Bioenergetic Adaptations at Specific Gene Loci

进化适应环境压力的概念将通过在“生物能量学”的背景下研究自然遗传变异来阐明，“生物能量学”是指能量在生命系统中的流动和使用。技术将应用于分子生物学和生理生态学，以及更传统的种群生物学领域。一个已经取得了很大进展的昆虫研究系统将被用作检查这些过程的“模型系统”。这项工作将有助于理解自然变异如何与可识别的环境压力模式和其他选择压力相互作用，从而理解随着时间的推移，自然环境过程如何塑造通过所有生物的能量流动。这将允许对目前正在开发的新的生理组织分析理论进行测试，并刺激其扩展。因此，这项工作不仅对种群生物学的基本理解很重要，而且对广泛的应用生物学领域也很重要。它已经开始对保护生物学的遗传方面产生影响，并开始在农业和预防医学的遗传方面显示出巨大的潜力。

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.