Community genetics: What have we accomplished and where should we be going?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1569, 2011, Pages 1453-1460

  Hersch Green, Erika I ^a   Turley, Nash E ^a   Johnson, Marc T J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Community and Ecosystem Ecology; Ecological Genomics; Extended Phenotype; Functional Genomics; Intraspecific Genetic Variation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION;

EID: 79953762959     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0331     Document Type: Review

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