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GBE publishes leading original research at the interface between evolutionary biology and genomics. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe 🏠 @official-smbe.bsky.social 🤝 @molbioevol.bsky.social #genome #evolution #science #biology #societyjournal

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The October 2026 issue of GBE is now live - new articles, methods, and genome reports will be published throughout the month, so visit our website regularly. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/issue/18... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The southern corn rootworm is a leaf beetle native to N. America that infests >50 crops. Coates et al. generated a chromosome-level reference assembly for a male, including the first assembled supernumerary B chromosome for a rootworm. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome
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A Chromosome-scale Assembly for the Genome of Southern Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica Undecimpunctata
Abstract. Diabrotica undecimpunctata ssp. howardi, the southern corn rootworm or eastern 12-spotted cucumber beetle, is a generalist insect herbivore that
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@michid73.bsky.social et al. show that Norwegian kveik forms a distinct and early branch among European brewing yeasts, originating from ancestral populations 4,000 to 8,000 years ago. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Genomic Evidence of Early-Diverging Domesticated Lineages in Norwegian Farmhouse Yeast
Abstract. The use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to ferment alcoholic beverages is an ancient tradition, with genetic evidence indicating origins in Neolithic
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Michael Dondrup @michid73.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Farmhouse brewers in western Norway have kept a living yeast #kveik in the house for centuries. New paper: Kveik is an early-branching lineage found nowhere else; reported Asian admixture is likely a statistical artefact. @elixirnorway.bsky.social @cbubergen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
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Genomic evidence of early-diverging domesticated lineages in Norwegian farmhouse yeast
Abstract. The use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to ferment alcoholic beverages is an ancient tradition, with genetic evidence indicating origins in Neolithic
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Diepeveen, Bellés & @mikkelschierup.bsky.social analysed T2T primate genomes to show that several X chr. gene families evolve under strong positive selection, whereas Y chr. families predominantly show purifying selection. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Pervasive Positive Selection on X-linked Ampliconic Genes in Primates
Abstract. Mammalian sex chromosomes harbor ampliconic gene families, which are multicopy genes with ≥97% sequence identity, predominantly expressed in test
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Ellen Leffler @ellenleffler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Led by @helenahopson.bsky.social, with ERC doyen @nclark.bsky.social and labwork in collab with @sigalalab.bsky.social, we are happy to release an Evolutionary Rate Covariation (ERC) resource for Plasmodium, published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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Evolutionary Rate Covariation Across Malaria Parasite Species Enables Inference of Protein Interactions
Abstract. Despite publication of the Plasmodium falciparum reference genome over 20 years ago, one-third of its genes remain functionally unannotated, and
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Laizé, @joao-pedro-marques.bsky.social @gubrins.bsky.social et al. tested whether nuclear oxidative phosphorylation genes preferentially co-introgress with mitochondrial DNA, allowing for the mitigation of incompatibilities. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Weak but Repeated Patterns of Co-Introgression of Nuclear OXPHOS Genes and Mitochondrial DNA in Iberian Wall Lizards
Abstract. In this study, we took advantage of the previously reported instances of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) capture in the Podarcis Iberian group, a speci
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Echeverry-Pérez et al. show that tick endosymbionts form a sister group to opportunistic lineages, consistent with repeated host shifts during their evolutionary history. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Genomic Evolution of Francisella: Metabolic Innovation, Endosymbiotic Transitions to Ticks, and Biogeographic History
Abstract. Ticks (Ixodida) are the second most important vectors of infectious diseases in vertebrates, after mosquitoes. Beyond vector roles, they maintain
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Esdras Tuyishimire⁠, Molly K Burke & Elizabeth G King develop a theoretical model defining the conditions under which recurrent, strong oscillations in allele frequencies are predicted to occur because of fluctuating selection. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Dissecting Fluctuating Selection: A Unified Population and Quantitative Genetics Framework
Abstract. One of the longstanding debates in evolutionary biology is the effect of fluctuating selection on genetic changes in populations. However, the ex
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@alexrepgh.bsky.social et al. identify SNP associated with genes involved in physiological processes such as ion regulation in gills and fatty acid metabolism in the brain during freshwater adaptation by oceanic sticklebacks. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Genomic Signatures of Selection Are Enriched in Differentially Expressed Genes in Sticklebacks Adapting to Contrasting Environments
Abstract. Whole genome scans have identified numerous adaptive alleles in many species; however, linking these alleles to specific phenotypes remains a maj
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Molecular Microbiology @molmicrounihoh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
super interesting paper: 👇 Evolutionary Maintenance of Amino Acid Prototrophy in Escherichia coli! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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The Evolutionary Maintenance of Amino Acid Prototrophy in Escherichia coli
Abstract. Escherichia coli is a prototroph and can synthesize all twenty proteinogenic amino acids when required to grow in minimal medium. There are appro
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tabuloc et al. show that the fruit pest Drosophila suzukii, resistant to multiple insecticides, exhibits aberrant splicing in many classes of genes, including general stress response and insecticide resistance genes. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution #pest
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Changes in Alternative Splicing are Associated with Insecticide Response and Resistance
Abstract. Alternative splicing (AS) promotes phenotypic plasticity to adverse conditions by altering the transcripts of genes directly involved in adaptati
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Joris Bertrand @jorisbertrand.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Glad to see this work published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social 😉
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Alexander Kwakye @alexrepgh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Part of my PhD work is now published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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Genomic Signatures of Selection Are Enriched in Differentially Expressed Genes in Sticklebacks Adapting to Contrasting Environments
Abstract. Whole genome scans have identified numerous adaptive alleles in many species; however, linking these alleles to specific phenotypes remains a maj
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ICYMI... New #cichlid work from @astridboehne.bsky.social & team 🐠
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kontopoulos et al. screened 190 placental mammal genomes to examine associations between loss, positive selection, and evolutionary rate shifts in protein-coding genes and evolutionary shifts in torpor use 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... 📷 Danielle L Levesque #societyjournal #evolution
GBE | Lack of Evidence for Gene-Level Convergence Linked to Evolutionary Shifts in Torpor Among Placental Mammals

