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Masatoshi Nei
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Born
(1931-01-02)January 2, 1931
Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
Died
May 18, 2023(2023-05-18) (aged 92)
Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Kyoto University
University of Miyazaki
Known for
Statistical theories of molecular evolution and development of the theory of mutation-driven evolution
Awards
John Scott Medal (2017) Kyoto Prize (2013) Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (2006) International Prize for Biology (2002)
Scientific career
Institutions
Temple University
Pennsylvania State University
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Brown University
National Institute of Radiological Sciences
Kyoto University
Thesis
統計遺伝学の育種への応用に関する研究 (Studies on the Application of Biometrical Genetics to Plant Breeding)(1959)
Doctoral advisor
Katsumi Akato
Doctoral students
Dan Graur Margaret Kidwell Aravinda Chakravarti Sudhir Kumar (researcher)
Website
igem.temple.edu/labs/nei
Masatoshi Nei (根井正利, Nei Masatoshi, January 2, 1931 – May 18, 2023) was a Japanese-born American evolutionary biologist.
MasatoshiNei (根井正利, NeiMasatoshi, January 2, 1931 – May 18, 2023) was a Japanese-born American evolutionary biologist. MasatoshiNei was born in 1931...
produced as "hopeful monsters", earning widespread ridicule. In 1987, MasatoshiNei argued controversially that evolution was often mutation-limited. Modern...
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selection, sexual selection, or various combinations of the three. MasatoshiNei and colleagues were the first to develop a neutral, stochastic model...
project for developing this software was initiated by the leadership of MasatoshiNei in his laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University in collaboration...
Evolution. University of California Press. p. 115. ISBN 978-0520255999. Masatoshi., Nei (1987). Molecular evolutionary genetics. New York: Columbia University...
for the creation of phylogenetic trees, created by Naruya Saitou and MasatoshiNei in 1987. Usually based on DNA or protein sequence data, the algorithm...
and evolutionary biology. The founding editors were Walter Fitch and MasatoshiNei; the present editors-in-chief are Brandon Gaut and Claudia Russo. Evolution...
dissimilarity between the two sequences. In 1972, MasatoshiNei published what came to be known as Nei's standard genetic distance. This distance has the...
the human genome Coalescent theory Evolution of biological complexity MasatoshiNei Molecular evolution Tomoko Ohta Unified neutral theory of biodiversity...
astrophysics 2012 Yoshinori Ohsumi Japan born 1945 Life sciences 2013 MasatoshiNei United States 1931–2023 Biological sciences 2014 Edward Witten United...
phylogenetic trees during his studies of these fishes. — Professor MasatoshiNei, the 2002 International Prize for Biology Laureate Source: Japan Society...
State) by MasatoshiNei in 1991 from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia. Rzhetsky did his postdoc at Penn State under Nei, who also...
of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for research supervised by MasatoshiNei. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Tübingen, Germany...
for Windows. Variscan R package PopGenome pixy R package QSutils Nei, M.; MasatoshiNei; Wen-Hsiung Li (October 1, 1979). "Mathematical Model for Studying...
applications in evolutionary studies (1994) Doctoral advisor Ranajit Chakraborty Other academic advisors Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza MasatoshiNei Liu Zudong...
received her PhD from Brown University in 1973 under the guidance of MasatoshiNei. From 1973 to 1984 she pursued independent research into a number of...
MD, PhD, medical scientist, discoverer of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. MasatoshiNei (根井 正利), a Japanese-born American evolutionary biologist, 2013 Kyoto...
– vice president of academic affairs Stephen Blair Hedges Jody Hey MasatoshiNei Subodha Kumar Joseph P. Folger Samuel R. Delany – science fiction author...
ISBN 0-226-38911-1 and ISBN 0-226-38913-8. A fine American textbook. MasatoshiNei and Sudhir Kumar (2000). Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics. Oxford...
robotics and engineering science Warren Ewens population genetics research MasatoshiNei evolutionary theory 2016 Emmanuelle Charpentier CRISPR-Cas genome editing...