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

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.

SUBMITTER: Carvajal-Rodriguez A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1479385 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Carvajal-Rodriguez Antonio A Rolan-Alvarez Emilio E

BMC evolutionary biology 20060509

<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>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 accompli ...[more]

PMID: 16684352

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Dataset Information

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

Background

Results

Conclusion

Publications

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

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