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Integrating influenza antigenic dynamics with molecular evolution
http://bedford.io/papers/bedford-flux/
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Interference #37

Closed trvrb closed 10 years ago

trvrb commented 10 years ago

My comments where the original reason that the authors removed the argument for the across lineage correlation in incidence. However, now page 11 has this orphan paragraph beginning "Although the general correlation between rate of antigenic drift..." This paragraph doesn't seem to make sense in the context of the presented data any more, as the paper no longer has any information about across lineage correlations, so it can't even be seen what they are saying may not be causal. I think this paragraph either needs to be dramatically expended or probably better eliminated. Maybe the previous paragraph could then just get a wrap-up sentence interpreting the results to suggest a strong relationship between drift and incidence within each lineage.

trvrb commented 10 years ago

We agree with this advice. We have replaced this paragraph with a wrap-up sentence as suggested.