Journal of Molecular Evolution
@jmolev.bsky.social
The official Bluesky account of the Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971 by Emile Zuckerkandl. Current EIC: David Liberles.
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We had a great time at #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen! From our group, Sarah and @drrazi.bsky.social both presented posters showcasing their work. We're already looking forward to seeing you next year in Canada!
July 8, 2026 at 7:12 AM
We had a great time at #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen! From our group, Sarah and @drrazi.bsky.social both presented posters showcasing their work. We're already looking forward to seeing you next year in Canada!
Shout out to one of our awesome editors, David Alvarez-Ponce, for this interesting work in MBE!
David Alvarez-Ponce met with us during #SMBE2026 to discuss the paper he published last year in MBE on whether articles by female authors are under review longer than those by male-led authors in evolutionary biology.
Read the original paper:
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf054
#societyjournal
Read the original paper:
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf054
#societyjournal
July 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Shout out to one of our awesome editors, David Alvarez-Ponce, for this interesting work in MBE!
Lots of interesting new papers in JME as we kick off summer! Check out this one on a juicy phylogenetic inference issue: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
and the associated perspective from two of the JME team:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
and the associated perspective from two of the JME team:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Concatenation, Conflict, and Complexity: Genealogical Heterogeneity Mimics Substitutional Heterogeneity for Nucleotide Model Selection - Journal of Molecular Evolution
Phylogenetic conflict—particularly hidden gene-tree discordance generated by incomplete lineage sorting (ILS)—is pervasive in multilocus and phylogenomic datasets, yet its consequences for nucleotide ...
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May 31, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Lots of interesting new papers in JME as we kick off summer! Check out this one on a juicy phylogenetic inference issue: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
and the associated perspective from two of the JME team:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
and the associated perspective from two of the JME team:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Want to know who's managing your paper behind the submission portal? JME is spotlighting our editors! Meet the faces behind the journal here:
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Journal of Molecular Evolution
Publish your work in a journal known for classic papers from Ohta, Felsenstein, and Zuckerkandl!
Journal of Molecular Evolution focuses on deciphering ...
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May 27, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Want to know who's managing your paper behind the submission portal? JME is spotlighting our editors! Meet the faces behind the journal here:
link.springer.com/journal/239/...
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We're about halfway through the submission period! We seek molecular evolution themed designs for a JME T-shirt. The winner will receive a FREE T-shirt featuring their design! Submit your design here by March 31st: tinyurl.com/ypk76t6z
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March 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
We're about halfway through the submission period! We seek molecular evolution themed designs for a JME T-shirt. The winner will receive a FREE T-shirt featuring their design! Submit your design here by March 31st: tinyurl.com/ypk76t6z
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Are you a Drosophila researcher & member of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social (at any level of training)?
Please vote in the Flyboard elections (we have an amazing slate of candidates) before Feb 20, 2026. Please check your email or go to this website to vote: genetics-gsa.org/2026-fly-boa...
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Please vote in the Flyboard elections (we have an amazing slate of candidates) before Feb 20, 2026. Please check your email or go to this website to vote: genetics-gsa.org/2026-fly-boa...
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February 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Are you a Drosophila researcher & member of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social (at any level of training)?
Please vote in the Flyboard elections (we have an amazing slate of candidates) before Feb 20, 2026. Please check your email or go to this website to vote: genetics-gsa.org/2026-fly-boa...
Pl repost.
Please vote in the Flyboard elections (we have an amazing slate of candidates) before Feb 20, 2026. Please check your email or go to this website to vote: genetics-gsa.org/2026-fly-boa...
Pl repost.
Love molecular evolution, design, and/or t-shirts? JME wants your help! We seek molecular evolution themed designs for a JME T-shirt. The winner will receive a FREE T-shirt featuring their design! Submit your design here by March 31st: tinyurl.com/ypk76t6z
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February 2, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Love molecular evolution, design, and/or t-shirts? JME wants your help! We seek molecular evolution themed designs for a JME T-shirt. The winner will receive a FREE T-shirt featuring their design! Submit your design here by March 31st: tinyurl.com/ypk76t6z
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We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Zuckerkandl Prize! Read the announcement here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Congratulations to our winners, Chun Wu, Nicholas Paradis, and Khushi Jain, from
@rowanuniversity.bsky.social !
