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
Correlated Evolutionary Rates Reveal Novel Components and Cross-Compartment Connectivity in Plant Proteostasis Systems
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
MarÃa José Ruiz-López and others
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