Host shifts and viral evolution: evidence of Taylor's law in allele frequency dynamics

The results of approxwf and alleles frequencies (Excel file). Supplementary figure S1: (a) Mean and standard deviation and trajectories of simulated allele frequencies, where n = 8 for all cases, showing how βn scales from alleles with small fluctuations around 0.01 (group a) to large fluctuations (group b), medium fluctuations (group c) and early rise with small fluctuations from 1. (b) Trajectories of random walks from the random matrices built with standard deviation of 0.01, 0.05 and 0.2. (c) Taylor’s plot of random matrices, colored by n. For each n, a colored line represents the fit to Taylor’s law. A black line represents the fit to Taylor’s law for all alleles. Taylor’s parameters V and β, respectively, for the fit without adjusting for n, are shown.