Feder Martin E, Mitchell-Olds Thomas
Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, 1027 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Nat Rev Genet. 2003 Aug;4(8):651-7. doi: 10.1038/nrg1128.
A unique combination of disciplines is emerging--evolutionary and ecological functional genomics--which focuses on the genes that affect ecological success and evolutionary fitness in natural environments and populations. Already this approach has provided new insights that were not available from its disciplinary components in isolation. However, future advances will necessitate the re-engineering of scientific attitudes, training and institutions, to achieve extensive multidisciplinarity.
一个独特的学科组合正在形成——进化与生态功能基因组学,它专注于那些在自然环境和种群中影响生态成功与进化适应性的基因。这种方法已经提供了从其孤立的学科组成部分中无法获得的新见解。然而,未来的进展将需要对科学态度、培训和机构进行重新设计,以实现广泛的多学科融合。