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About The Project

This project looks at the effect of internal parasites on the fish host personality, the pumpkinseed sunfish. Data were collected between May-September 2022 at la Station de Biologie des Laurentides, Université de Montréal, Canada.

The objective is to determine whether an experimental co-infection caused by trematodes (Uvulifer ambloplitis and Apophallus sp) and cestodes (Proteocephalus ambloplitis) will change the host’s personality (Lepomis gibbosus). We looked at exploration, boldness and activity before and after an experimental infection in a semi-natural environment (caging experiment in lake).

This project will generate complex datasets (i.e. repeated measures of behavioral traits through time, responses following a perturbation). This type of data structure could apply to researchers working on a wide range of physiological, morphological or behavioural traits.

Key File Description

1. Data_raw folder contains 2 files:
   a) all_data.csv : all the raw data collected for the Fish Parasite Project
   b) meta.data.csv : all the variables explained with unit of measurement

2. R folder contains:
   a) fish_parasite.Rproj, which is the R project