TY - BOOK ID - 145183762 TI - The Least Cost Path From Landscape Genetics to Landscape Genomics AU - Rodney J. Dyer AU - Stéphane Joost AU - Samuel A. Cushman AU - Glenn T. Howe AU - Melanie A. Murphy AU - Andrew J. Shirk PY - 2018 PB - Frontiers Media SA DB - UniCat KW - landscape genomics KW - gene flow KW - next generation sequencing KW - landscape genetics KW - evolution KW - landscape genomics KW - gene flow KW - next generation sequencing KW - landscape genetics KW - evolution UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145183762 AB - Ecosystems are the stage on which the play of evolution is acted, and ecosystems are complex, spatially structured and temporally varying. The purpose of this Research Topic is to explore critical challenges and opportunities for the transition from landscape genetics to landscape genomics. Landscape genetics has focused on the spatial analysis of small genetic datasets, typically comprised of less than 20 microsatellite markers, taken from clusters of individuals in putative populations or distributed individuals across landscapes. The recent emergence of large scale genomic datasets produced by next generation sequencing methods poses tremendous challenge and opportunity to the field. Perhaps the greatest is to produce, process, curate, archive and analyze spatially referenced genomic datasets in a way such that research is led by a priori hypotheses regarding how environmental heterogeneity and temporal dynamics interact to affect gene flow and selection. The papers in the Research Topic cover a broad range of topics under this area of focus, from reviews of the emergence of landscape genetics, to best practices in spatial analysis of genetic data. The compilation, like the emerging field itself, is eclectic and illustrates the scope of both the challenges and opportunities of this emerging field. ER -