Publications

Up to date as of 18 February 2010. For the full text of items not available for download here, or hardcopy versions, please email jbyoder AT gmail DOT com.

Peer-reviewed

Drummond CS, H-J Xue, JB Yoder, and O Pellmyr. 2010. "Evidence for host-associated divergence and incipient speciation in the yucca moth Prodoxus coloradensis (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) on three parapatric host plants." Heredity. Abstract. Full text (PDF, 907KB).

Smith CI, CS Drummond, WKW Godsoe, JB Yoder, and O Pellmyr. 2009. "Host specificity and reproductive success of yucca moths (Tegeticula spp. Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) mirror patterns of gene flow between host plant varieties of Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia: Agavaceae)" Molecular Ecology. 18(24):5218-29. Abstract. Full text (PDF, 456KB).

Pellmyr O, JB Yoder, and WK Godsoe. 2009. "Prodoxus praedictus, sp.n., a new bogus yucca moth from southern California." Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 63(3):137-140. Full text (PDF, 542KB).

Godsoe WK, E Strand, T Esque, CI Smith, JB Yoder, and O Pelmyr. 2009. "Divergence in an obligate mutualism is not explained by divergent climatic factors." New Phytologist 183(3):589-99. Abstract. Full text (PDF, 3.7MB).

Smith CI, WKW Godsoe, S Tank, JB Yoder, and O Pellmyr. 2008. "Distinguishing coevolution from covicariance in an obligate pollination mutualism: Asynchronous divergence in Joshua tree and its pollinators." Evolution 62(10):2672-87. Abstract. Full text (PDF, 438KB).

Godsoe W, JB Yoder, CI Smith, and O Pellmyr. 2008. "Coevolution and divergence in the Joshua tree/yucca moth mutualism." The American Naturalist 171(6):816-23. Abstract. Full text (PDF, 447KB).

Gomulkiewicz R, DM Drown, MF Dybdahl, W Godsoe, SL Nuismer, KM Pepin, BJ Ridenhour, CI Smith, and JB Yoder. 2007. "Do's and Don'ts of testing the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution." Heredity 98(5):249-58. Full text (html). Full text (PDF, 311KB).

Submitted and in review

Yoder JB, CI Smith, and O Pellmyr. "How to become a yucca moth: Minimal trait evolution needed to establish the obligate pollination mutualism." Accepted pending revision for The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Yoder JB and SL Nuismer. "When does coevolution promote diversification?" Submitted to Ecology Letters.

Yoder JB, E Clancey, S Des Roches, JM Eastman, L Gentry, WKW Godsoe, T Hagey, D Jochimsen, BP Oswald, J Robertson, BAJ Sarver, JJ Schenk, S Spear, and LJ Harmon. "Perspective: Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations." In revision for The Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

Presentations, abstracts, and miscellany

Yoder JB. 2009. "Ecological species interactions and evolutionary divergence." (Final title "When does coevolution cause diversification?") Submitted presentation at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Society of Systematic Biologists. 12 to 16 June, 2009 at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.

Yoder JB. 2009. "Obligate mutualism: Joshua tree and its pollinators." Invited lecture for the Joshua Tree National Park Association Desert Institute, 24 March 2009, La Quinta, California.

Yoder JB, CI Smith, and O Pellmyr. 2008. "Origins of the yucca-yucca moth mutualism." Submitted presentation at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Society of Systematic Biologists. 19-24 June, 2008 at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Yoder JB. 2008. "Science 2.0: Not so New?" Science 320(5881):1290. [with response by B. Shneiderman under the same title] Full text (html). Full text (PDF).

Godsoe, W, and JB Yoder. 2006. "Patterns of phenotypic divergence in an obligate mutualism: Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) and its pollinators." Submitted presentation at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Society of Systematic Biologists. 23 to 27 June, 2006 at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.