Biological invasions at the gene level

Remy R. Petit (1)

1 BioGeCo - Biodiversité, Gènes et Ecosystèmes

Despite several recent contributions of population and evolutionary biology to the rapidly developing field of invasion biology, integration is far from perfect. I argue here that invasion and native status are sometimes best discussed at the level of the gene rather than at the level of the species. This, and the need to consider both natural (e.g. postglacial) and human-induced invasions, suggests that a more integrative view of invasion biology is required

Mots clés: ALIEN; GENETIC ASSIMILATION; GENE FLOW; HOMOGENIZATION; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVENESS; NATIVE; SPARTINA; CHENE

Mots clés: HOMOGENISATION

Domaines: Théorie [stat.TH]

Remy R. Petit. Biological invasions at the gene level. Diversity and Distributions, 2004, 10 (3), pp.159-165. ⟨10.1111/j.1366-9516.2004.00084.x⟩. ⟨hal-02680766⟩