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Peer-reviewed international scientific journal articles

• Lilley TM, Vesterinen EJ, Vasko VV, Blomberg AS and Fjelldal MA. (2026) Environmental drivers of bat activity at high latitudes. BMC Ecology and Evolution 26, 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-026-02497-w
• Leino L, Costa R, Eens M, Isaksson C, Puigbò P, Rainio M, Sánchez-Virosta P, Vesterinen EJ, Vinkler M, Zamora-Lopez A, Zamora Marin JM, Ziegler A-K, and Eeva T. (2026) Metal-polluted environments across Europe show location dependent associations with gut microbiota and nestling performance in an insectivorous passerine. Environmental Research 296, 2026:124012, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2026.124012
• Lamppu M, Klemola T, Vesterinen EJ, Dub T, Pietikäinen A, and Hytönen J. (2026) Repeated cross-sectional surveys show a decreasing trend in Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato seroprevalence over a 50-year period in Finland. Eurosurveillance 2025;30(36):pii=2500171. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.36.2500171
• Parisy B, Schmidt NM, Cirtwill AR, Villa-Galaviz E, Tiusanen M, Sirén J, Klütsch CFC, Aspholm PE, Raundrup K, Vesterinen EJ, Wirta H, Roslin R. (2026) Opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi is driven by environmental conditions. Ecological Monographs
• Bastien Parisy, Niels Schmidt, Alyssa Cirtwill, Edith Villa-Galaviz, Mikko Tiusanen, Cornelya Klütsch, Paul Aspholm, Katrine Raundrup, Eero Vesterinen, Helena Wirta, and Tomas V. Roslin (2026) Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation. Communications Earth & Environment.
• Alale TY, Klemola T, Sormunen JJ, Harvala H, Kakkola L, Tikkala J, & Vesterinen EJ. (2025). Tick-Borne Viruses in Finland: Public Health Risks, Interventions and Research Insights. Veterinary Medicine and Science 11, no. 6: e70638. https://doi.org/10.1002/vms3.70638
• Sormunen JJ, Vesterinen EJ, and Klemola T. (2025) Ticks and tick-borne pathogens encountered by dogs and cats: a North European perspective. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 5574554. https://doi.org/10.1155/tbed/5574554
• Ringvold H, Vesterinen EJ, Monto E, and van der Meeren T (2025) Northern outpost for Mediterranean scaldfish: Encounters from Norwegian coastal and oceanic waters, NE Atlantic Ocean. Marine Biodiversity. 55, 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-025-01504-5
• Sormunen JJ, Mäkelä S, Sippola E, Elo R, Kiran N, Pakanen V-M, Kallio ER, Vesterinen EJ, and Klemola T. (2025) There goes the neighbourhood - A multi-city study reveals ticks and tick-borne pathogens commonly occupy urban green spaces. Zoonoses and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.13208
• Ramula S, Mousavi SA, and Vesterinen EJ. (2024) Root, Nodule and Soil Bacterial Communities Associated With the Invasive Nitrogen-Fixing Lupinus polyphyllus. Ecology and Evolution, 14: e70669. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70669
• Alale TY, Sormunen JJ, Nzeh J, Agjei RO, Vesterinen EJ, and Klemola T. (2024) Public knowledge and awareness of tick-borne pathogens and diseases: A cross-sectional study in Ghana. Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases, 6, 100228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpvbd.2024.100228
• Leino LI, Vesterinen EJ, Sánchez-Virosta P, Puigbò P, Eeva T, and Rainio MJ. (2024) Pollution-related changes in nest microbiota: Implications for growth and fledging in three passerine birds. Environmental Pollution 357 (2024): 124434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124434
• Alale TY, Sormunen JJ, Vesterinen EJ, Klemola T, Knott KE & Baltazar-Soares M (2024). Genomic signatures of hybridization between Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus in natural populations. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11415. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11415
• Morrill A, Forbes MR, Vesterinen EJ, Tamminen M, Sääksjärvi IE, and Kaunisto KM (2024) Molecular characterisation of faecal bacterial assemblages among four species of syntopic Odonates. Microbial Ecology
• Pihlström H, Halkka A, Sainmaa S, Lanki M, Simola O, Oksanen A, Pilāts V, Vesterinen EJ, Jaakko P, Puolakoski A, Granroth J. (2024) A vagrant walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) in Finland. Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. 2024 Apr 18;100:1-7. https://journal.fi/msff/article/view/145100
• Sormunen JJ, Mänttäri J, Vesterinen EJ & Klemola T (2024). Blood meal analysis reveals sources of tick-borne pathogens and differences in host utilization of juvenile Ixodes ricinus across urban and sylvatic habitats. Zoonoses and Public Health, 71, 442–450. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.13124
• Heinen J, Domínguez-García V, Aguilera G, Malsher G, Vesterinen E, Roslin T, Bommarco R, & Bartomeus I (2024). Diversified cropping strengthens herbivore regulation by providing seasonal resource continuity to predators. Journal of Applied Ecology, 00, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14674
• Ozerov M.Yu., Noriekene K., Kahar S., Flajshans M., Gross R., Vasemagi A. (2024) Differential expression and alternative splicing analyses of multiple tissues reveal albinism-associated genes in the Wels catfish (Silurus glanis). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 271: 110941.
