A Survey of the Molecular Evolutionary Dynamics of Twenty-Five Multigene Families from Four Grass Taxa

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

Naruya Saitou, M Nei · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1987 · 60.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology +17

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

Koichiro Tamura, M Nei · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1993 · 11.4K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +16

The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

Scientific American · 1979 · 7.8K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +14

The ‘effective number of codons’ used in a gene

Frank Wright · Gene · 1990 · 2.4K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +9

Pattern of nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class I loci reveals overdominant selection

Austin L. Hughes, Masatoshi Nei · Nature · 1988 · 2K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +16