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Paraleptuca crassipes Handedness

Summary

Expected handedness for Paraleptuca crassipes is 50% right-handed and 50% left-handed

Observed handedness (based on raw totals across all data sets) is 48.39% right-handed, 51.61% left-handed

The following figure displays the left and right counts for each individual data set.

handedness data for Paraleptuca crassipes

Data

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ReferenceRight CountLeft CountRight %Left %Notes
Rosenberg (2000)310.7500.250
Yamaguchi (1994)12110.5220.478
Yamaguchi (1994)040.0001.000These are the Pacific individuals he had under the species Paraleptuca chlorophthalmus