Spatial scale break in ecological strategies for host use by plant viruses

Processes that involve performance traits such as host range underlie pathogen diversity and infection risk. Host range performance (HRP) is expected to be distributed across spatially explicit conditions, but rarely considered in microbial ecology. Merging of spatially discrete processes in epidemiological model selection exacerbates error propagation. We combine high throughput sequencing and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction approaches to test whether HRP of 18 plant virus speci