Citing MEGA in Publications

If you wish to cite MEGA in your publications, we suggest the following:

(1) When referring to MEGA in the main text of your publication, you may choose a format such as:

Phylogenetic and molecular evolutionary analyses were conducted using MEGA version 4 (Tamura, Dudley, Nei, and Kumar 2007).

(2) When including a MEGA citation in the Literature Cited/Bibliography section, you may use the following:

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. (Publication PDF at http://www.kumarlab.net/publications)