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 6 (Tamura, Stecher, Peterson, Filipski, and Kumar 2013).

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

 

Koichiro Tamura, Glen Stecher, Daniel Peterson, Alan Filipski, and Sudhir Kumar (2013) MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 6.0. Molecular Biology and Evolution:30 2725-2729.

 

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