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A summer reading list for the Yoder Lab

ByJB Yoder
The CSUN campus library and quadrangle, in May 2021 (Flickr, jby)

This summer, for the first time in years, the Yoder Lab is organizing weekly in-person, all-hands meetings. We’ll use the time to keep each other up to date on our various summer tasks and projects, but it’s also a good opportunity to dig into the scientific literature together. The organizing theme for these readings will be “Yoder Lab Lore” — papers that are important for the research questions we address in the lab.

Most of these have been cited repeatedly in papers I’ve published over the years, and all of them have connections to larger bodies of research that informed the lab’s work. There aren’t any review articles, and that’s deliberate. We want to focus on specific original research, and draw our own broader conclusions from it. The hope is that recurrent themes and connections will become apparent as we read through the list — but also that lab members will go digging into papers cited by these works, and papers that cite these works, to find out more about the topics, phenomena, and methods they cover.

Here’s the schedule:

  • 3 June: Pellmyr O and CJ Huth. 1994. Evolutionary stability of mutualism between yuccas and yucca moths. Nature, 372: 257-260. doi.org/10.1038/372257a0
  • 10 June: 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
  • 17 June: Ramsey J, HD Bradshaw, Jr, and DW Schemske. 2003. Components of reproductive isolation between the monkeyflowers Mimulus lewisii and Mimulus cardinalis. Evolution, 57(1):1520–1534. doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00360.x
  • 24 June: No lab meeting — Evolution 2026
  • 1 July: Anderson B and SD Johnson. 2008. The geographical mosaic of coevolution in a plant-pollinator mutualism. Evolution, 62(1):220-225. doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00275.x
  • 8 July: Nuismer SL, R Gomulkiewicz, and BJ Ridenhour. 2010. When is correlation coevolution? The American Naturalist, 175(5):525-537. doi.org/10.1086/651591
  • 15 July: Nosil P, SP Egan, DJ Funk. 2008. Heterogeneous genomic differentiation between walking-stick ecotypes: “Isolation by adaptation” and multiple roles for divergent selection. Evolution, 62:316-336. doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00299.x
  • 22 July: Mahler DL, LJ Revell, RE Glor, and JB Losos. 2010. Ecological opportunity and the rate of morphological evolution in the diversification of greater Antillean anoles: Opportunity and rate in Anolis lizards. Evolution 64(9):2731-2745. doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01026.x
  • 29 July: Hancock AM, B Brachi, N Aure, MW Horton, LB Jarymowycz, FG Sperone, C Toomajian, F Roux, and J Bergelson. 2011. Adaptation to climate across the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Science, 334: 83-86. doi.org/10.1126/science.1209244
  • 5 August: Alvestugi B, JS Tello, AF Fuentes, L Cayola, MI Loza, N Muchhala. 2026. Trees with zygomorphic flowers can persist at lower abundances in diverse communities. Ecology, 107:e70406. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70406
  • 12 August: Carlson CJ, SN Bevins, and BV Schmid. 2021. Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change. Global Change Biology 28(3):753-769. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15966