Evolutionary Ecological Genomics

Title
Evolutionary Ecological Genomics
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
Orsini, Luisa
Andrew, Rose
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0099-8336
Email: randre20@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:randre20
Eizaguirre, Christophe
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1111/mec.12177
UNE publication id
une:15910
Abstract
The recognition that evolution can happen on ecological timescales (Hairston 'et al'. 2005; Pelletier 'et al'. 2009; Ellner 'et al'. 2011; Becks 'et al'. 2012) has prompted the integration of ecology and evolution, while easier access to high-throughput sequencing technologies has increased the number of genetic nonmodel species entering the 'omics' era (e.g. Turner 'et al'. 2010; Colbourne 'et al'. 2011; Jones 'et al'. 2012). We are now in a position to identify the genetic basis of adaptation and the mechanisms of adaptive responses in the wild. It nonetheless remains a challenge to go beyond descriptive measures of patterns of genetic variation and to identify the evolutionary processes driving species adaptation and evolution. This special issue represents a broad cross-section of research into evolutionary adaptation at the genetic level. The approaches used vary from classic QTL studies to RAD sequencing and RNAseq. Given the rapid advance of sequencing technology, we fully expect that 'genomic' as defined here will be merely 'genetic' in a few years, but we nonetheless hope that the results and methods described in this special issue will serve as a blueprint for future work in this field.
Link
Citation
Molecular Ecology, 22(3), p. 527-531
ISSN
1365-294X
0962-1083
Start page
527
End page
531

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