Scientific publications

Up to date as of 16 Sept 2024. For the full text of items not available for download here, or hardcopy versions, please contact me. For estimated citation indexes and links to citing papers, please consult my Google Scholar profile, and for broader impacts of my peer-reviewed research, see my Impactstory profile.

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Peer-reviewed articles

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Yoder JB, AK Andrade, LA DeFalco, TC Esque, CJ Carlson, DF Shryock, R Yeager, and CI Smith. 2024. Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering. Ecology Letters, 27:e14478. doi.org/10.1111/ele.14478 (open access)

Esque TC, DF Shryock, GA Berry, FC Chen, LA DeFalco, SM Lewicki, BL Cunningham, EJ Gaylord, CS Posage, GE Gantz, RA Van Gaalen, BO Gottsacker, AM McDonald, JB Yoder, CI Smith, and KE Nussear. 2023. Unprecedented distribution data for Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia and Y. jaegeriana) reveal contemporary climate associations of a Mojave Desert icon. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11:1266892. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1266892 (open access)

Smith CI, LC Sweet, JB Yoder, MR McKain, K Heyduk, and C Barrows. 2023. Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy and endangered species protections for Joshua trees portend difficult conservation choices in the Mojave Desert. Biological Conservation. 277(2023): 109819. doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109819. Full text (PDF, 8.6 MB)

Yoder JB, A Dang, C MacGregor, and M Plaza. 2022. Plant-associate interactions and diversification across trophic levels. Evolution Letters. 6(5): 375-389. doi: 10.1002/evl3.296. Full text (open access). Data on Dryad, doi: 10.5061/dryad.fxpnvx0w3

Santangelo et al. [287 coauthors, including JB Yoder and N Poulos, in the GLUE Project]. 2022. Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science. 375(6586): 1275-1281. doi.org/10.1126/science.abk0989. Full text (PDF, 1.6MB)

Nelson J, A Mattheis, and JB Yoder. 2022. Nondisclosure of queer identities is associated with reduced scholarly publication rates. PLOS ONE. 17(3): 0263728. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263728. Full text (open access)

Yoder JB, G Gomez, and CJ Carlson. 2020. Zygomorphic flowers have fewer potential pollinators. Biology Letters. 16(9): 20200307. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0307. Data on Dryad, doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gxd2547j3. Full-text preprint on bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/743872.

Briscoe Runquist RD, AJ Gorton, JB Yoder, NJ Deacon, JJ Grossman, Shan Kothari, MP Lyons, SN Seth, P Tiffin, and DA Moeller. 2020. Context dependence of local adaptation to abiotic and biotic environments: A quantitative and qualitative synthesis. American Naturalist.195(3): 412-431. doi.org/10.1086/707322. Full text (PDF, 2MB) — Featured in a PNAS Journal Club post.

Mahony CR, IR MacLachlan, BM Lind, JB Yoder, T Wang, SN Aitken. 2019. Evaluating genomic data for management of local adaptation in a changing climate: A lodgepole pine case study. Evolutionary Applications. 13(1):116-131. doi.org/10.1111/eva.12871. Full text (PDF, 2MB)

Terrill RS JM Maley, WLE Tsai, KB Fistanic, RJ Freeland, A Franceschelli, B Lewis-Smith, LL Lu, and JB Yoder. 2019. Tricolored blackbirds feeding in Joshua tree inflorescences. Western Birds. 50: 180-182. doi.org/10.21199/WB50.3.6. Full text (open access)

Mattheis A, D Cruz-Ramírez De Arellano, and JB Yoder. 2019. A model of Queer STEM identity in the workplace. Journal of Homosexuality, doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2019.1610632. Full text (PDF, 1.9MB)

Yoder JB and P Tiffin. 2017. Sanctions, partner recognition, and variation in mutualism. American Naturalist. 190(4): 491-505. doi.org/10.1086/693472. Data on Dryad, doi: 10.5061/dryad.p2s02. Full-text preprint on bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/049593.

Yoder JB and P Tiffin. 2017. Effects of gene action, time since selection, and marker density on the performance of landscape genomic scans of local adaptation. Journal of Heredity. 109(1): 16-28. doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esx042. Full text (PDF, 1.2MB). Data on Dryad, doi.org/10.5061/dryad.p12q4.

