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Clear aligners in orthodontic treatment by Weir, T

“…Since the introduction of the Tooth Positioner (TP Orthodontics) in 1944, removable appliances analogous to clear aligners have been employed for mild to…”
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Calibrating the avian molecular clock by WEIR, J.T, SCHLUTER, D

“…Molecular clocks are widely used to date phylogenetic events, yet evidence supporting the rate constancy of molecular clocks through time and across taxonomic…”
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Latitudinal Gradient in Recent Speciation and Extinction Rates of Birds and Mammals by Weir, Jason T, Schluter, Dolph

“…Although the tropics harbor greater numbers of species than do temperate zones, it is not known whether the rates of speciation and extinction also follow a…”
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Functional divisions for visual processing in the central brain of flying Drosophila by Weir, Peter T, Dickinson, Michael H

“…Although anatomy is often the first step in assigning functions to neural structures, it is not always clear whether architecturally distinct regions of the…”
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DIVERGENT TIMING AND PATTERNS OF SPECIES ACCUMULATION IN LOWLAND AND HIGHLAND NEOTROPICAL BIRDS by Weir, Jason T

“…Late Pliocene and Pleistocene climatic instability has been invoked to explain the buildup of Neotropical biodiversity, although other theories date…”
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Hybrid speciation leads to novel male secondary sexual ornamentation of an Amazonian bird by Barrera-Guzmán, Alfredo O., Aleixo, Alexandre, Shawkey, Matthew D., Weir, Jason T.

“…Hybrid speciation is rare in vertebrates, and reproductive isolation arising from hybridization is infrequently demonstrated. Here, we present evidence…”
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GEIGER: investigating evolutionary radiations by Harmon, Luke J., Weir, Jason T., Brock, Chad D., Glor, Richard E., Challenger, Wendell

“…GEIGER is a new software package, written in the R language, to describe evolutionary radiations. GEIGER can carry out simulations, parameter estimation and…”
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Species coexistence: macroevolutionary relationships and the contingency of historical interactions by Germain, Rachel M., Weir, Jason T., Gilbert, Benjamin

“…Evolutionary biologists since Darwin have hypothesized that closely related species compete more intensely and are therefore less likely to coexist. However,…”
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Single crystal toroidal diamond anvils for high pressure experiments beyond 5 megabar by Jenei, Zs, O’Bannon, E. F., Weir, S. T., Cynn, H., Lipp, M. J., Evans, W. J.

“…Static compression experiments over 4 Mbar are rare, yet critical for developing accurate fundamental physics and chemistry models, relevant to a range of…”
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Ice sheets promote speciation in boreal birds by Weir, Jason T., Schluter, Dolph

“…The premise that Pleistocene ice ages played an important role in generating present–day species diversity has been challenged by genetic data indicating that…”
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Flying Drosophila Orient to Sky Polarization by Weir, Peter T., Dickinson, Michael H.

“…Insects maintain a constant bearing across a wide range of spatial scales. Monarch butterflies and locusts traverse continents [1, 2], and foraging bees and…”
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Great American Biotic Interchange in birds by Weir, Jason T, Bermingham, Eldredge, Schluter, Dolph

“…The sudden exchange of mammals over the land bridge between the previously isolated continents of North and South America is among the most celebrated events…”
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Song playbacks demonstrate slower evolution of song discrimination in birds from Amazonia than from temperate North America by Weir, Jason T, Price, Trevor D

“…Genetic data indicate differences in speciation rate across latitudes, but underlying causes have been difficult to assess because a critical phase of the…”
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Advanced Fabrication Processes for Superconducting Very Large-Scale Integrated Circuits by Tolpygo, Sergey K., Bolkhovsky, Vladimir, Weir, T. J., Wynn, Alex, Oates, D. E., Johnson, L. M., Gouker, M. A.

“…We review the salient features of two advanced nodes of an 8-Nb-layer fully planarized process developed recently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for fabricating…”
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Extinction as a driver of avian latitudinal diversity gradients by Pulido-Santacruz, Paola, Weir, Jason T.

“…The role of historical factors in driving latitudinal diversity gradients is poorly understood. Here, we used an updated global phylogeny of terrestrial birds…”
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Limiting role of dislocations in high-current AlGaN/GaN hot electron transistors by Daulton, J. W., Molnar, R. J., Brinkerhoff, J. A., Weir, T. J., Hollis, M. A., Zaslavsky, A.

“…III-nitride-based hot electron transistors (HETs) hold significant promise as high-speed, high-power devices. In our previous work, we demonstrated high…”
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Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds by Seddon, Nathalie, Botero, Carlos A., Tobias, Joseph A., Dunn, Peter O., MacGregor, Hannah E. A., Rubenstein, Dustin R., Uy, J. Albert C., Weir, Jason T., Whittingham, Linda A., Safran, Rebecca J.

“…Sexual selection is proposed to be an important driver of diversification in animal systems, yet previous tests of this hypothesis have produced mixed results…”
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Sliceplorer: 1D slices for multi‐dimensional continuous functions by Torsney‐Weir, T., Sedlmair, M., Möller, T.

“…Multi‐dimensional continuous functions are commonly visualized with 2D slices or topological views. Here, we explore 1D slices as an alternative approach to…”
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The gut microbiota composition of Trichoplusia ni is altered by diet and may influence its polyphagous behavior by Leite-Mondin, M., DiLegge, M. J., Manter, D. K., Weir, T. L., Silva-Filho, M. C., Vivanco, J. M.

“…Insects are known plant pests, and some of them such as Trichoplusia ni feed on a variety of crops. In this study, Trichoplusia ni was fed distinct diets of…”
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Cellular mechanisms for integral feedback in visually guided behavior by Schnell, Bettina, Weir, Peter T., Roth, Eatai, Fairhall, Adrienne L., Dickinson, Michael H.

“…Sensory feedback is a ubiquitous feature of guidance systems in both animals and engineered vehicles. For example, a common strategy for moving along a…”
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