We had a great time at #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen! From our group, Sarah and @drrazi.bsky.social both presented posters showcasing their work. We're already looking forward to seeing you next year in Canada!

Shout out to one of our awesome editors, David Alvarez-Ponce, for this interesting work in MBE!

Molecular Biology and Evolution@molbioevol.bsky.social · 4w ago

David Alvarez-Ponce met with us during #SMBE2026 to discuss the paper he published last year in MBE on whether articles by female authors are under review longer than those by male-led authors in evolutionary biology. Read the original paper: 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf054 #societyjournal

Lots of interesting new papers in JME as we kick off summer! Check out this one on a juicy phylogenetic inference issue: link.springer.com/article/10.1... and the associated perspective from two of the JME team: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Concatenation, Conflict, and Complexity: Genealogical Heterogeneity Mimics Substitutional Heterogeneity for Nucleotide Model Selection - Journal of Molecular Evolution

Phylogenetic conflict—particularly hidden gene-tree discordance generated by incomplete lineage sorting (ILS)—is pervasive in multilocus and phylogenomic datasets, yet its consequences for nucleotide ...

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Want to know who's managing your paper behind the submission portal? JME is spotlighting our editors! Meet the faces behind the journal here: link.springer.com/journal/239/...

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Publish your work in a journal known for classic papers from Ohta, Felsenstein, and Zuckerkandl! Journal of Molecular Evolution focuses on deciphering ...

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We're about halfway through the submission period! We seek molecular evolution themed designs for a JME T-shirt. The winner will receive a FREE T-shirt featuring their design! Submit your design here by March 31st: tinyurl.com/ypk76t6z Please RT!

Are you a Drosophila researcher & member of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social (at any level of training)? Please vote in the Flyboard elections (we have an amazing slate of candidates) before Feb 20, 2026. Please check your email or go to this website to vote: genetics-gsa.org/2026-fly-boa... Pl repost.

Love molecular evolution, design, and/or t-shirts? JME wants your help! We seek molecular evolution themed designs for a JME T-shirt. The winner will receive a FREE T-shirt featuring their design! Submit your design here by March 31st: tinyurl.com/ypk76t6z Please RT!

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Zuckerkandl Prize! Read the announcement here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Congratulations to our winners, Chun Wu, Nicholas Paradis, and Khushi Jain, from @rowanuniversity.bsky.social !

2025 Zuckerkandl Prize - Journal of Molecular Evolution

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Exciting news: our Quest for Orthologs special issue is now online, and all articles are currently freely available! Check it out here: link.springer.com/collections/... . Congrats to all of the authors!

Awesome team work with Nikolai, Ali, Felix, Stefano, Silvia, Erik Sonnhammer, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @dessimoz.bsky.social Claire McWhite, Paul Thomas, Aida Ouangraoua, Edward Braun, Dannie Durand Special thanks to @irenejulca.bsky.social Natasha Glover, reviewers & editors at @jmolev.bsky.social

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Journal of Molecular Evolution@jmolev.bsky.social · 12mo ago

@criscanestro.bsky.social gives a lovely, thoughtful talk on this theme, on a tunicate species with very a scrambled genome; then reflects on what the patterns of scrambling can tell us about the underlying regulatory architecture. #eseb2025

Erich and Marie travelled to Barcelona for #ESEB2025. Erich gave two talks: one exploring de novo and random proteins, and another discussing gene family losses in slave-maker ants. Marie presented her work on neORF emergence in Drosophila at Symposium 29, organised by @gevol.bsky.social. 🧬🪰🐜

Our EIC David Liberles kicks off the meeting with a reminder of our journal's storied history - some of the many seminal papers published here. #JME2025 My personal favorite: Felsenstein 1981: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Part two of our Spanish tour begins today, with the kickoff of our 2025 European meeting in Madrid! Follow here for coverage. #JME2025

Final words of the last #ESEB2025 plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social: "Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"

Great to see @vargaschavezc.bsky.social give a talk on this in person. Stunning findings on the origin of non-marine annelids, whose genomes are utterly scrambled: a statistically random distribution of ancestral linkage groups around the genome. #eseb2025

Rosa Fernández@rosafernandez.bsky.social · last yr.

Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids @natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Common theme this year is structural genome rearrangements coinciding with ecological or lifestyle changes. @NGuiglielmoni contributes high rates of rearrangements in cryptobiotic nematodes, in extreme environments, compared to close non-crytobiotic outgroups. #eseb2025

Great symposium on Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates at #ESEB2025 kicked off with fantastic talk by ‪@grumpydrfabre.bsky.social on the metamorphic blueprint,how life cycle type shapes salamander skulls. Is there an advantage of complex life cycle to create novel morphologies? @r3rt0.bsky.social

Mind-boggling talk from Lee Henry on facultative endosymbiosis. Pitches as essentially a form of HGT - a source of adaptives genes that populations can pass around to deal as needed w/ common environmental challenges. Just another organism instead of only DNA. #ESEB2025

#eseb2025 Hanne Griem-Krey finds accessory chromosome (AC) in a fungal insect pathogen that increases infectivity and can be horizontally transferred to other strains - solo, without the rest of the genome.

#ESEB2025 Several talks on mysterious germline-restricted chromosomes, which are eliminated from somatic tissue during development. In fungus gnats, @chodson.bsky.social finds that they look like they're derived from a hybridization event.

#ESEB2025 Exquisite talk on the mechanisms used by fungi that parasitize ants into 'zombies,' controlling their behavior to make them move to a location optimal for spore dispersal, from Charissa de Bekker.

Third day's plenary by @lovedalen.bsky.social on “deep time” ancient DNA: >100k years old! First, an explanation of why aDNA is hard: very short fragments (even so much that amplification is hard), often with a majority of contaminated sequence. #eseb2025

Talk from @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social on sensory evolution in cichlids. Finds a LINE2 insertion in the intron of a critical brain patterning gene that in zebrafish reporter drives expression in key sensory regions. #ESEB2025

Nice talk from @timothyfuqua.bsky.social on the capacity of bacterial genomes to evolve promoters 'de novo'. One impt number: what % of genomic sequence is, or is mutationally close to, being a promoter? Another, more overlooked: how does this compare to the # in random sequence? #ESEB2025

Talk from @jfennbio.bsky.social at #ESEB2025 on this work. I didn't catch the actual predictive accuracy in the talk - from the paper, I glean that it's >90%!

Jonathan Fenn@jfennbio.bsky.social · last yr.

Take a look at our work on miRNAs and their involvement with placental phenotypes. It's great to see this work finally see the light of day - huge thanks to everyone involved with the manuscript.

@rmwaterhouse.bsky.social kicked off the afternoon session of 'the genomic basis of evolutionary innovations' with a talk rich in data and with metascientific reach (rare!). #ESEB2025

#ESEB2025 Laia Marin-Gual on 3D genome organization in diverse vertebrate genome architectures. Nice comparative design: picked animals with different karyotype features: macro vs micro-chromosomes, meta- vs acrocentric. (Can't tweet the unpublished results! Suspense!)

#ESEB2025 coverage will stop here until Bluesky corrects its flagging of this account as spam. 😓 Check us out on X at JMolEvo.