Background
Nei, Masatoshi was born on January 2, 1931 in Miyazaki, Japan. Son of Tadashi and Masae (Kawasaki) Nei. came to the United States, 1969.
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During the last ten years, remarkable progress has occurred in the study of molecular evolution. Among the most important factors that are responsible for this progress are the development of new statistical methods and advances in computational technology. In particular, phylogenetic analysis of DNA or protein sequences has become a powerful tool for studying molecular evolution. Along with this developing technology, the application of the new statistical and computational methods has become more complicated and there is no comprehensive volume that treats these methods in depth. Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics fills this gap and present various statistical methods that are easily accessible to general biologists as well as biochemists, bioinformatists and graduate students. The text covers measurement of sequence divergence, construction of phylogenetic trees, statistical tests for detection of positive Darwinian selection, inference of ancestral amino acid sequences, construction of linearized trees, and analysis of allele frequency data. Emphasis is given to practical methods of data analysis, and methods can be learned by working through numerical examples using the computer program MEGA2 that is provided.
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Nei, Masatoshi was born on January 2, 1931 in Miyazaki, Japan. Son of Tadashi and Masae (Kawasaki) Nei. came to the United States, 1969.
Bachelor of Science in Genetics, Miyazaki University, Japan, 1953. Master of Science in Quantitative Genetics, Kyoto University, Japan, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy in Quantitative Genetics, Kyoto University, Japan, 1959.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Miyazaki University, 2002.
Postdoctoral in population genetics University California Davis and North Carolina State University, 1960—1961. Assistant professor Kyoto University, Japan, 1958—1962. Geneticist National Institute Radio.
Sciences, Japan, 1962-1965, head population genetics laboratory Japan, 1965-1969. Associate professor biology Brown University, Providence, 1969-1971, professor biology, 1971-1972. Professor population genetics University Texas, Houston, 1972-1980, acting director population genetics, 1978-1980, 86-87.
Distinguished professor biology, department biology Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1990-1994, director Institute Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, since 1990, Evan Pugh professor biology, department biology, since 1994. Staff population genetics department University California, Davis, 1960, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1961. Member overseers committee Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988-1994.
Member working group Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, 1994. Member DNA Forensic Science, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 1994-1995. Visiting professor biology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 2001.
Member advisory board Gene Geography, Rome, Italy, 1985-1987, Gene: Evolutionary Genomics, since 2004.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts. and Science (International prize 2002). Member National Academy of Sciences (member editorial board Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, since 2003), Genetics Society of America (editorial board, Kihara prize, 1990, Thomas Hunt Morgan medal, San Diego, California, 2006), Society Molecular Biology and Evolution (president 1994), International Society Molecular Evolution, American Genetic Associate (president 1999), Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (council member 1992-1995), Japan Society Human Genetics (honorary member, award, 1977).
Married Nobuko Hara, April 25, 1963. Children; Keitaro, Maromi.