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Curtis R. Congreve, Mark E. Patzkowsky, Peter J. Wagner
Summary: The study suggests that rapid divergence of Strophomenoidea brachiopods during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event is closely related to environmental changes, with significantly higher speciation rates than typical brachiopods during this period. The high speciation rates and anatomical disparity indicate punctuated evolution processes.
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(2021)
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Hao Zhou, Zhi-Ping Jin, Stefano Covino, Lei Lei, Yu An, Hong-Yu Gong, Yi-Zhong Fan, Da-Ming Wei
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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
(2023)
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Selina R. Cole
Summary: Early echinoderms underwent rapid morphological evolution, but later experienced ecological constraints as ecological diversification increased.
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(2022)
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Bruce S. Martin, Gideon S. Bradburd, Luke J. Harmon, Marjorie G. Weber
Summary: Rates of phenotypic evolution vary across the tree of life and have important consequences for evolutionary dynamics. Most methods assume deterministic or infrequent rate variation, which may lead to underfitting of models. We develop a new model that allows for gradual and stochastic rate variation over time, and apply it to body size evolution in cetaceans, revealing a slowdown in overall evolution with bursts among some dolphins and stasis among beaked whales.
SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY
(2023)
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Stewart M. Edie, Safia C. Khouja, Katie S. Collins, Nicholas M. A. Crouch, David Jablonski
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
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Zhichao Xia, Ting Yang, Xin Cui, Fumiko Hoeft, Hong Liu, Xianglin Zhang, Xiangping Liu, Hua Shu
Summary: Conquering print-sound mappings is crucial for reading development. Neuroimaging research has shown that this ability can be measured by activation differences in the brain. However, existing evidence is limited to alphabetic languages, and little is known about the multisensory processing of print and sound in Chinese dyslexia. In this study, functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to investigate the possible dysfunctions in processing character-sound and pinyin-sound associations in Chinese dyslexic children. The results revealed some atypical correlations between neural integration and different reading abilities in dyslexia.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
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Xianye Zhao, Yilun Yu, Matthew E. Clapham, Evgeny Yan, Jun Chen, Edmund A. Jarzembowski, Xiangdong Zhao, Bo Wang
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Guido Maiello, MiYoung Kwon
Summary: This study examined the impact of glaucomatous visual field damage on binocular disparity processing. The results showed a widespread loss of disparity sensitivity in both central and peripheral visual fields for patients with glaucoma. However, the cortical integration mechanisms appeared to be well preserved, allowing patients to make optimal use of their remaining binocular function.
INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE
(2023)
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Daniel Rhoda, Marion Segall, Olivier Larouche, Kory Evans, Kenneth D. Angielczyk
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INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
(2021)
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Sharon Zhou, Stewart M. Edie, Katie S. Collins, Nicholas M. A. Crouch, David Jablonski
Summary: Some clades originating in the Cambrian explosion and Ordovician aftermath did not show a significant increase in morphological or functional disparity, while the ecological functions of bivalves arose after taxonomic diversification, contrary to the expected early-burst pattern.
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Elias R. Most, Alexander A. Philippov
Summary: This Letter investigates the possibility of producing millisecond fast-radio-burst-like transients from the collision of two neutron stars with magnetic fields below magnetar-level strengths. Through global force-free electrodynamics simulations, the coherent emission mechanism that may occur in the shared magnetosphere of a binary neutron star system prior to merger is identified. It is predicted that the emission would have frequencies in the range of 10-20 GHz for magnetic fields of B* = 1011 G at the surfaces of the stars.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2023)
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Xinting Yu, Mirja Quante, Michael Rueschman, Tayla Ash, Emily R. Kaplan, Na Guo, Christine M. Horan, Sebastien Haneuse, Kirsten Davison, Elsie M. Taveras, Susan Redline
Summary: Racial/ethnic differences in sleep patterns emerge in early infancy, with Hispanic and black infants showing less increase in night and 24-hour sleep durations compared to white infants, largely explained by socioeconomic status.
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David Cabrera-Garcia, Davide Warm, Pablo de la Fuente, M. Teresa Fernandez-Sanchez, Antonello Novelli, Joaquin M. Villanueva-Balsera
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(2021)
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Conrad van den Ende, Mark N. Puttick, Araxi O. Urrutia, Matthew A. Wills
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(2023)
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Yangling Ren, Zhongliang Zhou, Dan Cao, Bernice Hua Ma, Chi Shen, Sha Lai, Gang Chen
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Peter J. Wagner, George F. Estabrook
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(2015)
Editorial Material
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Peter J. Wagner
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(2017)
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Peter J. Wagner
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
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(2014)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
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(2007)
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