Publications - Nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius Pungitius, Linnaeus 1758)
In press, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006
In press
Ab Ghani N.I., G. Herczeg & J. Merilä.
Body size divergence in nine-spined sticklebacks: disentangling additive genetic and maternal effects.
Biological Journal of Linnean Society, in press.
Saarinen P.K., J. Pahlberg, G. Herczeg, M. Viljanen, M.E. Karjalainen, T. Shikano, J. Merilä & K. Donner.
Spectral tuning by selective chromophore uptake in rods and cones of eight populations of nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius).
Journal of Experimental Biology, in press. Blog
Välimäki K. & G. Herczeg.
Ontogenetic and evolutionary effects of predation and competition on nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) body size.
Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.01971.x
2012
Herczeg G., A. Gonda, A. Kuparinen & J. Merilä.
Contrasting growth strategies of pond vs. marine populations of nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius): a combined effect of predation and competition?
Evolutionary Ecology 26: 109-122. doi:10.1007/s10682-011-9491-9 Blog
Laine V.N., C.R. Primmer, G. Herczeg, J. Merilä & T. Shikano.
Isolation and characterization of 13 new nine-spined stickleback, Pungitius pungitius, microsatellites located nearby candidate genes for behavioural variation.
Annales Zoologici Fennici 49: 123-128. link
2011
Gonda A., G. Herczeg & J. Merilä.
Population variation in brain size of nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius) - local adaptation or environmentally induced variation?
BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:75. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-75 Blog
Herczeg G. & K. Välimäki.
Intraspecific variation in behaviour: effects of evolutionary history, ontogenetic experience and sex.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 2434-2444. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02371.x
Shikano T., G. Herczeg & J. Merilä.
Molecular sexing and population genetic inference using a sex-linked microsatellite marker in the nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius).
BMC Research Notes 4: 119. Open access
Shikano T. & J. Merilä.
Body size and number of vertebrae in the nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius).
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104: 378-385. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01731.x
Shimada Y., T. Shikano, A. Kuparinen, A. Gonda, T. Leinonen & J. Merilä.
Quantitative genetics of body size and timing of maturation in two nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) populations.
PLoS ONE 6(12): e28859. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028859 Blog
Teacher A.G.F., T. Shikano, M.E. Karjalainen & J. Merilä.
Phylogeography and genetic structuring of European nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius) - mitochondrial DNA evidence.
PLoS ONE 6: e19476. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019476 Blog
Trokovic N., G. Herczeg, R.J.S. McCairns, N.I. Ab Ghani & J. Merilä.
Intraspecific divergence in the lateral line system in the nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius).
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 1546-1558. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02286.x
2010
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 Blog
Herczeg G., M. Turtiainen & J. Merilä.
Morphological divergence of North-European nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius): signatures of parallel evolution.
Biological Journal of Linnean Society 101: 403-416. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01518.x Blog
Merilä J.
Kymmen- ja kolmipiikin levinneisyydestä kaivataan tietoja.
Suomen kalastuslehti 117: 28-30. pdf
Merilä J.
När en småspigg blir stor.
Fiskeritidskrift för Finland 54: 26-28. pdf
Merilä J.
Kymmen- ja kolmipiikin levinneisyys Suomessa.
Luonnon Tutkija 114: 13-16. pdf
Shikano T., J. Ramadevi & J. Merilä.
Identification of local- and habitat-dependent selection: Scanning functionally important genes in nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius).
Molecular Biology and Evolution 27: 2775-2789. doi:10.1093/molbev/msq167 Blog
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 Blog
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
Waser W., T.P. Sahoo, G.Herczeg, J.Merilä & M. Nikinmaa
Physiological differentiation among nine-spined stickleback populations: effects of copper exposure.
Aquatic Toxicology 98: 188-195. doi:10.1016/j.aquatox.2010.02.009
2009
Gonda A., G. Herczeg & J. Merilä.
Adaptive brain size differentiation in ninespine sticklebacks.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1721-1726. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01782.x Blog
Gonda A, G. Herczeg & J. Merilä.
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 Blog
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. Blog
Herczeg, G., A. Gonda & J. Merilä.
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 Blog
Herczeg, G., A. Gonda & J. Merilä.
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 Blog
2007
Mäkinen H.S., Välimäki K., Merilä J.
Cross-species amplification of microsatellite loci for nine-spined stickleback Pungitius pungitius.
Annales Zoologici Fennici 44: 218–224. link pdf
2006
Merilä J.
Ennätyksellisen iso kymmenpiikki (Pungitius pungitius) Kuusamon Rytilammesta [In Finnish: Record nine-spine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) from Rytilampi in Kuusamo].
Luonnon Tutkija 110(3): 91-93. pdf
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