• Taube K., Noriekene K., Kahar S., Gross R., Ozerov M.Yu., Vasemagi A. (2024) Subtle transcriptomic response of Eurasian perch (Perca fluvatilis) associated with Triaenophorus nodulosus plerocercoid infection. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 22: 146-154.
• Diaz-Suarez A., Noreikiene K., Kahar S., Ozerov M.Y., Gross R., Kisand V., Vasemagi A. (2024) DNA Metabarcoding reveals spatial and temporal variation of fish eye fluke communities in lake ecosystems. International Journal for Parasitology, 54: 33-46.
• Wirta H, Jones M, Peña‐Aguilera P, Chacón‐Duque C, Vesterinen E, Ovaskainen O, Abrego N, & Roslin T (2023). The role of seasonality in shaping the interactions of honeybees with other taxa. Ecology and Evolution, 13(10), e10580. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10580
• Kotila M, Suominen KM, Vasko VV, Blomberg AS, Lehikoinen A, Andersson T, Aspi J, Cederberg T, Hänninen J, Inkinen J, Koskinen J, Lundberg G, Mäkinen K, Rontti M, Snickars M, Solbakken J, Sundell J, Syvänperä I, Vuorenmaa S, Ylönen J, Vesterinen EJ & Lilley TM (2023) Large‐scale long‐term passive‐acoustic monitoring reveals spatio‐temporal activity patterns of boreal bats. Ecography. 2023(6): e06617.
• Sormunen J, Klemola T, Sääksjärvi I, and Vesterinen EJ (2023) Crowdsourced tick observation data from across 60 years reveals major increases and northwards shifts in tick contact areas in Finland. Scientific Reports. 13, 21274 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48744-8
• Sormunen J, Kulha N, Alale T, Klemola T, Sääksjärvi I, and Vesterinen EJ (2023) For the people by the people: citizen science web interface for real-time monitoring of tick risk areas in Finland. Solutions and Evidence, 4, e12294. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12294
• Leponiemi M, Freitak D, Moreno-Torres M, Pferschy-Wenzig E-M, Becker-Scarpitta A, Tiusanen M, Vesterinen EJ, and Wirta H. (2023) Honeybees’ foraging choices for nectar and pollen revealed by DNA metabarcoding. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42102-4
• Koskinen J, Abrego N, Vesterinen EJ, Roslin T, and Nyman T. (2023) Environmental responses of fruiting fungal communities are phylogenetically structured. Ecography. 2023:e06333. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.06333
• Suominen KM, Vesterinen EJ, Ilkka Kivistö I, Reiman M, Virtanen T, Meierhofer MB, Vasko V, Sironen T, and Lilley TM (2023) Environmental features around roost sites drive species-specific roost preferences for boreal bats. Global Ecology and Conservation 46, e02589.
• Peña‐Aguilera P, Schmidt NM, Stewart L, Parisy B, R. Der Wal R, Lindman L, Vesterinen EJ, Maclean IMD, Kankaanpää T, Wirta H, and Roslin T (2023) Consistent imprints of elevation, soil temperature and moisture on plant and arthropod communities across two subarctic landscapes. Insect Conservation and Diversity 16:684–700.
