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        2009
99 Book   Kumar S & Hedges SB (2009) Discovering the timetree of life. The Timetree of Life edited by Hedges SB & Kumar S. Oxford University Press, New York, In press.
98 Book   Hedges SB & Kumar S (2009) The Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York (480 pages; in press).
       
        2008
97 PubMed PDF   Ji S, Sun L, Jin R, Kumar S & Ye J (2008) Automated annotation of Drosophila gene expression patterns using a controlled vocabulary. Bioinformatics (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn347).
96 PubMed PDF   Kumar S, Dudley J, Nei M & Tamura K (2008) MEGA: A biologist-centric software for evolutionary analysis of DNA and protein sequences. Briefings in Bioinformatics 9: 299-306.
95 Book PDF Google Kumar S & Filipski A (2008) Molecular phylogeny reconstruction. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Reference Ltd, Oxford, Nature Publishing Group, UK.
94 PubMed PDF   Ye J, Chen J, Janardan R & Kumar S (2008) Developmental stage annotation of Drosophila gene expression pattern images via an entire solution path for LDA. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 2:1-21.
93 PDF   Ye J, Janardan R & Kumar S (2008) Biological image analysis via matrix approximation. Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining (2nd Ed.) edited by John Wang, Idea Group, Inc., Pennsylvania, 166-170.
       
        2007
92 Book PDF   Filipski A, Prohaska S & Kumar S (2007) Molecular signatures of adaptive evolution. Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics edited by Pagel M & Pomiankowski A. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Massachussets, 241-254.
91 PubMed PDF Google Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium (2007) Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature 450:203-218.
90 PubMed PDF Google Zhang Y, Sturgill D, Parisi M, Kumar S & Oliver B (2007) Constraint and turnover in sex-biased gene expression in the genus Drosophila. Nature 450:233-237.
89 PubMed PDF Google Acquisti C, Poste G, Curtiss D & Kumar S (2007) Nullomers: Really a matter of natural selection? PLoS ONE 2 (3 pp).
88 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S & Dudley J (2007) Bioinformatics software for biologists in the genomics era. Bioinformatics 23:1713-1717.
87 PubMed PDF Google 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. [www.megasoftware.net]
86 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S & Filipski A (2007) Multiple sequence alignment: In pursuit of homologous DNA positions. Genome Research 17:127-135.
85 PubMed PDF   Colbourn CJ & Kumar S (2007) Lower bounds on multiple sequence alignment using exact 3-way alignment. BMC Bioinformatics 8:140 (8 pp).
       
        2006
84 PubMed PDF Google Subramanian S & Kumar S (2006) Evolutionary anatomies of positions and types of disease-associated and neutral amino acid mutations in the human genome. BMC Genomics 7:306 (9 pp).
83 PubMed PDF Google Hedges SB, Dudley J & Kumar S (2006) TimeTree: A public knowledge-base of divergence times among organisms. Bioinformatics 22:2971-2972.
82 PubMed PDF Google Subramanian S & Kumar S (2006) Higher intensity of natural selection on >90% of the human genes revealed by the intrinsic replacement mutation rates. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23:2283-2287.
81 PubMed PDF Google Elser JJ, Fagan WF, Subramanian S & Kumar S (2006) Signatures of ecological resource availability in the animal and plant proteomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23:1946-1951.
80 PubMed PDF Google Ye J , Chen J, Li Q & Kumar S (2006) Classification of Drosophila embryonic developmental stage range based on gene expression pattern images. Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference 4:293-298.
79 PubMed PDF   Xia X & Kumar S (2006) Codon-based detection of positive selection can be biased by heterogeneous distribution of polar amino acids along protein sequences. Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference 4:335-340.
78 PubMed PDF   Hedges SB, Kumar S & van Tuinen M (2006) Constraining fossil calibrations for molecular clocks. BioEssays 28:770-771.
       
