How 'super organisms' evolve in response to toxic environments

(Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory) Scientists have long known that many diseases have a strong genetic component, but they are only recently paying more attention to the role played by the relationship between genetics and the environment. The study of how genetic function is influenced by manmade environmental stress at a population level is the subject of a course entitled "Environmental Genomics" to be held at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, July 30 through Aug. 6...