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Figure 1: Genetic distance map by Cavalli-Sforza et al. (1994) [1] Genetic distance is a measure of the genetic divergence between species or between populations within a species, whether the distance measures time from common ancestor or degree of differentiation. [2]
In bioinformatics, neighbor joining is a bottom-up (agglomerative) clustering method for the creation of phylogenetic trees, created by Naruya Saitou and Masatoshi Nei in 1987. [1] Usually based on DNA or protein sequence data, the algorithm requires knowledge of the distance between each pair of taxa (e.g., species or sequences) to create the ...
Masatoshi Nei was born in 1931 Japan, and his lifelong interest in biology and genetics may have its roots in his upbringing on a farm, in a family of farmers. [1] After completing his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in Japan, Nei emigrated to the United States in 1969. [ 1 ]
Minimum evolution is a distance method employed in phylogenetics modeling. ... Saito and Nei's 1987 NJ algorithm far predates the BME criterion of 2000. For two ...
Nucleotide diversity is a measure of genetic variation. It is usually associated with other statistical measures of population diversity, and is similar to expected heterozygosity . This statistic may be used to monitor diversity within or between ecological populations, to examine the genetic variation in crops and related species, [ 3 ] or to ...
The 2025 New Year’s Eve numerals are seen on display in Times Square on December 18 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
The project for developing this software was initiated by the leadership of Masatoshi Nei in his laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University in collaboration with his graduate student Sudhir Kumar and postdoctoral fellow Koichiro Tamura. [2] Nei wrote a monograph (pp. 130) outlining the scope of the software and presenting new statistical ...
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