Volume 18, Issue 2, February 2026

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Special Section: De novo gene evolution

Articles

Degradation Determinants Are Abundant in Human Noncanonical Proteins and Minor Annotated Isoforms

Claudio Casola and others

Emergence and Tandem Repeat-Mediated Elongation of a Translated De Novo Open Reading Frame in Human Oncogenic RNA Gene VPS9D1-AS1 (MYU)

Lin Chou and others

Highlights

Highlight: The "Wild West" of Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in the Gastrotricha

Pedro Andrade

Letters

Trio-sequencing Reveals High Germline Mutation Rates in the Colorado Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)

Shuqing Xu and others

Spontaneous Mutations Occur More in Highly Transcribed Regions in Daphnia

Jeremy E Coate and others

Articles

Genome Skimming Illuminates Hidden Species Diversity and Symbiodiniaceae Associations in East Pacific Pocillopora Corals

Michael T Connelly and others

Parallel Erosion of a Testis-Specific Na⁺/K⁺ ATPase in Three Mammalian Lineages Sheds Light into the Evolution of Spermatozoa Energetics

Raul Valente and others

Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data

Lucas Anchieri and others

Sex-biased Expression of Genes and Transposable Elements in Hybrids from Drosophila mojavensis and Drosophila arizonae

Maryanna C Simao and others

From Rigid Order to Radical Variation: Mitogenome Evolution in the Main Lineages of a Lesser-Known Animal Phylum (Gastrotricha)

Anush Kosakyan and others

Prevalence and Evolutionary Implications of Genome Rearrangements in Bacteria

Carolina A Martinez-Gutierrez and others

Imagin: An Integrase-Like Gene Conserved Across Malacostracan Crustaceans Derived From a Ginger1 DNA Transposon

Liyuan Hao and others

Origin and Evolution of Very Large Extracellular Proteins in Fructophilic Lactic Acid Bacteria

Julia E Pedersen and others

Tony C Gatts and others

Chromosomal Rearrangements and Transposable Elements in Locally Adapted Island Drosophila

Brandon A Turner and others

Major Histocompatibility Complex Immunogenetic Diversity Differs Substantially Across Sea Turtle Species and Genomic Regions

Katherine R Martin and others

Transcriptomic Adjustment to Decreasing Oxygen Reveals Novel Functional Strategies for Extreme Hypoxia Tolerance in the Copepod Tigriopus californicus

Matthew J Powers and Felipe S Barreto

Evolutionary Transitions in Social Behavior are Associated With Convergent and Partially Reversible Expansions of Transcription Factor Binding Sites

Savanna G Ploessl and Beryl M Jones

Recombination and Retroprocessing in Broomrapes Reveal RNA-Mediated Gene Transfer Mechanism and a Generalizable Model for Mitochondrial Evolution in Heterotrophic Plants

Liming Cai and others

Sign Epistasis Can be Absent in Multi-peaked Landscapes With Neutral Mutations

Dmitry N Ivankov and Evgenii M Zorin

Chromosome-scale Genome Assembly of the Most Abundant Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Cenococcum Geophilum Reveals Massive TE Expansion and RIP Defense Mechanism

Benjamin Dauphin and others

Increased Genetic Load in Breed Chickens and Reduced Coding Content in Long ROH

Ruoshi Huang and Ying Zhen

Draft Genome of Entamoeba marina Provides Insights Into the Attenuation of Pathogenicity and Adaptation to the Marine Environment

Tetsuro Kawano-Sugaya and others

Evolutionary Dynamics of Dosage Compensation and Sex-biased Gene Expression in Morabine Grasshopper Vandiemenella viatica

Suvratha Jayaprasad and others

Cryptocercus Genomes Expand Knowledge of Adaptations to Xylophagy and Termite Sociality

Alun R C Jones and others

Genome Resources

ERGA-BGE Genomes of Culex laticinctus, Culex modestus, Culex perexiguus, and Culex theileri: Unveiling the Genomes of the Key Vectors of West Nile Virus in the Mediterranean Basin

Exploring the First Draft Genome of the Oribatid Mite, Oppia nitens: A Standardized Model Invertebrate in Soil Ecotoxicology

Adedamola A Adedokun and others

Chromosome-Level Sex-Specific Genome Assemblies of Onthophagus binodis Provide Insight into Scarab Sex Chromosomes

Erica M Nadolski and others

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