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THE EVOLUTION OF LANDSCAPE GENETICS
Author(s) -
Petren K.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.12278
Subject(s) - biology , population genetics , human evolutionary genetics , fitness landscape , evolutionary biology , quantitative genetics , adaptation (eye) , trace (psycholinguistics) , field (mathematics) , perspective (graphical) , population , genetic variation , genetics , genome , sociology , demography , computer science , artificial intelligence , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , neuroscience , pure mathematics , gene
The main objective of this special section is not to review the broad field of landscape genetics, but to provide a glimpse of how the developing landscape genetics perspective has the potential to change the way we study evolution. Evolutionary landscape genetics is the study of how migration and population structure affects evolutionary processes. As a field it dates back to Sewall Wright and the origin of theoretical population genetics, but empirical tests of adaptive processes of evolution in natural landscapes have been rare. Now, with recent developments in technology, methodology, and modeling tools, we are poised to trace adaptive genetic variation across space and through time. Not only will we see more empirical tests of classical theory, we can expect to see new phenomena emerging, as we reveal complex interactions among evolutionary processes as they unfold in natural landscapes.