Wildlife Genetic Diversity and Genomics
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editor
Interests: genetic diversity; genome; population genetics; metagenome; evolution
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biodiversity is a key component of ecosystems, responsible for driving variation in ecosystem productivity, stability, and resilience. Therefore, the ecological consequences of genetic diversity lie at the core of efforts to understand the links between biodiversity and ecosystem function. The nature of genomics and genetic diversity in wildlife has always been the basic problem of evolutionary genetics, as well as gene flow, population depression, population growth, and so on. However, despite its cardinal role in evolutionary theory and application, the maintenance of genetic diversity remains largely enigmatic, notwithstanding the dramatic discoveries of molecular biology, which revealed the abundant genetic diversity in nature. Moreover, it is unclear how widely the ecological effects of genetic diversity apply in wildlife, and little is known about the relative importance of genetic diversity vs. other factors that influence the ecological processes of interest in wildlife.
Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on the genomics and genetic diversity of wildlife, including animals, plants, and microorganisms and will aim to fill these gaps in research by evaluating the following aspects: (1) the genomics and genetic diversity in wildlife through all kinds of molecular markers, (2) the mechanisms by which environment- and genetic-driven trait variation occur in wildlife, (3) the ecological and evolutionary consequences of genotypic diversity effects on interactions in wildlife, (4) the genetic diversity consequences among stress factors, and (5) the linkages between the evolutionary forces that shape the expression of additive genetic variation and ecological genetic diversity effects.
Dr. Wenping Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- animal
- plant
- microorganism
- genome
- metagenome
- genetic diversity
- genomic diversity
- molecular marker
- mitochondrial DNA
- chloroplast DNA
