Transposable elements mobilize within and occasionally between genomes, including from host to virus. We identified two insertions of the human BC200 noncoding RNA gene in the poxvirus molluscum conta...

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Philanthropists are stepping up support for research in a country where scientists have relied on the government alone for funding.

AI model AlphaGenome forecasts the consequences of altering every single DNA letter in the human genome.

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Large-scale genome initiatives are transforming biodiversity genomics, but genomes remain taxonomically sparse and difficult to compare across species. Kapli and colleagues argue that natural history ...

AbstractMotivation. Recent advances in inference of the ancestral recombination graph (ARG), which describes how segments of chromosomes trace back through

Molecular Ecology is an international journal for research using molecular genetic techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.

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7th European Conservation Genetics Meeting 2026: Abstract Booklet This booklet contains the full collection of abstracts for the 7th Conservation Genetics Meeting 2026. It provides a complete overview...

Abstract. Synonymous mutations do not alter proteins but undergo natural selection in many species. For Drosophila melanogaster, reports on selection stren

The biodiversity crisis is accelerating, with recent IUCN Red List confirming multiple recent species extinctions (IUCN, 2025). Of the 17 megadiverse countri...

Abstract. Understanding how and why genetic variation is maintained under sustained selection remains a central question in evolutionary genetics. Experime

Abstract. When researchers want to test for a direct effect of one attribute on another using interspecific data, they need to account for the confounding

Abuelanin et al. combine PacBio HiFi with low-coverage CiFi proximity-ligation reads in a single library and sequencing run to generate contiguous, near-telomere-to-telomere, accurately phased diploid...

Global policy around climate and nature goals has evolved considerably over the last decade. Today, countries recognize that climate and biodiversity crises are profoundly interconnected, and that one...

Different tropical tree species can vary in their ability to withstand drought — and so too, it seems, can distinct populations of the same tree species.

Hybridization, the exchange of genes between divergent lineages, is now recognized as widespread across eukaryotes and essential to understanding genome evolution. In this Review, Schumer and Rieseber...

Moots et al. use ancient DNA to compare woolly mammoth sex ratios from anthropogenic bone accumulations and natural depositional contexts. The results show that accumulations are female-biased, which ...

Neanderthals had a robust build, but the genetic basis remains unclear. Kanis et al. show that a Neanderthal growth hormone receptor variant increases cellular growth signaling and is inherited by som...

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

Whole-genome resequencing data, associated metrics, and their trends over time can be used to inform extinction threat rankings rendered by conservation agencies around the world. Surveys of individual genome sequences can critically address risks to population sustainability by means of key metrics such as heterozygosity. Genomic metrics have yet-unrealized potential to help authorities determine how a given population or species of conservation concern should be formally categorized (e.g., ‘listed’ or ‘delisted’) with respect to discrete threat categories. To stimulate productive discourse, we provide a general heuristic framework for how genomic metrics could be used to refine conservation threat assessments (e.g., to help determine whether species should be listed or not).

Genomic structural variants rescue a textbook biological invader from a population bottleneck and inbreeding.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team | Proceedings B | The Royal Society Proceedings of the Royal Society B Preprint Editorial Team Our team’s primary mission is to look through…

In Metazoa, transposon expression is suppressed by the piRNA pathway, and disruption of this pathway leads to rampant transposon expression. However, it remains unclear whether increased transposon ex...

The Labs Research Assistant will deliver RBG Kew’s mission by providing R&D support in the molecular lab as part of a major programme to sequence 20,000 fungi and lichen specimens held by RBG Kew’s fu...

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The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...