Michael Yuan

Michael Yuan Position: Grad Student

Email: michael.yuan@berkeley.edu

Office: 217 Hilgard Hall

Research Interests: ecological character displacement, methylation, biogeography, herpetology

Honors & Awards:

2020   MVZ Graduate Student Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2018   Philomathia Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2018   Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of Natural History

Recent Publications:

Yuan ML, Jung C, Wake MH, and Wang IJ (2020) Habitat use, interspecific competition, and phylogenetic history shape the evolution of claw and toepad morphology in Lesser Antillean anoles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 129:630-643.

Wogan GOU, Yuan ML, Mahler DL, Wang IJ (2020) Genome-wide epigenetic isolation by environment in a widespread Anolis lizard. Molecular Ecology, 29:40-55.

Yuan ML, White KN, Rothermel BB, Zamudio KR, Tuberville TD (2019) Close kin mating, but not inbred parents, reduces hatching rates and offspring quality in a threatened tortoise. In Press. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13518

Yuan ML, Wake MH, Wang IJ (2019) Phenotypic integration between claw and toepad traits promotes microhabitat specialization in the Anolis adaptive radiation. Evolution, 73:231-244. doi: 10.1111/evo.13673

Yuan ML, Wang IJ (2018) Sodium ion channel alkaloid resistance does not vary with toxicity in aposematic Dendrobates poison frogs: an examination of correlated trait evolution. PLOS One. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194265 [Open Access]

Yuan M.L., Wogan G.O.U., and Wang I.J. (2017) Improved PCR amplification of vertebrate nuclear DNA from historical allozyme homogenates. Conservation Genetics Resources. doi: 10.1007/s12686-017-0811-4.

Blekhman R, Tang K, Archie EA, Barreiro LB, Johnson ZP, Wilson ME, Kohn J, Yuan ML, Gesquiere L, Grieneisen L, Tung J (2016) Common methods for fecal sample storage in long-term field studies have a minimal impact on gut microbiome profiles. Scientific Reports, 6: 31519. DOI: 10.1038/srep31519

Snyder-Mackler N, Majoros WH, Yuan ML, Shaver AO, Gordon J, Kopp G, Schlebusch S, Wall JD, Alberts SC, Mukherjee S, Zhou X, Tung J (2016) Efficient genome-wide sequencing and low coverage pedigree analysis from non-invasively collected samples. Genetics, 203: 699-714. DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.187492

Goyret J, Yuan ML (2015) Influence of ambient illumination on the use of olfactory and visual signals by a nocturnal hawkmoth during close-range foraging. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 55: 486-494. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icv009

Yuan ML, Dean SH, Longo A V, Rothermel BB, Tuberville TD & Zamudio KR (2015) Kinship, inbreeding, and fine-scale spatial structure influence gut microbiota in a hindgut-fermenting tortoise. Molecular Ecology, 24: 2521–2536. doi: 10.1111/mec.13169