Masatoshi Nei

Pennsylvania State University — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Genetic diversity and population structure(88), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(70), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(57), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals(35), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms(33)

Publications257 total

The Reproducibility of an Inferred Tree and the Diploidization of Gene Segregation after Genome Duplication
Genome Biology and Evolution·2020Open Access
M-TYPE MADS-BOX GENES HAVE EXPERIENCED A FASTER BIRTH-AND-DEATH EVOLUTION THAN MIKC-TYPE MADS-BOX GENES IN ANGIOSPERMS
Open Access System for Information Sharing (Pohang University of Science and Technology)·2018
The Reliability and Stability of an Inferred Phylogenetic Tree from Empirical Data
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2016· 13 citedOpen Access
Efficiencies of the NJp, Maximum Likelihood, and Bayesian Methods of Phylogenetic Construction for Compositional and Noncompositional Genes
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2016· 51 citedOpen Access
Mutation-Driven Evolution
2014· 98 cited
POPTREEW: Web Version of POPTREE for Constructing Population Trees from Allele Frequency Data and Computing Some Other Quantities
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2014· 188 citedOpen Access
Brief Communication POPTREEW: Web Version of POPTREE for Constructing Population Trees from Allele Frequency Data and Computing Some Other Quantities
2014· 1 cited
Evolution of the Sex-lethal Gene in Insects and Origin of the Sex-Determination System in Drosophila
Journal of Molecular Evolution·2013· 19 cited
Random fluctuation of selection coefficients and the extent of nucleotide variation in human populations
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2013· 11 citedOpen Access
Origins and Evolution of MicroRNA Genes in Plant Species
Genome Biology and Evolution·2012· 252 citedOpen Access
Roles of Mutation and Selection in Speciation: From Hugo de Vries to the Modern Genomic Era
Genome Biology and Evolution·2011· 81 citedOpen Access
Evolutionary Changes of the Target Sites of Two MicroRNAs Encoded in the Hox Gene Cluster of Drosophila and Other Insect Species
Genome Biology and Evolution·2010· 21 citedOpen Access
The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution in the Genomic Era
Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics·2010· 255 cited
Is positive selection responsible for the evolution of a duplicate UV-sensitive opsin gene in <i>Heliconius</i> butterflies?
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2010· 6 citedOpen Access
Origins and Evolution of MicroRNA Genes in Drosophila Species
Genome Biology and Evolution·2010· 118 citedOpen Access
Analysis of the Immunoglobulin Light Chain Genes in Zebra Finch: Evolutionary Implications
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2009· 31 citedOpen Access
Response to Yang et al.: Problems with Bayesian methods of detecting positive selection at the DNA sequence level
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2009· 14 citedOpen Access
Genomic organization and evolution of immunoglobulin kappa gene enhancers and kappa deleting element in mammals
Molecular Immunology·2009· 28 citedOpen Access
Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2009· 156 citedOpen Access
Evolution of the mob Gene Family
The Open Cell Signaling Journal·2009· 7 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Fumio Tajima(5), Yoshihito Niimura(5), Sudhir Kumar(4), Koichiro Tamura(3), Ranajit Chakraborty(3), Masafumi Nozawa(3), Hong Mā(3), Yoshio Tateno(2), Andrey Rzhetsky(2), Jianzhi Zhang(2), Yoshiyuki Suzuki(2), Galina Glazko(2), Wen‐Hsiung Li(2), Takashi Gojobori(2), Hongzhi Kong(2), Ingrid B. Jakobsen(1), Takeo Maruyama(1), Austin L. Hughes(1), Christopher Wills(1), A. K. Roychoudhury(1)