Representative recent articles

Buggiotti L., Primmer C.R., Kouvonen P., Bureš S., Corthals G.L., Leder E.H. (2008) Identification of differentially expressed proteins in Ficedula flycatchers. Proteomics, 8:2150-2153

Gienapp P., Teplitsky C., Alho J.S., Mills J.A., Merilä J. (2008) Climate change and evolution: disentangling environmental and genetic responses. Molecular Ecology 17: 167-178.

Gonda A, Herczeg, G. & Merilä, J. (2009) Habitat-dependent and -independent plastic responses to social environment in the ninespine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) brain. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276: 2085-2092

Kuparinen A., Merilä J. (2007) Detecting and managing fisheries-induced evolution.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 652-659.

Leder E.H., J. Merila & C.R. Primmer. (2009) A flexible whole-genome microarray for transcriptomics in three-spine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). BMC Genomics 10: 426

Leder EH, JM Cano, T Leinonen, RB O’Hara, M Nikinmaa, CR Primmer, and J Merilä (2010) Concentration of female-biased expression on the X chromosome as an intermediate step in the evolution of sex chromosomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27: 1495-1503

Lehtonen P. K., Tonteri A., Sendek D., Titov S., Primmer C.R. (2009) Spatio-temporal genetic structuring of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) populations within the River Luga, northwest Russia. Conservation Genetics, 10: 281-289

Mäkinen H., Shikano T., Cano J.M., Merilä J. (2008) Hitchhiking mapping reveals a large genomic region affected by natural selection in three-spined stickleback chromosome VIII. Genetics 178: 453-465.

Nikinmaa M., Leveelahti L., Dahl E., Rissanen E., Rytkönen K.T., Laurila A. (2008) Population origin, development and temperature of development affect the amounts of HSP70,HSP90 and putative hypoxia-inducible factor in the tadpoles of the common frog Rana temporaria. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 1999-2004

Ovaskainen O., Cano Arias J.M., Merilä J. (2008) A Bayesian framework for comparative quantitative genetics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 275: 669-678.

Rytkönen, K.T., Renshaw, G.M.C., Ashton, K.J., Williams-Pritchard, G., Leder, E.H. and Nikinmaa, M. (2010) Elasmobranch qPCR reference genes: a case study of hypoxia preconditioned epaulette sharks. BMC Molecular Biology 11:27

Rytkönen K.T., Ryynänen H.J., Nikinmaa M. and Primmer C.R. (2008) Variable patterns in molecular evolution of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha gene in teleost fishes and mammals. Gene 420: 1-10

Waser, W., Sahoo, T.P., Herczeg, G., Merilä, J. and Nikinmaa, M. (2010) Physiological differentiation among nine-spined stickleback populations: effects of copper exposure. Aquatic Toxicology, 98:188-195