Editors for Evolutionary Biology

We aim to publish studies that present major new insights into patterns and processes in any field of evolutionary biology. This includes comparative genomics, population genetics, ecology, behavior, morphology, evolution of developmental processes, palaeontology, experimental evolution and evolutionary theory. We welcome also papers that revisit long established evolutionary paradigms in the light of new evidence. Read the latest research in this subject area.

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Senior editors

George H Perry

Pennsylvania State University, United States

George Perry received his PhD in 2008 from Arizona State University, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. In 2011, he began a faculty position at Penn State University, where he is now Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology, Chair of the Bioinformatics and Genomics Graduate Degree Program, and member of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. His research interests focus on human evolution, evolutionary ecology, and evolutionary medicine, and how human behavior and biology have affected non-human evolutionary biology. Research methods and theory from anthropology, evolutionary biology, parasitology, and population, comparative, functional, and paleo (ancient DNA) genomics are integrated in this work. He has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation, among others.

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Ecology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
human evolution
evolutionary ecology
evolutionary biology
population genomics
comparative genomics
functional genomics
paleogenomics

Experimental organism
human
primates
parasites

Competing interests statement
George Perry has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. He is currently an Associate Editor of Evolutionary Anthropology.
Detlef Weigel

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany

Detlef Weigel received his PhD in 1988 from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. After postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the Salk Institute in 1993. Since 2002, he has been director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. His current research interests focus on natural genetic variation and evolutionary genomics of plants. Examples of recent important projects are the 1001 Genomes project for Arabidopsis thaliana, and the systematic dissection of deleterious epistasis between Arabidopsis strains due to autoimmunity. Among the awards he has received are the Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Otto Bayer Award. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Royal Society.

Expertise
Plant Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
natural variation
epigenetics
evolutionary genomics
plant biology
genomics
evolutionary biology
immunity

Experimental organism
A. thaliana

Competing interests statement
Detlef Weigel has received funding from the Max Planck Society, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Foundation of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the German Ministry for Education and Research, the European Commission, the Human Frontiers Science Program Organization, and several US Federal agencies. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology and Genome Biology. He is Chair of EMBO Council, and is serving or has recently served on the Advisory Boards of the Epigenomics of Plants International Consortium, Bayer Crop Science, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, and the Sainsbury Laboratory. He is a co-founder of Computomics and CeMet.
Patricia Wittkopp

University of Michigan, United States

Patricia Wittkopp received a BS from the University of Michigan, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University. In 2005, she began a faculty position at the University of Michigan, where she is now an Arthur F Thurnau Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and LSA Honors Program. Her research investigates the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution, with an emphasis on the evolution of gene expression. Molecular and developmental biology, population and quantitative genetics, genomics and bioinformatics are integrated in this work. She was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow, an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a March of Dimes Starter Scholar Award, the Margaret Dayhoff Mid-Career Award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
evolutionary genetics
evolution and development
gene expression
regulatory networks
allele-specific expression

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
S. cerevisiae

Competing interests statement
Patricia Wittkopp has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, March of Dimes, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is currently an Associate Editor of Molecular Biology and Evolution and GENETICS, and serves on the Advisory Editorial Board of Trends in Genetics.

Reviewing editors

Catherine Carr

University of Maryland, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
auditory
evolution
temporal coding
comparative

Experimental organism
birds
reptiles
Vincent Castric

Université de Lille, France

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
population and evolutionary genomics
plant mating systems
small regulatory RNAs
systems biology

Experimental organism
Arabidopsis
Graham Coop

University of California, Davis, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
population genetics
Vaughn S Cooper

University of Pittsburgh, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Genetics and Genomics
Ecology

Research focus
evolution of bacteria
antimicrobial resistance
Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo

Université Paris-Diderot CNRS, France

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
genotype-phenotype
evolutionary genetics
morphological evolution
physiological evolution
gene drive

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Noah J Cowan

The Johns Hopkins University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
sensorimotor control
active sensing
navigation
biomechanics
robotics
control theory
motor learning
Claude Desplan

New York University, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
evo-devo
neural development
retina
vision
color vision
stochasticity

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
ants
Samuel L Díaz-Muñoz

University of California, Davis, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
social evolution
reassortment
experimental evolution
genomics
sex
environmental microbiology
behavior
Michael Doebeli

University of British Columbia, Canada

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
mathematical modelling
evolution of diversity
social insects
ecology and evolution of microbial communities
David Donoso

Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
biodiversity
ecosystem ecology
community ecology
global warming
soil organisms
tropical forests
Dieter Ebert

University of Basel, Switzerland

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
coevolution
experimental evolution
host-parasite interactions
population genetics
balancing selection
evolution
biogeography

