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SET 1: From figures in Palmer, AR (2000) Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 31:441-480

• Data for FIGURE 3 [Stuffit file (Excel '98 & text format, 20K); text file (23K)]
  (from Moller, AP & R Thornhill, 1999. Bilateral symmetry and sexual selection: A meta-analysis.
  American Naturalist 151:174-192)

• Data for FIGURE 4 [Stuffit file (Excel '98 & text format; 10K); text file (13K)]
  (from Clutton-Brock, TH. 1986. Sex ratio variation in birds.
  Ibis 128:317-329)

• Data for FIGURE 6 [Stuffit file (Excel '98 & text format; 24K); text file (30K)]
  (from Weigensberg, I & DA Roff. 1996. Natural heritabilities: Can they be reliably estimated in the laboratory?
  Evolution 50:2149-2157)

• Data for FIGURE 10 [Stuffit file (Excel '98 & text format, 54K); text file (72K)]
  (from Leung, B & MR Forbes. 1996. Fluctuating asymmetry in relation to stress and fitness: Effects of trait type as revealed by meta-analysis.
  Ecoscience 3:400-413)

• Data for FIGURE 11 [Stuffit file (Excel '98 & text format, 20K); text file (23K)]
  (from Moller, AP & R Thornhill, 1999. Bilateral symmetry and sexual selection: A meta-analysis.
  American Naturalist 151:174-192)

• Data for FIGURE 14 [Stuffit file (Excel '98 & text format; 5K); text file (3K)]
  (from Woods, RE, MJ Hercus, & AA Hoffmann. 1998. Estimating the heritability of fluctuating asymmetry in field Drosophila.
  Evolution 52:816-824)

SET 2: Appendix and data files to accompany Palmer, AR and C Strobeck (2003). Fluctuating Asymmetry Analyses Revisited. In: Developmental Instability (DI): Causes and Consequences. (M. Polak ed., Oxford University Press).

• Appendix V. Fluctuating-asymmetry analysis: A step-by-step example. [pdf file (103K)]

• Crespi data files (data from Crespi, B. J. and B. A. Vanderkist. 1997. Fluctuating asymmetry in vestigial and functional traits of a haplodiploid insect. Heredity 79:624-630):

  DataFiles/CrespiData_forError [Excel file (345K); Stuffit file (Excel '98 & text format; 70K); text file (112K)].
  DataFiles/CrespiData_forFA [Excel file (87K);Stuffit file (Excel '98 & text format; 34K); text file (29K)].

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(revised Nov. 23, 2005)