Journal of Evolutionary Biology
@jevbio.bsky.social
#societyjournal (ESEB), covering #evolution across all organisms
#genetics #genomics #selection #lifehistory #evodevo #popgen #theory #speciation #morphometrics #phylogenetics #phylogeography
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#genetics #genomics #selection #lifehistory #evodevo #popgen #theory #speciation #morphometrics #phylogenetics #phylogeography
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Check out our latest Special Section guest edited by @mitopozzi.bsky.social and Sophie Breton:
Beyond ATP: New insight into mitochondrial function and evolution
🎨 Cover image - artwork by Iain G Johnston
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Beyond ATP: New insight into mitochondrial function and evolution
🎨 Cover image - artwork by Iain G Johnston
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January 22, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Check out our latest Special Section guest edited by @mitopozzi.bsky.social and Sophie Breton:
Beyond ATP: New insight into mitochondrial function and evolution
🎨 Cover image - artwork by Iain G Johnston
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Beyond ATP: New insight into mitochondrial function and evolution
🎨 Cover image - artwork by Iain G Johnston
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Wishing all of our followers a Happy New Year 2026! We kick off with the January Issue of JEB online now:
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📸 A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in the water at the Toba Aquarium, Japan. Photo Credit Tomohiro Harano
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📸 A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in the water at the Toba Aquarium, Japan. Photo Credit Tomohiro Harano
January 15, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Wishing all of our followers a Happy New Year 2026! We kick off with the January Issue of JEB online now:
academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/39/1
📸 A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in the water at the Toba Aquarium, Japan. Photo Credit Tomohiro Harano
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📸 A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in the water at the Toba Aquarium, Japan. Photo Credit Tomohiro Harano
@kztwyman.bsky.social & @andygardner.bsky.social mathematically connect the dynamics of natural selection to optimisation to provide formal justification for viewing obligately eusocial colonies as adaptive individuals in their own right—that is, superorganism:
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December 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
@kztwyman.bsky.social & @andygardner.bsky.social mathematically connect the dynamics of natural selection to optimisation to provide formal justification for viewing obligately eusocial colonies as adaptive individuals in their own right—that is, superorganism:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
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DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
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DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
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DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
November issue of JEB currently online:
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#onthecover: Black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) nesting on an abandoned military structure on Middleton Island, Gulf of Alaska. 📸 @tonyrinaud.bsky.social
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#onthecover: Black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) nesting on an abandoned military structure on Middleton Island, Gulf of Alaska. 📸 @tonyrinaud.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
November issue of JEB currently online:
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#onthecover: Black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) nesting on an abandoned military structure on Middleton Island, Gulf of Alaska. 📸 @tonyrinaud.bsky.social
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#onthecover: Black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) nesting on an abandoned military structure on Middleton Island, Gulf of Alaska. 📸 @tonyrinaud.bsky.social
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New Special Issue on "Foundations of Internal Conflicts":
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#internalconflict #selfishelements #meioticdrive #imprintedgenes #reproductiveparasitism
New Special Issue on "Foundations of Internal Conflicts":
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November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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#internalconflict #selfishelements #meioticdrive #imprintedgenes #reproductiveparasitism
New Special Issue on "Foundations of Internal Conflicts":
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#internalconflict #selfishelements #meioticdrive #imprintedgenes #reproductiveparasitism
Sea #otters have undergone distinctive evolutionary changes in the offspring size–number trade-off within the #Mustelidae. The changes involve larger and fewer offspring and more investment in offspring size than expected:
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Harano and Kutsukake 2025
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Harano and Kutsukake 2025
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Sea #otters have undergone distinctive evolutionary changes in the offspring size–number trade-off within the #Mustelidae. The changes involve larger and fewer offspring and more investment in offspring size than expected:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Harano and Kutsukake 2025
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Harano and Kutsukake 2025
Simple maternal effect animal models may provide biased estimates of additive genetic and maternal variation:
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@joelpick.bsky.social et al. 2025
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@joelpick.bsky.social et al. 2025
October 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Simple maternal effect animal models may provide biased estimates of additive genetic and maternal variation:
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@joelpick.bsky.social et al. 2025
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@joelpick.bsky.social et al. 2025
Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis?