• Parisy B, Schmidt NM, Wirta H, Stewart L, Pellissier L, Holben WE, Pannoni S, Somervuo P, Jones MM, Siren J, Vesterinen EJ, Ovaskainen O, Roslin T (2023) Ecological signals of arctic plant-microbe associations are consistent across eDNA and vegetation surveys. Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 7: e99979. https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.7.99979
• Gaultier SP, Lilley TM, Vesterinen EJ, and Brommer JE. (2023) The Presence of Wind Turbines Repels Bats in Boreal Forests. Landscape and Urban Planning 231: 104636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104636.
• Dürrbaum E, Fornoff F, Scherber C, Vesterinen EJ, Eitzinger B (2023) Metabarcoding of trap nests reveals differential impact of urbanization on cavity nesting bee and wasp communities. Molecular Ecology, mec.16818. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16818.
• Sormunen JJ, Mäkelä S, Klemola T, Alale TY, Vesterinen EJ. (2023) Voles, shrews and red squirrels as sources of tick blood meals and tick-borne pathogens on an island in southwestern Finland. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 14(1): 102134
• Hagner M, Pohjanlehto I, Nuutinen V, Setälä H, Velmala S, Vesterinen EJ, Pennanen T, Lemola R, and Peltoniemi K. (2023) Impacts of Long-Term Organic Production on Soil Fauna in Boreal Dairy and Cereal Farming. Applied Soil Ecology 189:104944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.104944.
• Liukkonen, M., Hukkanen, M., Cossin-Sevrin, N., Stier, A., Vesterinen, EJ., Grond, K., & Ruuskanen, S. (2023). No evidence for associations between brood size, gut microbiome diversity and survival in great tit (Parus major) nestlings. Animal Microbiome, 5(1) 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.06.506880
• Tuomi MW, Murguzur FJA, Hoset KS, Soininen EM, Vesterinen EJ, Utsi TA, Kaino S, and Bråthen KA (2023). Novel frontier in wildlife monitoring: Identification of small rodent species from faecal pellets using Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS). Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.11.487830
• Vasemagi A., Huss M., Gardmark A., Ozerov M. (2023) On ability of perch to colonize new waterbodies-indirect evidence and sticky facts. A Comment on: Multiple lines and levels of evidence for avian zoochory promoting fish colonization of artificial lakes (2023), by Garcia et al. Biology Letters, 19: 20230533.
• Vasemagi A., Ozerov M., Noreikiene K., Lopez M.-E., Gardmark A. (2023) Unlocking the genome of perch - From genes to ecology and back again. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 00, 1-26.
• Marzanov N.S., Devrishov D.A., Ozerov M.Y., Maluchenko O.P., Marzanova S.N., Shukurova E.B., Koreckaya E.A., Kantanen J., Petit D. (2023) The Significance of a Multilocus Analysis for Assessing the Biodiversity of the Romanov Sheep Breed in a Comparative Aspect. Animals (Basel). 13(8):1320.
• Kyrö K, Kankaanpää T, Vesterinen EJ, Lehvävirta S, and Kotze DJ. (2022) Arthropod Communities on Young Vegetated Roofs Are More Similar to Each Other Than to Communities at Ground Level. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 785448. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.785448.
• Kulha N, Ruokolainen K, Vesterinen EJ, Lamppu M, Klemola T, and Sormunen JJ. (2022) Does Environmental Adaptation or Dispersal History Explain the Geographical Distribution of Ixodes Ricinus and Ixodes Persulcatus Ticks in Finland? Ecology and Evolution 12 (12). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9538.
• Manova V, Stoyanova Z, Rodeva R, Boycheva I, Korpelainen H, Vesterinen EJ, Wirta H, and Bonchev G. (2022) Morphological, Pathological and Genetic Diversity of the Colletotrichum Species, Pathogenic on Solanaceous Vegetable Crops in Bulgaria. Journal of Fungi 8 (11): 1123. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8111123.
