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The May issue of MBE is here, featuring the work of Topaloudis et al., who evaluated genotype imputation accuracy in a large barn owl low-coverage WGS dataset. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/4… 📷 Alex Labhardt #evobio #molbio
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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/4… 🖌️ Ting Bai #evobio #molbio
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The March cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Leria and Maldonado, who investigated biosilicification and skeletal evolution in sponges. Follow the link for this month's articles: 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/4… #evobio #molbio #societyjournal
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The February cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Ward et al. on the evolution of SERPINA snake venom inhibitors in rodents. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf2… 🖌️ Rajani Arora #evobio #molbio
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The January cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Stanek et al., who investigated chromosome-specific size expansion by focusing on the Drosophila "dot chromosome”. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf3… #evobio #molbio #drosophila
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The December 2025 cover of MBE features the work of Chiu et al., who showed that later-evolving strains of SARS-CoV-2 acquired infectivity towards cultivated cells expressing New World monkey ACE2. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf2… #evobio #molbio #sarscov2
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The October cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Han et al., who investigated the origins of East Asian domestic pigs. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf2… #evobio #molbio #domestication
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The August cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Xue et al., who describe the genetic architecture and supergene control of tristyly, in Eichhornia paniculata. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf1… 🖌️ Diane K. Johnson and Elizabeth Campolin #evobio #molbio
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The July cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Long et al., who investigated evolutionary responses to climate change in Populus lasiocarpa trees. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf1… 🖌️ Long et al. #evobio #molbio
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The June cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of de Bakker et al., who studied the developmental genetics of amniote limb phenotypes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf1… 📷 Gerda Lamers #evobio #molbio #evodevo
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The May cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Zhang et al., who used single-cell multi-omics to study odorant receptor expression patterns in honeybees. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf0… 📷 Zhang et al. #evobio #molbio #bees
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The April cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution features the work of Menno de Jong et al., who analysed autosomal and sex chromosomal data to reconstruct the demographic history of the Red deer. Link: doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf0… 📷 Bas Worm #evolution #reddeer
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Molecular Biology and Evolution retweeted
Heterochromatin (HC) is a highly conserved nuclear domain that plays critical functions in genome stability across eukaryotes. Yet, our recent study in @MolBioEvol finds the underlying protein component of HC to be rapidly evolving! (1/5) academic.oup.com/mbe/article…
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Molecular Biology and Evolution retweeted
🐜 🍃 🍄 🧬🦠: 🧵 In the last month, we learned that fungus-farming ants domesticated 4 fungal lineages @ScienceMagazine Mycoviruses can infect the leafcutter ants' cultivar @VirologyJ Leafcutters' fungus genome shows several signatures of domestication @MolBioEvol
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#Artigo |🧬🦪 O IIM-@CSIC descubre o maior repertorio de receptores inmunes #TLR en bivalvos. A investigación, publicada en @MolBioEvol, amosa a capacidade única dos mexillóns para sobrevivir en contornas hostís inda sen un sistema inmune adaptativo. ➡️ iim.csic.es/en/news-events/n…
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GTRpmix: A Linked General Time-Reversible Model for Profile Mixture Models buff.ly/3zfRWG8 #science #evolution #biology #genome
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Low Genetic Impact of the Roman Occupation of Britain in Rural Communities buff.ly/47rO4yr #science #evolution #biology #genome
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