README Article Information This repository provides access to the data and source code used for the manuscript Wasted efforts impair random search efficiency and reduce the level of choosiness in mate-pairing termites Nobuaki Mizumoto, Naohisa Nataya, Ryusuke Fujisawa Contact, Nobuaki Mizumoto: nzm0095@auburn.edu This paper is accepted at The American Naturalist.Preprint is available at bioRxiv. This study examines how movement patterns of mate searchers of a termite Reticulitermes speratus changes according to time. Then investigated how this change in movement patterns affect random search efficiency and mate choice behavior.This includes tracking data, R codes to analyze it, and Cpp code for simulations. Table of Contents README scripts output.R - output all results processing.R - data processing of coordinates obtained from servosphere simulations.R - for data-based simulations onesim.cpp - functions for simulations output - all outputs are stored data raw - raw data in .csv ANTAM_4day - directory includes raw data obtained from servosphere. Ignore the first four columns. col4: x, col5: y, col6: time colonyfoundation.csv - data for colony foundation experiments. tandem_sum.csv - the number of observations of individual units in each experiment. units include solomale (single male), solofemale (single female), heterotandem (female-male tandem), male tandem (male-male tandem), female tandem (female-female tandem), and tandem3 (tandem run with >= 3 individuals). tandem_timedevelopment.csv - breakdown of tandem_sum.csv. The measurement was not summarized but for each observation bouts (5: 0-5 min, 10: 5-10 min, ...). termite_weight.csv - Termite weight measurement. fresh: fresh weight in mg. fmt - formatted data created in processing.R and simulations.R. The formatted data will be used for output.R. The all formatted data are in .rda files. The .csv files with the same contents are also generated for reviewing purpose. df_all.rda - The processed data of trajectories for furthur analysis. It has three datafrmaes named df_all (trajectories with traveled distance information for each frame), df_MSD (MSD data for each individual), df_pause (duration of pauses for each pausing events for each individual). The corresponding csv files are df_all.csv, df_MSD.csv, and df_pause.csv df_sum.rda - The file further processed df_all.rda to summarize all parameters for each individual. df_sum.csv is corresponding. df_sim.rda - The simulation results that record encounter time for each searching attempts. encounter_time = 1501 indicates the failure to encounter. df_sim.csv is corresponding. Session information R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16 ucrt) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 22621) Matrix products: default locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8 time zone: Asia/Tokyo tzcode source: internal attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] CircStats_0.2-6 boot_1.3-28.1 MASS_7.3-60 [4] stringr_1.5.0 survival_3.5-5 survminer_0.4.9 [7] ggpubr_0.6.0 Rcpp_1.0.10 PupillometryR_0.0.5 [10] rlang_1.1.1 dplyr_1.1.2 viridis_0.6.3 [13] viridisLite_0.4.2 ggplot2_3.4.2 Rmisc_1.5.1 [16] plyr_1.8.8 lattice_0.21-8 exactRankTests_0.8-35 [19] car_3.1-2 carData_3.0-5 lme4_1.1-34 [22] Matrix_1.6-1 data.table_1.14.8