        2005
77 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S & Hedges SB (2005) Pushing back the expansion of introns in animal genomes. Cell 123:1182-1184.
76 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S, Filipski A, Swarna V, Walker A & Hedges SB (2005) Placing confidence limits on the molecular age of the human-chimpanzee divergence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 102:18842-18847.
75 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S (2005) Molecular clocks: Four decades of evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics 6:654-662.
74 PubMed PDF Google Gadagkar SR, Rosenberg MS & Kumar S (2005) Inferring species phylogenies from multiple genes: Concatenated sequence tree versus consensus gene tree. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular & Developmental Evolution) 304B:64-74.
73 PubMed PDF Google Gadagkar SR & Kumar S (2005) Maximum likelihood outperforms maximum parsimony even when evolutionary rates are heterotachous. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22:2139-2141.
72 Book PDF   Filipski A & Kumar S (2005) Comparative genomics in eukaryotes.The Evolution of the Genome edited by Ryan TG. Elsevier, San Diego, 521-583.
71 PDF Google Gargesha M, Yang J, Van Emden B, Panchanathan S & Kumar S (2005) Automatic annotation techniques for gene expression images of the fruit fly embryo. Proceedings of SPIE (Visual Communications and Image Processing 2005) 5960:576-583.
70 Book     Kumar S & Filipski A (2005) Reconstructing vertebrate phylogeny. Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics edited by Subramaniam S. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
       
        2004
69 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S, Tamura K & Nei M (2004) MEGA3: Integrated software for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis and sequence alignment. Briefings in Bioinformatics 5:150-163. [www.megasoftware.net]
68 PubMed PDF Google Subramanian S & Kumar S (2004) Gene expression intensity shapes evolutionary rates of the proteins encoded by the vertebrate genome. Genetics 168:373-381.
67 PubMed PDF Google Hedges SB & Kumar S (2004) Precision of molecular time estimates. Trends in Genetics 20:242-247.
66 PubMed PDF Google Tamura K, Nei M & Kumar S (2004) Prospects for inferring very large phylogenies by using the neighbor-joining method. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 101:11030-11035.
65 PubMed PDF Google Tamura K, Subramanian S & Kumar S (2004) Temporal patterns of fruit fly (Drosophila) evolution revealed by mutation clocks. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21:36-44.
64 PubMed PDF Google Briscoe AD, Gaur C & Kumar S (2004) The spectrum of human rhodopsin disease mutations through the lens of interspecific variation. Gene 332:107-118.
63 PubMed PDF Google Gurunathan R, Van Emden B, Panchanathan S, & Kumar S (2004) Identifying spatially similar gene expression patterns in early stage fruit fly embryo images: binary feature versus invariant moment digital representations. BMC Bioinformatics 5:202 (13 pp).
62       Gargesha M, Antin P, Van Emden B, Panchanathan S & Kumar S (2004) Image registration and similarity computation for chicken gene expression patterns. Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), IEEE Signal Processing Society (4 pp).
61 Book     Kumar S & Filipski A (2004) Phylogenetic Analysis. Dictionary of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology edited by Hancock J & Zvelebil M, Wiley-Liss, New York.
       
        2003
60 PubMed PDF Google Subramanian S & Kumar S (2003) Neutral substitutions occur at a faster rate in exons than in noncoding DNA in primate genomes. Genome Research 13:838-844.
59 PubMed PDF Google Hedges SB & Kumar S (2003) Genomic clocks and evolutionary timescales. Trends in Genetics 19:200-206.
58 PubMed PDF Google Rosenberg MS & Kumar S (2003) Heterogeneity of nucleotide frequencies among evolutionary lineages and phylogenetic inference. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20:610-621.
57 PubMed PDF Google Rosenberg MS & Kumar S (2003) Taxon sampling, bioinformatics, and phylogenomics. Systematic Biology 52:119-124.
56 PubMed PDF Google Rosenberg MS, Subramanian S & Kumar S (2003) Patterns of transitional mutation biases within and among mammalian genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20:988-993.
55 PubMed PDF Google Miller MP, Parker JD, Rissing SW & Kumar S (2003) Quantifying the intragenic distribution of human disease mutations. Annals of Human Genetics 67:567-579.
54 PubMed PDF Google Jancovich JK, Mao J, Chinchar VG, Wyatt C, Case ST, Kumar S, Valente G, Subramanian S, Davidson EW, Collins JP & Jacobs BL (2003) Genomic sequence of a ranavirus (family Iridoviridae) associated with salamander mortalities in North America. Virology 316:90-103.
53 Book PDF   Kumar S (2003) MacTrees made easy, a review of the book Phylogenetic trees made easy: a how-to-manual for molecular biologists by Hall BG. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27:165-167.
52 Book PDF   Lorson C & Kumar S (2003) A review of the book Genomes (second edition) by Brown TA, The Quarterly Review of Biology 78:225.
       
