Tomoko Ohta

Tomoko Ohta (Japanese太 田 朋 子Ōta Tomoko, born September 7, 1933) is a Japanese molecular biologist.

Life

Ohta is a student of Motoo Kimura. There, at the National Institute of Genetics at the University of North Carolina, she received her Ph.D. in 1967. She was known for her work on the neutral theory. In 2002, she was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.

Works

  • List of selected works ( English )
  • Slightly deleterious mutant substitutions in evolution. In: Nature 246: 96-98. (1973)
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