期刊
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
卷 20, 期 5, 页码 1153-1160出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13245
关键词
aDNA; environmental change; evolution; natural history collections
资金
- NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology [1711950]
- Pennsylvania State University Eberly Postdoctoral Fellowship
- National Science Foundation
- NSF Idaho EPSCoR Program [OIA-1757324]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems [1711950] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
A long-standing question in biology is how organisms change through time and space in response to their environment. This knowledge is of particular relevance to predicting how organisms might respond to future environmental changes caused by human-induced global change. Usually researchers make inferences about past events based on an understanding of current static genetic patterns, but these are limited in their capacity to inform on underlying past processes. Natural history collections (NHCs) represent a unique and critical source of information to provide temporally deep and spatially broad time-series of samples. By using NHC samples, researchers can directly observe genetic changes over time and space and link those changes with specific ecological/evolutionary events. Until recently, such genetic studies were hindered by the intrinsic challenges of NHC samples (i.e. low yield of highly fragmented DNA). However, recent methodological and technological developments have revolutionized the possibilities in the novel field of NHC genomics. In this Special Feature, we compile a range of studies spanning from methodological aspects to particular case studies which demonstrate the enormous potential of NHC samples for accessing large genomic data sets from the past to advance our knowledge on how populations and species respond to global change at multiple spatial-temporal scales. We also highlight possible limitations, recommendations and a few opportunities for future researchers aiming to study NHC genomics.
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