Host Range Performance for 18 Plant Virus Species Across Spatial Scales

18 plant virus species were studied using high throughput sequencing and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction to analyze host range performance. The dataset, authored by Michael McLeish and last updated in May 2026, provides evidence of a scaling break in ecological strategies between individual host and community levels. It suggests host range performance informs disease risk at the plant community level but is a poor predictor of infection in individual plants.

Use Cases

• Modeling disease risk at the community level based on host range performance data.
• Studying scaling breaks in ecological trait performance between individual and population scales.
• Informing epidemiological model selection by incorporating trait variation across spatial scales.
• Analyzing the association between virus co-occurrence and broader spatial scales mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Focuses on 18 distinct plant virus species, providing a multi-species comparison.
• Combines two methodological approaches: high throughput sequencing and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction.
• Explicitly tests hypotheses across two spatial scales (individual host and community).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 3.5 MB size suggests a small dataset, potentially limiting statistical power for some analyses.

Provenance

Source

Michael McLeish via figshare

Collection Method

Data generated by combining high throughput sequencing and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction approaches.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 05:32:47; freshness should be verified.