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Masafumi Nozawa

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Verified email at tmu.ac.jp
Cited by 2985

The evolution of animal chemosensory receptor gene repertoires: roles of chance and necessity

M Nei, Y Niimura, M Nozawa - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2008 - nature.com
… & Nei, M. Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory receptor genes in fishes and tetrapods. Proc. …
Nozawa, M., Kawahara, Y. & Nei, M. Genomic drift and copy number variation of sensory …

The neutral theory of molecular evolution in the genomic era

M Nei, Y Suzuki, M Nozawa - Annual review of genomics and …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
… One may therefore be able to detect a signature of selection by comparing the extent of
haplotype homozygosity for the mutant nucleotide (EHH M ) with that for the ancestral nucleotide (…

Roles of mutation and selection in speciation: from Hugo de Vries to the modern genomic era

M Nei, M Nozawa - Genome biology and evolution, 2011 - academic.oup.com
One of the most important problems in evolutionary biology is to understand how new
species are generated in nature. In the past, it was difficult to study this problem because our …

[HTML][HTML] The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan

…, S Kuraku, M Pignatelli, J Herrero, K Beal, M Nozawa… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The unique anatomical features of turtles have raised unanswered questions about the origin
of their unique body plan. We generated and analyzed draft genomes of the soft-shell turtle …

Origins and evolution of microRNA genes in plant species

M Nozawa, S Miura, M Nei - Genome biology and evolution, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… (Perl scripts are available upon the request to M. Nozawa.) We used the 7,147 orthologous
… This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant GM020293 to M. Nei and …

Development of glomerular lesions in experimental long-term diabetes in the rat

K Hirose, R Østerby, M Nozawa, HJG Gundersen - Kidney international, 1982 - Elsevier
Many questions concerning the development of glomerulopathy in diabetic patients still
challenge research in the field, but for some of these questions answers cannot be sought in …

Deep-learning classification using convolutional neural network for evaluation of maxillary sinusitis on panoramic radiography

…, T Kawai, M Fukuda, T Funakoshi, Y Kise, M Nozawa… - Oral radiology, 2019 - Springer
Objectives To apply a deep-learning system for diagnosis of maxillary sinusitis on panoramic
radiography, and to clarify its diagnostic performance. Methods Training data for 400 …

Contrast-enhanced computed tomography image assessment of cervical lymph node metastasis in patients with oral cancer by using a deep learning system of …

Y Ariji, M Fukuda, Y Kise, M Nozawa… - Oral surgery, oral …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective Although the deep learning system has been applied to interpretation of medical
images, its application to the diagnosis of cervical lymph nodes in patients with oral cancer …

Automatic detection and classification of radiolucent lesions in the mandible on panoramic radiographs using a deep learning object detection technique

…, C Muramatsu, M Fukuda, Y Kise, M Nozawa… - Oral surgery, oral …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate whether a deep learning object detection
technique can automatically detect and classify radiolucent lesions in the mandible on …

Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods

M Nozawa, Y Suzuki, M Nei - Proceedings of the National …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Natural selection operating in protein-coding genes is often studied by examining the ratio (ω)
of the rates of nonsynonymous to synonymous nucleotide substitution. The branch-site …