Global estimates of mammalian viral diversity accounting for host sharing

A short commentary using bipartite rarefaction to estimate viral diversity in mammals.

Out now in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

The publication

Authors: Colin J. Carlson, Casey M. Zipfel, Romain Garnier, Shweta Bansal

The analyses

Most analyses require the codependent R package, which you can find at https://github.com/cjcarlson/codependent

Install directly from Github:

# If you don't have devtools:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("cjcarlson/codependent")