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Published on: August 18, 2023
Integrating phenotypic plasticity within an Ecological Genomics framework: recent insights from the genomics,
Matthew Morris1, Sean M Rogers
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, mrjmorri@ucalgary.ca.
Abstract:
E.B. Ford's 1964 book Ecological Genetics was a call for biologists to engage in multidisciplinary work in order to elucidate the link between genotype, phenotype, and fitness for ecologically relevant traits. In this review, we argue that the integration of an ecological genomics framework in studies of phenotypic plasticity is a promising approach to elucidate the causal links between genes and the environment, particularly during colonization of novel environments, environmental change, and speciation. This review highlights some of the questions and hypotheses generated from a mechanistic, evolutionary, and ecological perspective, in order to direct the continued and future use of genomic tools in the study of phenotypic plasticity.
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