ECOLOGY:
Harvesting Data from Genetically Engineered Crops
Michelle Marvier,1* Yves Carrière,2 Norman Ellstrand,3 Paul Gepts,4 Peter Kareiva,1,5 Emma Rosi-Marshall,6 Bruce E. Tabashnik,2 L. LaReesa Wolfenbarger,7
More than a billion acres have been planted with genetically engineered crops in the USA since 1996, but we do not fully know their ecological costs and benefits.
1Environmental Studies Institute, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA
2Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0036, USA
3Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0124, USA
4Department of Plant Sciences, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8780, USA
5The Nature Conservancy, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
6Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60626, USA
7Department of Biology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182-0040, USA
*Author for correspondence. E-mail: mmarvier{at}scu.edu
