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Volume 24, Number 12—December 2018
Research

Terrestrial Bird Migration and West Nile Virus Circulation, United States

Daniele Swetnam, Steven G. Widen, Thomas G. Wood, Martin Reyna, Lauren Wilkerson, Mustapha Debboun, Dreda A. Symonds, Daniel G. Mead, Barry J. Beaty, Hilda Guzman, Robert B. Tesh, and Alan D.T. BarrettComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA (D. Swetnam); University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA (D. Swetnam, S.G. Widen, T.G. Wood, H. Guzman, R.B. Tesh, A.D.T. Barrett); Harris County Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA (M. Reyna, L. Wilkerson, M. Debboun); Chesapeake Mosquito Control Commission, Chesapeake, Virginia, USA (D.A. Symonds); University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA (D.G. Mead); Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (B.J. Beaty)

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Table 3

Statistical support for phylogeny in study of terrestrial bird migration and West Nile virus circulation, United States*

Variable Mean ESS 95% HPD interval
Posterior −49722.50 1370 −49803.21 to −49640.55
Prior −3987.09 1110 −4051.92 to −3916.56
Likelihood −45735.41 2179 −45780.00 to −45691.43
MRCA 11.92 3119 10.82 to 13.08
UCLD.mean 3.92 × 10−4 1604 3.55 × 10−4 to 4.49 × 10−4

*ESS, effective sample size; HPD, highest posterior density; MRCA, most recent common ancestor (years before 2009); UCLD.mean, evolution rate inferred with an uncorrelated clock model with lognormal distribution.

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