Data Set “Morphology and function of the sternal gland in two species of mason bee”

Abstract

Raw pictures of the sternal glands and data of the behavioral assay to test the effect of male-specific carboxylic ester in two species of mason bees, Osmia bicornis and O. cornuta (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). This data were used to analyze function of male pheromones produced in the sternal gland.

Data: Raw data are provided as Tab delimited ASCII (".txt"), decimal separator ".". The structure of the files and the content of the Variables is declared in "Description_data.txt".

List and association of files: A list of all the files, along with their association with different microscopic techniques or data sets, can be found in the "readme.txt" file.

Species: Osmia bicornis, Osmia cornuta: Insecta, Hymenoptera, Apidae, Megachilidae, Osmiini

Methodology: Light and electron microscopy to analyze the morphology and ultrastructure of the sternal gland Attraction test with tethered males in the field

Methods as described in the publication.

Pictures: The files contain the raw image format, with no editing applied. The embedded metadata can be obtained from the image files. Additional metadata information is provided in a metadata file with the same name as the image, if necessary. These files have the extensions ".XML" or ".xlif". Descriptions of image content are provided in ".txt" files. Additional images not included in the publication can be requested from the authors.