Department of Biology, Southern Utah University, 351 West University Blvd, Cedar City, UT 84720, USA.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Integr Comp Biol. 2019 Sep 1;59(3):489-492. doi: 10.1093/icb/icz114.
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) should, in theory, be a home for scientists working across the entire Tree of Life. In practice, SICB has remained principally a society that supports integrative zoological research. Here we highlight a broad collection of what we consider to the best in integrative and comparative plant biology, gathered together for a special symposium at the 2019 SICB meeting. This symposium and special issue mark the initiation of a new Division of Botany within SICB, which we hope will usher in a new era of SICB where botanists and zoologists engage, collaborate, and celebrate together in this especially creative period of integrative and comparative biology.
理论上，综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）应该是一个为跨整个生命之树工作的科学家提供的家园。但实际上，SICB 一直主要是一个支持综合动物学研究的学会。在这里，我们重点展示了我们认为最好的综合性和比较植物生物学的广泛集合，这些研究是为 2019 年 SICB 会议的一个特别研讨会收集的。这个研讨会和特刊标志着 SICB 内植物学分会的成立，我们希望这将迎来一个新的 SICB 时代，植物学家和动物学家在这个特别具有创新性的综合与比较生物学时期相互参与、合作和庆祝。
