statistics have been proposed in the past. However, there is no available software that implements all these statistical estimators and their corresponding tests for the study of mating behaviour.

Results: JMATING is an easy-to-use program developed in Java for the analysis of mating frequency data to study sexual selection and sexual isolation effects from laboratory experiments as well as descriptive studies accomplished in the wild. The software allows the re-organization of the data previous to the analysis, the estimation of the most important estimators, and a battery of complementary statistical tests.

Conclusion: JMATING is the first complete and versatile software for the analyses of mating frequency data. It is available at http://www.uvigo.es/webs/c03/webc03/XENETICA/XB2/JMsoft.htm and requires the Java runtime environment.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Example 1 of multiple choice data obtained in a field study where the frequency of three morphs and their corresponding mating pairs were recorded [12]. Coloured marginal cells represent the frequency of the three mating types (T1, T2 and T3) in males (blue) or females (pink) sampled. The numbers within the cells in the table represent the observed mating pairs for each particular combination of mating types and sexes.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Sexual isolation global analysis for Example 1 (see text).
Figure 3
Figure 3
Example of the pairwise analysis for the mating types 1 and 2. It calculates the statistics PTI, PSI and PSS as if only data from mating types 1 (T1) and 2 (T2) were available.
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