MEGA
documentation

Version 4 (May 1, 2008)
MEGA is an integrated tool for conducting automatic and manual sequence alignment, inferring phylogenetic trees, mining web-based databases, estimating rates of molecular evolution, and testing evolutionary hypotheses.

• Windows 95/98, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista (with at least 64 MB of RAM, 20 MB of available hard disk space)
• MEGA also can be run on other operating systems for which Windows emulators are available:
  • Macintosh: Windows using VirtualPC
  • Sun Workstation: SoftWindows95
  • Linux: Windows using VMWare

• DNA
• (protein sequences)

• 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).

• 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)