Subject: New issue: Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 18, Issue 4, April 2026

Volume 18, Issue 4, April 2026

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Editorials

The Gender and Geographic Location of Authors Impact Citation Rates of GBE Papers

David Alvarez-Ponce

Editorial 2026

Maud I Tenaillon and Laura A Katz

Highlights

Genome Science at the Forefront of Biodiversity's Greatest Challenges: GBE Virtual Collection on Conservation Genomics

Pedro Andrade

Bridging Micro- and Macroevolution: Phylogenomic Evidence for the Nearly Neutral Theory in Mammals

Haoran Cai

Articles

Comparative Genomics Provide Insight Into the Evolution of European Aphanomyces euteiches Strains

Carol KÃ¤lin and others

Cosmopolitan Gene Families With Known Functions Are Hotspots for the Evolution of Novel Genes in Stony Corals

Timothy G Stephens and others

Identifying Adaptive Footprints in the Presence of Demographic Uncertainty

Sandipan Paul Arnab and others

Empirical Validation of the Nearly Neutral Theory at Divergence and Population-Genomic Scales Using 144 Placental Mammal Genomes

MÃ©lodie Bastian and others

Dynamics of Expression Variability Contribute to Retention of Small-Scale vs. Whole-Genome Duplicates

Haoran Cai and David L Des Marais

Genome Sequence Data Reveal Complex and Variable Ploidy in the Amoebozoan Acanthamoeba castellanii

Morgan J Colp and John M Archibald

Before the East African Radiation: Sex Chromosome Systems in Basal Haplotilapiine Cichlids

Kristen A Behrens and others

Complex Patterns of Hitchhiking Mutation Load Among Stickleback Populations

Jana Nickel and others

Response of Protein Coding Genes and microRNAs to Temperature Changes in Four Species of Drosophilids

Stacey S K Tsang and others

Pressure-tolerant Evolution in Rhodopsin of Deep-diving Whales

Hayate Takeuchi and Takashi Hayakawa

Evolutionary Complexity of Primate Immune System Uncovered by the Extensive Phylogenomic Sampling

Xiuping Zhang and others

Detecting Positive Selection by Modeling Structure Within Images of Genetic Variation

Md Ruhul Amin and others

Genetic Footprints of Seasonal Fluctuating Selection: A Comparison With Established Selection Forms

Olivia L Johnson and others

Genome Scans Reveal Species-Specific Selection in the Genus Lynx

Lorena Lorenzo-FernÃ¡ndez and others

Template Switching as a Driver of Promoter Evolution in Yeast: Case Study of the GRE2 Gene

Michal Rozenfeld and others

Pleiotropy and Facilitation of Local Adaptation in the Silverleaf Sunflower Helianthus argophyllus

Uzezi E Okinedo and Brook T Moyers

One Sea, Different Whales: Genomics Sheds Light on a Small Population of Fin Whales

Roberto Biello and others

Genomes of Wiebesia Fig Wasps Reveal the Adaptation and Codiversification in the Fig'Fig Wasp Mutualism

Bai-Wei Lo and others

Snakes (Colubridae: Erythrolamprus) With a Complex Toxic Diet Show Convergent yet Highly Heterogeneous Voltage-gated Sodium Channel Evolution

Valeria RamÃrez-CastaÃ±eda and others

Patterns of Conservation and Loss of Hox Genes in Xenacoelomorph Lineage Since Divergence From Last Common Bilaterian Ancestor

Ariane Buckenmeyer and others

Big Spider, Big Genome: Chromosome-Level Genome of a North American Tarantula (Aphonopelma marxi) and Comparative Genomics Across 300 Million Years of Spider Evolution

Ethan J Briggs and others

Genome Resource

Haplotype-Resolved Genome of the Critically Endangered, Paleo-endemic Tree, Eidothea hardeniana

Abhishek Soni and others

Corrections

Correction to: Before the East African radiation: sex chromosome systems in basal haplotilapiine cichlids

Correction to: The Missing Piece: Functional Telomerase Restored in the Beetle Model

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