title: Forecasting Ecological Genomics: High-Tech Animal Instrumentation Meets High-Throughput Sequencing.
abstract: Recent advancements in animal tracking technology and high-throughput sequencing are rapidly changing the questions and scope of research in the biological sciences. The integration of genomic data with high-tech animal instrumentation comes as a natural progression of traditional work in ecological genetics, and we provide a framework for linking the separate data streams from these technologies. Such a merger will elucidate the genetic basis of adaptive behaviors like migration and hibernation and advance our understanding of fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes such as pathogen transmission, population responses to environmental change, and communication in natural populations.
authors.affiliation: Uppsala University, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: Aaron B A
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Shafer
authors.affiliation: Colorado State University, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
authors.forename: Joseph M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Northrup
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany.|University of Konstanz, Biology, Konstanz, Germany.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wikelski
authors.affiliation: Colorado State University, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wittemyer
authors.affiliation: Uppsala University, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: Jochen B W
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000818:Animals; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious; D004463:Ecology / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D051456:Gene Flow; D056726:Genetic Association Studies; D023281:Genomics / Q000639:trends*; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing