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.

Carnival of Evolution, November 2012

Posted on 1 Nov, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

The monthly compendium of online writing about all things evolution-y is live at Sorting out Science.

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One of these flycatchers is not like the other …

Posted on 31 Oct, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

When you think about it, an awful lot of the things you can do with a genome sequence amount to lining it up next to another genome sequence, and then listing all the places where they differ. That’s more or … Continue reading →

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What we're reading

Posted on 26 Oct, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen-time. In the journals Zhen, Y., M. L. Aardema, E. M. Medina, M. Schumer and P. Andolfatto. 2012. Parallel molecular evolution in an … Continue reading →

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Molecular Ecology Online Forum, 2012

Posted on 24 Oct, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

Welcome to the Molecular Ecologist Online Forum, which brings together panelists from the Molecular Ecologist Symposium at the Ottawa 2012 Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology to continue that meeting’s fruitful discussion. (Video and slides from that symposium are available online … Continue reading →

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What we're reading, and zooming

Posted on 19 Oct, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we found this week that might be worth your screen time: In the journals: Minoche, A. E., J. C. Dohm and H. Himmelbauer. 2011. Evaluation of genomic high-throughput sequencing data … Continue reading →

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What we're reading

Posted on 12 Oct, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we found this week that might be worth your screen time: In the journals Calcagno, V., E. Demoinet, K. Gollner, L. Guidi, D. Ruths and C. de Mazancourt. 2012. Flows … Continue reading →

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What we're reading

Posted on 5 Oct, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we found this week that might be worth your screen time: In the journals Maughan, H., P. W. Wang, J. Diaz Caballero, P. Fung, Y. Gong, S. L. Donaldson, L. … Continue reading →

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What we're reading (and watching)

Posted on 28 Sep, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals From a couple of our contributors: Gilbert, K. J., Andrew, R. L., Bock, D. G., Franklin, M. T., Moore, B., Kane, N. C., Rennison, D. J., et al. 2012. Recommendations for utilizing and reporting population genetic analyses: … Continue reading →

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Genes … in … space!

Posted on 25 Sep, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

It’s something of a classic result in human population genomics: Go out and genotype thousands of people at thousands of genetic markers. (This is getting easier to do every day.) Then summarize the genetic variation at your thousands of markers … Continue reading →

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What we're reading

Posted on 21 Sep, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen-time: In the journals Travisano and Shaw 2012. Lost in the map. Evolution (accepted) DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01802.x. Genomics is detailing the molecular signature of … Continue reading →

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