Publications 2006

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Reviewed Book Chapters:

Arjamaa O. Gene silencing in wet age-related macular degeneration. Lancet 368: 630-631

Arjamaa O., Nikinmaa M. Hypoxia-inducible factor and retinal diseases. Experimental Eye Research 83: 473-483.

Berenbrink M., Völkel S., Koldkjaer P., Heisler N., Nikinmaa M. Two different oxygen sensors regulate oxygen sensitive K+ transport in crucian carp red blood cells. Journal of Physiology 575: 37-48.

Buggiotti L., Hellström M., Primmer C.R. Characterization of the first growth hormone gene sequence for a passerine bird - the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca). DNA Sequence  17(6): 401-406.

Buggiotti L., Primmer C.R. Molecular evolution of the avian growth hormone gene and comparison with its mammalian courterpart. Journal of Evolutionary Biology  19: 844-854.

Cano J.M., Matsuba C., Mäkinen H., Merilä J. The utility of QTL-linked markers to detect selective sweeps in natural populations - a case study of the Eda gene and a linked marker in threespine stickleback. Molecular Ecology 15: 4613-4621. pdf

van Heerden D., Jansen van Rensburg P., Nikinmaa M., Vosloo A. Gill damage, metallothionein gene expression and metal accumulation in Tilapia sparrmanii from selected field sites in Rustenburg and Potchefstroom, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Sciences 31: 89-98.

Heise K., Puntarulo S., Nikinmaa M., Abele D., Pörtner H.-O. Oxidative stress during stressful heat exposure and recovery in the North Sea eelpout (Zoarces viviparus). Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 353-363.

Heise K., Puntarulo S., Nikinmaa M., Lucassen M., Pörtner H.-O., Abele D. Oxidative stress and HIF-1 DNA binding during stressful cold exposure and recovery in the North Sea eelpout (Zoarces viviparus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology-part B 143: 494-503.

Herczeg G., Gonda A., Saarikivi J., Merilä J. Experimental support for the cost-benefit model of lizard thermoregulation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60: 405-414. pdf

Johansson M., Piha H., Kylin H., Merilä J. Toxicity of six pesticides to common frog Rana temporaria tadpoles. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 25: 3164-3170. pdf

Johansson M., Primmer C.R., Merilä J. History vs. current demography: explaining the genetic population structure of the common frog (Rana temporaria). Molecular Ecology 15: 975-983.

Laurila A., Pakkasmaa S., Merilä J. Population divergence in growth rate and antipredator defences in Rana arvalis. Oecologia 147: 585-595. pdf

Leder E.H., Danzmann R.G., Ferguson M.M. The candidate gene, Clock, localizes to a strong spawning time quantitative trait locus region in rainbow trout. Journal of Heredity 97(1):74-80.

Leder E.H., Silverstein J.T. The pro-opiomelanocortin genes in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): duplications, splice variants, and differential expression. Journal of Endocrinology 188(2):355-63.

Leinonen T., Cano Arias J.M., Mäkinen H., Merilä J. Contrasting patterns of body shape and neutral genetic divergence in marine and lake populations of threespined sticklebacks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19:803-1812. pdf

Lesbarrères D., Primmer C.R., Lodé T., Merilä J. The effects of 20 years of highway presence on the genetic structure of Rana dalmatina populations. Ecoscience 13: 531-538. pdf

Matsuba C., Merilä J. Genome size variation in the common frog Rana temporaria. Hereditas 143: 157-160. pdf

Merilä J., Kruuk L.E.B., Sheldon B.C. Evolution and expression of genetic variation in nestling traits. Acta Zoologica Sinica 52: 666-669. pdf

Mäkinen H.S., Cano J.M., Merilä J. Genetic relationships among marine and freshwater populations of the European three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) revealed by microsatellites. Molecular Ecology 15: 1519-1534. pdf

Piha H., Pekkonen M., Merilä J. Morphological abnormalities in amphibians in agricultural habitats: a case study of the common frog Rana temporaria. Copeia 2006: 810-817. pdf

Primmer C.R., Veselov A.J.,  Zubchenko A., Poututkin A., Bakhmet I., Koskinen M.T. Isolation by distance within a river system: genetic population structuring of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, in tributaries of the Varzuga River in northwest Russia. Molecular Ecology 15: 653-666.

