Publications 2009

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Reviewed Book Chapters:

Alho J.S., Lillandt B.-G., Jaari S., Merilä J. Multilocus heterozygosity and inbreeding in the Siberian jay. Conservation Genetics, 10:605-609. doi:10.1007/s10592-008-9588-z

Arjamaa O & Nikinmaa M.Natriuretic peptides in hormonal regulation of hypoxia responses American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 296: R57-R64

Arjamaa, O., Nikinmaa, M., Salminen, A. & Kaarniranta, K. Regulatory role of HIF-1 in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Ageing Research Reviews 8, 348-357.

Barson N. J., Haugen, T.O. Vollestad, L. A. and Primmer, C. R. Contemporary Isolation-By-Distance, But Not Isolation-By-Time, Among Demes of European Grayling (Thymallus Thymallus, Linnaeus) with Recent Common Ancestors. Evolution, 63:549-556.

Bogdanova A, Berenbrink M, Nikinmaa, M. Oxygen-dependent ion transport in erythrocytes Acta Physiologica 195: 305-319

Eeva, T., Ahola, M. and Lehikoinen, E. Breeding performance of blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and great tits (Parus major) in a heavy metal polluted area. Environmental Pollution, 157, 3126-3131.

Eeva, T., Hakkarainen, H. and Belskii, E. Local survival of pied flycatcher males and females in a pollution gradient of a Cu-smelter. Environmental Pollution 157:1857-1861

Eeva, T. and Penttinen, R. Leg deformities of oribatid mites as an indicator of environmental pollution. Science of the Total Environment, 407, 4771-4776

Eeva, T., Sillanpää S. and Salminen, J.-P. The effects of diet quality and quantity on plumage colour and growth of Great tit nestlings: a food manipulation experiment along a pollution gradient. Journal of Avian Biology 40, 491-499

Eeva, T., Sillanpää, S., Salminen, J.-P., Nikkinen, L., Tuominen, A., Toivonen, E., Pihlaja, K. and Lehikoinen, E. Environmental pollution affects the plumage color of great tit nestlings through carotenoid availability. EcoHealth, 5, 328-337.

Gonda A., Herczeg G. & Merilä J. Adaptive brain size differentiation in ninespine sticklebacks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1721-1726. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01782.x

Gonda A, Herczeg, G. & Merilä, J. 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. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0026

Herczeg G., A. Gonda & J. Merilä. Evolution of gigantism in ninespine sticklebacks. Evolution 63-12: 3190–3200. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00781.x

Herczeg, G., Gonda, A. & Merilä, J. Predation mediated population divergence in complex behaviour of ninespine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 544–552. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01674.x

Herczeg, G., Gonda, A. & Merilä, J. The social cost of shoaling covaries with predation risk in ninespine stickleback, Pungitius pungitius, populations. Animal Behaviour 77: 575–580. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.10.023

Hettyey, A., G. Herczeg, A. Laurila, P.-A. Crochet & J. Merilä. Body temperature, size, nuptial coloration and mating success in male moor frogs (Rana arvalis). Amphibia-Reptilia 30 (2009): 37-43. pdf

Iso-Touru T., Kantanen J., Li M.-H., Gizejewski Z. & Vilkki J. Divergent evolution in the cytoplasmic domains of PRLR and GHR genes in Artiodactyla.  BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:172. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-172 Highly Accessed

Jaari S., Jaatinen K., Merilä J. Isolation and characterization of 22 polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Barrow’s goldeneye (Bucephala islandica). Molecular Ecology Resources 9(3): 806 - 808. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02225.x

Jaari S., Li, M. H. & Merilä, J. A first-generation microsatellite-based genetic linkage map of the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus): insights into avian genome evolution. BMC Genomics 10:1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-1

Jaatinen, K., Öst, M., Waldeck, P. & Andersson, M. Clutch desertion in Barrow’s goldeneyes (Bucephala islandica) — effects of non-natal eggs, the environment and host female characteristics. Annales Zoologici Fennici 46: 350-360.

Jaatinen K, S Jaari, R. O'Hara, M Öst & J. Merilä. Relatedness and spatial proximity as determinants of host-parasite interactions in the brood parasitic Barrow’s goldeneye (Bucephala islandica). Molecular Ecology 18: 2713-2721

Jönsson I., Herczeg G., O'Hara R., Söderman F., ter Schure A., Larsson P. & J. Merilä. Sexual patterns of prebreeding energy reserves in the common frog Rana temporaria along a latitudinal gradient. Ecography 32: 831-839. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05352.x

Kantanen J., I. Ammosov, M.-H. Li, A. Osva & R. Popov. In: Sakha Ynaga. Cattle of the Yakuts (Granberg L., J. Kantanen & K. Soini eds). Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Helsinki, Finland. 218 pp.