Congratulations to our winners, Chun Wu, Nicholas Paradis, and Khushi Jain, from
@rowanuniversity.bsky.social !
2025 Zuckerkandl Prize - Journal of Molecular Evolution
Journal of Molecular Evolution -
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January 18, 2026 at 8:24 PM
We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Zuckerkandl Prize! Read the announcement here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Congratulations to our winners, Chun Wu, Nicholas Paradis, and Khushi Jain, from
@rowanuniversity.bsky.social !
Congratulations to our winners, Chun Wu, Nicholas Paradis, and Khushi Jain, from
@rowanuniversity.bsky.social !
Exciting news: our Quest for Orthologs special issue is now online, and all articles are currently freely available! Check it out here: link.springer.com/collections/... . Congrats to all of the authors!
Special Issue: Quest for Orthologs
Identifying orthologs and paralogs and characterizing function (and functional divergence) are core parts of modern genome annotation. This review will touch ...
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January 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Exciting news: our Quest for Orthologs special issue is now online, and all articles are currently freely available! Check it out here: link.springer.com/collections/... . Congrats to all of the authors!
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Awesome team work with Nikolai, Ali, Felix, Stefano, Silvia, Erik Sonnhammer, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @dessimoz.bsky.social Claire McWhite, Paul Thomas, Aida Ouangraoua, Edward Braun, Dannie Durand
Special thanks to @irenejulca.bsky.social Natasha Glover, reviewers & editors at @jmolev.bsky.social
Special thanks to @irenejulca.bsky.social Natasha Glover, reviewers & editors at @jmolev.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Awesome team work with Nikolai, Ali, Felix, Stefano, Silvia, Erik Sonnhammer, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social @dessimoz.bsky.social Claire McWhite, Paul Thomas, Aida Ouangraoua, Edward Braun, Dannie Durand
Special thanks to @irenejulca.bsky.social Natasha Glover, reviewers & editors at @jmolev.bsky.social
Special thanks to @irenejulca.bsky.social Natasha Glover, reviewers & editors at @jmolev.bsky.social
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🚨 We are hiring!
🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 [email protected]
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🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 [email protected]
🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom
September 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🚨 We are hiring!
🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 [email protected]
🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom
🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 [email protected]
🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom
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Thanks @jmolev.bsky.social !! For more on our science, please follow us here at @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social
@criscanestro.bsky.social gives a lovely, thoughtful talk on this theme, on a tunicate species with very a scrambled genome; then reflects on what the patterns of scrambling can tell us about the underlying regulatory architecture. #eseb2025
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Thanks @jmolev.bsky.social !! For more on our science, please follow us here at @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social
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Erich and Marie travelled to Barcelona for #ESEB2025. Erich gave two talks: one exploring de novo and random proteins, and another discussing gene family losses in slave-maker ants. Marie presented her work on neORF emergence in Drosophila at Symposium 29, organised by @gevol.bsky.social. 🧬🪰🐜
August 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Erich and Marie travelled to Barcelona for #ESEB2025. Erich gave two talks: one exploring de novo and random proteins, and another discussing gene family losses in slave-maker ants. Marie presented her work on neORF emergence in Drosophila at Symposium 29, organised by @gevol.bsky.social. 🧬🪰🐜
Our EIC David Liberles kicks off the meeting with a reminder of our journal's storied history - some of the many seminal papers published here. #JME2025
My personal favorite: Felsenstein 1981: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My personal favorite: Felsenstein 1981: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Our EIC David Liberles kicks off the meeting with a reminder of our journal's storied history - some of the many seminal papers published here. #JME2025
My personal favorite: Felsenstein 1981: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My personal favorite: Felsenstein 1981: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Final words of the last #ESEB2025 plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social:
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
August 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Final words of the last #ESEB2025 plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social:
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
Great to see @vargaschavezc.bsky.social give a talk on this in person. Stunning findings on the origin of non-marine annelids, whose genomes are utterly scrambled: a statistically random distribution of ancestral linkage groups around the genome. #eseb2025
Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids
@natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids - Nature Ecology & Evolution
An analysis of annelid genomes reveals massive reshuffling of chromosomes in the ancestral lineage leading to clitellates, a clade composed of non-marine annelids, with potential implications for the ...
