In this review, we discuss three meiotic checkpoints—the DNA damage response, the pachytene checkpoint, and the spindle checkpoint—and highlight their similarities and differences across diverse syste...

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

Zoology; Entomology; Evolutionary biology; Paleobiology

Abstract. Allopatric isolation under contrasting environments can drive rapid phenotypic divergence, even over contemporary timescales. Rapid changes in mo

In celebration of Systematic Biology's 75th anniversary, the 2026 volume features a special series of discussions and essays commissioned by the Society’s Legac

Saturation mutagenesis of the FCY1 promoter in budding yeast shows that adaptation to 5-fluorocytosine is not accessible through single cis-regulatory mutations, despite large mutational effects on pr...

Abstract. One of the most transformative advances in molecular systematics over the past several decades has been our understanding of how population proce

Macroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere...

Whether different pathogens acquire resistance to antimicrobials through the same mutations is a major question in evolution and microbiology. Most antifungal drugs are used to treat infections caused...

Abstract. Examining genomic patterns of differentiation across lineage pairs at different stages of the speciation continuum, in combination with recombina

Abstract. Meiotic drivers are selfish genetic elements that gain transmission advantages by distorting equal, Mendelian segregation. For decades, biologist

Key message Sequence-based AI models show great potential for prediction of variant effects at high resolution, but their practical value in plant breeding remains to be confirmed through rigorous val...

Meiotic recombination is the process by which DNA is exchanged between parental chromosomes during the production of gametes in eukaryotes. This phenomenon has important implications for fertility, ge...