@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
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@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
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October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis?
@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:
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@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
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Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
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Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
October 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📣CALL FOR PAPERS!
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
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Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
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Mimetic females do not bear reproductive costs: challenging the sexual selection hypothesis in female-limited mimetic polymorphism in butterflies:
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Yoshioka et al.
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Yoshioka et al.
October 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Mimetic females do not bear reproductive costs: challenging the sexual selection hypothesis in female-limited mimetic polymorphism in butterflies:
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Yoshioka et al.
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Yoshioka et al.
Exploring the evolution of life-history strategies to local seasonal environmental variations with ongoing maladaptive gene flow. Existence and extent of local adaptation depend on the magnitude and duration of seasonality and timing of measurement:
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Hall & McPherson
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Hall & McPherson
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Exploring the evolution of life-history strategies to local seasonal environmental variations with ongoing maladaptive gene flow. Existence and extent of local adaptation depend on the magnitude and duration of seasonality and timing of measurement:
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Hall & McPherson
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Hall & McPherson
SEPTEMBER's EDITOR's CHOICE:
Intergenic, repetitive motifs that act as nucleosome repleted regions in the budding yeast genome, have evolved de novo into novel protein-coding genes:
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@vakirlis.bsky.social
@timothyfuqua.bsky.social
Intergenic, repetitive motifs that act as nucleosome repleted regions in the budding yeast genome, have evolved de novo into novel protein-coding genes:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@vakirlis.bsky.social
@timothyfuqua.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
SEPTEMBER's EDITOR's CHOICE:
Intergenic, repetitive motifs that act as nucleosome repleted regions in the budding yeast genome, have evolved de novo into novel protein-coding genes:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@vakirlis.bsky.social
@timothyfuqua.bsky.social
Intergenic, repetitive motifs that act as nucleosome repleted regions in the budding yeast genome, have evolved de novo into novel protein-coding genes:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@vakirlis.bsky.social
@timothyfuqua.bsky.social
A commentary on Godfray 1990: The consequences of constrained sex allocation in diploids and haplodiploids under local mate competition
Chokechaipaisarn and @andygardner.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Chokechaipaisarn and @andygardner.bsky.social
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September 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A commentary on Godfray 1990: The consequences of constrained sex allocation in diploids and haplodiploids under local mate competition
Chokechaipaisarn and @andygardner.bsky.social
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Chokechaipaisarn and @andygardner.bsky.social
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Independent evolution of atypical sperm morphology in a passerine bird:
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@melissahrowe.bsky.social @danielmhooper.bsky.social
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@melissahrowe.bsky.social @danielmhooper.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Independent evolution of atypical sperm morphology in a passerine bird:
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@melissahrowe.bsky.social @danielmhooper.bsky.social
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@melissahrowe.bsky.social @danielmhooper.bsky.social
Read the latest issue of @jevbio.bsky.social here:
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On the cover: A yellow-billed long-tailed finch
Poephila acuticauda acuticada and a red-billed long-tailed finch P. a. hecki.
📸 Simon C. Griffith.
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On the cover: A yellow-billed long-tailed finch
Poephila acuticauda acuticada and a red-billed long-tailed finch P. a. hecki.
📸 Simon C. Griffith.
September 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Read the latest issue of @jevbio.bsky.social here:
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On the cover: A yellow-billed long-tailed finch
Poephila acuticauda acuticada and a red-billed long-tailed finch P. a. hecki.
📸 Simon C. Griffith.
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On the cover: A yellow-billed long-tailed finch
Poephila acuticauda acuticada and a red-billed long-tailed finch P. a. hecki.
