DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4dp71437
title: Data from: The ecological advantage of sexual reproduction in multicellular long-lived organisms

description: We present a model for the advantage of sexual reproduction in
 multicellular long-lived species in a world of structured resources in
 short supply. The model combines features of the Tangled Bank and the Red
 Queen hypothesis of sexual reproduction, and is of broad applicability.
 The model is ecologically explicit with the dynamics of resources and
 consumers being modelled by differential equations. The life history of
 consumers is shaped by body-mass dependent rates as implemented in the
 metabolic theory of ecology. We find that over a broad range of parameters
 sexual reproduction wins despite the twofold cost of producing males, due
 to the advantage of producing offspring that can exploit underutilized
 resources. The advantage is largest when maturation and production of
 offspring set in before the resources of the parents become depleted, but
 not too early, due to the cost of producing males. The model thus leads to
 the dominance of sexual reproduction in multicellular animals living in
 complex environments, with resource availability being the most important
 factor affecting survival and reproduction.
description: dataFig1aAverage equilibrium percentage of sexual females in dependence of maximum consumption rate epsilon (simulated electronically), here no migration is allowed, i.e., migration rate eta=0dataFig1bAverage equilibrium percentage of sexual females in dependence of intrinsic growth rate of resources G (simulated electronically), here no migration is allowed, i.e., migration rate eta=0dataFig1cAverage equilibrium percentage of sexual females in dependence of mortality strength 1/n (simulated electronically), here no migration is allowed, i.e., migration rate eta=0dataFig1dAverage equilibrium percentage of sexual females in dependence of resource diversity L (simulated electronically), here no migration is allowed, i.e., migration rate eta=0dataFig1eAverage equilibrium percentage of sexual females in dependence of minimum adult body mass Ba (simulated electronically), here no migration is allowed, i.e., migration rate eta=0dataFig2a_1Influence of the migration rate eta on the equilibrium percentage of sexual females in the 20 patches for varying resource diversity L (simulated electronically), eta=0.01dataFig2a_3Influence of the migration rate eta on the equilibrium percentage of sexual females in the 20 patches for varying resource diversity L (simulated electronically), eta=0.03dataFig2a_10Influence of the migration rate eta on the equilibrium percentage of sexual females in the 20 patches for varying resource diversity L (simulated electronically), eta=0.1dataFig2b_1Influence of the migration rate eta on the equilibrium percentage of sexual females in the 20 patches for varying mortality strength 1/n (simulated electronically), eta=0.01dataFig2b_3Influence of the migration rate eta on the equilibrium percentage of sexual females in the 20 patches for varying mortality strength 1/n (simulated electronically), eta=0.03dataFig2b_10Influence of the migration rate eta on the equilibrium percentage of sexual females in the 20 patches for varying mortality strength 1/n (simulated electronically), eta=0.1