Data for Egeland TB, Egeland ES and Nordeide JT. "Does egg carotenoid improve larval quality in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)?", Ecology and Evolution. Correspondence: Torvald B. Egeland Faculty of Education and Arts Nord University Torvald.B.Egeland@nord.no Files are saved as tab-delimited .txt files. The Correlations file gives the data used to check the relationships between different predictors. Each row donates one female The column headings are defined as follows: Female: Female ID (Factor) Male: Male ID (Factor) Replikat: Replicate (1 or 2) Tank: Tank ID (1 or 2) IR_Abdomen: Red intensity of the female abdomen IR_eggs: Red intensity of the eggs K_rel: Condition factor of the female Carotenoids_HPLC: Total mass of carotenoids in eggs (ng/egg)