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Studying evolution, together
  • Graduate research | Yucca moths

    Cate MacGregor shows how Joshua tree’s super-specialized pollinators are adapted to climate, too

    ByJB Yoder 24 May, 202223 September, 2022

    Master’s student Cate MacGregor successfully defended her dissertation this morning. Cate’s thesis project uses RADseq data to look for evidence of local adaptation to climate in populations of moths so specialized that we know next to nothing about their lives when they’re not on their host plant — the pollinators of Joshua trees. Working from samples…

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  • Graduate research | Joshua trees

    Mikhail Plaza uses linkage mapping to put Joshua tree evolution in its genomic place

    ByJB Yoder 29 July, 2021

    Earlier today, Master’s student Mikhail Plaza successfully defended his thesis research, in which he built a linkage map for Joshua tree and used it to reexamine data identifying genetic loci that may play a role in local adaptation to climate and to specialized pollinating yucca moths. Mikhail’s project is among the first fruits of the…

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