Training molecularly enabled field biologists to understand organism-level gene 
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Kang, J.-H.; Baldwin, I. T.

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Training molecularly enabled field biologists to understand organism-level gene function

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Kang, J.-H.
Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society;
IMPRS on Ecological Interactions, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society;

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Baldwin, I. T.
Department of Molecular Ecology, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society;

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Kang, J.-H., & Baldwin, I. T. (2008). Training molecularly enabled field biologists to understand organism-level gene function. Molecules and Cells, 26(1), 1-4.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-AD86-2

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A gene's influence on an organism's Darwinian fitness ultimately determines whether it will be lost, maintained or modified by natural selection, yet biologists have few gene expression systems in which to measure whole-organism gene function. In the Department of Molecular Ecology at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology we are training "molecularly enabled field biologists" to use transformed plants silenced in the expression of environmentally regulated genes and the plant's native habitats as "laboratories." Research done in these natural laboratories will, we hope, increase our understanding of the function of genes at the level of the organism. Examples of the role of threonine deaminase and RNA-directed RNA polymerases illustrate the process.