Subject: New issue: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2026

Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2026

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Highlights

Dark skin and cancer suppression in humans'an evolutionary spandrel?

Haoran Cai

Reviews

Dark Skin Evolution in Early Humans: Revisiting the Skin Cancer Hypothesis Through Migration-Related Mismatch

Simon Okholm and others

Insights into human history and complex traits from the genomes of African populations

Habtom Kiros Bitsue and others

Discoveries

The green lacewing venom system and the complex mechanisms underlying its evolution

Marius F Maurstad and others

On the robustness of Bayesian inference of gene flow to intragenic recombination and natural selection

Yuttapong Thawornwattana and others

Genomic architecture and evolution of heterostyly: new insights from Cordia subcordata (Boraginaceae)

Miaomiao Shi and others

Social Stratification Without Genetic Differentiation at the Xisima Site in the Late Shang Dynasty

Jiaxin Tang and others

Phylogenetic and functional characterization of Asgard primases

Zhimeng Li and others

Evolution of Insulin, Insulin-like Growth Factors, and Their Cognate Receptors in Vertebrates, Invertebrates, and Viruses

Martina ChrudinovÃ¡ and others

Alternative splicing contributes to plasticity and regulatory divergence in locally adapted house mice from the Americas

Megan Phifer-Rixey and others

Stepwise recombination suppression around the mating-type locus associated with a diploid-like life cycle in Schizothecium fungi

Elsa De Filippo and others

Viviparity and beyond: captured endogenous retroviral envelope genes drive teleost physiological innovations

Weihao Song and others

Dorsoventral limb patterning in paired appendages emerged via regulatory repurposing of an ancestral posterior fin module

SofÃa Zdral and others

Widespread turnover of a conserved cis-regulatory code across 589 grass species

Charles O Hale and others

Ancient genomes from the Qing Dynasty reveal unbroken genetic continuity in China's Central Plains

Yawei Zhou and others

Genomic and neurobiological bases of variation in fighting strategies in gamecocks

Tsuyoshi Shimmura and others

Macroevolutionary changes in gene expression response to an immune stimulus across the diversity of fishes

Ben A Flanagan and others

Estimates of molecular convergence reveal multiple genes with adaptive variation across teleost fish

Agneesh Barua and others

Resources

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary Simulations Across Multiple Chromosomes and Full Genomes

Benjamin C Haller and others

MicrobeTrace 2.0: the enhanced visualization multitool for molecular epidemiology and bioinformatics

Anupama Shankar and others

Society Report

Treasurer's Report for Financial Year 2024

Aline Muyle

Correction

Correction to: The Meaning and Measure of Concordance Factors in Phylogenomics

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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