Talk:Ecophysiology

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[edit] Article creation and general topics

I was surprised that this page did not exist before. I think it should be greatly expanded, espcecially because the importance of ecophysiology as a field of study is increasing due to climate change and other environmental changes caused by human activity. Please help me in adding material. --Chino 05:24, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I know litle of this specific discipline, but there seems to me much potential overlap in methodology, areas of research, history, journals, specific research, groups and specific researchers with the disciplines of evolutionary and comparative physiology, not to mention evolutionary biology and classical physiology. This page would do well to (continue to) focus on what is unique to ecophysiology and reference these other pages where possible. JetheroTalk 09:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] possible sections for consideration

  • Biochemical basis of adaptation (isn't this more central to evolutionary physiology)
  • Climate change (perhaps 'Physiology and Climate change'?)

I removed these for now, since they are empty JetheroTalk 09:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] gene count comparison between animals and plants

The genome of black cottonwood [1] is predicted to contain more than 40,000 genes in approximately 480 million nucleotides[citation needed], while some species are considerably larger. In comparison, the human genome is predicted to contain 38,631 genes [2] and roughly 3 billion nucelotides [3].

While I agree that there is probably good evidence out there that makes the point that some plants have considerably more DNA, copy number and gene count, this paragraph is a bit of a mess now that I've added in the most recent human gene counts from NCBI, so I've moved it here until we can get better sources. Further, black cottonwood may no longer be the best example, if its gene count here is accurate, because it's really about the same size as the human gene count, and according to NCBI, there have only been 146 genes submitted to date. Unfortunately, for the confirmed genes from the sequenced plant species, the highest is Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) with 31392 genes as of Feb 21, 2007. JetheroTalk 10:49, 14 April 2007 (UTC)