title: The genomics of adaptation.
abstract: The amount and nature of genetic variation available to natural selection affect the rate, course and outcome of evolution. Consequently, the study of the genetic basis of adaptive evolutionary change has occupied biologists for decades, but progress has been hampered by the lack of resolution and the absence of a genome-level perspective. Technological advances in recent years should now allow us to answer many long-standing questions about the nature of adaptation. The data gathered so far are beginning to challenge some widespread views of the way in which natural selection operates at the genomic level. Papers in this Special Feature of Proceedings of the Royal Society B illustrate various aspects of the broad field of adaptation genomics. This introductory article sets up a context and, on the basis of a few selected examples, discusses how genomic data can advance our understanding of the process of adaptation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland. j.w.radwan@gmail.com
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Radwan
authors.forename: Wiesław
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Babik
mesh_terms: D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics; D005075:Biological Evolution; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016678:Genome; D023281:Genomics; D012641:Selection, Genetic