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Masafumi Nozawa
Researcher at Tokyo Metropolitan University
Publications - 41
Citations - 2538
Masafumi Nozawa is an academic researcher from Tokyo Metropolitan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Genome. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 39 publications receiving 2280 citations. Previous affiliations of Masafumi Nozawa include National Institute of Genetics & National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan.
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The evolution of animal chemosensory receptor gene repertoires: roles of chance and necessity.
TL;DR: It seems that mutation by gene duplication and inactivation has important roles in both the adaptive and non-adaptive evolution of chemosensation.
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The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan
Zhuo Wang,Juan Pascual-Anaya,Amonida Zadissa,Wenqi Li,Yoshihito Niimura,Zhiyong Huang,Chunyi Li,Simon D. M. White,Zhiqiang Xiong,Dongming Fang,Bo Wang,Yao Ming,Yan Chen,Yuan Zheng,Shigehiro Kuraku,Miguel Pignatelli,Javier Herrero,Kathryn Beal,Masafumi Nozawa,Qiye Li,Juan Wang,Hongyan Zhang,Lili Yu,Shuji Shigenobu,Junyi Wang,Jiannan Liu,Paul Flicek,Steve Searle,Jun Wang,Jun Wang,Shigeru Kuratani,Ye Yin,Bronwen Aken,Guojie Zhang,Naoki Irie +34 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that turtle evolution was accompanied by an unexpectedly conservative vertebrate phylotypic period, followed by turtle-specific repatterning of development to yield the novel structure of the shell.
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Origins and evolution of microRNA genes in plant species.
TL;DR: The discovery that nearly half of the gene families in the ancestor of flowering plants have been lost in at least one species examined indicates that the repertoires of miRNA genes have changed more dynamically than previously thought during plant evolution.
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The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution in the Genomic Era
TL;DR: The neutral theory of molecular evolution has been widely accepted and is the guiding principle for studying evolutionary genomics and the molecular basis of phenotypic evolution, and recent data on genomic evolution are generally consistent with the neutral theory.
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Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods
TL;DR: A computer simulation was conducted to examine the reliability of BSM in comparison with the small-sample method (SSM) based on Fisher's exact test and showed that the site-prediction methods have a low probability of identifying functional changes of amino acids experimentally determined and often falsely identify other sites where amino acid substitutions are unlikely to be important.