Publications 2010

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Reviewed Book Chapters:
 

Alho J., C. Matsuba & J. Merilä. Sex reversal and primary sex ratios in the common frog (Rana temporaria). Molecular Ecology 19: 1763-1773. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04607.x

Alho J.S., K. Välimäki & J. Merilä. Rhh: An R extension for estimating multilocus heterozygosity and heterozygosity-heterozygosity correlation. Molecular Ecology Resources 10: 720-722. doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02830.x

Brommer J.E., J.S. Alho, C. Biard, J.R. Chapman, A. Charmantier, A. Dreiss, I.R. Hartley, M.B. Hjernquist, B. Kempenaers, J. Komdeur, T. Laaksonen, P.K. Lehtonen, T. Lubjuhn, S.C. Patrick, B. Rosivall, J.M. Tinbergen, M. van der Velde K. van Oers, T. Wilk & W. Winkel. Passerine extrapair mating dynamics: A Bayesian modeling approach comparing four species. American Naturalist 176: 178-187. doi:10.1086/653660

Eeva, T., Helle, S., Salminen, J.-P., Hakkarainen, H. Carotenoid composition of invertebrates consumed by two insectivorous bird species. Journal of Chemical Ecology 36: 608-613

Eeva, T., Rainio, K. and Suominen, O: Effects of pollution on land snail abundance, size and diversity as resources for pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca. Science of the Total Environment 408, 4165-4169 

Engen S., R. Lande, B.-E. Sæther & P. Gienapp. Estimating the ratio of effective to actual size of an age-structured population from individual demographic data. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 1148-1158. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01979.x

Erkinaro J, Niemelä E, Vähä J-PK, Primmer CR, Brørs S, Hassinen E, Orell P & Länsman M (2010) Distribution and biological characteristics of escaped farmed salmon in a major subarctic salmon river,River Teno, (Finland/Norway). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67: 130–142

Gienapp, P. & J. Merilä. Genetic and environmental effects on a condition-dependent trait: feather growth in Siberian jays. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 715-723. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01949.x

Gienapp P. & J. Merilä. High Fidelity - No Evidence for Extra-Pair Paternity in Siberian Jays (Perisoreus infaustus). PLoS ONE 5(8): e12006. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012006

Herczeg G., A. Gonda & J. Merilä. Rensch's rule inverted – female-driven gigantism in nine-spined stickleback Pungitius pungitius. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 581-588. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01665.x

Herczeg, G., Matsuba, C. & Merilä J. Sequence variation in the melanocortin-1 receptor gene (MC1R) does not explain variation in the degree of melanism in a widespread amphibian. Annales Zoologici Fennici 47:37-45. pdf

Koivula, M. and Eeva, T. Metal related oxidative stress in birds. Environmental Pollution, 158, 2359-2370

 Kuparinen A., T. Klefoth and R. Arlinghaus. Abiotic and fishing-related correlates of angling catch rates in pike (Esox lucius). Fisheries Research 105: 111-117.

Kuparinen A., O. Savolainen O. & F. M. Schurr. Increased mortality can promote evolutionary adaptation of forest trees to climate change. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 1003-1008. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.12.006

Kuparinen A., J. Tufto, S. Consuegra, K. Hindar, J. Merilä & C. Garcia de Leaniz. Effective size of an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) metapopulation in Northern Spain. Conservation Genetics 11: 1559-1565. doi:10.1007/s10592-009-9945-6

Lambrechts, M. M., Adriaensen, F., Ardia, D. R., Artemyev, A. V., Atiénzar, F., Banbura, J., Barba, E., Bouvier, J.-C., Camprodon, J., Cooper, C. B., Dawson, R. D., Eens, M., Eeva, T., Faivre, B., Garamszegi, L. Z., Goodenough, A. E., Gosler, A. G., Grégoire, A., Griffith, S. C., Gustafsson, L., Johnson, L. S., Kania, W., Keišs, O., Llambias, P. E., Mainwaring, M., Mänd, R., Massa, B., Mazgajski, T. D., Møller, A. P., Moreno, J., Naef-Daenzer, B., Nilsson, J. Å., Norte, A. C., Orell, M., Otter, K., Park, C. R., Perrins, C. M., Pinowski, J., Porkert, J., Potti, J., Remes, V., Richner, H., Rytkönen, S., Shiao, M.-T., Silverin, B., Slagsvold, T., Smith, H. G., Sorace, A., Stenning, M. J., Stewart, I., Thompson, C. F., Tryjanowski, P., Török, J., van Noordwijk, A. J., Winkler, D. W. and Ziane, N. 2010. The design of artificial nestboxes for the study of secondary hole-nesting birds: a review of methodological inconsistencies and potential biases. Acta Ornithologica 45: 1-26.

Leder EH, JM Cano, T Leinonen, RB O’Hara, M Nikinmaa, CR Primmer, and J Merilä. 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

Li M.-H. & J. Merilä. Sex-specific population structure, natural selection, and linkage disequilibrium in a wild bird population as revealed by genome-wide microsatellite analyses. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 66. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-66

Li M.-H. & J. Merilä. Extensive linkage disequilibrium in a wild bird population. Heredity 104: 600-610. doi:10.1038/hdy.2009.150

Loehr J., J. Carey, R.B. O’Hara & D. Hik. The role of phenotypic plasticity in responses of hunted thinhorn sheep ram horn growth to changing climate conditions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 783-790. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01948.x

Nikinmaa, M, Sensing oygen In: Respiratory Physiology of Vertebrates. Life with and without Oxygen (G.E. Nilsson, ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 14-48

Raja-aho, S., Suorsa, P., Vainio, M., Nikinmaa, M., Lehikoinen, E. and Eeva, T: Body condition is associated with adrenocortical response in the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica L.) during early stages of autumn migration. Oecologia 163: 323-332

Ruokonen M., T. Aarvak, R.K. Chesser & J. Merilä. Temporal increase in mtDNA diversity in a declining population. Molecular Ecology 19: 2408-2417. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04653.x

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

Shikano T., J. Ramadevi, Y. Shimada & J. Merilä. Utility of sequenced genomes for microsatellite marker development in non-model organisms: a case study of functionally important genes in nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius). BMC Genomics 11: 334. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-334

Shikano T., Y. Shimada, G. Herczeg & J. Merilä. History vs. habitat type: explaining the genetic structure of European nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) populations.
Molecular Ecology 19: 1147-1161. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04553.x

Teplitsky C., J.A. Mills, J.W. Yarall & J. Merilä. Indirect genetic effects in a sex limited trait: the case of breeding time in red-billed gulls. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 935-944. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01959.x

Van den Steen, E., Pinxten, R., Covaci, A., Carere., Eeva, T., Heeb, P., Kempenaers, B., Lifjeld, J.T., Massa, B., Norte, A.C., Orell, M., Sanz, J.J., Senar, J.C., Sorace, A., Eens, M. The use of blue tit eggs as a biomonitoring tool of organohalogenated pollutants in the European environment. Science of the Total Environment 408:1451-1457

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