Photo: An eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) during torpor. Photo credit: Danielle L. Levesque (coauthor of this study).

Inset: Phylogeny of 190 placental mammals analyzed in this study. Circles represent torpor use for both extant species and ancestral nodes with high-confidence reconstructions. Tree branches are annotated with patterns of positive selection and losses in the GPR35 protein-coding gene. This gene is among those most strongly associated with torpor evolution, yet explains less than 10% of variance in torpor use across species.
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Smith, Musilova & @astridboehne@bsky.social find new sex chromosomes in a group of cichlids from Lake Tanganyika and show that while these involve the same chromosome pairs, the sex chromosomes evolved independently. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
GBE | Same Sex Chromosomes With Independent Origins in Haplochromine Cichlids

Known sex chromosomes, and sex-linked regions thereof, of African haplochromine cichlid fishes, relative to the genome of Astatotilapia calliptera (bottom-left illustration). While there is great diversity of sex chromosomes and regions of sex linkage across this clade, LG5 and LG7 frequently reappear as sex-linked, particularly within the Lake Tanganyika-specific tribe of haplochromines, the Tropheini. Sex-linked regions on LG5 and LG7 are shown, highlighted in blue for XY systems and orange for ZW systems. In species in which sex-linkage is not known, this is marked with ‘?’. Other known sex chromosomes are listed on the right. Species included in this study are marked in bold. Proposed origins of different sex determination systems or genes are shown with yellow arrows on tree branches, while losses are shown with black arrows.
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Vandenabeele et al. show that the numerous phylogenetic incongruences among gene tree topologies in orchids result from pervasive ILS, over which stand out several well-supported, ancient and potentially adaptive gene flow events between lineages. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal
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Phylotranscriptomics Allows Distinguishing Major Gene Flow Events from Incomplete Lineage Sorting in Rapidly Diversifying Mimetic Orchids (Genus Ophrys)
Abstract. Ophrys orchids (or bee orchids) provide an outstanding example of a plant adaptive radiation. Over the last 5 million years, this genus has diver
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Chen et al. show that a substantial fraction of predicted orphan genes lacks expression support, and they exhibit distinct sequence and evolutionary signatures from expressed orphans. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Identification and Classification of Expressed Orphan Genes, Spurious Orphan Genes, and Conserved Genes in the Human Gut Microbiome
Abstract. Orphan genes (OGs)—genes lacking detectable homologs outside a species—are widespread in microbial genomes and are thought to contribute to their
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Amoroso et al. scanned whole-genome samples of round-tailed horned lizards and modeled their evolutionary history, identifying regions where genetic content differed significantly between populations of the species. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Understanding Genomic Landscapes of Differentiation in Round-Tailed Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma modestum)
Abstract. Population divergence is promoted by divergent selection and inhibited by gene flow, but the mechanisms of and relationship between these two pro
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Dimitris Kontopoulos @dgkontopoulos.io · 11/09/2026
Thrilled to share our new Genome Biology and Evolution paper! Here, we study the associations between evolutionary shifts in #torpor across placental mammals and changes in individual protein-coding #genes. 1/7 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag216
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Andrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Love this post from GBE about Carlos’s WEBL genome paper!
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carlosesperanza.bsky.social @carlosesperanza.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The western bluebird is a cavity-nesting thrush that experienced historical population declines. @carlosesperanza.bsky.social @andrea-schreier.bsky.social et al. present the first high-quality reference genome for the species 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... 📷 Peimeng Xu #societyjournal #genome
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pau, @syngnathid.bsky.social et al. find that chromosome-wide dosage compensation can be maintained by global regulatory mechanisms that persist through sex chromosome turnover, even when gene-by-gene constraints are weak. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This month's GBE Author Spotlight focuses on Kanako Koyanagi of Hokkaido University, first author of this month's article on the evolution of wild rice species. #societyjournal
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Kanako O. Koyanagi
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@guyleonard.eurosky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social et al. report a T2T genome for Micractinium conductrix, an endosymbiont of Paramecium bursaria, publishing one of the most complete Chlorellaceae algal genome assemblies to date 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #algae
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De Novo Genome Sequence Assembly of the Algal Endosymbiont Micractinium conductrix Derived From Its Host Paramecium bursaria 186b
Abstract. Endosymbiosis is a major driver of evolutionary innovation and underpins the function of diverse ecosystems. The origins and evolution of endosym
