MOLECULAR EVOLUTIONARY
GENETICS ANALYSIS

Authors: Koichiro Tamura, Daniel Peterson, Nicholas Peterson, Glen Stecher, Masatoshi Nei and Sudhir Kumar

Version 5.2.2

MEGA 5.2.2 (Windows)

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Resources

	Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics (2000) Introductory book containing many examples for use with MEGA.
	Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy (2011) (2007) A cookbook for learning phylogenetic analysis using MEGA and other programs.
	A Walk Through MEGA Step-by-step instructions to learn how to use MEGA.
	Useful Publications MEGA related publications.
	MEGA Team Research and development team.

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Citing MEGA in a Publication

Citation for MEGA 5:
Tamura K, Peterson D, Peterson N, Stecher G, Nei M, and Kumar S (2011) MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 2731-2739.
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Citation for MEGA-CC:
Kumar S, Stecher G, Peterson D, and Tamura K (2012) MEGA-CC: Computing Core of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Program for Automated and Iterative Data Analysis. Bioinformatics 28:2685-2686.
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Citation for MEGA 4:
Tamura K, Dudley J, Nei M & Kumar S (2007) MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 1596-1599.
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