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cord-270604-u62437dh	Cuthill, Jennifer Hoyal	A SIMPLE MODEL EXPLAINS THE DYNAMICS OF PREFERENTIAL HOST SWITCHING AMONG MAMMAL RNA VIRUSES	2013-02-19		.txt	text/plain	7441	322	42	We present an empirical test of two theoretical models of preferential host switching, using observed phylogenetic distributions of host species for RNA viruses of three mammal orders (primates, carnivores, and ungulates). To overcome the above complications, this study takes an alternative approach, and reconstructs the dynamics of preferential host switching among 38 recorded "multihost" RNA viruses of mammals, on phylogenies of their primate, carnivore, and ungulate hosts. To achieve this, approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is used to test the fit of the two models of preferential host switching to the observed distributions of multihost RNA viruses on the phylogenies of their mammal hosts (primates, carnivores, and terrestrial ungulates). This indicates that ABC model selection was effective with each of the three sample sizes used for calculation of the HSD summary statistics (which corresponded to the number of observed host-virus associations, of 22 for primates, 12 for carnivores, and 4 for ungulates).	./cache/cord-270604-u62437dh.txt	./txt/cord-270604-u62437dh.txt