JEB at PopGroup

The 58th Pop­u­la­tion Genet­ics Group (or Pop­Group, or PGG) meet­ing takes place 7th — 9th Janu­ary 2025 at the Uni­ver­sity of Shef­field. Pop­Group has been held annu­ally in the UK since 1968, show­cas­ing pop­u­la­tion and evol­u­tion­ary genet­ics from across the world. This year’s meet­ing is organ­ised by long-stand­ing JEB Edit­or Nic­ola Nadeau.

JEB will be on-site in the exhib­i­tion area and is delighted to sup­port the meet­ing. Pop­Group has a repu­ta­tion for being a col­legi­ate, wel­com­ing and inspir­ing event that is sup­port­ive of Early Career Research­ers. Many post­gradu­ate research­ers in this field give their first ever con­fer­ence talk at PopGroup!

Our Man­aging Edit­or, Nic­ola Cook, will be at the JEB stand and happy to dis­cuss any­thing related to pub­lish­ing your work in JEB. We are also look­ing for new edit­or­i­al board mem­bers. So, if you are attend­ing the con­fer­ence (and man­age to get there in spite of the snow!) please do come and chat.

A snapshot of population genetics papers published in JEB across the years:

Hybrid­iz­a­tion and spe­ci­ation — This cita­tion clas­sic from Abbott et al. (2013) offers a per­spect­ive on the evol­u­tion­ary sig­ni­fic­ance of hybrid­isa­tion as it applies to the pro­cess of speciation.

The gen­ic view of the pro­cess of spe­ci­ation — Wu’s paper (2001), built on the work of the “bio­lo­gic­al spe­cies concept”, and its more recent devel­op­ments, expand­ing it to the gen­ic level. 

From kiss­ing to belly strid­u­la­tion: com­par­at­ive ana­lys­is reveals sur­pris­ing diversity, rap­id evol­u­tion, and much homo­plasy in the mat­ing beha­viour of 27 spe­cies of sepsid flies (Dip­tera: Sepsid­ae) — A detailed com­par­at­ive study of the evol­u­tion of court­ship beha­viour in this poorly stud­ied group of flies. Com­pre­hens­ive, thor­ough and great nat­ur­al his­tory as well as evol­u­tion­ary ana­lys­is from Pun­iamoorthy et al. (2009).

The role of founder effects on the evol­u­tion of repro­duct­ive isol­a­tion — A really nice exper­i­ment­al test of a long-last­ing and much debated issue in spe­ci­ation from Matute (2013) – do bot­tle­necks pro­mote repro­duct­ive isol­a­tion? The answer? Yes, maybe sort-of.

Open­ing the spe­cies box: what parsi­mo­ni­ous micro­scop­ic mod­els of spe­ci­ation have to say about mac­ro­e­volu­tion — a com­pre­hens­ive Review by Couvert et al. (2024) from our very recent Spe­cial Issue: Infer­ring mac­ro­e­volu­tion­ary pat­terns and pro­cesses from micro­e­volu­tion­ary mechanisms.

How do spe­cies bar­ri­ers decay? Con­cord­ance and loc­al intro­gres­sion in mosa­ic hybrid zones of mus­sels — this paper by Simon et al. (2021) formed part of a key Spe­cial Issue on Spe­ci­ation in Mar­ine Environments.

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