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Hirohisa Kishino

Hirohisa Kishino

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
27522
World Ranking
14733
National Ranking
1048

Overview

Hirohisa Kishino is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Within these broader areas, their work focuses extensively on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research topics cover multiple aspects of genetic diversity and ecological studies, including:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Hirohisa Kishino has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • "Understanding population structure in an evolutionary context: population-specific F ST and pairwise F ST" (2021), published in G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • "Evolution of Reproductive Life History in Mammals and the Associated Change of Functional Constraints" (2021), published in Genes
  • "Waves Out of the Korean Peninsula and Inter- and Intra-Species Replacements in Freshwater Fishes in Japan" (2021), published in Genes
  • "Population structure of chum salmon and selection on the markers collected for stock identification" (2021), published in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Forward Variable Selection Improves the Power of Random Forest for High-Dimensional Micro Biome Data" (2022), published in Journal of Cancer Science and Clinical Therapeutics

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Hirohisa Kishino include:

  • Shuichi Kitada
  • Reiichiro Nakamichi
  • Jiaqi Wu
  • Xinwei Zhao
  • Takahiro Yonezawa

The scientist regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genes
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA.

    Masami Hasegawa;Hirohisa Kishino;Taka-aki Yano

  • Evaluation of the maximum likelihood estimate of the evolutionary tree topologies from DNA sequence data, and the branching order in hominoidea

    Hirohisa Kishino;Masami Hasegawa

  • Estimating the rate of evolution of the rate of molecular evolution.

    J L Thorne;H Kishino;I S Painter

  • Divergence time and evolutionary rate estimation with multilocus data.

    Jeffrey L. Thorne;Hirohisa Kishino

  • Maximum likelihood inference of protein phylogeny and the origin of chloroplasts

    Hirohisa Kishino;Z Takashi Miyata;Masami Hasegawa

  • Performance of a Divergence Time Estimation Method under a Probabilistic Model of Rate Evolution

    Hirohisa Kishino;Jeffrey L. Thorne;William J. Bruno

  • An evolutionary model for maximum likelihood alignment of DNA sequences

    Jeffrey L. Thorne;Hirohisa Kishino;Joseph Felsenstein

  • Is there something wrong with the bootstrap on phylogenies? A reply to Hillis and Bull

    Joseph Felsenstein;Hirohisa Kishino

  • Inching toward reality: an improved likelihood model of sequence evolution.

    Jeffrey L. Thorne;Hirohisa Kishino;Joseph Felsenstein

  • A Phylogenetic Foundation for Comparative Mammalian Genomics

    Peter J. Waddell;Hirohisa Kishino;Rissa Ota

  • Genomic adaptation to polyphagy and insecticides in a major East Asian noctuid pest

    Tingcai Cheng;Jiaqi Wu;Yuqian Wu;Rajendra V. Chilukuri

  • Protein Evolution with Dependence Among Codons Due to Tertiary Structure

    Douglas M. Robinson;David T. Jones;Hirohisa Kishino;Nick Goldman

  • On the maximum likelihood method in molecular phylogenetics.

    Masami Hasegawa;Hirohisa Kishino;Naruya Saitou

  • Accuracies of the simple methods for estimating the bootstrap probability of a maximum-likelihood tree

    M Hasegawa;H Kishino

  • Time flies, a new molecular time-scale for brachyceran fly evolution without a clock.

    Brian M. Wiegmann;David K. Yeates;Jeffrey L. Thorne;Hirohisa Kishino

  • Phylogenetic relationships between tuna species of the genus Thunnus (Scombridae: Teleostei): Inconsistent implications from morphology, nuclear and mitochondrial genomes

    Seinen Chow;Hirohisa Kishino

  • Correspondence analysis of genes and tissue types and finding genetic links from microarray data.

    Hirohisa Kishino;Peter J. Waddell

  • Confidence limits on the maximum-likelihood estimate of the hominoid tree from mitochondrial-DNA sequences

    Masami Hasegawa;Hirohisa Kishino

  • Phylogenomics and Morphology of Extinct Paleognaths Reveal the Origin and Evolution of the Ratites

    Takahiro Yonezawa;Takahiro Yonezawa;Takahiro Segawa;Takahiro Segawa;Hiroshi Mori;Paula F. Campos;Paula F. Campos

  • Plasmodium falciparum Accompanied the Human Expansion out of Africa

    Kazuyuki Tanabe;Toshihiro Mita;Thibaut Jombart;Anders Eriksson

Frequent Co-Authors

Masami Hasegawa
Masami Hasegawa The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Kazuyuki Tanabe
Kazuyuki Tanabe Osaka University
Toshihiro Horii
Toshihiro Horii Osaka University
Joseph Felsenstein
Joseph Felsenstein University of Washington
Masashi Tanaka
Masashi Tanaka Juntendo University
Takashi Miyata
Takashi Miyata Kyoto University
Qingyou Xia
Qingyou Xia Southwest University
Guy Smagghe
Guy Smagghe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ananias A. Escalante
Ananias A. Escalante Temple University
Ze Zhang
Ze Zhang Zhejiang University

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