Publications - Three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
In press
McCairns R.J.S. & L. Bernatchez.
Plasticity and heritability of morphological variation within and between parapatric stickleback demes.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02496.x
2012
DeFaveri J., L.N. Zanella, D. Zanella, M. Mrakovčić & J. Merilä.
Phylogeography of isolated freshwater threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus populations in the Adriatic Sea basin.
Journal of Fish Biology 80: 61-85. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03147.x Blog
2011
Alho J.S., T. Leinonen & J. Merilä.
Inheritance of vertebral numbers in the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
PLoS One 6: e19579. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019579 Blog
DeFaveri J., T. Shikano, Y. Shimada, A. Goto & J. Merilä.
Global analysis of genes involved in freshwater adaptation in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
Evolution 65: 1800-1807. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01247.x Blog
Leinonen T., J.M. Cano & J. Merilä.
Genetics of body shape and armour variation in threespine sticklebacks.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 206-218. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02161.x
Leinonen T., J. M. Cano & J. Merilä.
Genetic basis of sexual dimorphism in the threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus.
Heredity 106: 218-227. doi:10.1038/hdy.2010.104
Leinonen T., G. Herczeg, J.M. Cano & J. Merilä.
Predation-imposed selection on threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) morphology: a test of the refuge use hypothesis.
Evolution 65: 2916-2926. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01349.x Blog
Shimada Y., T. Shikano & J. Merilä.
A high incidence of selection on physiologically important genes in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 181-193. doi:10.1093/molbev/msq181 Blog
2010
Leder E.H., J.M. Cano, T. Leinonen, R. O’Hara, C.R. Primmer & J. Merilä.
Concentration of female-biased expression pattern on the X chromosome as an intermediate step in the evolution of sex chromosomes.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 27: 1495-1503. doi:10.1093/molbev/msq031
2009
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 Blog
2008
Cano J.M., Mäkinen H.S., Merilä J.
Genetic evidence for male-biased dispersal in the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
Molecular Ecology 17: 3234-3242. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03837.x
Cano J.M., Mäkinen H., Leinonen T., Freyhof J., Merilä J.
Extreme neutral genetic and morphological divergence supports classification of Adriatic three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) populations as distinct conservation units.
Biological Conservation 141: 1055-1066. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2008.01.015 Blog
Mäkinen H.S., Merilä J.
Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography
of the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in Europe - Evidence for multiple glacial refugia.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 167-182. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.06.011
Mäkinen H., Cano J.M., Merilä J.
Identifying footprints of directional and balancing selection in marine and freshwater three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) populations.
Molecular Ecology 17: 3565-3582. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03714.x News & Views
Mäkinen H., Shikano T., Cano J.M., Merilä J.
Hitchhiking mapping reveals a large genomic region affected by natural selection in three-spined stickelback chromosome VIII.
Genetics 178: 453-465. doi: 10.1534/genetics.107.078782
2006
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. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03099.x
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.
J. Evol. Biol., 19: 1803-1812. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01182.x
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 (6): 1519-1534. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.02871.x
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