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Masami Hasegawa is affiliated with The Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Japan. Their research spans several fields and subfields of environmental and biological sciences, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to studying ecological and biological phenomena. Their primary fields of study include Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Subfields they have contributed to encompass Ecology, Animal Science and Zoology, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research topics focus on various aspects of animal biology and ecology, including Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Coccidia and Coccidiosis Research, Animal Nutrition and Physiology, and Bird Parasitology and Diseases. They have also contributed to studies related to species distribution in the context of climate change.

Among the recent scientific papers associated with Masami Hasegawa are:

  • Blue, Black, and Stripes: Evolution and Development of Color Production and Pattern Formation in Lizards and Snakes, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Spatial optimization of invasive species control informed by management practices, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Predator presence and recent climatic warming raise body temperatures of island lizards, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Distribution of Eimeria uekii and Eimeria raichoi in cage protection environments for the conservation of Japanese rock ptarmigans (Lagopus muta japonica) in the Japanese Alps, 2021, International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife
  • Mitochondrial DNA Analyses of Invasive Raccoons (Procyon lotor) in the Boso Peninsula, Japan, 2020, Mammal Study

They have frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Takeo Kuriyama, Makoto Matsubayashi, Atsushi Kobayashi, Sayaka Tsuchida, and Tomoyuki Shibahara, each with multiple joint publications.

Their work is published across various scientific venues, notably the International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife, Cancer Research, Ecology and Civil Engineering, Current Herpetology, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

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

    Masami Hasegawa;Hirohisa Kishino;Taka-aki Yano

  • Multiple Comparisons of Log-Likelihoods with Applications to Phylogenetic Inference

    Hidetoshi Shimodaira;Masami Hasegawa

  • 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

  • CONSEL: for assessing the confidence of phylogenetic tree selection

    Hidetoshi Shimodaira;Masami Hasegawa

  • Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis, cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus.

    William Martin;Tamas Rujan;Erik Richly;Andrea Hansen

  • Evolutionary relationship of archaebacteria, eubacteria, and eukaryotes inferred from phylogenetic trees of duplicated genes

    Naoyuki Iwabe;Kei-Ichi Kuma;Masami Hasegawa;Syozo Osawa

  • The yak genome and adaptation to life at high altitude

    Qiang Qiu;Guojie Zhang;Tao Ma;Wubin Qian

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

    Hirohisa Kishino;Z Takashi Miyata;Masami Hasegawa

  • Gene transfer to the nucleus and the evolution of chloroplasts

    William Martin;Bettina Stoebe;Vadim Goremykin;Sabine Hansmann

  • The Schistosoma japonicum genome reveals features of host-parasite interplay

    Yan Zhou;Huajun Zheng;Yangyi Chen;Lei Zhang

  • Model of amino acid substitution in proteins encoded by mitochondrial DNA

    Jun Adachi;Masami Hasegawa

  • Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

    Mario dos Reis;Jun Inoue;Jun Inoue;Masami Hasegawa;Robert J. Asher

  • Models of amino acid substitution and applications to mitochondrial protein evolution.

    Z Yang;R Nielsen;M Hasegawa

  • Towards Resolving the Interordinal Relationships of Placental Mammals

    Peter J. Waddell;Norihiro Okada;Masami Hasegawa

  • Ribosomal RNA trees misleading

    Masami Hasegawa;Tetsuo Hashimoto

  • Interordinal Relationships of Birds and Other Reptiles Based on Whole Mitochondrial Genomes

    David P. Mindell;Michael D. Sorenson;Derek E. Dimcheff;Masami Hasegawa

  • Plastid Genome Phylogeny and a Model of Amino Acid Substitution for Proteins Encoded by Chloroplast DNA

    Jun Adachi;Peter J. Waddell;William Martin;Masami Hasegawa

  • Pegasoferae, an unexpected mammalian clade revealed by tracking ancient retroposon insertions.

    Hidenori Nishihara;Masami Hasegawa;Norihiro Okada

  • Phylogenetic relationships among eutherian orders estimated from inferred sequences of mitochondrial proteins: instability of a tree based on a single gene.

    Ying Cao;Jun Adachi;Axel Janke;Svante Pääbo

  • Retroposon analysis of major cetacean lineages : the monophyly of toothed whales and the paraphyly of river dolphins

    Masato Nikaido;Fumio Matsuno;Healy Hamilton;Robert L. Brownell

Frequent Co-Authors

Norihiro Okada
Norihiro Okada National Cheng Kung University
Hirohisa Kishino
Hirohisa Kishino University of Tokyo
Takashi Miyata
Takashi Miyata Kyoto University
Yoshiaki Yogo
Yoshiaki Yogo University of Tokyo
Satoshi Horai
Satoshi Horai The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
William Martin
William Martin Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Takashi Gojobori
Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jianquan Liu
Jianquan Liu Lanzhou University
Masashi Tanaka
Masashi Tanaka Juntendo University
Ziheng Yang
Ziheng Yang University College London

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