Our New Protectorate

Our new journal.

Introducing our new Editorial Board.

Symbiont genomics, our new tangled bank.

Microbial symbionts inhabit the soma and surfaces of most multicellular species and instigate both beneficial and harmful infections. Despite their ubiquity, we are only beginning to resolve major patterns of symbiont ecology and evolution. Here, we summarize the history, current progress, and projected future of the study of microbial symbiont evolution throughout the tree of life. We focus on...

A New Adventure for our Journal!

A journal editor writing an editorial, or indeed anyone else entrusted with this task, is usually expected to draw attention to the highlights of the current issue (new developments, debated issues, controversial opinions, and so on), thereby giving an idea of the potential impact of its content on readers and on the broader scientific community. It is therefore hardly surprising that I am open...

Our recap for happy new year

To improve the understanding and communication of different kinds of contributor roles in research output, we decided to apply Contributor Roles Taxonomy, a renowned communitydeveloped open-standard taxonomy of contributions, to our journal starting from the first issue of 2017 (https://doi.org/10.5051/jpis.2017.47.1.1). Moreover, we have expressed our dedicated support for the National Library...