The Golden Age of Molecular Ecology

Copyright: © 2013 Paliy O. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The observations of different organisms’ interactions with their environment and with each other can probably be extended back to prehistoric times when humans became inquisitive about the conditions in which they lived and survived. This process became more “scientific” in Ancient Greece, when great philosophers of the time such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, and Herodotus provided first written evidence and descriptions of nature and the observable interactions among different animals and plants [1]. By now, while still a relatively young discipline, ecology has developed into a complex science that encompasses analyses of ecosystem biodiversity, spatial and temporal species distribution and dynamic fluctuation, cross-species interactions, and evolutionary processes in the environment.