Ecological Genomics
Subtitle: Ecology and the Evolution of Genes and Genomes
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 11, 2013
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9789400773462
Description: "Researchers in the field of ecological genomics aim to determine how a genome or a population of genomes interacts with its environment across ecological and evolutionary timescales. Ecological genomics is trans-disciplinary by nature. Ecologists have turned to genomics to be able to elucidate the mechanistic bases of the biodiversity their research tries to understand. Genomicists have turned to ecology in order to better explain the functional cellular and molecular variation they observed in their model organisms. Ecological genomics covers 3 fields of research that have most benefited from the recent technological and conceptual developments in the field of ecological genomics: the study of life-history evolution and its impact of genome architectures; the study of the genomic bases of phenotypic plasticity and the study of the genomic bases of adaptation and speciation"-- Publisher's description.
Notes: Source title: Ecological Genomics: Ecology and the Evolution of Genes and Genomes (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (781))