The special issue Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation has now been published in Heredity. We grateful to all contributors for their work. This has been a collaboration of the Gokcumen lab (Omer and Clio) with Megan Y. Dennis and Ellen M. Leffler.
The full collection is available here
Editorial
Karageorgiou, C., Leffler, E.M., Dennis, M.Y. et al. Structural variation in context: mechanisms, functions and selection regimes across the tree of life. Heredity 135, 121–125 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-026-00832-x
Review
Diblasi, C., Saitou, M. Beyond inversions and deletions: the evolutionary and functional insights from translocations, fissions, and fusions in animal genomes. Heredity 135, 126–137 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-025-00785-7
Research articles
Paris, M., Durmaz Mitchell, E., Kerdaffrec, E. et al. Multiple forms of balancing selection maintain inversion polymorphism. Heredity 135, 138–151 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-025-00780-y
Rodríguez-Fuentes, J., Nesvadba, N., Saladin, V. et al. Experimental test of the fitness effects of divergent marine–freshwater chromosomal inversions in stickleback under different salinity conditions. Heredity 135, 152–161 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-025-00784-8
Nicolas, L.A., Berdan, E.L., Wellenreuther, M. et al. Parallel clines of chromosomal inversion frequencies in seaweed flies are associated with thermal variation. Heredity 135, 162–173 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-025-00808-3
Moosman, O.W., Kelley, J.L. & Bogan, S.N. Mitigating assembly and switch errors in phased genomes of polar fishes reveals haplotype diversity in copy number of antifreeze protein genes. Heredity 135, 174–186 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-025-00803-8
Zhou, W., Kunz, D. & Jiggins, C.D. Comparative analysis of gene family evolution demonstrates expansion of digestive, immunity and olfactory functions in the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) lineage. Heredity 135, 187–198 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-025-00805-6
Chirmade, S., Wang, Z., Mastromatteo, S. et al. GWAS SVatalog: a visualization tool to aid fine-mapping of GWAS loci with structural variations. Heredity 135, 199–210 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-025-00809-2