Grand Opportunities: Strategies for Addressing Grand Challenges in Organismal Animal Biology

摘要

The Biology Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has requested that organismal biologists develop a vision and articulate the grand research challenges that will drive the future of organismal biology and the large-scale community-wide efforts that would be needed to address those challenges. Over the past decade, organismal animal biologists have been slow to develop community-wide initiatives relative to other bioscience communities (e.g., molecular biologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and plant biologists).