Open AccessBiological invasions at the gene level
Author(s) -
Petit Rémy J.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
diversity and distributions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.918
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1472-4642
pISSN - 1366-9516
DOI - 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2004.00084.x
Subject(s) - biology , population biology , evolutionary biology , human biology , population , ecology , genetics , demography , sociology
Despite several recent contributions of population and evolutionary biology to the rapidly developing field of invasion biology, integration is far from perfect. I argue here that invasion and native status are sometimes best discussed at the level of the gene rather than at the level of the species. This, and the need to consider both natural (e.g. postglacial) and human‐induced invasions, suggests that a more integrative view of invasion biology is required.