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Koichiro Tamura

Director, Professor, Research Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Tokyo Metropolitan …
Verified email at tmu.ac.jp
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MEGA11: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 11

K Tamura, G Stecher, S Kumar - Molecular biology and evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software has matured to contain a
large collection of methods and tools of computational molecular evolution. Here, we describe …

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

K Tamura, M Nei, S Kumar - Proceedings of the National …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Current efforts to reconstruct the tree of life and histories of multigene families demand the
inference of phylogenies consisting of thousands of gene sequences. However, for such large …

MEGA5: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis using maximum likelihood, evolutionary distance, and maximum parsimony methods

K Tamura, D Peterson, N Peterson… - Molecular biology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Comparative analysis of molecular sequence data is essential for reconstructing the evolutionary
histories of species and inferring the nature and extent of selective forces shaping the …

MEGA4: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0

K Tamura, J Dudley, M Nei… - Molecular biology and …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We announce the release of the fourth version of MEGA software, which expands on the
existing facilities for editing DNA sequence data from autosequencers, mining Web-databases, …

MEGA7: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets

S Kumar, G Stecher, K Tamura - Molecular biology and evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present the latest version of the Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (M ega )
software, which contains many sophisticated methods and tools for phylogenomics and …

MEGA6: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 6.0

K Tamura, G Stecher, D Peterson… - … biology and evolution, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We announce the release of an advanced version of the Molecular Evolutionary Genetics
Analysis (MEGA) software, which currently contains facilities for building sequence alignments, …

MEGA: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis software for microcomputers

S Kumar, K Tamura, M Nei - Bioinformatics, 1994 - academic.oup.com
A computer program package called MEGA has been developed for estimating evolutionary
distances, reconstructing phylogenetic trees and computing basic statistical quantities from …

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

K Tamura, M Nei - Molecular biology and evolution, 1993 - academic.oup.com
Examining the pattern of nucleotide substitution for the control region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
in humans and chimpanzees, we developed a new mathematical method for …

MEGA3: integrated software for molecular evolutionary genetics analysis and sequence alignment

S Kumar, K Tamura, M Nei - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
With its theoretical basis firmly established in molecular evolutionary and population genetics,
the comparative DNA and protein sequence analysis plays a central role in reconstructing …

MEGA2: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis software

S Kumar, K Tamura, IB Jakobsen, M Nei - Bioinformatics, 2001 - academic.oup.com
We have developed a new software package, Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis
version 2 (MEGA2), for exploring and analyzing aligned DNA or protein sequences from an …