Kekäläinen J., Vallunen J.A., Rätty S., Primmer C.R. & Taskinen J. Signals of Major Histocompatibility Complex overdominance in a wild salmonid population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Series B (online early)

Knopp T & J. Merilä. Microsatellite variation and population structure of the moor frog (Rana arvalis) in Scandinavia. Molecular Ecology 18: 2996-3005. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04252.x

Knopp T & J Merilä. Multiple paternity in the moor frog, Rana arvalis. Amphibia-Reptlia 30: 515-521. doi: 10.1163/156853809789647112

Knopp, T. & J. Merilä. The postglacial recolonization of northern Europe by Rana arvalis as revealed by microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA analyses. Heredity 102: 174-181. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2008.91

Kotze D.J. & R.B. O'Hara. Preface to Methods in Ecological Research. Annales Zoologici Fennici 46: 81.

Kuparinen A. Review of "Adaptive Governace: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management" by D.G. Webster. The Quarterly Review of Biology 84:293-294. doi:10.1086/644677

Kuparinen A. & Merilä J. Variation in the timing of river entry of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in the Baltic. Current Zoology 55: 342-349.

Kuparinen A., Katul G., Nathan R. & Schurr F.M. Increases in air temperature can promote wind-driven dispersal and spread of plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276:3081-3087. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0693

Kuparinen A., C. Garcia de Leaniz, S. Consuegra & J. Merilä. Growth history perspective on the decreasing age and size at maturation in Atlantic salmon. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 376: 245–252. doi: 10.3354/meps07789

Kuparinen, A., S. Kuikka & J. Merilä. Estimating fisheries-induced selection: traditional gear selectivity research meets fisheries-induced evolution. Evolutionary Applications 2: 234 - 243. 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2009.00070.x

Kuparinen, A., R. O’Hara & J. Merilä. Lunar periodicity and the timing of river entry in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). Journal of Fish Biology 74: 2401-2408.

Kuusela J, Holopainen R, Meinilä M, Anttila P, Koski P, Zietara MS, Veselov A, Primmer CR and Lumme J. Clonal structure of salmon parasite Gyrodactylus salaris on a co-evolutionary gradient on Fennoscandian salmon (Salmo salar). Annales Zoologici Fennici. 46: 21-33

Laikre L, Nilsson T, Primmer CR, Ryman N, Allendorf FW. Genetics is crucial in the interpretation of Favourable Conservation Status. Conservation Biology 6: 1378–1381.

Leder E.H., J. Merila & C.R. Primmer. A flexible whole-genome microarray for transcriptomics in three-spine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). BMC Genomics 10: 426. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-426

Lehtonen PK, Laaksonen T, Artemyev AV, Belskii E, Both C, Bureš S, Bushuev AV, Krams I, Moreno J, Mägi M, Nord A, Potti J, Ravussin P-A, Sirkiä PM, Sætre G-P, Primmer CRS. Geographic patterns of genetic differentiation and plumage colour variation are different in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)  Molecular Ecology. 18: 4463–4476.

Lehtonen P. K., Primmer, C. R. and Laaksonen, T. Different traits affect gain of extrapair paternity and loss of paternity in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca. Animal Behaviour, 77:1103-1110.

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

Li, M.H., I. Strandén & J. Kantanen. Genetic diversity and pedigree analysis of the Finnsheep breed. Journal of Animal Science 87:1598-1605. doi: 10.2527/jas.2008-0848

Li M.H., K. Välimäki, M. Piha, T.Pakkala & J. Merilä. Extrapair paternity and maternity in the three-toed woodpecker, Picoides tridactylus: insights from microsatellite-based parentage analysis. PLoS ONE 4: 1-6. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007895

Ma X., X. Lu & J. Merilä. Altitudinal decline of body size in a Tibetan frog. Journal of Zoology 279: 364–371. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00627.x

Matsuba C. & J. Merilä. Isolation and characterization of 145 polymorphic microsatellite loci for the common frog (Rana temporaria). Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 555–562. doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02368.x

Merilä J. Genetic constraints on adaptive evolution? Science 325: 1212-1213. doi: 10.1126/science.1179326

Merilä, J. It´s the genotype, stupid! Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics 126:1–2. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2008.00795.x

Molich A., Waser W. & Heisler N. The teleost pseudobranch: a role for preconditioning of ocular blood supply? Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 35: 273-286.

