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Genome‐wide approaches to the study of adaptive gene expression evolution
Author(s) -
Fraser Hunter B.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.201000094
Subject(s) - biology , genome , genetics , gene , computational biology , gene expression , evolutionary biology , genome evolution
The role of gene expression in evolutionary adaptation has been a subject of debate for over 40 years. cis ‐regulation of transcription has been proposed to be the primary source of morphological novelty in evolution, though this is based on only a handful of examples. Recently the first genome‐wide studies of gene expression adaptation have been published, giving us an initial global view of this process. Systematic studies such as these will allow a number of key questions currently facing the field of gene expression evolution to be addressed.