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20 February 2026

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Evolutionary Intelligence: How Coevolution Opened the Way to the AlphaFold Revolution

Editors: Ugo Bastolla

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Announcement

2025 Zuckerkandl Prize

Megan G. Behringer, Michael DeGiorgio, Maeva Perez, David A. Liberles

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Review

Insight into the Evolution of Mitochondrial Genetic Basis of Amphibious Adaptation in the Goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae)

Chengyao Yang, Chaoyang Luo, Qiuping Wang, Xionghui Xu, Juan Zhang, Chengfa Zhao, Yuan Mu, Datian Lang, Wenxian Hu

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Letter to the Editor

MEGA 12.1: Cross-Platform Release for macOS and Linux Operating Systems

Glen Stecher, Michael Suleski, Qiqing Tao, Koichiro Tamura, Sudhir Kumar

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Letter to the Editor

First Report on Presence of Mitochondrial Introns in Freshwater Sponges, and Pseudogenic Evidence of Their Loss

Zhen Zhao, Junye Ma, Qun Yang, Gert Wörheide, Dirk Erpenbeck

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Letter to the Editor

Clay Minerals, Panacea or Parameter in RNA Oligomerization?

Saúl A. Villafañe-Barajas, Alberto Vázquez-Salazar

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Original Article

Lectin Gene Families in Three Phaseolus Species: Genome-Wide Identification, Evolutionary Analysis, Pleiotropic Effect, and Regulation Under Multiple Stress Conditions

Makarim Elfadil M. Osman, Amina I. Dirar, Mohanad A. Ibrahim, Rieham Sallah H. Osman, Doaa Awad Yassin Ali, Somia Elmosharaf Elrayah Yousif, Hana Badreldin Mohamed Abakar, Nada Hassan M. Haj, Emadeldin Hassan E. Konozy

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Revisiting Eck and Dayhoff’s Building Block Model of Ferredoxin Evolution on Dayhoff’s 100th Birthday

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

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Systematic Detection of Alternative Open Reading Frames (altORFs) in Cancer Driver Genes

Angelo Pavesi

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Transposable Elements Seed Transcription Factor Binding Sites to Sequence-Specific Double-Stranded DNA Binding TF Networks Contributing to Governance of Primate Brain Evolution

Gennadi V. Glinsky

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Molecular Evolution of the Green-Sensitive Opsins (RH2) in Sulawesi Oryzias Species with a Single Origin

Nobuyuki Inomata, Yohey Terai, Junko Kusumi, Kosuke M. Teshima, Ixchel F. Mandagi, Sjamsu A. Lawelle, Kawilarang W. A. Masengi, Sayaka Mitsumoto, Saki Hashizume

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Ksenia Macias Calix, Antara Anika Piya, Raquel Assis

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Comparative Analysis of AlphaFold2 Models and Intrinsic Disorder Illuminates Structural Divergence as a Symptom of Functional Divergence Across the Calmodulin Superfamily

Kyoko Nakamura, Jessica Siltberg-Liberles

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Avoiding Catastrophic Mutations Accurately Predicts Amino Acid to Codon Pairing

Peter Nonacs, Thomas Nonacs

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An Evolutionary Metric for Estimating PhyloAges from Bulk Sequencing of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Reveals the Tempo of Blood Aging in Cancer and Longevity

Jack M. Craig, Ryan M. Tobin, Walter Wolfsberger, Taras K. Oleksyk, Sayaka Miura, Glenn S. Gerhard, Sudhir Kumar

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Molecular Phylogeny of “Chemosensory Proteins” in Bacteria and Arthropods: CSP as an Extremely Ancient Gene

Jean-François Picimbon

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Genome-Wide Comparative and Phylogenetic Analysis of Putative Algal Carbohydrate Sulfotransferases

Chai-Ling Ho, Xuan-Zi Low, Wei-Kang Lee, John H. Bothwell

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Decoding the Evolution and Co-Phospho-Regulatory Networks of SHROOM Proteins

Noreen A Khan, Athira C Rajeev, Althaf Mahin, Athira Perunelly Gopalakrishnan, Prathik Basthikoppa Shivamurthy, Nazah Naurah V, Alimath Sambreena, Rajesh Raju

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Correction

Correction: Reconstructing Evolutionary Histories with Hierarchical Orthologous Groups

Garance Sarton-Lohéac, Nikolai Romashchenko, Clément Marie Train, Sina Majidian, Natasha Glover

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