Rissanen E., Tranberg H.K., Sollid J., Nilsson G. E., Nikinmaa M. Temperature regulates hypoxia-inducible factor-1 in a poikilothermic vertebrate. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 994-1003.

Rissanen E., Tranberg H.K., Nikinmaa M. Oxygen availability regulates metabolism and gene expression in trout hepatocyte cultures. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 291: R1507-R1515

Ryynänen H.J., Primmer C.R. Varying signals of the effects of natural selection during teleost growth hormone gene evolution. Genome 49: 42-53.

Ryynänen H.J., Primmer C.R. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery in duplicated genomes: intron-primed exon-crossing (IPEC) as a strategy for avoiding amplification of duplicated loci in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and other salmonid fishes.BMC Genomics 7:192.

Shimada Y., Shikano T. and Seikai T. Ontogenetic changes of tolerance for environmental stress in Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) during early development. Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi 72: 169-173.

Sollid J., Rissanen E., Tranberg H.K., Thorstensen T., Vuori K.A.M., Nikinmaa M., Nilsson G.E. HIF-1α and iNOS in crucian carp gills during hypoxia induced transformation. Journal of Comparative Physiology-part B 176: 359-369.

Tervonen V., Vuolteenaho O., Nikinmaa M. Hypoxic haemoconcentration via diuresis: a possible role for cardiac natriuretic peptide in trout.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -part A 144: 86-92.

Tiira K., Laurila A., Enberg K. Piironen J., Aikio S. Ranta E., Primmer C.R. Do dominants have higher heterozygosity? Social status and genetic variation in brown trout, Salmo trutta. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59: 657-665.

Tiira K., Piironen J., Primmer C.R. Evidence for reduced genetic variation in severely deformed juvenile salmonids. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63(12): 2700-2707.

Valenzuela N., LeClere A. and Shikano T. Comparative gene expression of steroidogenic factor 1 in Chrysemys picta and Apalone mutica turtles with temperature-dependent and genotypic sex determination. Evolution & Development 8: 424-432.

Vasemägi, A. The adaptive hypothesis of clinal variation revisited: single-locus clines as a result of spatially restricted geneflow. Genetics 4: 173.

Vuori K.A.M., Koskinen H., Krasnov A., Afanasyev S., Koivumäki P., Vuorinen P.J., Nikinmaa M. Developmental disturbances of salmon: microarray and real time PCR analysis of changes in gene expression during the early life stage mortality occurring in the Baltic Sea. BMC Genomics 7: 56.

Vähä J-P., Primmer C.R. Efficiency of model-based Bayesian methods for detecting hybrid individuals under different hybridization scenarios and wih different numbers of loci. Molecular Ecology 15: 63-72.

 

Wang I.A., Leder E.H., Smoker W.W., Gharrett A.J. Timing of Development During Epiboly in Embryos of Second-Generation Crosses and Backcrosses between Odd- and Even-Broodyear Pink Salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha. Environmental Biology of Fishes 75(3):325-332.

 

Other publications:

Merilä J. Conservation of adaptive genetic diversity - Insights from comparative studies of marker gene and quantitative trait differentiation. Pp. 36-38. In: Gregory A. et al. (eds.) The conservation of genetic diversity: science and policy needs in a changing world. Joint Conservation Committee Report No. 383. JNCC, Petersborough, UK0963 8901. pdf

Merilä J. Nordic Strength in Ecology and Evolution. Pp. 105-107, In: Nordisk Styrka – perspektiv till samarbete inom forskningen (L. Hakamies-Blomqvist, E. Knutsen Rydberg & M. Muhonen Nielsen, eds.). NordForsk Rapporter: 1, NordForsk, Oslo.

Merilä J. Koiramainen sillisalaatti [In Finnish: Dogish blend]. Luonnon Tutkija 110:146-147.

Merilä J. Ennätyssuuri kymmenpiikki (Pungitius pungitius) Kuusamon Rytilammesta [In Finnish: Record nine-spine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) from Rytilampi in Kuusamo]. Luonnontutkija 110(3) :91-93.

Nikinmaa M, Karhilahi A. Kalapäiväkirja. Otava, 112 pp.

Nikinmaa, M, Schlenk, D. Editorial.  Aquatic Toxicology 83: 205-206