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Yoder JB. 2016. Understanding the coevolutionary dynamics of mutualism with population genomics. American Journal of Botany. 103(10):1742-52. doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1600154. Full text (PDF, 661KB). Part of a Special Issue on intimate mutualism, co-edited with J Leekens-Mack.

Yoder JB and A. Mattheis. 2016. Queer in STEM: Workplace experiences reported in a national survey of LGBTQA individuals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. Journal of Homosexuality. 63(1): 1-27. doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2015.1078632. Full text (PDF, 499KB)

Hembry DH, JB Yoder, and KR Goodman. 2014. Coevolution and the diversification of life. American Naturalist. 184(4): 425-38. doi.org/10.1086/677928. Full text (PDF, 436KB)

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Yoder JB, J Stanton-Geddes, P Zhou, R Briskine, ND Young, and P Tiffin. 2014. Genomic signature of local adaptation to climate in Medicago truncatula. Genetics. 196(4): 1263-75. doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.159319. Full text (PDF, 3.4MB). See also The Molecular Ecologist: Scanning the genome for local adaptation.

Stanton-Geddes J, JB Yoder, R Briskine, ND Young, and P Tiffin. 2013. Estimating heritability with whole-genome sequence data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 4(12): 1151-8. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12129. Full text (PDF, 717KB).

Stanton-Geddes J, T Paape, B Epstein, R Briskine, JB Yoder, J Mudge, AK Bharti, AD Farmer, P Zhou, R Denny, GD May, S Erlandson, M Sugawara, MJ Sadowsky, ND Young, P Tiffin. 2013. Candidate genes and genetic architecture of symbiotic and agronomic traits revealed by whole-genome, sequence-based association genetics in Medicago truncatula. PLOS ONE. 8(5): e65688. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065688. Full text (open access).

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Yoder JB, CI Smith, DJ Rowley, WKW Godsoe, CS Drummond, and O Pellmyr. 2013. Effects of gene flow on phenotype matching between two varieties of Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia; Agavaceae) and their pollinators Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26(6): 1220-33. doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12134. Full text (PDF, 595KB). Data on Dryad, doi.org/10.5061/dryad.369q9. See also Nothing in Biology Makes Sense: One of these moths is not like the other … but does that matter to Joshua trees?

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. 2013. Phylogenetic signal variation in the genomes of Medicago (Fabaceae). Systematic Biology. 62(3): 424-38. doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syt009. Full text (PDF, 1.2MB). Data on Dryad, doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vp634306. See also Nothing in Biology Makes Sense: How many phylogenies are there in a genome? Lots!

Starr TN, KE Gadek, JB Yoder, R Flatz, and CI Smith. 2013. Asymmetric hybridization and gene flow between Joshua trees (Agavaceae: Yucca) reflects differences in pollinator host specificity. Molecular Ecology. 22(2): 437-49. doi.org/10.1111/mec.12124. Full text (PDF, 692KB).

Flatz, R, JB Yoder, E Lee-Barnes, and CI Smith. 2011. Characterization of microsatellite loci in Yucca brevifolia (Agavaceae) and cross-amplification in related species. American Journal of Botany. 98: e67-9. doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1000468. Full text (PDF, 464KB).

Godsoe W, 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. doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02120.x. Full text (PDF, 332KB). See also Denim and Tweed: Coevolutionary constraints may divide Joshua trees.

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Yoder JB and SL Nuismer. 2010. When does coevolution promote diversification? American Naturalist. 176(6): 802-17. doi.org/10.1086/657048. 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. Host-associated divergence and incipient speciation in the yucca moth Prodoxus coloradensis (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) on three species of host plants. Heredity. 105(2): 183-96. doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2009.154. Full text (PDF, 907KB).

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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. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23(8): 1581-96. doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02029.x. 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. 2010. 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. doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01478.x. Full text (PDF, 656KB). See also Denim and Tweed: Before they were yucca moths.

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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. doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04428.x. 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. doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02942.x. Full text (PDF, 3.7MB). See also Denim and Tweed: Finding Joshua tree’s niche.

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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. doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00500.x. 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. American Naturalist 171(6): 816-23. doi.org/10.1086/587757. 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. doi.org/10.1038/sj.hdy.6800949. Full text (PDF, 311KB).

