Chin J Plant Ecol ›› 2003, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (3): 427-432.DOI: 10.17521/cjpe.2003.0061

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Interactions Between Ecology and Genetics in the Genomic Era

QIAN Wei   

  • Online:2003-03-10 Published:2003-03-10
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Abstract:

Ecology and genetics initially overlapped in the concept of population. Preliminary literature demography showed that studies on the formation and maintenance of population genetic structure are becoming mainstream approaches at the present time. With the rapid development of genomics, cloning ecologically important genes and comparing their subtle expression patterns has become a new field of study. By analyzing characteristics of related cases, it is proposed that ecology will provide important contributions towards the solution of questions arising from gene_oriented studies.

Key words: Ecology, Genetics, Interaction