40th Anniversary Virtual Issues: Recombination and Meiosis

GBE 40th Anniversary Virtual Issues: Recombination and Meiosis Casey L. McGrath * *Corresponding author: E-mail: . Accepted: June 21, 2024 Highlights editor: Laura Katz July’s Perspective, titled “Understanding the genetic ba sis of variation in meiotic recombination: past, present, and future”, appears in Molecular Biology and Evolution and was written by Susan E. Johnston. The accompanying virtual issues—one for Molecular Biology and Evolution and one for Genome Biology and Evolution—include note worthy papers on the Recombination and Meiosis pub lished in the two journals and can be found at SMBE’s 40th anniversary site. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2024. Genome Biol. Evol. 16(7) https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae135 Advance Access publication 12 July 2024 1 To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution, the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) journals are publishing a series of virtual issues in 2024. These virtual issues contain selected papers published in the society’s journals, Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution. Each vir tual issue is accompanied by a Perspective that highlights the historic and contemporary contributions of our journals to a specific topic in molecular evolution.  (...truncated)