The new bioniformatics: Integrating ecological data from the gene to the biosphere

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The informatics frameworks for ecology are described from subject-specific data warehouses to generic data collections that use detailed metadata descriptions and formal ontologies to catalog and cross-reference information. Combining these approaches with automated data integration techniques and scientific workflow systems, is likely to maximize the value of data and opens new frontiers for research in ecology.

Management dynamics, Analysis, Management, Company business management, Gene banks, Computational biology, Metadata

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Genetic polymorphism in heterogeneous environments: The age of genomics

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Sequenced-based tests provide new ways to evaluate the long-term impact of selection on particular genes and the overall genome in natural populations. A new focus is laid on using DNA sequence data to identify and understand the impact of selection, particularly favorable directional selection, on specific genes.

Genetic polymorphisms, Pesticide resistance, Melanism (Evolutionary adaptation)

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Limits to the adaptive potential of small populations

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Study is conducted to assess the theoretical and empirical basis for concluding that small and isolated populations have reduced capacity to respond to directional selection. It is argued whether reduced evolutionary potential should be a concern for conservation biologists.

Adaptation (Biology), Evolutionary adaptation, Conservation biology, Genetic variation

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