Article
The biological importance of measuring individual variation.
The Journal of experimental biology - 1 May 2007
Crawford Douglas L, Oleksiak Marjorie F
Abstract excerpt
Functional genomics research using Fundulus heteroclitus has focused on variation among individuals because of the evolutionary importance and value of Fundulus in explaining the human condition (why individual humans are different and are affected differently by stress, disease and drugs). Among different populations and species of Fundulus, there are evolutionarily adaptive differences in gene expression. This...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Animals
- Fundulidae
- Gene Expression
- Genetic Variation
- Genomics
- Metabolic Networks and Pathways
- Myocardium
- Principal Component Analysis
- RNA, Messenger
- Substrate Specificity