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Photo credit Dr. Anna Fagre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e950fa16b0a8c705d1ca839/1609277724958-FW1BDEMMGMADLLJ2HDV4/eddie.PNG Blog - How many viruses do insects have? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e950fa16b0a8c705d1ca839/1609278167272-YJQDBIMTFO8Z7EQ55GQ2/oh.PNG Blog - How many viruses do insects have? - What does that mean? Honestly: nothing. It’s just a very weird coincidence. But it is weird, right? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e950fa16b0a8c705d1ca839/1609278401817-DM3TSNU5WDG3M15SWZ34/Insect.jpg Blog - How many viruses do insects have? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e950fa16b0a8c705d1ca839/1609277890970-4PKGVKJT7RKLAP9F7TOU/scalin.jpg Blog - How many viruses do insects have? - When we fit the power law curve, it is very close to a straight line, as these curves tend to go (power exponent of 0.74) - or, to put it in biological terms, there are a lot of specialist insect viruses. Good - that scans, and means we’re not just picking up the most generalist viruses that always get discovered first. (Or, more plainly: our data isn’t super bad.) Next, we follow that curve out to the estimated 6 million insects on Earth, and get 166,897.6 estimated insect viruses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e950fa16b0a8c705d1ca839/1609275730503-GTQQ9ZANHEPVOFMGC4AH/Power+law.jpg Blog - How many viruses do insects have? - Symbiont diversity follows a rough power law scaling in plant-seed disperser networks (a), plant-mycorrhizal networks (b), plant-pollinator networks (c), and mammal-roundworm networks (d). We still don’t fully understand why, and that’s probably okay. We still don’t fully know how tape works either and it still works okay, right? Reproduced from Carlson et al. (2019) Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e950fa16b0a8c705d1ca839/1609276603174-JTAC4FGG7VQICISCFVPZ/Nematode.jpg Blog - How many viruses do insects have? - The last one is the tricky one. [2] When we try fitting a curve on a smaller part of the network, we tend again to overestimate, because the power law isn’t quite behaving like a power law should - it’s showing evidence of scale-collapse. (On the right, the same network fit with 10, 25, 50, and 100% of the full network: you get higher diversity estimates with less data.) Soon, we’ll publish some work that gets at why this happens - but for now, just kind of squint at it and hope for the best. Reproduced from Carlson et al. 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