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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations across successive generations, driven by mechanisms including natural selection, genetic drift, mutation, gene flow, and recombination acting on genetic variation. It provides the unifying framework of the life sciences, accounting fo…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 60× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2575-7881 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations across successive generations, driven by mechanisms including natural selection, genetic drift, mutation, gene flow, and recombination acting on genetic variation. It provides the unifying framework of the life sciences, accounting for the common ancestry of organisms, the diversification of lineages, and the molecular signatures of descent with modification preserved in nucleic acid and protein sequences. Evolutionary analysis at the molecular level reconstructs phylogenetic relationships, infers selection pressures from substitution patterns, and traces how genes and genomes are remodeled over time. Research in this area applies these principles to the molecular evolution of viral pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2 and plant viruses such as olive leaf yellowing-associated virus through heat-shock-protein gene analysis; to allele-based and genetic-drift approaches for modeling extinction and population change; and to comparative studies of conserved fractal and compositional features across human chromosomes. Related work addresses the conceptual history of evolutionary theory, speciation and ontogeny, the evolution of laboratory methods such as the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and quantitative trends in fields like vegetarian nutrition and anthropometric measurement of malnutrition. The journal publishes peer-reviewed studies spanning molecular, population, and conceptual dimensions of evolution, with emphasis on sequence-based and genetic inference of evolutionary process.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Evolution of the Concept of Evolution

Mikhailovsky GeorgeCorresponding author
Global Mind Share, Norfolk, VA, United States
Exact topic Evolutionary Science doi:10.14302/issn.2689-4602.jes-18-2229
2020

Evolution of Anthropometry in Malnutrition

Phadke M.Corresponding author
Sr.Adv, Public Health, Govt. of Mah, UNICEF, Mumbai, India
Exact topic International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 8 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-19-3111
2017

Template Independent Synthesis of Nucleic Acid Libraries

D. Bhilare KiranCorresponding author
Biocatalysis and Protein Engineering Group, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology (Biotechnology), National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, India
Exact topic DNA And RNA Research Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2575-7881.jdrr-17-1749

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 60 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Evolution, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in DNA And RNA Research (ISSN 2575-7881).

Journal editorial board
jianhui zhang · United States Masayoshi Yamaguchi · United States Li Mao · United States

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