Instructions for Users of "PublicDataBioassy", from "You are what you eat: A combined metabolomics – bioassay approach to understanding prey responses to chemical cues produced by predators fed different diets Dataset."

The data in "PublicDataBioassay" contain the Bioassay data files underlying the publication "You are what you eat: A combined metabolomics – bioassay approach to understanding prey responses to chemical cues produced by predators fed different diets." 

The spreadsheet contains the results of experiments examining mud crab consumption of shrimp when exposed to urine of blue crabs fed different diets. The spreadsheet contains data from two different experiments, Diet Experiment and Dose Response Experiment.

Diet Experiment (first tab)
The spreadsheet columns list the trial date,  the diet treatment, the initial mass of shrimp food given to the mud crabs, the final mass, and the proportion consumed (Initial-Final Mass/Initial Mass).  Diet treatments refer to the diet fed blue crabs and are the following: Oyster diet (O), Shrimp diet (S), Mud Crab diet (MC),  Mud Crab + Oyster diet (OMC; a combination of urine from crabs fed each of these diets). Control (C) is no urine, and mass loss refers to treatments that lacked both urine and mud crabs, and acted as a control for mass loss in the absence of consumption by mud crabs. The amount of urine added was 2.5 mL L-1, except for the OMC treatment where it was 5 mL L-1.

Dose Response experiment (second tab)
Columns list the diet, the volume of urine added, initial, final mass and proportion consumed. Only urine from blue crabs fed mud crabs (MC) and oysters (O) was used in this experiment. Mass loss is as defined above.