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    Molecular Ecology: Volume 32, Issue 14

    i-ii, 3793-4092
    July 2023
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  • Pages: i-ii
  • First Published: 10 July 2023
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Cover Illustrations: Diversity of Medicago plants and nodules.

Photo Credit: Liana T. Burghardt.

NEWS AND VIEWS

PERSPECTIVE

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An emerging view of coevolution in the legume–rhizobium mutualism

Christopher Carlson,  Megan E. Frederickson, 
  • Pages: 3793-3797
  • First Published: 23 June 2023

FROM THE COVER

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Combining GWAS and population genomic analyses to characterize coevolution in a legume-rhizobia symbiosis

Brendan Epstein,  Liana T. Burghardt,  Katy D. Heath,  Michael A. Grillo,  Adam Kostanecki,  Tuomas Hämälä,  Nevin D. Young,  Peter Tiffin, 
  • Pages: 3798-3811
  • First Published: 06 July 2022

see also the Perspective by Christopher Carlson and Megan E. Frederickson

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Population and Conservation Genetics

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Comparative population genetics of congeneric limpets across a biogeographic transition zone reveals common patterns of genetic structure and demographic history

Lívia Peluso,  Bernardo R. Broitman,  Marco A. Lardies,  Roberto F. Nespolo,  Pablo Saenz-Agudelo, 
  • Pages: 3812-3825
  • First Published: 10 May 2023
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Reconstructing the colonization history of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Northwestern Australia

Samuel Wittwer,  Livia Gerber,  Simon J. Allen,  Erik P. Willems,  Svenja M. Marfurt,  Michael Krützen, 
  • Pages: 3826-3841
  • First Published: 12 May 2023
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Barriers to chimpanzee gene flow at the south-east edge of their distribution

Noémie Bonnin,  Alex K. Piel,  Richard P. Brown,  Yingying Li,  Andrew Jesse Connell,  Alexa N. Avitto,  Jean P. Boubli,  Adrienne Chitayat,  Jasmin Giles,  Madhurima S. Gundlapally,  Iddi Lipende,  Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf,  Deus Mjungu,  Dismas Mwacha,  Lilian Pintea,  Anne E. Pusey,  Jane Raphael,  Serge A. Wich,  Michael L. Wilson,  Emily E. Wroblewski,  Beatrice H. Hahn,  Fiona A. Stewart, 
  • Pages: 3842-3858
  • First Published: 05 June 2023
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Lake Sinai virus is a diverse, globally distributed but not emerging multi-strain honeybee virus

Chunsheng Hou,  Hao Liang,  Chenxiao Chen,  Hongxia Zhao,  Pengfei Zhao,  Shuai Deng,  Beibei Li,  Dahe Yang,  Sa Yang,  Lena Wilfert, 
  • Pages: 3859-3871
  • First Published: 17 May 2023
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High conservation of the dental plaque microbiome across populations with differing subsistence strategies and levels of market integration

Irina M. Velsko,  Sandrine Gallois,  Raphaela Stahl,  Amanda G. Henry,  Christina Warinner, 
  • Pages: 3872-3891
  • First Published: 18 May 2023

Ecological Genomics

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Multisensory integration by polymodal sensory neurons dictates larval settlement in a brainless cnidarian larva

Sydney Birch,  David Plachetzki, 
  • Pages: 3892-3907
  • First Published: 10 May 2023
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Phenotypic cross-species conservation and cross-generation directionality switching in epigenetic inheritance

Ameek Bhalla,  Abhay Sharma, 
  • Pages: 3908-3921
  • First Published: 07 May 2023
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The transcriptional state and chromatin landscape of cichlid jaw shape variation across species and environments

Emily Tetrault,  John Swenson,  Ben Aaronson,  Chelsea Marcho,  R. Craig Albertson, 
  • Pages: 3922-3941
  • First Published: 09 May 2023
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Genomic insights into the postintroduction failure of the Asian icefish Protosalanx chinensis in China

Jiwei Qi,  Huijuan Pan,  Xiaochen Wang,  Zhongya Xuan,  Xiaofu Pan,  Xuanzhao Li,  Ying Shen,  Jian Yang,  Jie Zhang,  Ming Li, 
  • Pages: 3942-3959
  • First Published: 09 May 2023

Molecular Adaptation

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Developmental stress does not induce genome-wide DNA methylation changes in wild great tit (Parus major) nestlings

Bernice Sepers,  A. Christa Mateman,  Fleur Gawehns,  Koen J. F. Verhoeven,  Kees van Oers, 
  • Pages: 3960-3974
  • First Published: 08 May 2023
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Genetic basis of ecologically relevant body shape variation among four genera of cichlid fishes

Leah DeLorenzo,  Destiny Mathews,  A. Allyson Brandon,  Mansi Joglekar,  Aldo Carmona Baez,  Emily C. Moore,  Patrick J. Ciccotto,  Natalie B. Roberts,  Reade B. Roberts,  Kara E. Powder, 
  • Pages: 3975-3988
  • First Published: 10 May 2023
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MHC class II genes mediate susceptibility and resistance to coronavirus infections in bats

Dominik W. Schmid,  Magdalena Meyer,  Kerstin Wilhelm,  Tatiana Tilley,  Thomas Link-Hessing,  Ramona Fleischer,  Ebenezer K. Badu,  Evans Ewald Nkrumah,  Samuel Kingsley Oppong,  Nina Schwensow,  Marco Tschapka,  Heather J. Baldwin,  Peter Vallo,  Victor M. Corman,  Christian Drosten,  Simone Sommer, 
  • Pages: 3989-4002
  • First Published: 19 May 2023

Speciation and Hybridization

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Widespread introgression of MHC genes in Iberian Podarcis lizards

Tomasz Sebastian Gaczorek,  Mateusz Chechetkin,  Katarzyna Dudek,  Guilherme Caeiro-Dias,  Pierre-André Crochet,  Philippe Geniez,  Catarina Pinho,  Wiesław Babik, 
  • Pages: 4003-4017
  • First Published: 04 May 2023

Kinship, Parentage and Behaviour

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Parental effects in a filamentous fungus: Phenotype, fitness and mechanism

Mariana Villalba de la Peña,  Pauliina A. M. Summanen,  Neda N. Moghadam,  Ilkka Kronholm, 
  • Pages: 4018-4030
  • First Published: 05 May 2023
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Early-life telomere length predicts life-history strategy and reproductive senescence in a threatened wild songbird

Fay Morland,  John G. Ewen,  Mirre J. P. Simons,  Patricia Brekke,  Nicola Hemmings, 
  • Pages: 4031-4043
  • First Published: 12 May 2023

Ecological Interactions

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Elevated temperatures reduce population-specific transcriptional plasticity in developing lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

William S. Bugg,  Matt J. Thorstensen,  Katie E. Marshall,  W. Gary Anderson,  Ken M. Jeffries, 
  • Pages: 4044-4062
  • First Published: 07 May 2023
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Defensive symbiosis in the wild: Seasonal dynamics of parasitism risk and symbiont-conferred resistance

Elena Gimmi,  Jesper Wallisch,  Christoph Vorburger, 
  • Pages: 4063-4077
  • First Published: 09 May 2023
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Positive associations matter: Microbial relationships drive tick microbiome composition

Nicholas M. Fountain-Jones,  Benedict S. Khoo,  Austin Rau,  Jesse D. Berman,  Erin N. Burton,  Jonathan D. Oliver, 
  • Pages: 4078-4092
  • First Published: 12 May 2023