Experimental organism
Daphnia
Nels C Elde

University of Utah, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
host-microbe interactions
evolutionary genetics
virus evolution
experimental evolution
innate immunity

Experimental organism
primates
poxviruses
zebrafish
Rosalyn Gloag

University of Sidney, Australia

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Ecology

Research focus
invasive species
population genetics
brood parasitism
social parasitism
eusociality

Experimental organism
birds
bees
Ammie K Kalan

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
acoustic monitoring
animal communication
animal behaviour
conservation
primatology
Laurent Keller

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
evolution
social behaviour
ants
genetics
social networks

Experimental organism
ants
social insects
D. melanogaster
Genevieve Konopka

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
neurogenomics
comparative genomics
neurodevelopment
cognition
language
autism
schizophrenia

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Shigehiro Kuraku

RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Biology

Research focus
molecular evolution
gene family evolution
developmental roles of duplicated genes
early vertebrate genome evolution

Experimental organism
reptiles
cyclostomes
chondrichthyans
Christian R Landry

Universite Laval, Canada

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
systems biology
evolution
molecular evolution
synthetic biology
hybridization

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
S. paradoxus
Dan Larhammar

Uppsala University, Sweden

Expertise
Medicine
Evolutionary Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
evolution
gene/genome duplications
cellular and molecular neuroscience
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
neuropeptides
endocrine peptides
hypothalamus
phototransduction
ligand-gated ion channels

Experimental organism
human
zebrafish
David Lentink

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
comparative biomechanics of flight
evolutionary biology
bio-fluid dynamics
bio-inspired design

Experimental organism
birds
insects
bats
plant seeds
Mia T Levine

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
evolution
conflict
heterochromatin
telomere
phylogenomics
paternal chromatin
epigenetics

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
John A Long

Flinders University, Australia

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
paleontology
fossil
Pisces
Devonian
Placodermi
Tetrapodomorpha
Chondrichthyes
Actinopterygii
Sarcopterygii
palaeozoic
phylogeny
Australia
Gondwana
Philipp W Messer

Cornell University, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
evolutionary biology
population genetics
Sara Mitri

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
microbial communities
cooperation
competition
co-evolution
computational modelling
ecosystems
synthetic ecology
Alan Moses

University of Toronto, Canada

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
data analysis
bioinformatics
molecular evolution
intrinsically disordered proteins
signaling pathways
regulatory networks

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Richard A Neher

University of Basel, Switzerland

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Physics of Living Systems
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
population genetics
evolution of RNA viruses
bioinformatics
Magnus Nordborg

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Plant Biology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
adaptation
population genetics
evolutionary genetics
genetics
genomics
genome-wide association studies
epigenetics

Experimental organism
Arabidopsis
Armita Nourmohammad

University of Washington, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Physics of Living Systems
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
population genetics
computational immunology
adaptive immunity
statistical physics
deep mutational scanning
information theory
statistical inference
gene expression evolution

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
human
viruses
Lauren O'Connell

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
behaviour and toxicity in poison frogs
behavior
physiology
evolution

Experimental organism
amphibians
Molly Przeworski

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
evolutionary biology
population genetics
human genetics
meiotic recombination
germline mutation
natural selection

Experimental organism
primates
human
Paul Rainey

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Plant Biology

Research focus
adaptive radiation
evolution of individuality
evolutionary genetics
ecological genetics
emergence of infectious diseases
forecasting evolution
Antonis Rokas

Vanderbilt University, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
phylogenomics
genome evolution in fungi and animals
evolution of fungal secondary/specialized metabolic pathways
evolution of mammalian pregnancy
eukaryotic genome evolution

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
mammals
Aspergillus
Karen Sears

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
mammalian evolutionary developmental biology
Wenying Shou

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
quantitative biology
mathematical biology
evolutionary biology
synthetic biology
molecular genetics
evolution of cooperation
computer simulations

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Kristin Tessmar-Raible

University of Vienna, Austria

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology
Ecology

Research focus
chronobiology
marine biology
photobiology
behavior
reproductive timing
seasons
lunar rhythms
tool establishment for "non-conventional animal models”

Experimental organism
P. dumerilii
C. marinus
zebrafish
medakafish
Jessica Thompson

Yale University, United States

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
zooarchaeology
human evolution
human origins
taphonomy
paleontology
Kevin Verstrepen

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
yeast
aroma
fermentation
genomics
molecular evolution

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Min Zhu

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
paleobiology
vertebrate paleontology
evolutionary biology
systematics
morphology
paleobiogeography
ichthyology

Experimental organism
E. primordialis
G. oneiros
Q. rostrata