title: Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, 1027 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
authors.forename: Martin E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Feder
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mitchell-Olds
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004463:Ecology; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016678:Genome; D051379:Mice