        2002
51 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S & Subramanian S (2002) Mutation rates in mammalian genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 99:803-808.
50 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S, Jayaraman K, Panchanathan S, Gurunathan R, Marti-Subirana A & Newfeld SJ (2002) BEST: A novel computational approach for comparing gene expression patterns from early stages of Drosophila melanogaster development. Genetics 162:2037-2047.
49 PubMed PDF Google Hedges SB & Kumar S (2002) Vertebrate genomes compared. Science 297:1283-1285.
48 PubMed PDF Google Tamura K & Kumar S (2002) Evolutionary distance estimation under heterogeneous substitution pattern among lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:1727-1736.
47 PubMed PDF Google Jiang Z, Melville JS, Cao H, Kumar S, Filipski A & Verrinder Gibbins AM (2002) Measuring conservation of contiguous sets of autosomal markers on bovine and porcine genomes in relation to the map of the human genome. Genome 45:769-776.
46 Book PDF   Kumar S & Newfeld SJ (2002) A review of the book Modern Genetic Analysis: Integrating Genes and Genomes (second edition) by Griffiths AJF, Gelbart WM, Lewontin RC, & Miller JH. The Quarterly Review of Biology 77:456-457.
45 Book PDF   Rawls A & Kumar S (2002) A review of the book Genomic Regulatory Systems: Development and Evolution by Davidson EH. The Quarterly Review of Biology 77:456.
       
        2001
44 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S, Tamura K, Jakobsen IB & Nei M (2001) MEGA2: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis software. Bioinformatics 17:1244-1245. [www.megasoftware.net]
43 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S, Gadagkar SR, Filipski A & Gu X (2001) Determination of the number of conserved chromosomal segments between species. Genetics 157:1387-1395.
42 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S & Gadagkar SR (2001) Disparity Index: A simple statistic to measure and test the homogeneity of substitution patterns between molecular sequences. Genetics 158:1321-1327. See expanded proof in Genetics .
41 PubMed PDF Google Rosenberg MS & Kumar S (2001) Incomplete taxon sampling is not a problem for phylogenetic inference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 98:10751-10756.
40 PubMed PDF Google Rosenberg MS & Kumar S (2001) Traditional phylogenetic reconstruction methods reconstruct shallow and deep evolutionary relationships equally well. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:1823-1827.
39 PubMed PDF Google Miller MP & Kumar S (2001) Understanding human disease mutations through the use of interspecific genetic variation. Human Molecular Genetics 21:2319-2328.
38 PubMed PDF Google Hedrick P & Kumar S (2001) Mutation and linkage disequilibrium in human mtDNA. European Journal of Human Genetics 9:969-972.
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PubMed PDF Google Hedges SB, Chen H, Kumar S, Wang DY-C, Thompson AS & Watanabe H (2001) A genomic timescale for the origin of eukaryotes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 1:4 (10 pp).
36 PDF   Kumar S & Panchanathan S (2001) Elucidating gene interaction networks based on gene expression pattern image analysis. Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 5A:232-234.
35 PubMed PDF Google Gerber AS, Loggins R, Kumar S & Dowling TE (2001) Does nonneutral evolution shape observed patterns of DNA variation in animal mitochondrial genomes? Annual Review of Genetics 35:539-566.
34 SPIE PDF   Jayaraman K, Panchanathan S & Kumar S (2001) Classification and indexing of gene expression images. Proceedings of SPIE (Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIV) 4472:471-481.
33 Book PDF   Kumar S & Filipski A (2001) Molecular phylogeny reconstruction. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Reference Ltd, Oxford, Nature Publishing Group, UK (4 pp).
32 Book PDF   Kumar S & Filipski A (2001) Molecular clock: Testing. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Reference Ltd, Oxford, Nature Publishing Group, UK (5 pp).
       
        2000
31 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S & Gadagkar SR (2000) Efficiency of the neighbor-joining method in reconstructing deep and shallow evolutionary relationships in large phylogenies. Journal of Molecular Evolution 51:544-553.
30 PubMed PDF Google Kumar S, Hedrick P, Dowling T & Stoneking M (2000) Questioning evidence for recombination in human mitochondrial DNA. Science 288:1931a.
29 PubMed PDF