Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2011 May 12;366(1569):1322-8. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0357.
Community genetics is a synthesis of community ecology and evolutionary biology. It examines how genetic variation within a species affects interactions among species to change ecological community structure and diversity. The use of community genetics approaches has greatly expanded in recent years and the evidence for ecological effects of genetic diversity is growing. The goal of current community genetics research is to determine the circumstances in which, and the mechanisms by which community genetic effects occur and is the focus of the papers in this special issue. We bring a new group of researchers into the community genetics fold. Using a mixture of empirical research, literature reviews and theoretical development, we introduce novel concepts and methods that we hope will enable us to develop community genetics into the future.
社区遗传学是社区生态学和进化生物学的综合。它研究了物种内遗传变异如何影响物种间的相互作用，从而改变生态群落结构和多样性。近年来，社区遗传学方法的应用得到了极大的扩展，遗传多样性对生态的影响的证据也在不断增加。目前社区遗传学研究的目标是确定社区遗传效应发生的情况和机制，这也是本期特刊中论文的重点。我们引入了一组新的研究人员进入社区遗传学领域。我们使用实证研究、文献综述和理论发展的混合方法，引入了新的概念和方法，希望能够使我们能够将社区遗传学推向未来。