• Kotila M, Helle S, Lehto HJ, Rojas D, Vesterinen EJ, and Lilley TM. (2022). Atmospheric humidity affects global variation of bat echolocation via indirect effects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 934876. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.934876
• Koskinen, J. S., Abrego, N., Vesterinen, E. J., Schulz, T., Roslin, T., & Nyman, T. (2022). Imprints of latitude, host taxon, and decay stage on fungus‐associated arthropod communities. Ecological Monographs, 92(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1516
• Schmidt, N. M., Roslin, T., Hansen, L. H., Gilg, O., Lang, J., Sittler, B., Hansen, J., Bollache, L., & Vesterinen, EJ. (2022). Spatio-temporal patterns in arctic fox (Vulpes alopex) diets revealed by molecular analysis of scats from Northeast Greenland. Polar Science, 32, 100838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2022.100838
• Wirta, H. K., Bahram, M., Miller, K., Roslin, T., & Vesterinen, EJ. (2022). Reconstructing the ecosystem context of a species: Honey-borne DNA reveals the roles of the honeybee. PLOS ONE, 17(7), e0268250. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268250
• Sormunen, J.J., Klemola, T. & Vesterinen, E.J. (2022) Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing migrating and local breeding birds in Finland. Experimental and Applied Acarology 86, 145–156 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-021-00679-3
• Tomas Roslin, Panu Somervuo, Mikko Pentinsaari, Paul Hebert, Jireh Agda, Petri Ahlroth, Perttu Anttonen, Jouni Aspi, Gergin Blagoev, Santiago Blanco, Dean Chan, Tom Clayhills, Jeremy deWaard, Stephanie deWaard, Tyler Elliott, Riikka Elo, Sami Haapala, Eero Helve, Jari Ilmonen, Petri Hirvonen, Chris Ho, Juhani Itämies, Vladislav Ivanov, Jevgeni Jakovlev, Aino Juslen, Reijo Jussila, Jere Kahanpää, Lauri Kaila, Jari-Pekka Kaitila, Ari Kakko, Iiro Kakko, Ali Karhu, Sami Karjalainen, Jostein Kjaerandsen, Janne Koskinen, Erkki Laasonen, Leena Laasonen, Erkka Laine, Petri Lampila, Valerie Levesque-Beaudin, Liuqiong Lu, Meri Lähteenaro, Pekka Majuri, Sampsa Malmberg, Ramya Manjunath, Petri Martikainen, Jaakko Mattila, Jaclyn McKeown, Petri Metsälä, Margarita Miklasevskaja, Meredith Miller, Rene Labbee, Arto Muinonen, Veli-Matti Mukkala, Suresh Naik, Nadia Nikolova, Kari Nupponen, Otso Ovaskainen, Ika Österblad, Lauri Paasivirta, Timo Pajunen, Petri Parkko, Juho Paukkunen, Ritva Penttinen, Kate Perez, Jaakko Pohjoismäki, Sean Prosser, Martti Raekunnas, Miduna Rahulan, Meeri Rannisto, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Pekka Raukko, Aki Rinne, Teemu Rintala, Susana Romo, Jukka Salmela, Juha Salokannel, Riitta Savolainen, Leif Schulman, Pasi Sihvonen, Dina Soliman, Jayme Sones, Claudia Steinke, G Ståhls, Jukka Tabell, Mikko Tiusanen, Gergely Várkonyi, Eero J Vesterinen, Esko Viitanen, Veli Vikberg, Matti Viitasaari, Jussi Vilen, Connor Warne, Catherine Wei, Kai Winqvist, Evgeny Zakharov, Marko Mutanen (2022) A molecular-based identification resource for the arthropods of Finland. Molecular Ecology Resources DOI: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.162245457.73290867/v1
• Suhonen J, Iivonsn JJ, Korkeamaki E, Nokkala C, Salmela J. (2022) Using functional traits and phylogeny to understand local extinction risk in dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). Ecology and Evolution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8648
• Nokkala C, Kuznetsova VG, Shapoval NA, Nokkala S. (2022) Phylogeography and Wolbachia Infections Reveal Postglacial Recolonization Routes of the Parthenogenetic Plant Louse Cacopsylla myrtilli (W. Wagner 1947), (Hemiptera, Psylloidea). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5458633
• Nokkala S, Kuznetsova VG, Pietarinen P, Nokkala C. (2022) Evolutionary Potential of Parthenogenesis - Bisexual Lineages within Triploid Apomictic Thelytoky in Cacopsylla ledi (Flor, 1861) (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) in Fennoscandia. Insects 13: 1140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13121140
• O'Sullivan R.J., Ozerov M., Bolstad G.H., Gilbey J., Jacobsen J.A., Erkinaro J., Rikardsen A.H., Hindar K., Aykanat T. (2022) Genetic stock identification reveals greater use of an oceanic feeding ground around the Faroe Islands by multi-sea winter Atlantic salmon. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 79(9): 2442-2452.
