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Plenary Symposium L2
Molecular ecology:
Molecular biological techniques open new windows into
ecological studiesi
9:00`12:00, March 21, 2003
Organized by Tsumura, Y. and Fukatsu, T.
Innovative techniques can offer novel and exciting opportunities for the advancement of ecology. Development and introduction of molecular biological techniques have led to new data and discoveries in ecological studies during the last decade. Molecular techniques can widely be applicable to divergent spatio-temporal scales from continental to cellular levels. Molecular ecology includes various kinds of disciplines such as speciation, introgression, population history, mating system, gene flow, coevolution, inter- and intra-genomic conflict of genes, and so on. By using molecular techniques properly, we will be able to gain much deeper understanding of nature in an ecological context. In near future, hopefully, we would understand the genetic background of adaptive traits, by which ecology might be united with molecular genetics. In this symposium, we invited active researchers in the forefront of molecular ecology, in which molecular techniques are successfully applied to divergent scales of interesting biological phenomena.
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Remy J. Petit (INRA, Unite de Recherches Forestieres)
Concomitant postglacial migration and introgression in oaks
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Yoshihisa Suyama (Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University)
Molecular approaches to the analysis of regeneration process of forest trees
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Yoshihiko Tsumura (Department of Forest Genetics, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)
Conservation genetics of endangered species, Primula siboldii
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Takema Fukatsu (Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST))
Aphid and its endosymbiotic bacteria as a compact ecosystem
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Natsuko Kondo (Department of Systems Sciences, University of Tokyo)
Horizontal gene transfer from Wolbachia endosymbiont to insect host: insights from ecological points of view
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Ichizo Kobayashi (Division of Molecular Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo)
Genome as a community of selfish genes, or, why restriction enzymes are present