Volume 43, Issue 5
May 2026
(In Progress)
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A male barn owl (Tyto alba) returns to the nest with prey for his hungry nestlings. Barn owls are tireless hunters and will catch mice and voles in abundance, delivering on average two prey items per chick each night https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag094 (photo credit: Alex Labhardt).
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Volume 43, Issue 5, May 2026
Discoveries
Climate-associated natural selection in the human mitochondrial genome
Finley Grover-Thomas and others
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 43, Issue 5, May 2026, msag044, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag044
Avian lung single-cell atlas elucidates evolutionary divergence in endothermic respiration
Yan Hao and others
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 43, Issue 5, May 2026, msag072, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag072
Experimental evolution toward extinction in a molecular host–parasite system
Kohtoh Yukawa and others
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 43, Issue 5, May 2026, msag084, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag084
Phage toxin variants are linked to protection specificity in a defensive symbiont
Balig Panossian and others
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 43, Issue 5, May 2026, msag079, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag079
Pangolin museum genomics reveal the dynamic genetic consequences and extinction risk of the critically endangered Chinese pangolin
Jing Yang Hu and others
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 43, Issue 5, May 2026, msag099, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag099
Genomic incompatibilities are persistent barriers when speciation happens with gene flow in Formica ants
Patrick Heidbreder and others
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 43, Issue 5, May 2026, msag063, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag063
Evolution in metazoans of the TRPM channel family involves multiple gains and losses of genes and domains
Marina Morini and others
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 43, Issue 5, May 2026, msag098, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag098
Brief Communications
Degeneration and adaptive evolution of digits in ratite birds
Wen Kang and others
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 43, Issue 5, May 2026, msag101, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag101
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