Other scholarly works

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Yoder JB. 2025. Coevolution, Introduction to. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 2nd Edition. T Coulson, ed. Oxford: Academic Press. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00185-2

Yoder JB and CI Smith. 2024. Joshua trees, yucca moths, and a natural history of interdependence. In Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees, S Khalsa and J Harrower, eds. Riverside, CA: Inlandia Books.

Sweet LC and JB Yoder. 2024. The threat of climate change, and how Joshua trees could survive through migration, adaptation, and assisted gene flow. In Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees, S Khalsa and J Harrower, eds. Riverside, CA: Inlandia Books.

Dācus J, T Baim, and B Mustanski. 2024. Inclusion and Advancement of LGBTQ+ People in STEM Fields. Chicago, IL: The Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University. doi.org/10.21985/n2-nr11-tz05 — Think tank panelist and contributing writer

Yoder JB. 2022. Dispatches from the redwood rebellion. Science 376(6600): 1388. doi.org/10.1126/science.abq6316

Yoder JB. 2021. Getting to the root of forest symbioses. Science 372(6545): 922.
doi.org/10.1126/science.abh3999.

Barres B, B Montague-Hellen, and JB Yoder. 2017. Coming out: the experience of LGBT+ people in STEM. Genome Biology. 18:62 doi: 10.1186/s13059-017-1198-y. Invited Q and A panel for a series on diversity in science.

Yoder JB and J Leebens-Mack. 2016. The evolutionary ecology of “mutual services” in the twenty-first century. American Journal of Botany 103(10): 1712-16. doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1600367. Full text (PDF, 623KB). Introduction to a Special Section on the ecology, genetics, and coevolution of intimate mutualisms.

Yoder JB. 2016. Coevolution, Introduction to. In: Kliman RM (ed.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Vol. 1: 314–21. Oxford: Academic Press. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00185-2.

Yoder JB. 2008. Science 2.0: Not so New? Science 320(5881): 1290. [with response by B. Shneiderman under the same title] doi.org/10.1126/science.320.5881.1290. Full text (PDF, 521KB).

Recent selected presentations

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Invited Presentations

BART — Bayesian Additive Regression Trees. Workshop and tutorial presentations for the International Biometric Society, German Region, and the German Association of Forest Research Stations, hosted by the Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft, Freising, Germany. 24-26 Apr. 2024.

Joshua Tree Biological Working Group, US Fish and Wildlife Service. 26 Oct. 2023.

Think Tank on Inclusion and Advancement of LGBTQ+ People in STEM. Northwestern University

Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Washington, DC, 31 May-1 June 2023.

Joshua Tree Think Tank, Joshua Tree National Park, Yucca Valley, CA. 20 Sept 2022.

Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology seminar series, Univ. of Hawai’i Ma ̄noa, 22 Oct. 2021.

Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion seminar series, UC Irvine, 8 Oct. 2021.

Biosciences #Inspire lecture series, Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 15 June 2021.

Integrative Biology seminar series, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, 26 Feb. 2021.

Yucca Valley Museum public lecture series, 14 Jan. 2021.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 29 Oct. 2020.

Decolonize DNA Day 2020 Twitter conference, 24 Apr. 2020. Live-tweeted online presentation, archived at decolonize-dna.org/2020-conference/2020talk4

Spotlight Session for the American Society of Naturalists (invited organizer), at the Evolution meetings, Providence, Rhode Island, 21-25 June 2019.

Plenary presentation, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium at Yale Univ., 12 Apr. 2019.

Plenary presentation, Out to Innovate, Los Angeles, California, 17 Mar. 2019. With A Mattheis.

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology/Genetics, Genomics, and Development joint symposium, Cornell Univ., 9 Oct. 2018.

Contributed presentations

Ecological Society of America, Long Beach, CA. 4-9 Aug. 2024.

Third Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Montréal, QC, Canada. 26-30 July 2024.

Evolution meetings, Albuquerque, NM. 21-25 June 2023.

American Society of Naturalists Asilomar meeting, Pacific Grove, CA. 8 Jan. 2023.

Botany Conference, Anchorage, Alaska. 27 July 2022.

Yosemite Symbiosis Workshop. Yosemite National Park, 15 May 2022.

Southern California Academy of Sciences. CSU Fullerton, 6 May 2022.