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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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#societyjournal (ESEB), covering #evolution across all organisms

#genetics #genomics #selection #lifehistory #evodevo #popgen #theory #speciation #morphometrics #phylogenetics #phylogeography

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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
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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📣 CALL FOR PAPERS!!

New Special Issue on "Foundations of Internal Conflicts":

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#internalconflict #selfishelements #meioticdrive #imprintedgenes #reproductiveparasitism
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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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
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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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
October 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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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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October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS!

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
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Mimetic females do not bear reproductive costs: challenging the sexual selection hypothesis in female-limited mimetic polymorphism in butterflies:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Yoshioka et al.
October 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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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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@timothyfuqua.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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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September 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Independent evolution of atypical sperm morphology in a passerine bird:
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@melissahrowe.bsky.social @danielmhooper.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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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.
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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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
August 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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We will be in the exhibition hall @eseb2025.bsky.social!

✅ Meet our editors
✅ Support your society journal

@agonzalezvoyer.bsky.social @maxreuter.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @vakirlis.bsky.social @arnaudlerouzic.bsky.social @francescaraffini.bsky.social @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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#editorbio

@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
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@jorisbertrand.bsky.social joined #teamJEB this year! We are delighted to have him with us
July 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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@nedabarghi.bsky.social joined #teamJEB in early 2023
July 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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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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July 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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#editorbio Craig Walling #quantgen #lifehistory #evolutionofaging #tradeoffs

@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edinburghbiology.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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#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
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#editorbio
@charlesmullon.bsky.social has been with us as Associate Editor since joining #teamJEB in 2023
July 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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#editorbio

@polejit.bsky.social joined JEB as an Associate Editor in early 2025 having already Guest Edited on a previous Special Issue:

academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/37/6
June 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Interested in publishing a Review or Target Review @jevbio.bsky.social?

Find out more here and submit to your #societyjournal:

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June 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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#editorbio

Nikos Vakirlis @vakirlis.bsky.social joined our editorial board in 2025 - welcome to #teamJEB!
June 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM