Have you heard about SMBE journal's Read & Publish agreements?

Read & Publish agreements provide the academic community with transparent, flexible, and inclusive options for open access publishing in OUP journals - including SMBE's own Molecular Biology and Evolution, and Genome Biology and Evolution.

These agreements bring several benefits to our authors - Publishing Open Access with the charge included in the agreement - Complying with funding mandates - Same access to the rigorous, high-quality editorial review you've come to expect from the SMBE journals

Does your institution have an agreement in place? Visit the link to the OUP website in the post description to learn if you can apply to these benefits.

Publishing Open Access maximizes the impact and visibility of your research. Through our publishing partner Oxford University Press, MBE and GBE offer Read & Publish agreements to many institutions.

🔗 academic.oup.com/pages/open-research/read-and-publish-agreements

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Highlight: A gift from a great-grand-fly—transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of heat shock response As global temperatures rise, understanding how organisms mitigate environmental heat stress becomes crucial. Long-term evolutionary responses are tradition

This study is featured in our newest Highlight article, by SMBE Fellow Shady Kuster:

Highlight: A gift from a great-grand-fly—transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of heat shock response
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag083

MBE | Transgenerational effects of heat shock on gene regulation and fitness-related traits in natural Drosophila populations

@ewanharney.bsky.social & @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social show evidence of transgenerational developmental plasticity as a result of heat shock in fruit flies, documenting gene expression and phenotype changes 3+ generations following heat shock.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag069

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This is great to know, Hernán. It's great for us to have your research published in MBE!

Happy to see this one out!

Not only for the science, but because it was the first project we led as a group.

This paper helped us establish a collaborative culture and good relationships, shaping how we want to work together in the future.

I feel lucky to work with this bunch!

#popgen #consgen

Kuvassa mauritiuksenkyyhky, Nesoenas mayeri

Authors on Bluesky:
@claudiafontsere.bsky.social
@hernmoral.bsky.social
@xuejingwang.bsky.social
@carolinapacheco.bsky.social

MBE | Genomic erosion across avian lineages in the context of their evolutionary history

@xuejingwang.bsky.social Wang et al. analyzed the genomes of three Mauritius bird species that experienced extreme population bottlenecks, showing that evolutionary context is essential for interpreting genomic risk.

📷 Gregory Guida

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag070

#evobio #molbio #congen

Fantastic paper, Ewan and Josefa!

Transgenerational effects of heat shock on gene regulation and fitness-related traits in natural Drosophila populations Abstract. Heat stress will increasingly affect populations as climate change leads to higher temperatures and more frequent heat waves. Recent work suggest

📢 New work with @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social out now in Molecular Biology and Evolution!

Transgenerational effects of heat shock 🥵 on gene regulation 🧬 and fitness-related traits in natural Drosophila 🪰 populations: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Tan et al. present panCG, an integrative pipeline for family-level super-pangenome analysis across coding and noncoding sequences, enabling the reference-free construction of pangene and pan-conserved noncoding sequences.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag075

#evobio #molbio #pangenomes

First evidence of human adaptation to a toxic chemical

Adaptation to tolerate the environmental stressor arsenic has likely driven an increase in the frequencies of protective variants of AS3MT in Argentinean Andes

Human Adaptation to Arsenic-Rich Environments 🏺🧪
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Forecasting Multitrait Resistance Evolution under Antibiotic Stress Abstract. Many bacteria rely on efflux pumps to survive antibiotic stress and exposure to antibiotics often leads to mutations in pump genes or their regul

@suvamroy.bsky.social @elibbyscience.bsky.social & @peteralind.bsky.social modeled gene expression in P. aeruginosa efflux systems, analysing how the complex regulatory networks associated with efflux pumps might evolve under antibiotic treatments.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag065

#evobio #molbio

Age-dependent Phylodynamics with Application to Single-cell Lineage Trees Abstract. As novel technologies for single-cell lineage tracing emerge, phylogenetic and phylodynamic tools are increasingly being used to study developmen

Mulberry, Pilarski, Dinger, and @tanjastadler.bsky.social present a phylodynamic method that generalizes the traditional birth-death approach to model cellular dynamics to an age-dependent phylodynamic model.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb...

