Subject: New issue: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 42, Issue 2, February 2025

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volume 42, Issue 2, February 2025

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Highlights

A Message From the Editors-in-Chief

Brandon S Gaut,Claudia A M Russo and others

Perspective

Insufficient Evidence for a Severe Bottleneck in Humans During the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition

Trevor Cousins,Arun Durvasula and others

Discoveries

Multilevel Gene Expression Changes in Lineages Containing Adaptive Copy Number Variants

Pieter Spealman,Carolina de Santana and others

Deciphering Plant NLR Genomic Evolution: Synteny-Informed Classification Unveils Insights into TNL Gene Loss

Bo-Cheng Guo,Yi-Rong Zhang and others

Deciphering the Foundations of Mitochondrial Mutational Spectra: Replication-Driven and Damage-Induced Signatures Across Chordate Classes

Dmitrii Iliushchenko,Bogdan Efimenko and others

Population Genomics of Premature Termination Codons in Cavefish With Substantial Trait Loss

Emma Y Roback,Estephany Ferrufino and others

An Expanding Universe of Mutational Signatures and Its Rapid Evolution in Single-Stranded RNA Viruses

Yue Yang,Xinyi Zhang and others

Human Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data Supports the Hypothesis of X Chromosome Insensitivity but Is Ineffective in Testing the Dosage Compensation Model

Jiabi Chen,Xiaoshu Chen and others

Phylogeography Analysis Reveals Rabies Epidemiology, Evolution, and Transmission in the Philippines

Liang Zhang,Jeffrey Cruz and others

Rapid Radiation of a Plant Lineage Sheds Light on the Assembly of Dry Valley Biomes

Ya-Ping Chen,Purayidathkandy Sunojkumar and others

Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Illuminate Bat Immunity and Barrier Tissue Evolution

Roy Levinger,Dafna Tussia-Cohen and others

Inference of the Demographic Histories and Selective Effects of Human Gut Commensal Microbiota Over the Course of Human History

Jonathan C Mah,Kirk E Lohmueller and others

Combinatorial In Vivo Genome Editing Identifies Widespread Epistasis and an Accessible Fitness Landscape During Lung Tumorigenesis

Jess D Hebert,Yuning J Tang and others

Genomic Signatures of Adaptation to Stress Reveal Shared Evolutionary Trends Between Tetrahymena utriculariae and Its Algal Endosymbiont, Micractinium tetrahymenae

Joseph B Kelly,David E Carlson and others

Genome Assembly of a Living Fossil, the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus, Reveals Lineage-Specific Whole-Genome Duplications, Transposable Element-Based Centromeres, and a ZW Sex Chromosome System

Kate R Castellano,Michelle L Neitzey and others

Host-Calibrated Time Tree Caps the Age of Giant Viruses

Hwee Sze Tee,Chuan Ku and others

Every Gain Comes With Loss: Ecological and Physiological Shifts Associated With Polyploidization in a Pygmy Frog

Qiheng Chen,Wei Zhu and others

Subcellular Enrichment Patterns of New Genes in Drosophila Evolution

Chuan Dong,Shengqian Xia and others

The Convergent Evolution of Hummingbird Pollination Results in Repeated Floral Scent Loss Through Gene Downregulation

Kathy Darragh,Kathleen M Kay and others

An Inversion Polymorphism Under Balancing Selection, Involving Giant Mobile Elements, in an Invasive Fungal Pathogen

Fanny E Hartmann,Ricardo C RodrÃguez de la Vega and others

Coding Genes Helped the Origination and Diversification of Intragenic MicroRNAs

Chengzhang Liu,Xiaojun Zhang and others

Convergent Evolution of Cysteine-Rich Keratins in Horny Teeth of Jawless Vertebrates and in Cornified Skin Appendages of Amniotes

Attila Placido Sachslehner,Leopold Eckhart and others

Comparative Population Genomics Unveils Congruent Secondary Suture Zone in Southwest Pacific Hydrothermal Vents

Adrien Tran Lu Y,StÃ©phanie Ruault and others

Red Deer Resequencing Reveals the Importance of Sex Chromosomes for Reconstructing Late Quaternary Events

Menno J de Jong,Gabriel Anaya and others

Selection Increases Mitonuclear DNA Discordance but Reconciles Incompatibility in African Cattle

Xian Shi,Cheng Ma and others

Cross-Species Insights from Single-Nucleus Sequencing Highlight Aging-Related Hippocampal Features in Tree Shrew

Liu-Lin Xiong,Rui-Ze Niu and others

Methods

Read Length Dominates Phylogenetic Placement Accuracy of Ancient DNA Reads

Ben Bettisworth,Nikolaos Psonis and others

Estimating Gene Conversion Tract Length and Rate From PacBio HiFi Data

Anders Poulsen Charmouh,Peter SÃ¸rud Porsborg and others

Brief Communications

Faithful Interpretation of Protein Structures through Weighted Persistent Homology Improves Evolutionary Distance Estimation

LÃ©a Bou Dagher,Dominique Madern and others

Drosophila CG11700 may not affect male fecundity-lifespan tradeoff as previously reported

Dashuang Zuo,Weiwei Liu and others

Molecular and Functional Convergences Associated with Complex Multicellularity in Eukarya

Francisco Pereira Lobo,Dalbert Macedo Benjamim and others

Fungal-Derived tRNAs Are Expressed and Aminoacylated in Orchid Mitochondria

Jessica M Warren,Luis F Ceriotti and others

Treasurer's Report for Financial Year (FY) 2023

Aline Muyle

Correction

Correction to: Evolution of Chromosomal Inversions across an Avian Radiation

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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