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66
Citations
20519
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2586
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101

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Tomoko Ohta is affiliated with the National Institute of Genetics in Japan. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with 11 publications in this area. Subfields of study for this scientist include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, and Statistics and Probability.

The main topics addressed in their publications encompass Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, RNA Research and Splicing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, as well as Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

The scientist has authored papers published in various venues, notably in the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences and Goldschmidt Abstracts. Recently published works include:

  • Drift: Theoretical Aspects, 2021, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
  • Molecular Evolution: Nearly Neutral Theory, 2021, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
  • Multiple Groundwater Dating Conducted at Mizunami URL, 2020, Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Identification of glacial meteoric water using noble gas temperature, in the northern part of Japan, 2022, Goldschmidt2022 abstracts

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Tomoko Ohta include Makoto Kimura, Takuma Hasegawa, Kotaro Nakata, Yuichi Tomioka, and Shunichi Okamoto.

In addition to articles, Tomoko Ohta has contributed to book publications. One notable work is Theoretical Aspects of Population Genetics. (MPB-4), Volume 4, published by Yale University Press in 2020.

Awards received by Tomoko Ohta include recognition as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2000, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984.

Best Publications

  • A model of mutation appropriate to estimate the number of electrophoretically detectable alleles in a finite population

    Tomoko Ohta;Motoo Kimura

  • Slightly deleterious mutant substitutions in evolution.

    Tomoko Ohta

  • THE NEARLY NEUTRAL THEORY OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

    Tomoko Ohta

  • Population biology of antigen presentation by MHC class I molecules.

    Peter Parham;Tomoko Ohta

  • THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF GENERATIONS UNTIL FIXATION OF A MUTANT GENE IN A FINITE POPULATION

    Motoo Kimura;Tomoko Ohta

  • Stepwise mutation model and distribution of allelic frequencies in a finite population.

    Motoo Kimura;Tomoko Ohta

  • On Some Principles Governing Molecular Evolution

    Motoo Kimura;Tomoko Ohta

  • Protein polymorphism as a phase of molecular evolution.

    Motoo Kimura;Tomoko Ohta

  • On the stochastic model for estimation of mutational distance between homologous proteins

    Motoo Kimura;Tomoko Ohta

  • Near-neutrality in evolution of genes and gene regulation

    Tomoko Ohta

  • Linkage disequilibrium due to random genetic drift in finite subdivided populations.

    Tomoko Ohta

  • On the constancy of the evolutionary rate of cistrons.

    Tomoko Ohta;Motoo Kimura

  • THE AGE OF A NEUTRAL MUTANT PERSISTING IN A FINITE POPULATION

    Motoo Kimura;Tomoko Ohta

  • Development of Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories

    Tomoko Ohta;Tomoko Ohta;John H. Gillespie;John H. Gillespie

  • Population size and rate of evolution.

    Tomoko Ohta

  • Linkage disequilibrium due to random genetic drift

    Tomoko Ohta;Motoo Kimura

  • Role of very slightly deleterious mutations in molecular evolution and polymorphism.

    Tomoko Ohta

  • Linkage disequilibrium at steady state determined by random genetic drift and recurrent mutation.

    Tomoko Ohta;Motoo Kimura

  • On the evolution of multigene families.

    Tomoko Ohta

  • On the rate of molecular evolution

    Motoo Kimura;Tomoko Ohta

Frequent Co-Authors

Motoo Kimura
Motoo Kimura National Institute of Genetics
Peter Parham
Peter Parham Stanford University
Takashi Gojobori
Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Bruce S. Weir
Bruce S. Weir University of Washington
Gabriel A. Dover
Gabriel A. Dover University of Leicester
Erin J. Adams
Erin J. Adams University of Chicago
Therese A. Markow
Therese A. Markow University of California, San Diego
Joseph Felsenstein
Joseph Felsenstein University of Washington

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