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Citations
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World Ranking
231
National Ranking
120

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Masatoshi Nei was affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Psychology. The subfields of study included Genetics, Plant Science, and Social Psychology.

Their scientific work concentrated on key topics such as Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Among their published research, one notable paper is titled "The Reproducibility of an Inferred Tree and the Diploidization of Gene Segregation after Genome Duplication," published in 2020 in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution.

  • The Reproducibility of an Inferred Tree and the Diploidization of Gene Segregation after Genome Duplication (2020) - Genome Biology and Evolution

Masatoshi Nei collaborated frequently with co-author Y Katsura.

  • Y Katsura

The regular venue for their publication was Genome Biology and Evolution.

  • Genome Biology and Evolution (1 publication)

Throughout their career, Masatoshi Nei received several distinctions including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1997)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1993)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1990)

Best Publications

  • The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

    Naruya Saitou;Masatoshi Nei

  • MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

    Koichiro Tamura;Daniel S. Peterson;Nicholas Peterson;Glen Stecher

  • MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4.0

    Koichiro Tamura;Joel T Dudley;Masatoshi Nei;Sudhir Kumar

  • Molecular Evolutionary Genetics

    Masatoshi Nei

  • ESTIMATION OF AVERAGE HETEROZYGOSITY AND GENETIC DISTANCE FROM A SMALL NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS

    Masatoshi Nei

  • MEGA3: Integrated software for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis and sequence alignment

    Sudhir Kumar;Koichiro Tamura;Masatoshi Nei

  • Mathematical model for studying genetic variation in terms of restriction endonucleases

    Masatoshi Nei;Wen-Hsiung Li

  • GENETIC DISTANCE BETWEEN POPULATIONS

    Masatoshi Nei

  • Estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the control region of mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees.

    Koichiro Tamura;Masatoshi Nei

  • Analysis of Gene Diversity in Subdivided Populations

    Masatoshi Nei

  • MEGA2 : Molecular evolutionary genetics analysis software

    Sudhir Kumar;Koichiro Tamura;Ingrid B. Jakobsen;Masatoshi Nei

  • Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics

    Masatoshi Nei;Sudhir Kumar

  • Prospects for inferring very large phylogenies by using the neighbor-joining method

    Koichiro Tamura;Masatoshi Nei;Sudhir Kumar

  • Simple methods for estimating the numbers of synonymous and nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions.

    M Nei;T Gojobori

  • MEGA: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis software for microcomputers

    Sudhir Kumar;Koichiro Tamura;Masatoshi Nei

  • MEGA: A biologist-centric software for evolutionary analysis of DNA and protein sequences

    Sudhir Kumar;Masatoshi Nei;Joel Dudley;Koichiro Tamura

  • The bottleneck effect and genetic variability in populations

    Masatoshi Nei;Takeo Maruyama;Ranajit Chakraborty

  • Accuracy of estimated phylogenetic trees from molecular data. II. Gene frequency data.

    Masatoshi Nei;Fumio Tajima;Yoshio Tateno

  • Molecular Population Genetics and Evolution

    Masatoshi Nei

  • Relationships between gene trees and species trees.

    Pekka Pamilo;Masatoshi Nei

Frequent Co-Authors

Ranajit Chakraborty
Ranajit Chakraborty University of North Texas Health Science Center
Sudhir Kumar
Sudhir Kumar Temple University
Wen-Hsiung Li
Wen-Hsiung Li Academia Sinica
Jianzhi Zhang
Jianzhi Zhang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Takashi Gojobori
Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Hong Ma
Hong Ma Pennsylvania State University
Paul A. Fuerst
Paul A. Fuerst The Ohio State University
Naruya Saitou
Naruya Saitou National Institute of Genetics
Alejandro P. Rooney
Alejandro P. Rooney National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Shozo Yokoyama
Shozo Yokoyama Emory University

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