Caging and Uncaging Genetics

It is important for biology to understand if observations made in highly reductionist laboratory settings generalise to harsh and noisy natural environments in which genetic variation is sorted to produce adaptation. But what do we learn by studying, in the laboratory, a genetically diverse population that mirrors the wild? What is the best design for studying genetic variation? When should we consider it at all? The right experimental approach depends on what you want to know.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2016-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002525PMID 27458971PMCID 4961361
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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