Perspectives on Ecological and Evolutionary Systems Biology

Annual Plant Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue , 2009, Pages 331-349

  Richards, Christina L ^a   Hanzawa, Yoshie ^a   Katari, Manpreet S ^a   Ehrenreich, Ian M ^a,b   Engelmann, Kathleen E ^c   Purugganan, Michael D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Caenorhabditis elegans; Drosophila species; Ecological genomics; Ecological transcriptome; Epigenetics; Experimental design; Flowering time network; Fundulus heteroclitus; Natural environment; Non model systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948983242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312249.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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