Special Issue in Heredity

The special issue Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation has now been published in Heredity. I am grateful to all contributors for their work and to my co-editors Ellen, Megan, and Omer for their collaboration.

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