#evobio #molbio

MBE | Soft Selective Sweeps Predominate in the Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti

Ketchum, Matute & Schrider investigated positive selection in Aedes aegypti populations from Africa and the Americas, revealing that soft sweeps are more common than hard sweeps, implying this species can respond quickly to environmental stressors.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag068

#evobio #molbio

Authors on Bluesky:
@gabnocgenomics.bsky.social
@samyeaman.bsky.social
@brianneboufford.bsky.social
@missbibela.bsky.social

MBE | Replicated hybrid zones reveal genomic patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce Photo: Sam Yeaman

MBE | Replicated hybrid zones reveal genomic patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce Photo: Sam Yeaman

More photos from the field, courtesy of Sam Yeaman:

MBE | Replicated hybrid zones reveal genomic patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce Photo: Sam Yeaman

Nocchi et al. compared hybridization and local adaptation within Canada spruce hybrid zones, discovering a complex pattern of introgression, with strong differences in ancestry maintained even across small spatial scales.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag074

📷️ Sam Yeaman

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Toward a genomic understanding of the tree of life The history of phylogenetics has entered a crucial time as limited availability of genomic data is quickly becoming a thing of the past (eg Lewin et al. 20

We also invite you to read the new Perspective by Anja Spang and Davide Pisani centered on the scope of this call for papers:

Toward a genomic understanding of the tree of life
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Phylogenomics is coming of age - we are looking forward to both theoretical papers presenting new approaches and applied studies addressing exciting new questions. Accepted manuscripts will receive a 20% discount on the APCs, on top of the SMBE membership discount.

MBE Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life

MBE is excited to launch our newest Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life, covering all aspects of phylogenomic research.

🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/call-for-papers-on-the-major-transitions-of-life

Guest Editors:
Davide Pisani
Anja Spang

#evobio #molbio #phylogenetics

Thank you for publishing with MBE, Gabriele, Sam, and colleagues!

Great to see Gabriele's paper out in MBE. I was really interested that we found large differences in ancestry maintained across opposite sides of a single valley (presumably with high gene flow). Strong divergent natural selection on cool/wet N-facing vs. hot/dry S-facing slopes.

Replicated hybrid zones reveal genomic patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce Abstract. Hybridization between species can occur along repeated zones of contact, providing a natural laboratory for studying the interplay between migrat

Happy to share this paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social, now published in Molecular Biology and Evolution!

Using replicated hybrid zones, we explored patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce and found strong signals even at very fine geographical scales!

doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Fantastic work, Sarah, Ben, and colleagues. Thank you for choosing MBE to publish this research!

NF-κB: A Diverse and Multifunctional Transcription Factor in Holozoans Abstract. Transcription factor nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) and many upstream signaling components have been identified in a diversity of holozoan taxa,

Next, we have the first publication from the amazing Gilmore/Davies lab postdoc, @ben-glass.bsky.social. He wrote this lovely invited review about our favorite transcription factor NFkB!
NF-κB: A Diverse and Multifunctional Transcription Factor in Holozoans: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

NF-κB: A Diverse and Multifunctional Transcription Factor in Holozoans Abstract. Transcription factor nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) and many upstream signaling components have been identified in a diversity of holozoan taxa,

@ben-glass.bsky.social @daviesswphd.bsky.social et al. review recent progress in understanding NF-κB transcription factors in unicellular holozoans, Porifera, Placozoa, and Cnidaria, which are involved in multiple biological functions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag059

#evobio #molbio

Large-scale genomic phylogeography provides insights into evolutionary history and conservation priorities of the white-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) Abstract. The white-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) serves as a critical biogeographic indicator for understanding faunal diversification in Africa

Read here the original article by Gu et al:

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb...

MBE | April 2026 cover

The April issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Gu et al., who performed large-scale phylogenomic analyses of the white-bellied pangolin.

🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/43/4

🖌️ Ting Bai

#evobio #molbio

Congratulations Yaen, thank you and your co-authors for choosing to publish with MBE!