MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets
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...MEGA includes a large repertoire of programs for assembling sequence alignments, inferring evolutionary trees, estimating genetic distances and diversities, inferring ancestral sequences, computing timetrees, and testing selection (Kumar et al. 2016)....
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...MEGA across Computing Platforms (MEGA X) MEGA was first developed for MS DOS in the early 1990s (Kumar et al. 1994) and then upgraded for use in MS Windows eight times, including MEGA 1 to MEGA 6 and MEGA-CC and MEGA-MD (Kumar et al. 2001, 2016)....
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...Emulators cannot be used effectively for the latest 64-bit version of MEGA that is built to handle memory-intensive analyses of large contemporary data sets (Kumar et al. 2016), so a more comprehensive solution is required for users of alternate platforms....
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...…and students using Apple computers by bundling the Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software for Microsoft Windows with the Wineskin tool built on top of the WINE compatibility layer, which is capable of running Windows applications on other operating systems (Kumar et al. 2016)....
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...Second, MEGAþWineskin packaging supported only 32-bit applications, so the 64-bit versions of MEGA for handling memory-intensive analyses of large contemporary data sets were not available to macOS users (Kumar et al. 2016, 2018)....
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...For the Neighbor-Joining (NJ) method (Saitou and Nei 1987), memory usage increased at a polynomial rate as the number of sequences was increased....
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...calibrations with minimum and/or maximum constraints (Tamura et al. 2013)....
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...Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software is now being applied to increasingly bigger datasets (Kumar et al. 1994; Tamura et al. 2013)....
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...Kumar et al. . doi:10.1093/molbev/msw054 MBE D ow nloaded from https://academ ic.oup.com /m be/article-abstract/33/7/1870/2579089 by guest on 29 M arch 2019 calibrations with minimum and/or maximum constraints (Tamura et al. 2013)....
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...We benchmarked 64-bit MEGA7 performance using 16S ribosomal RNA sequence alignments obtained from the SILVA rRNA database project (Quast et al. 2013; Yilmaz et al. 2014) with thousands of sites and increasingly greater number of sequences (as many as 10,000)....
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