Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada,
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2014;781:73-105. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-7347-9_5.
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.
E.B.福特在 1964 年出版的《生态遗传学》一书中呼吁生物学家开展多学科工作，以阐明基因型、表型和适应生态相关特征之间的联系。在这篇综述中，我们认为将生态基因组学框架整合到表型可塑性研究中，是阐明基因与环境之间因果关系的一种很有前途的方法，特别是在对新环境的殖民、环境变化和物种形成过程中。这篇综述强调了从机械论、进化和生态角度提出的一些问题和假设，以指导在表型可塑性研究中继续和未来使用基因组工具。
