Bioenergetic Adaptations at Specific Gene Loci

进化适应环境的概念 通过研究自然遗传变异， 在“生物能量学”的背景下，这是流动和使用 通过生命系统获取能量。 技术将被 从分子生物学和生理生态学， 以及更传统的种群生物学领域。 昆虫 已经取得很大进展的学习系统将 作为一个“模型系统”，用于检查这些过程。 这项工作将有助于理解自然变异是如何 与可识别的环境压力模式相互作用， 其他选择压力，以及能量如何流动， 随着时间的推移，所有的生物都是由自然环境塑造的， 流程. 这将允许测试，并刺激扩展， 一种新的生理组织分析理论 开发 因此，这项工作不仅对 对种群生物学的基本理解，但对广泛的 各种应用生物领域。 它已经开始 对保护生物学的遗传方面产生影响， 开始在遗传方面显示出巨大的潜力， 农业和预防医学。

The concept of evolutionary adaptation to environmental stresses will be clarified by studying natural genetic variation in the context of "bioenergetics", that is the flow and use of energy through and by living systems. Techniques will be employed from molecular biology and physiological ecology, as well as more traditional areas of population biology. An insect study system, on which much progress has already been made, will be used as a "model system" for examination of these processes. This work will yield understanding of how natural variation interacts with identifiable environmental stress patterns and other selection pressures, and thus of how energy flow through all living beings is shaped, over time, by natural environmental processes. This will allow test of, and stimulate extension of, new analytic theory of physiological organization now being developed. This work is thus of importance not only to fundamental understanding in population biology, but to a wide variety of applied-biological areas. It has already begun to have impact on the genetic aspects of conservation biology, and is starting to show major potential in genetic aspects of agriculture and preventive medicine.