Subject: New issue: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 42, Issue 9, September 2025

Volume 42, Issue 9, September 2025

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Highlights

Highlight: The Intertwined Evolution of Human Cognition and Autism

Pedro Andrade

Discoveries

Similar Genetic Routes Are Independently Targeted for Mimetic Color Convergence in Bumble Bees

Heather M Hines and others

A General Principle of Neuronal Evolution Reveals a Human-Accelerated Neuron Type Potentially Underlying the High Prevalence of Autism in Humans

Alexander L Starr and Hunter B Fraser

Generalist Malaria Parasites and Host Imprinting: Unveiling Transcriptional Memory

Luz GarcÃa-Longoria and others

Global Pangenome Analysis Highlights the Critical Role of Structural Variants in Cattle Improvement and Identifies a Unique Event as a Novel Enhancer in IGFBP7⁺ Cells

Shoulu Dai and others

How Did Evolution Halve Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Colonization?

Vadim A Pisarenco and others

Bone Adhered Sediments as a Source of Target and Environmental DNA and Proteins

Toni de-Dios and others

Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia

Wen-Cong Huang and others

Molecular Phylogeny of the SELMA Translocation Machinery Recounts the Evolution of Complex Photosynthetic Eukaryotes

Rafael I Ponce-Toledo and others

The Evolutionary History and Modern Diversity of Triterpenoid Cyclases

Hanon Solomon McShea and others

Rapid Divergence of Visual Systems and Signaling Traits to Contrasting Light Regimes During Early Speciation of African Crater Lake Cichlid Fish

Madeleine Carruthers and others

Recombination, Truncation and Horizontal Transfer Shape the Diversity of Wolbachia-induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Patterns

Alice Namias and others

A Balanced Inversion Polymorphism Exhibits a Dominance Reversal at the Gene Expression Level that Depends on Developmental Context

Esra Durmaz Mitchell and others

Odorant Receptors Mediating Avoidance of Toxic Mustard Oils in Drosophila melanogaster Are Expanded in Herbivorous Relatives

Teruyuki Matsunaga and others

Tales of a Super Butterfly: Is Vanessa carye a Truly Migrant Species? Unraveling Migration Using Morphological and Genomics Approaches

Amado Villalobos-Leiva and others

Redundant and Singular Regulatory Elements Underlie the Rapidly Evolving Pigmentation of Drosophila

Logan A Brubaker and others

Influence of Gonadal and Chromosomal Sex on the Brain Transcriptome in a Mouse Species with Natural Sex Reversal

Louise D Heitzmann and others

Ancient Genomics Reveals the Origin, Dispersal, and Human Management of East Asian Domestic Pigs

Yu Han and others

Spectral Tuning in Mammalian Melanopsins

Richard J McDowell and others

Methods

The Length of Haplotype Blocks and Signals of Structural Variation in Reconstructed Genealogies

Anastasia Ignatieva and others

Reduced Amino Acid Substitution Matrices Find Traces of Ancient Coding Alphabets in Modern Day Proteins

Jordan Douglas and others

Brief Communications

No Evidence of Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution in Drosophila Reproductive Tract Transcriptomes

Rachel C Thayer and others

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