Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
New Phytol. 2018 Jan;217(1):16-25. doi: 10.1111/nph.14860. Epub 2017 Oct 27.
Considerable progress has been made in ecological and evolutionary genetics with studies demonstrating how genes underlying plant and microbial traits can influence adaptation and even 'extend' to influence community structure and ecosystem level processes. Progress in this area is limited to model systems with deep genetic and genomic resources that often have negligible ecological impact or interest. Thus, important linkages between genetic adaptations and their consequences at organismal and ecological scales are often lacking. Here we introduce the Sphagnome Project, which incorporates genomics into a long-running history of Sphagnum research that has documented unparalleled contributions to peatland ecology, carbon sequestration, biogeochemistry, microbiome research, niche construction, and ecosystem engineering. The Sphagnome Project encompasses a genus-level sequencing effort that represents a new type of model system driven not only by genetic tractability, but by ecologically relevant questions and hypotheses.
在生态和进化遗传学方面取得了相当大的进展，研究表明，植物和微生物特性的基因如何影响适应，甚至“扩展”以影响群落结构和生态系统水平过程。这方面的进展仅限于具有深厚遗传和基因组资源的模式系统，这些系统通常对生态影响或兴趣微不足道。因此，遗传适应性与其在生物和生态尺度上的后果之间的重要联系往往缺失。在这里，我们介绍 Sphagnome 项目，该项目将基因组学纳入到对泥炭地生态学、碳封存、生物地球化学、微生物组研究、生态位构建和生态系统工程具有无与伦比贡献的长达数十年的泥炭藓研究历史中。Sphagnome 项目包括一个属级别的测序工作，它代表了一种新型的模式系统，不仅由遗传可操作性驱动，还受到生态相关问题和假设的驱动。