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The September GBE Highlight features the article by Koyanagi, Kotoku & Kishima on the role of genetic exchange in the evolution of wild rice. Highlight: Ghosts of Long-Lost Connections in the Genomes of Wild Rice 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kanako Koyanagi, Yuta Kotoku & Yuji Kishima find evidence of ancient introgression between currently geographically separated and evolutionarily divergent Oryza lineages, leaving detectable footprints across their modern genomes 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
GBE | Genomic Footprints of Historical Introgression Between Ancient Lineages of Wild Oryza AA-Genome Species With Widely Separated Contemporary Distributions
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@fanny-pouyet.bsky.social et al. benchmarked three tree sequence reconstruction methods software by comparing the imbalance of reconstructed trees by these methods with that of the true simulated trees. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #compbio
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Comparing ARG Inference Methods Under Transmission of Reproductive Success: Tree Imbalance Matters
Abstract. Inferring coalescent trees from genomic data has become a major subject in population genetics, particularly with the recent advances in tree seq
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Jane Munday @janemunday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Latest paper properly out ... beautiful figures @scotomorph.bsky.social
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lindahl et al. find that amino acid synthesis capacity (prototrophy) in E. coli is maintained over evolutionary timescales by horizontal gene transfers, restoring functions lost by accumulation of detrimental mutations. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution #ecoli
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The Evolutionary Maintenance of Amino Acid Prototrophy in Escherichia coli
Abstract. Escherichia coli is a prototroph and can synthesize all twenty proteinogenic amino acids when required to grow in minimal medium. There are appro
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Krasiļņikova assembled a T2T genome of Trypanosoma congolense, comparing it with T. brucei to reveal shared and divergent architecture, and provided preliminary evidence for differing strategies for antigenic variation via a common antigen 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome
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De Novo Assembly of the Trypanosoma congolense Genome Reveals an Organization Influenced by Antigenic Variation but Distinct from Trypanosoma brucei
Abstract. Antigenic variation allows pathogens to evade mammalian adaptive immunity through the continuous change in exposed antigens. In African trypanoso
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Evseeva et al. sequenced a historic plant pathogen outbreak that swept across the island of Martinique, highlighting the role of horizontal transfer in shaping the ecological success of the emerging pathogen Ralstonia spp. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Interspecies Exchange of Mobile Genetic Elements During a Plant Disease Outbreak
Abstract. Outbreak sequencing provides insight into the origin and evolutionary processes acting on emerging pathogens. Sequencing a historic multihost out
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Jacopo Dominici @jacopodominici.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This week reading is an interesting 2021 review about Supergenes and their genetic/evolutionary peculiarities from Juanita Gutiérrez-Valencia et al. I'll go on reading more recent supergenes-related research paper :) Here is the link: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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The Genomic Architecture and Evolutionary Fates of Supergenes
Abstract. Supergenes are genomic regions containing sets of tightly linked loci that control multi-trait phenotypic polymorphisms under balancing selection
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Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦 @edelplopez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Always a pleasure to publish our research in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social 🪲🧬
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Joshua Molligan, Florent Sylvestre & @edelplopez.bsky.social present the first chromosome-level genome assembly of the potato leafhopper, a highly polyphagous, migratory insect pest of eastern North America. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
GBE | A Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Potato Leafhopper Empoasca fabae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kim et al. investigate the evolutionary conservation of molting gene expression across five representative pancrustaceans, showing that some genes active in molting are shared between these species, while most are different. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
GBE | Molting in Pancrustacea Is Characterized by Both Deeply Conserved and Recently Evolved Gene Modules

Photo of a molting Scylla paramamosain taken from Figure 1 of Qiao et al 2022 (https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.971648) used under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0).
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ready to dive into another month of the latest research on genome evolution? The September 2026 issue of GBE is now live! 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/issue/18/9 📷 Geoffrey E Hill #societyjournal #genome #evolution
Genome Biology and Evolution | September 2026 cover

A female (left) and male (right) cardinal displaying both their striking differences in plumage coloration and the courtship behavior of mate feeding.

