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This work was funded in part by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades, Spain (grant: RTI2018-094302-B-I00) and Agencia Estatal de Investigacion, Spain, (grant: PID2021-124671OB-I00). AP was supported by a Formacion de Personal Investigador contract (BES-2016-077810). Antolin Lopez Quiros and Miguel Angel Mora provided excellent technical assistance. We thank Rafael De Andres Toran for help in building Table S9 and our anonymous reviewers for the detailed feedback and time spent on the manuscript.

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Mcleish, MichaelCorresponding AuthorPeláez, AdriánAuthorPagan, IsraelAuthorFraile, AuroraAuthorGarcia-Arenal, FernandoAuthor

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Plant virus community structuring is shaped by habitat heterogeneity and traits for host plant resource utilisation

Publicated to:New Phytologist. 244 (4): 1585-1596 - 2024-11-01 244(4), DOI: 10.1111/nph.20054

Authors: Mcleish, M; Peláez, A; Pagán, I; Gavilán, RG; Fraile, A; García-Arenal, F

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Univ Complutense, Fac Farm, Dept Farmacol Farmacognosia & Bot, Unidad Bot, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid UPM, Ctr Biotecnol & Genomica Plantas CBGP, UPM, Campus Montegancedo, Madrid 28223, Spain - Author
UPM, ETSI Agron, Alimentaria & Biosistemas, Campus Montegancedo, Madrid 28223, Spain - Author
UPM, Inst Nacl Invest & Tecnol Agr & Alimentaria CS INI, Campus Montegancedo, Madrid 28223, Spain - Author

Abstract

Host plants provide resources critical to viruses and the spatial structuring of plant communities affects the niches available for colonisation and disease emergence. However, large gaps remain in the understanding of mechanisms that govern plant-virus disease ecology across heterogeneous plant assemblages. We combine high-throughput sequencing, network, and metacommunity approaches to test whether habitat heterogeneity in plant community composition corresponded with virus resource utilisation traits of transmission mode and host range. A majority of viruses exhibited habitat specificity, with communities connected by key generalist viruses and potential host reservoirs. There was an association between habitat heterogeneity and virus community structuring, and between virus community structuring and resource utilisation traits of host range and transmission. The relationship between virus species distributions and virus trait responses to habitat heterogeneity was scale-dependent, being stronger at finer (site) than larger (habitat) spatial scales. Results indicate that habitat heterogeneity has a part in plant virus community assembly, and virus community structuring corresponds to virus trait responses that vary with the scale of observation. Distinctions in virus communities caused by plant resource compartmentalisation can be used to track trait responses of viruses to hosts important in forecasting disease emergence.

Keywords

Anthropic disturbanceBiodiversityDiversityDrivesEcologEvolutionGrassesHost rangeInfectionInteraction networkMetacommunityMetagenomicsNiche opportunityPatternsR packageRangeSpatial scaleTransmissioTransmission

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal New Phytologist due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 12/273, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Plant Sciences. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-24:

  • Scopus: 1

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-24:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 7.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 8 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.25.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 7 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (MCLEISH, MICHAEL JOHN) and Last Author (GARCIA-ARENAL RODRIGUEZ, FERNANDO).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been MCLEISH, MICHAEL JOHN.