📸 Simon C. Griffith.
Read the current issue of @jevbio.bsky.social here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue
📸 Heiko Bellmann
Adult #Nicrophorus vespilloides #beetle in the act of feeding its
offspring atop a vertebrate carcass the beetles have monopolised.
📸 Heiko Bellmann
Adult #Nicrophorus vespilloides #beetle in the act of feeding its
offspring atop a vertebrate carcass the beetles have monopolised.
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Read the current issue of @jevbio.bsky.social here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue
📸 Heiko Bellmann
Adult #Nicrophorus vespilloides #beetle in the act of feeding its
offspring atop a vertebrate carcass the beetles have monopolised.
📸 Heiko Bellmann
Adult #Nicrophorus vespilloides #beetle in the act of feeding its
offspring atop a vertebrate carcass the beetles have monopolised.
We are in the exhibition hall @eseb2025.bsky.social at the ESEB stand! Come and chat to us about all things JEB
✅ special issues
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✅ open access
⭐️ PRIZE DRAW FOR ECRs
✅ special issues
✅ reviews
✅ open access
⭐️ PRIZE DRAW FOR ECRs
August 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
We are in the exhibition hall @eseb2025.bsky.social at the ESEB stand! Come and chat to us about all things JEB
✅ special issues
✅ reviews
✅ open access
⭐️ PRIZE DRAW FOR ECRs
✅ special issues
✅ reviews
✅ open access
⭐️ PRIZE DRAW FOR ECRs
We will be in the exhibition hall @eseb2025.bsky.social!
✅ Meet our editors
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✅ Meet our editors
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#editorbio
@caritalindstedt.bsky.social has been an Associate Editor at #teamJEB since 2023 - great to have her on board!
@caritalindstedt.bsky.social has been an Associate Editor at #teamJEB since 2023 - great to have her on board!
July 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
#editorbio
@caritalindstedt.bsky.social has been an Associate Editor at #teamJEB since 2023 - great to have her on board!
@caritalindstedt.bsky.social has been an Associate Editor at #teamJEB since 2023 - great to have her on board!
#editorbio
@jorisbertrand.bsky.social joined #teamJEB this year! We are delighted to have him with us
@jorisbertrand.bsky.social joined #teamJEB this year! We are delighted to have him with us
July 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
#editorbio
@jorisbertrand.bsky.social joined #teamJEB this year! We are delighted to have him with us
@jorisbertrand.bsky.social joined #teamJEB this year! We are delighted to have him with us
July 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Each year we award the #StearnsPrize to the best graduate student-led papers published in JEB!
@eseb2025.bsky.social in August - the winners from the last 3 years will present their prize-winning research in a dedicated symposium - see you there 🤩
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@eseb2025.bsky.social in August - the winners from the last 3 years will present their prize-winning research in a dedicated symposium - see you there 🤩
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July 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Each year we award the #StearnsPrize to the best graduate student-led papers published in JEB!
@eseb2025.bsky.social in August - the winners from the last 3 years will present their prize-winning research in a dedicated symposium - see you there 🤩
academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/wi...
@eseb2025.bsky.social in August - the winners from the last 3 years will present their prize-winning research in a dedicated symposium - see you there 🤩
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#editorbio Craig Walling #quantgen #lifehistory #evolutionofaging #tradeoffs
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edinburghbiology.bsky.social
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edinburghbiology.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
#editorbio @scottpegan.bsky.social joined #teamJEB this year - a broadly trained evolutionary biologist that specialises in the study of speciation, the evolution of ecological specialisation, and eco-evolutionary dynamics of plant-insect interactions at the population scale
July 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#editorbio @scottpegan.bsky.social joined #teamJEB this year - a broadly trained evolutionary biologist that specialises in the study of speciation, the evolution of ecological specialisation, and eco-evolutionary dynamics of plant-insect interactions at the population scale