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Motoo Kimura

Active 1954–2020

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MOTOO KIMURA · Motoo KIMURA
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World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 4,937 citing papers, 27.7% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,439 citing papers, 8.1% of this breakdownJapan: 940 citing papers, 5.3% of this breakdownFrance: 934 citing papers, 5.2% of this breakdownGermany: 904 citing papers, 5.1% of this breakdownChina: 844 citing papers, 4.7% of this breakdownCanada: 736 citing papers, 4.1% of this breakdownSpain: 529 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownAustralia: 522 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 379 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownItaly: 343 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownIndia: 308 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology57.5%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.6%
  • Environmental Science7.5%
  • Medicine6.8%
  • Immunology and Microbiology4.5%
  • Computer Science2.9%
  • Other8.2%

Topics

  • Genetic diversity and population structure8.9%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies8.1%
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics7.8%
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation2.2%
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms2.2%
  • Plant and animal studies2.2%
  • Other68.6%

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  1. A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences

    Authors: Motoo Kimura - Journal of Molecular Evolution 1980 cited by 29,811

  2. Evolutionary Rate at the Molecular Level

    Authors: MOTOO KIMURA - Nature 1968 cited by 3,825

  3. ON THE PROBABILITY OF FIXATION OF MUTANT GENES IN A POPULATION

    Authors: Motoo Kimura - Genetics 1962 cited by 1,303

  4. An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory

    Authors: Ashwin Narayan Jayanarayanan, James F. Crow, Motoo Kimura - Population 1971 cited by 3,529

  5. THE NUMBER OF ALLELES THAT CAN BE MAINTAINED IN A FINITE POPULATION

    Authors: Motoo Kimura, James F. Crow - Genetics 1964 cited by 2,673

  6. THE NUMBER OF HETEROZYGOUS NUCLEOTIDE SITES MAINTAINED IN A FINITE POPULATION DUE TO STEADY FLUX OF MUTATIONS

    Authors: Motoo Kimura - Genetics 1969 cited by 888

  7. Diffusion models in population genetics

    Authors: Motoo Kimura - Journal of Applied Probability 1964 cited by 784

  8. Preponderance of synonymous changes as evidence for the neutral theory of molecular evolution

    Authors: MOTOO KIMURA - Nature 1977 cited by 733

  9. THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF GENERATIONS UNTIL FIXATION OF A MUTANT GENE IN A FINITE POPULATION

    Authors: Motoo Kimura, Tomoko Ohta - Genetics 1969 cited by 707

  10. THE STEPPING STONE MODEL OF POPULATION STRUCTURE AND THE DECREASE OF GENETIC CORRELATION WITH DISTANCE

    Authors: Motoo Kimura, George H. Weiss - Genetics 1964 cited by 1,754

  11. THE MUTATION LOAD IN SMALL POPULATIONS

    Authors: Motoo Kimura, Takeo Maruyama, James F. Crow - Genetics 1963 cited by 401

  12. The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

    Authors: Motoo Kimura - Scientific American 1979 cited by 7,821

  13. The neutral theory of molecular evolution and the world view of the neutralists

    Authors: Motoo Kimura - Genome 1989 cited by 222

  14. Genetic variability maintained in a finite population due to mutational production of neutral and nearly neutral isoalleles

    Authors: Motoo Kimura - Genetics Research 1968 cited by 391

  15. THE AGE OF A NEUTRAL MUTANT PERSISTING IN A FINITE POPULATION

    Authors: Motoo Kimura, Tomoko Ohta - Genetics 1973 cited by 264

  16. Model of effectively neutral mutations in which selective constraint is incorporated

    Authors: Motoo Kimura - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1979 cited by 261

  17. On Some Principles Governing Molecular Evolution

    Authors: Motoo Kimura, Tomoko Ohta - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1974 cited by 516

  18. THE MEASUREMENT OF EFFECTIVE POPULATION NUMBER

    Authors: Motoo Kimura, James F. Crow - Evolution 1963 cited by 448

  19. The neutral theory of molecular evolution: A review of recent evidence.

    Authors: Motoo KIMURA - The Japanese Journal of Genetics 1991 cited by 307

  20. On the rate of molecular evolution

    Authors: Motoo Kimura, Tomoko Ohta - Journal of Molecular Evolution 1971 cited by 198

  21. Evolution in Sexual and Asexual Populations

    Authors: James F. Crow, Motoo Kimura - The American Naturalist 1965 cited by 572

  22. On the evolutionary adjustment of spontaneous mutation rates

    Authors: Motoo Kimura - Genetics Research 1967 cited by 362

  23. THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF GENERATIONS UNTIL EXTINCTION OF AN INDIVIDUAL MUTANT GENE IN A FINITE POPULATION

    Authors: Motoo Kimura, Tomoko Ohta - Genetics 1969 cited by 161

  24. A model of mutation appropriate to estimate the number of electrophoretically detectable alleles in a finite population

    Authors: Tomoko Ohta, Motoo Kimura - Genetics Research 1973 cited by 1,191