Author Archives: Jeremy Yoder

About Jeremy Yoder

Jeremy B. Yoder is an Associate Professor of Biology at California State University Northridge, studying the evolution and coevolution of interacting species, especially mutualists. He is a collaborator with the Joshua Tree Genome Project and the Queer in STEM study of LGBTQ experiences in scientific careers. He has written for the website of Scientific American, the LA Review of Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Awl, and Slate.

Holiday reading: Freeze-resistant angiosperms, genomic differentiation at Evolution Canyon, and a Brave New World for academics online?

Posted on 27 Dec, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Zanne AE, DC Tank, WK Cornwell, et al. 2013. Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature12872. Here we show that woody clades successfully moved into freezing-prone environments by either possessing transport … Continue reading →

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What we're reading: Coevolutionary diversification, replication, archiving, and the real trouble with "luxury" journals

Posted on 20 Dec, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Althoff DM, KA Segraves, MTJ Johnson. 2013. Testing for coevolutionary diversification: linking pattern with process. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.11.003. In this review, we highlight potential mechanisms of coevolutionary diversification, outline approaches to examine this … Continue reading →

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No reference genome? No problem! Demographic inference from genomic data in nonmodel insect populations

Posted on 19 Dec, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

This guest article by Martin Sikora is cross-posted from the Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics blog at Stanford University. Reconstructing the demographic history of species and populations is one of the major goals of evolutionary genetics. Inferring the timing and … Continue reading →

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What we're reading: Detecting selection with allele frequencies over time, male function in reproductive isolation, and making the jump to programming

Posted on 13 Dec, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Nishino J. 2013. Detecting selection using time-series data of allele frequencies with multiple independent reference loci. G3. 3:2151-2161. doi: 10.1534/g3.113.008276. Recently, in 2013 Feder et al. proposed the frequency increment test (FIT), which evaluates natural selection at … Continue reading →

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What we're reading: Landscape genomics in Evolution, tracking evolution with more than two alleles, and the value of the selfish gene meme

Posted on 6 Dec, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Petren, K. 2013. The evolution of landscape genetics. Evolution 67:3383–5 doi: 10.1111/evo.12278. Evolutionary landscape genetics is the study of how migration and population structure affects evolutionary processes. As a field it dates back to Sewall Wright and … Continue reading →

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What we're reading: the FDA versus 23andME

Posted on 29 Nov, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Caulfield T, Evans J, McGuire A, McCabe C, Bubela T, et al. (2013) Reflections on the Cost of “Low-Cost” Whole Genome Sequencing: Framing the Health Policy Debate. PLoS Biol 11(11): e1001699. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001699 Given the interest and significant … Continue reading →

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What we're reading: Covariance in geographic variation, adaptation to altitude, and the ivory frat house

Posted on 22 Nov, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Guillot, G., L. Schilling, E. Porcu, and M. Bevilacqua. n.d. Validity of covariance models for the analysis of geographical variation. ArXiv: 1311.4136v1. See also Haldane’s Sieve. We also outline how to construct alternative covariance models for the … Continue reading →

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The postdoc to faculty transition II: from job offer to start date

Posted on 20 Nov, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

K.E. Lotterhos is a marine biologist studying evolutionary responses to fishing and climate change. She’s beginning a faculty position at Wake Forest University in January, and agreed to contribute two guest posts about the transition from a postdoc to running … Continue reading →

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The postdoc to faculty transition I: from application to interview

Posted on 19 Nov, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

K.E. Lotterhos is a marine biologist studying evolutionary responses to fishing and climate change. She’s beginning a faculty position at Wake Forest University in January, and agreed to contribute two guest posts about the transition from a postdoc to running … Continue reading →

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What we're reading: diverged damselflies, climate-adapted Arabidopsis, and the phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood

Posted on 15 Nov, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Sánchez-Guillén RA, A Córdoba-Aguilar, A Cordero-Rivera, M Wellenreuther. 2013. Genetic divergence predicts reproductive isolation in damselflies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12274. Our results indicate a positive and strong correlation between reproductive isolation and genetic distance using … Continue reading →

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