Photo by Geoffrey E Hill
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Nathan Clark @nclark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Dr. Hopson’s application of Evolutionary Rate Covariation in malaria discovers functional clusters related to virulence and a new invasion gene!
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@mirandaconcolor.bsky.social et al. studied the regulation of sexual dichromatism in cardinals, finding that BCO2 upregulation is the main mechanism underlying reduced pigmentation in females. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... 📷 Geoffrey E Hill #societyjournal #evolution
GBE | Not All Roads Lead to Red: The Genetics of Sexual Dichromatism in the Northern Cardinal (Cardinals cardinalis)

A diagram illustrating the genetics of sexual dichromatism in northern cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis). On the left, a female cardinal is shown, with arrows pointing to explanations of genetic factors: incresed BCO2 gene expression in feather follicles reduces carotenoid coloration, increased melanin-related gene expression influences feather color, and and equal sign indicating similar CYP2J19 transcription levels in feathers between the sexes. On the right, a male cardinal is shown, with arrows indicating observed higher ketocarotenoid concentration measured via HPLC, increased expression of CYP2J19 in the liver and TTC39B in feathers, and increased sex-hormone regulatory gene expression contribute to red coloration. The caption notes that dichromatism in northern cardinals is likely shaped by both sexual and natural selection, leading to sexually-antagonistic gene expression
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hopson et al. investigated relative evolutionary rate covariation across the genome in 22 Plasmodium species to show that known pathways and interacting proteins across lifecycle stages have strong signals of rate covariation. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Evolutionary Rate Covariation Across Malaria Parasite Species Enables Inference of Protein Interactions
Abstract. Despite publication of the Plasmodium falciparum reference genome over 20 years ago, one-third of its genes remain functionally unannotated, and
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ellerstrand & Hansson used WGS of male and female larks to demonstrate that gene essentiality slows functional divergence on both Z and W chromosomes, modulates faster-Z dynamics, and enables key W genes to remain functional. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
GBE | Selective Regimes and Evolutionary Dynamics of Z and W Gametologs Across an Expanded Avian Neo-Sex Chromosome
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lee et al. suggest that plastid decoding systems evolve through modular, lineage-specific trajectories that allow structural plasticity while maintaining translational fidelity. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Lineage-Specific Retention of the Plastid tilS–trnI(CAU) Module and Its Variable Relationship With Codon Usage Evolution in Green Algae
Abstract. Plastid genomes retain a reduced but essential translation system inherited from cyanobacterial ancestors, but the evolutionary constraints shapi
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Soni, @susanneppfeifer.bsky.social et al. estimate fine-scale mutation and recombination rate maps, as well as infer the demographic and selective processes shaping variation, on the common marmoset X chromosome 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Inferring the Relative Contributions of Evolutionary Processes Shaping X Chromosome Dynamics in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) in the Presence of Twinning and Hematopoietic Chimerism
Abstract. The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is a biomedically important species that is characterized by two unusual biological traits—a high freque
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@sharma020101.bsky.social et al. generate a genome of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium giganteum and add to the evidence that a redeployment of existing regulatory networks in single cells can potentiate complex multicellular behavior. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal
Dictyostelium giganteum (DG, right, coloured) and D. discoideum (DD, left, white) are distinct species of social amoebae with different developmental profiles. Their DNA sequences are very similar, but the chromosomes (5 in DG, 6 in DD) show rearrangements. In particular, sequences from two chromosomes of DD map to the same chromosome of DG. This points to the significance of chromosomal, as opposed to purely gene sequence-level, changes in evolution.
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@timothyfuqua.bsky.social & @vakirlis.bsky.social formalize “emergence bias” as the molecular predisposition that, upon mutation, biases a genetic sequence toward or against manifesting new or latent functions or phenotypes 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Emergence Biases in Molecular Evolution
Abstract. Biases in molecular evolution can significantly influence evolutionary trajectories. They have been described in a variety of contexts, such as d
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Nikos Vakirlis @vakirlis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Really proud of this piece, led by @timothyfuqua.bsky.social , finally published in GBE! Tim's post perfectly explains what it hopes to achieve.
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A central challenge in evobio is understanding how genetic variants influence biological functions and, ultimately, phenotypic diversity and adaptation. In light of the growing interest, GBE has prepared a virtual collection on Functional Genomics 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/pages/fu... #societyjournal
GBE Virtual Collection | Functional Genomics
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Nisan Yıldız of METU is a co-winner of the GBE Best Graduate Student Paper Award for 2025. She published her research on the molecular evolution of ageing in metazoans, finding support for the mutation accumulation hypothesis. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #society #societyjournal
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