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. 2024 Jan 3;41(1):msad264.
doi: 10.1093/molbev/msad264.

Forty Years of Inferential Methods in the Journals of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Claudia A M Russo  1 , Adam Eyre-Walker  2 , Laura A Katz  3 , Brandon S Gaut  4
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Forty Years of Inferential Methods in the Journals of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Claudia A M Russo et al. Mol Biol Evol. .

Abstract

We are launching a series to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution. In 2024, we will publish virtual issues containing selected papers published in the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution journals, Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution. Each virtual issue will be accompanied by a perspective that highlights the historic and contemporary contributions of our journals to a specific topic in molecular evolution. This perspective, the first in the series, presents an account of the broad array of methods that have been published in the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution journals, including methods to infer phylogenies, to test hypotheses in a phylogenetic framework, and to infer population genetic processes. We also mention many of the software implementations that make methods tractable for empiricists. In short, the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution community has much to celebrate after four decades of publishing high-quality science including numerous important inferential methods.

Keywords: SMBE journals; Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution; anniversary celebration; inferential methods; software packages.

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Recent covers from the two SMBE journals, MBE (left) and GBE (right).
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The first issue of MBE included a flier that advertised the intention to merge the fields of molecular biology with evolutionary biology.
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A logo to celebrate the 40th anniversary, which was designed by SMBE member Ana Carolina Martins Junqueira from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

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