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August 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Great to see @vargaschavezc.bsky.social give a talk on this in person. Stunning findings on the origin of non-marine annelids, whose genomes are utterly scrambled: a statistically random distribution of ancestral linkage groups around the genome. #eseb2025
Common theme this year is structural genome rearrangements coinciding with ecological or lifestyle changes.
@NGuiglielmoni
contributes high rates of rearrangements in cryptobiotic nematodes, in extreme environments, compared to close non-crytobiotic outgroups. #eseb2025
@NGuiglielmoni
contributes high rates of rearrangements in cryptobiotic nematodes, in extreme environments, compared to close non-crytobiotic outgroups. #eseb2025
August 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Common theme this year is structural genome rearrangements coinciding with ecological or lifestyle changes.
@NGuiglielmoni
contributes high rates of rearrangements in cryptobiotic nematodes, in extreme environments, compared to close non-crytobiotic outgroups. #eseb2025
@NGuiglielmoni
contributes high rates of rearrangements in cryptobiotic nematodes, in extreme environments, compared to close non-crytobiotic outgroups. #eseb2025
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Great symposium on Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates at #ESEB2025 kicked off with fantastic talk by @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social on the metamorphic blueprint,how life cycle type shapes salamander skulls. Is there an advantage of complex life cycle to create novel morphologies?
@r3rt0.bsky.social
@r3rt0.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Great symposium on Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates at #ESEB2025 kicked off with fantastic talk by @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social on the metamorphic blueprint,how life cycle type shapes salamander skulls. Is there an advantage of complex life cycle to create novel morphologies?
@r3rt0.bsky.social
@r3rt0.bsky.social
Mind-boggling talk from Lee Henry on facultative endosymbiosis. Pitches as essentially a form of HGT - a source of adaptives genes that populations can pass around to deal as needed w/ common environmental challenges. Just another organism instead of only DNA. #ESEB2025
August 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Mind-boggling talk from Lee Henry on facultative endosymbiosis. Pitches as essentially a form of HGT - a source of adaptives genes that populations can pass around to deal as needed w/ common environmental challenges. Just another organism instead of only DNA. #ESEB2025
#eseb2025 Hanne Griem-Krey finds accessory chromosome (AC) in a fungal insect pathogen that increases infectivity and can be horizontally transferred to other strains - solo, without the rest of the genome.
August 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
#eseb2025 Hanne Griem-Krey finds accessory chromosome (AC) in a fungal insect pathogen that increases infectivity and can be horizontally transferred to other strains - solo, without the rest of the genome.
#ESEB2025 Several talks on mysterious germline-restricted chromosomes, which are eliminated from somatic tissue during development. In fungus gnats, @chodson.bsky.social finds that they look like they're derived from a hybridization event.
August 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#ESEB2025 Several talks on mysterious germline-restricted chromosomes, which are eliminated from somatic tissue during development. In fungus gnats, @chodson.bsky.social finds that they look like they're derived from a hybridization event.
#ESEB2025 Exquisite talk on the mechanisms used by fungi that parasitize ants into 'zombies,' controlling their behavior to make them move to a location optimal for spore dispersal, from Charissa de Bekker.
August 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
#ESEB2025 Exquisite talk on the mechanisms used by fungi that parasitize ants into 'zombies,' controlling their behavior to make them move to a location optimal for spore dispersal, from Charissa de Bekker.
Third day's plenary by @lovedalen.bsky.social on “deep time” ancient DNA: >100k years old! First, an explanation of why aDNA is hard: very short fragments (even so much that amplification is hard), often with a majority of contaminated sequence. #eseb2025
August 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Third day's plenary by @lovedalen.bsky.social on “deep time” ancient DNA: >100k years old! First, an explanation of why aDNA is hard: very short fragments (even so much that amplification is hard), often with a majority of contaminated sequence. #eseb2025
Talk from @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social on sensory evolution in cichlids. Finds a LINE2 insertion in the intron of a critical brain patterning gene that in zebrafish reporter drives expression in key sensory regions. #ESEB2025
August 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Talk from @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social on sensory evolution in cichlids. Finds a LINE2 insertion in the intron of a critical brain patterning gene that in zebrafish reporter drives expression in key sensory regions. #ESEB2025