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Tracking the spread of Foot-and-Mouth Disease virus in South America
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maxbiostat commented 9 years ago

Page 8 Line 8: “The diversity bottleneck…”. You commented about the bottleneck for the type A diversity reconstruction as an effect of FMD epidemics affecting several countries after the 2000, but I would remind you that the majority of your samples (collected mainly from epidemics) are from the 2000 afterwards. Therefore, this again would be a confounding effect due to bias in your data (i.e. is the skyride estimate affected by the number of coalescent events in your phylogeny?).

maxbiostat commented 9 years ago

Good point. Let's address this in face of new data.