Specialization has often been claimed to be an evolutionary dead end, with specialist lineages having a reduced capacity to persist or diversify. In a phylogenetic comparative framework, an evolutiona
The comparison of mathematical models that represent alternative hypotheses about the tempo and mode of evolutionary change is a common approach for assessing the evolutionary processes underlying phe
This archive contains the following files: a) Virus Relatedness Analysis.R, an R script demonstrating the main analysis and modelling steps used in this study. b) Virus Relatedness Foldchange Data.csv