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Overview

Jason T. Weir is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans several interconnected areas within biology, focusing on genetics, ecology, and molecular biology. The primary fields of study include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Key subfields of their work are Genetics, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main research topics encompass genetic diversity and population structure, evolution and paleontology studies, genomics and phylogenetic studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, as well as plant and animal studies.

Jason T. Weir has contributed to the literature with several papers published in notable venues. Their recent publications include:

  • The role of divergent ecological adaptation during allopatric speciation in vertebrates (2022, Science)
  • Correlates of bird collisions with buildings across three North American countries (2020, Conservation Biology)
  • Postzygotic isolation drives genomic speciation between highly cryptic Hypocnemis antbirds from Amazonia (2020, Evolution)
  • Character displacement drives trait divergence in a continental fauna (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Is Niagara Falls a barrier to gene flow in riverine fishes? A test using genome-wide SNP data from seven native species (2020, Molecular Ecology)

The scientist frequently publishes in several scientific journals, with multiple contributions to Molecular Ecology, Conservation Genetics, The American Naturalist, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jason T. Weir include Sean A. S. Anderson, Else K. Mikkelsen, Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo, Oliver Haddrath, and Vanessa E. Luzuriaga-Aveiga.

Best Publications

  • GEIGER: investigating evolutionary radiations.

    Luke J. Harmon;Jason T. Weir;Chad D. Brock;Richard E. Glor

  • Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data.

    Luke J Harmon;Luke J Harmon;Jonathan B Losos;T Jonathan Davies;Rosemary G Gillespie

  • Calibrating the avian molecular clock

    J. T. Weir;D. Schluter

  • The Latitudinal Gradient in Recent Speciation and Extinction Rates of Birds and Mammals

    Jason T. Weir;Dolph Schluter

  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

    Shaohong Feng;Josefin Stiller;Yuan Deng;Joel Armstrong;Joel Armstrong

  • Ice sheets promote speciation in boreal birds

    Jason T. Weir;Dolph Schluter

  • DIVERGENT TIMING AND PATTERNS OF SPECIES ACCUMULATION IN LOWLAND AND HIGHLAND NEOTROPICAL BIRDS

    Jason T. Weir

  • Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds

    Nathalie Seddon;Carlos A. Botero;Joseph A. Tobias;Peter O. Dunn

  • The Great American Biotic Interchange in birds.

    Jason T. Weir;Eldredge Bermingham;Dolph Schluter

  • Andean uplift promotes lowland speciation through vicariance and dispersal in Dendrocincla woodcreepers.

    Jason T. Weir;Momoko Price;Momoko Price

  • Limits to speciation inferred from times to secondary sympatry and ages of hybridizing species along a latitudinal gradient.

    Jason T. Weir;Trevor D. Price

  • Out of Amazonia again and again: episodic crossing of the Andes promotes diversification in a lowland forest flycatcher

    Matthew J Miller;Matthew J Miller;Eldredge Bermingham;John Klicka;Patricia Escalante

  • SimRAD: an R package for simulation-based prediction of the number of loci expected in RADseq and similar genotyping by sequencing approaches

    Olivier Lepais;Jason T. Weir

  • Do freshwater fishes diversify faster than marine fishes? A test using state-dependent diversification analyses and molecular phylogenetics of new world silversides (atherinopsidae).

    Devin D. Bloom;Jason T. Weir;Kyle R. Piller;Nathan R. Lovejoy

  • Hybridization in headwater regions, and the role of rivers as drivers of speciation in Amazonian birds

    Jason T. Weir;Maya S. Faccio;Paola Pulido-Santacruz;Alfredo O. Barrera-Guzmán

  • Diversification in Adelomyia hummingbirds follows Andean uplift.

    Jaime A. Chaves;Jason T. Weir;Thomas B. Smith

  • Hybrid speciation leads to novel male secondary sexual ornamentation of an Amazonian bird.

    Alfredo O. Barrera-Guzmán;Alexandre Aleixo;Matthew D. Shawkey;Jason T. Weir

  • A latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution of avian syllable diversity and song length

    Jason T. Weir;David Wheatcroft

  • Explosive ice age diversification of kiwi

    Jason T. Weir;Oliver Haddrath;Hugh A. Robertson;Rogan M. Colbourne

  • IMPLICATIONS OF GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION IN NEOTROPICAL MONTANE FOREST BIRDS

    Jason T. Weir

  • Species coexistence: macroevolutionary relationships and the contingency of historical interactions.

    Rachel M. Germain;Jason T. Weir;Benjamin Gilbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandre Aleixo
Alexandre Aleixo Instituto Tecnológico Vale
Dolph Schluter
Dolph Schluter University of British Columbia
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis Rockefeller University
Trevor D. Price
Trevor D. Price University of Chicago
Gary R. Graves
Gary R. Graves National Museum of Natural History
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Jon Fjeldså
Jon Fjeldså University of Copenhagen
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen
Matthew C. Miller
Matthew C. Miller Northeastern University
David Haussler
David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz

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