Mutshinda C.M., R.B. O'Hara & I. P. Woiwod. What drives community dynamics? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276: 2923-2929. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0523

O'Hara R.B. Selective harvesting with equations: comment on "Should hunting mortality mimic the patterns of natural mortality?". Biology Letters 5: 211-212. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0666

O'Hara R.B. How to make models add up - a primer on GLMMs. Annales Zoologici Fennici 46: 124-137. pdf

O'Hara R.B., S. Lampila & M. Orell. Estimating rates of births, deaths and immigration from mark-recapture data. Biometrics 65: 275-281. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01048.x

O'Hara R.B. & M.J. Sillanpää. A review of Bayesian variable selection methods: what, how, and which. Bayesian Analysis 4: 85-118. doi:10.1214/09-BA403

Otstavel, T., Vuori, K.A., Sims, D.E., Valros, A., Vainio, O., Saloniemi, H. The first experience of livestock guarding dogs preventing large carnivore damages in Finland. Estonian Journal of Ecology 58:216-224.

Postma E. & P. Gienapp. Origin-related differences in plumage coloration within an island population of great tits (Parus major). Canadian Journal of Zoology 87(1): 1-7. doi:10.1139/Z08-132

Primmer C. R. From Conservation Genetics to Conservation Genomics. Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2009, Annales of the New York Academy of Science 1162:357-368.

Routti, H., Letcher, R., Arukwe, A., Van Bavel, B., Yoccoz, N., Chu, S. Gabrielsen, G.
Biotransformation of PCBs in Relation to Phase I and II Xenobiotic-Metabolizing Enzyme Activities in Ringed Seals (Phoca hispida) from Svalbard and the Baltic Sea. Environmental Pollution 157: 2428-2434

Routti H., Letcher, R. J., Chu, S. G., Van Bavel, B. and Gabrielsen, G. W. Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Their Hydroxylated Analogues in Ringed Seals (Phoca hispida) from Svalbard and the Baltic Sea. Environmental Science & Technology, 43:3494-3499.

Sørensen J.G., M. Pekkonen, B. Lindgren, V. Loeschcke, A. Laurila, J. Merilä. Complex patterns of geographic variation in heat tolerance and Hsp70 expression levels in the common frog Rana temporaria. Journal of Thermal Biology 34: 49-54. doi: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2008.10.004.

Swatdipong A., Vasemagi, A., Koskinen, M. T., Piironen, J. and Primmer, C. R. Unanticipated population structure of European grayling in its northern distribution: implications for conservation prioritization. Frontiers in Zoology, 6, 6.

Teplitsky, C., J.A. Mills, J.W. Yarall & J. Merilä. Heritability of fitness components in a wild bird population. Evolution 63-3: 716–726. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00581.x

Tiira K & Primmer CRS. Genetic diversity and fitness related traits in endangered salmonids. Population Genetics for Animal Conservation. eds. G Bertorelle, MW Bruford, HC Hauffe, A Rizzoli and C Vernesi, pp. 235-262.

Tonteri A., Veselov A.je., Zubchenko A.V., Lumme J., Primmer C.R. Microsatellites reveal clear genetic boundaries among Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations from the Barents and White seas, northwest Russia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 66: 717-735.

Van den Steen, E., Pinxten, R., Jaspers, V.L.B., Covaci, A., Barba, E., Carere, C., Cichón, M., Dubiec, A., Eeva, T., Heeb, P., Kempenaers, B., Lifjeld, J.T., Lubjuhn, T., Mänd, R., Massa, B., Nilsson, J.-Å., Norte, A.C., Orell, M., Podzemny, P., Sanz, J.J., Senar, J.C., Sorace, A., Török, J., Visser, M., Winkel, W., Eens, M. Brominated flame retardants and organochlorines in the European environment using great tit eggs as a biomonitoring tool. Environment International 35: 310-17

Waser, W, Bausheva, O.and Nikinmaa, M. The copper-induced reduction of critical swimming speed in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Aquatic Toxicology, 94, 77-79

Vuori, K.A., Ahlskog, J.K., Sistonen, L., Nikinmaa, M. TransLISA, a novel quantitative, nonradioactive assay for transcription factor DNA-binding analyses. FEBS Journal 276, 7366-7374

Vuori, K.A., Paavilainen, T., Nikinmaa, M., Czesny, S., Rinchard, J. Molecular markers of yolk-sac fry development in nine families of lake trout. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health, 21, 279-289

 

Other publications:

Kuparinen A. & J. Merilä. Sata vuotta tutkimuksia lohien vaelluksesta Pohjanlahden jokiin.
Luonnon Tutkija 3: 108-109. pdf

Ruokonen M. & J. Merilä. Kiljuhanhen luonnonpopulaatioiden geneettiset perustiedot. pp 49-51. In: Kiljuhanhen suojeluohjelma. BirdLIfe Finland. 27.2.2009. 68pp.

Ruokonen M. & J. Merilä. Fennoskandian tarhakantojen geneettiset perustiedot. pp 52-54. In: Kiljuhanhen suojeluohjelma. BirdLIfe Finland. 27.2.2009. 68pp.

Merilä J. Selviääkö mikään elollinen absoluuttisessa nollapisteessä? Tiede 2: 64. pdf