Shultz @beeharpur.bsky.social et al. documented the trajectory of a spontaneous deleterious mutation from its origin in a single queen to its extinction, directly observing how haplodiploidy exposes recessive alleles to immediate purifying selection 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag156 #societyjournal

Cheng & Xu explore how DNA methylation, shaped by both genetic and environmental exposures, affects population-specific epigenetic diversity across human populations. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag160 #societyjournal #epigenetics

Zheng, @zhiyunguo.bsky.social et al. present EnhancerDB 2.0, a user-friendly platform for managing large-scale enhancer data, providing a wide range of annotation and analysis tools to facilitate enhancer functional interpretation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag161 #compbio #societyjournal

MBE invites submissions for a special series on the evolutionary inferences made possible by the new generation of high-quality vertebrate reference genomes. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/call-for-papers-evolutionary-genomics-of-vertebrates 🗓️ From Aug. 1 2026 ℹ️ eic.mbe@gmail.com #societyjournal

Laasya Samhita was present at #SMBE2026 to present her recent MBE paper on how translation accuracy impacts adaptation in E. coli; she spoke to us about it in detail. Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1093/molb... #societyjournal

Tong et al. reveal convergent genomic changes associated with repeated evolution of diurnality and illustrate how ecological light environments repeatedly shape the molecular evolution of complex animal behavior. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag159 #evobio #societyjournal

@ironark.bsky.social et al. measured transcript abundance, ribosome-associated RNA, and protein abundance in bacterial endosymbionts, suggesting a mechanism for aberrant pseudogene-derived protein removal. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag153 #societyjournal #evobio #molbio

Foley & Murphy reveal that UCEs and BUSCO loci are not sampled randomly from the genome and are underrepresented in mammalian sex chromosomes and other low-recombining genomic regions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag155 #societyjournal #evobio #molbio

Osterhof et al. demonstrate that androglobin exemplifies a rare evolutionary trajectory where structural innovation enabled functional specialization while being an integral part of the nonredundant ciliary machinery. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag147 #societyjournal #evobio

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

@rileymcorcoran.bsky.social Schultz & @jpvelotta.bsky.social tested for repeated genetic changes as a consequence of recent landlocking, shedding light on the roles of repeated selection pressure and demographic history. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag149 #societyjournal

Matrougui @ideevl.bsky.social et al. explore footprints of polydnavirus integration in insect genomes to study the host range of parasitoid wasps, revealing that PDV-mediated HGT affects a wider range of insects than previously thought. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag145 #societyjournal

July is here, and this time MBE's cover features a pair of endangered black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys. Li et al. studied their population genetics, identifying population structure. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/43/7 #societyjournal #genome #evolution

We caught up with Toby Kovacs, first author of June's MBE paper on koala mutation rates and population evolution. Toby explained his paper's major findings in this video. Check his paper doi.org/10.1093/molb... #SMBE2026 #evobio #molbio

Behind every paper in MBE, there's this - a group of excellent and dedicated scientists, serving the SMBE community on our editorial board. By committing their time, these editors make the society's mission to support and connect molecular evolutionists possible. #societyjournal #society #SMBE2026

Publishing policies and practices: a Q&A with the Editors-in-Chief of GBE and MBE #SMBE2026 🗓️ July 1 ⏱️ 3:20pm 📍 Vandsalen Thinking of where to submit your next paper? Join us for a candid discussion on journal publishing, peer review, editorial expectations, and common questions. #societyjournal

#SMBE2026 folks, want to take some cool memorabilia home? Drop by the OUP stand next to the main hall, and check our great selection of markers and postcards featuring some of the best MBE and GBE covers from last year! #societyjournal

Tian et al. demonstrate that cetacean endothelial NOS3 exhibits enhanced enzymatic activity and function, providing a molecular foundation for an evolved, more resilient vascular system in cetaceans. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/msag144 #evobio #molbio

Li et al. present the first single-cell transcriptomics analysis of bell remodeling and regeneration two jellyfish species, providing insights into the evolutionary pathways underlying these processes in scyphozoans. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/msag128 #evobio #molbio

Humans have driven the long-term decline of koalas - or is the story more nuanced? Shady Kuster's new Highlight shows us how mutation rate estimates are helping to rewrite the koala's evolutionary history. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag137 🖌️ @lale-alpar.bsky.social #evobio #molbio

Stewart, @paulbfrandsen.bsky.social @gjijonn.bsky.social et al. demonstrate the rapid evolution of the caddisfly H-fibroin gene and the wide range of H-fibroin structural polymorphism tolerated in functional capture net silk. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag132 🖌️ Ralph Holzenthal #evobio #molbio

Seth Frazer & @ostratodd.bsky.social advance ML modeling of the opsin genotype–phenotype map, introducing the Opsin Phenotype Tool for Inference of Color Sensitivity platform, and present the Mine-N-Match (MNM) pipeline. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag138 #evobio #molbio

Macìa et al. introduce two novel enhancements to hmmix that improve the detection of archaic fragments and the estimation of summary stats for the study of admixture events between modern and archaic humans. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag134 🖌️ Lídia Gonfaus Coll #evobio #molbio #compbio

Kovacs et al. report a direct estimate of the koala mutation rate based on trios, leveraging it to estimate past changes in population size, suggesting a large decline beginning ∼100 kya, before humans arrived in Australia. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag108 📷 Luke Silver #evobio #molbio

Muñoz-Mérida & Muñoz-Pajares introduce the concept of the pan-functionome — the full set of protein functions encoded by the proteome of individuals belonging to a taxonomic group — and explore its evolutionary implications. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag121 #evobio #molbio

This June, the cover of MBE features our recent paper by @hugodarras.bsky.social et al., who identify two genomic rearrangements that determine an extreme reproductive polymorphism in ants. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/43/6 📷 Hugo Darras #evobio #molbio #societyjournal

🗓️ It's now one month until the start of SMBE 2026! Have you recently published a paper in MBE or GBE, and are presenting its results at our annual meeting? Please let us know - we'd love to help draw attention to the research published in our society journals. #SMBE2026 #societyjournal

This month's MBE Highlight, written by SMBE Fellow Ioanna Kotari (@janekay27.bsky.social), explores how the new avian lung single-cell atlas by Hao et al. uncovers new insights on bird respiratory evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag116 #evobio #molbio #highlight

Wong et al. present IQ-TREE version 3, with new features including mixture models, gene and site concordance factors, integration with phylogenomic divergence time estimation, and a fully featured sequence simulator. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag117 #evobio #molbio #compbio

Versoza, @baleslab.bsky.social JD Jensen & @susanneppfeifer.bsky.social demonstrate that coppery titi monkeys reproducing later in life have one of the strongest male mutation biases observed in any non-human primate. 📷 CNPRC/L. Meckler 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag112 #evobio #molbio