Publications

Up to date as of 9 January 2012. For the full text of items not available for download here, or hardcopy versions, please email jbyoder AT gmail DOT com. For estimated citation indexes and links to citing papers, please consult my Google Scholar profile.

Because I consider public outreach an important part of doing science, I frequently discuss my own projects on my blog, Denim and Tweed. Links to relevant D&T articles follow the listings for papers I've covered in that format.

Scientific articles

In prep and under review

Yoder JB, R Briskine, J Mudge, A Farmer, T Paape, K Steele, G Weiblen, AK Bharti, GD May, P Zhou, N Young, and P Tiffin. “Whole-genome phylogeny of Medicago (Fabaceae).” In review at Systematic Biology.

Yoder JB, CI Smith, DJ Rowley, WKW Godsoe, CS Drummond, and O Pellmyr. "Gene flow in Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) populations shaped by the consequences of pollinator divergence." In prep. for Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Starr TN, KE Gadek, JB Yoder, R Flatz, and CI Smith. "Hybridization and gene flow between Joshua trees (Agavaceae: Yucca) in a region of pollinator sympatry." In prep. for American Journal of Botany.

Published

Flatz, R, JB Yoder, E Lee-Barnes, and CI Smith. "Characterization of microsatellite loci in Yucca brevifolia (Agavaceae) and cross-amplification in related species." American Journal of Botany. 98:e67-9. Abstract. Full text (PDF, 464KB).

W Godsoe, JB Yoder, CI Smith, CS Drummond, O Pellmyr. 2010. "Absence of phenotype matching in an obligate pollination mutualism." Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23(12):2739-46. Abstract. Full text (PDF, 332KB). See also Denim and Tweed: Coevolutionary constraints may divide Joshua trees.

Yoder JB and SL Nuismer. 2010. "When does coevolution promote diversification?" The American Naturalist. 176(6):802-17. Abstract. Full text (PDF, 536KB). See also Denim and Tweed: Not all species interactions are (co)evolved equal.

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. 105(2):183-96. Abstract. Full text (PDF, 907KB).

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. 2010. "Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations." Online in advance of publication at the Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23(8):1581-96. Full text (Open access). See also Denim and Tweed: When ecological opportunity knocks, does adaptive radiation answer? and my guest post for the Scientific American blog, Ecological opportunity: The seed of evolutionary change in your backyard--and in your veins.

Yoder JB, CI Smith, and O Pellmyr. "How to become a yucca moth: Minimal trait evolution needed to establish the obligate pollination mutualism." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100(4):847-55. Abstract. Full text (PDF, 656KB). Supplementary material (PDF, 217KB). See also Denim and Tweed: Before they were yucca moths.

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). See also Denim and Tweed: For yucca moths, does (flower) size matter?

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). See also Denim and Tweed: Finding Joshua tree's niche.

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). See also Denim and Tweed: Joshua tree genetics suggest coevolutionary divergence.

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).

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).

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).

Recent presentations and abstracts

Yoder JB. 2011. "Species interactions and the origins of biological diversity." Invited presentation in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series, University of Minnesota, 26 October 2011, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Yoder JB, CI Smith, D Rowley, R Flatz, WK Godsoe, and O Pellmyr. 2010. "Coevolution and gene flow in an obligate pollination mutualism." Submitted presentation at the Evolution 2010 meetings, 25 to 29 June, 2010 at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

Yoder JB. 2009. "Ecological species interactions and evolutionary divergence." (Final title "When does coevolution cause diversification?") Submitted presentation at the Evolution 2009 meetings, 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.

Popular science writing

Yoder JB. 2011. “The intelligent homosexual’s guide to natural selection and evolution, with a key to many complicating factors.” Invited contribution to the Scientific American guest blog.

Yoder JB. "J.B.S. Haldane and the case of the revivified head." in The Open Laboratory 2010: The Best of Science Writing on the Web. ed. JG Goldman, series ed. B Zivkovic. Available online for print-on-demand. Originally appeared under the same title at Denim and Tweed.

Yoder JB. 2011. “Ecological Opportunity: The seed of evolutionary change in your backyard—and in your veins.” Invited contribution to the Scientific American guest blog.