Motoo Kimura (1924–1994) was a Japanese population geneticist who proposed the neutral theory of molecular evolution.
Keywords: molecular evolution; neutral theory; population genetics; random genetic drift; stochastic process
Kimura, Motoo
Tomoko Ohta, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Published online: July 2006
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0005307
| Further Reading | |
| Kimura M (1962) On the probability of fixation of mutant genes in a population. Genetics 47: 713–719. | |
| Kimura M (1964) Diffusion models in population genetics. Journal of Applied Probability 1: 177–232. | |
| Kimura M (1968) Evolutionary rate at the molecular level. Nature 217: 624–626. | |
| book Kimura M (1983) The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. | |
| Kimura M and Crow JF (1964) The number of alleles that can be maintained in a finite population. Genetics 49: 725–738. | |
| King JL and Jukes TH (1969) Non-Darwinian evolution: random fixation of selectively neutral mutations. Science 164: 788–798. | |
| book Li W-H (1997) Molecular Evolution. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. | |
| Ohta T (1992) The nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 23: 263–286. | |