• Diaz-Suarez A., Noreikiene K., Kisand V., Burimski O., Svirgsden R., Rohtla M., Ozerov M.Y., Gross R., Vetemaa M., Vasemagi A. (2022) Temporally stable small-scale genetic structure of Northern pike (Esox lucius) in the coastal Baltic Sea. Fisheries Research, 254:106402.
• Lauringson M., Ozerov M.Y., Lopez M.E., Wennevik V., Niemela E., Vorontsova T.Y., Vasemagi A. (2022) Distribution and prevalence of the myxozoan parasite Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae in northernmost Europe: analysis of three salmonid species. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 151:37-49.
• Ozerov M., Noreikiene K., Kahar S., Huss M., Huusko A., Koiv T., Sepp M., Lopez M., Gardmark A., Gross R., Vasemagi A. (2022) Whole-genome sequencing illuminates multifaceted targets of selection to humic substances in Eurasian perch. Molecular Ecology 31:2367-2383.
• Jørgensen J., Sundell K., Castillo D., et al. (2022) Reversible mutations in gliding motility and virulence genes: A flexible and efficient phage defence mechanism in Flavobacterium psychrophilum. Environmental Microbiology.
• Morrill A, Kaunisto KM, Mlynarek JJ, Sippola E, Vesterinen EJ, Forbes MR (2021) Metabarcoding prey DNA from fecal samples of adult dragonflies shows no predicted sex differences, and substantial inter-individual variation, in diets. PeerJ 9:e12634 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12634
• Halldis Ringvold & Eero J. Vesterinen (2021) First in situ observations of the free-floating gelatinous matrix of blackbelly rosefish Helicolenus dactylopterus (Delaroche, 1809), Marine Biology Research, 17:7-8, 634-645, DOI: 10.1080/17451000.2021.2012579
• Heim O, Puisto AIE, Sääksjärvi I, Fukui D, and Vesterinen EJ (2021) Dietary Analysis Reveals Differences in the Prey Use of Two Sympatric Bat Species. Ecology and Evolution 11 (24): 18651–61. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8472.
• Basset, Y., Jorge, L.R., Butterill, P.T., Lamarre, G.P.A., Dahl, C., Ctvrtecka, R., Gripenberg, S., Lewis, O.T., Barrios, H., Brown, J.W., Bunyavejchewin, S., Butcher, B.A., Cognato, A.I., Davies, S.J., Kaman, O., Klimes, P., Knížek, M., Miller, S.E., Morse, G.E., Novotny, V., Pongpattananurak, N., Pramual, P., Quicke, D.L.J., Sakchoowong, W., Umari, R., Vesterinen, E.J., Weiblen, G., Wright, S.J., Segar, S.T., (2021) Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests. Oikos oik.08152. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08152
• Schrojenstein Lantman, I. M., Vesterinen, E. J., Hertzog, L. R., Martel, A., Verheyen, K., Lens, L., & Bonte, D. (2021). Body size and tree species composition determine variation in prey consumption in a forest‐inhabiting generalist predator. Ecology and Evolution, 11(12), 8295–8309. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7659
• Ekholm A, Faticov M, Tack AJM, Berger J, Stone GN, Vesterinen EJ, Roslin T. (2021) Community phenology of insects on oak–local differentiation along a climatic gradient. Ecosphere
• Wirta, H., Abrego, N., Miller, K., Roslin, T., & Vesterinen, E. (2021). DNA traces the origin of honey by identifying plants, bacteria and fungi. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 4798. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84174-0
• Stüber, M., Tack, A. J. M., Zewdie, B., Mendesil, E., Shimales, T., Ayalew, B., Nemomissa, S., Sjögren, J., Vesterinen, E., Wezel, A., & Hylander, K. (2021). Multi-scale mosaics in top-down pest control by ants from natural coffee forests to plantations. Ecology, e03376. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3376
• Dekeukeleire D, Janssen R, Delbroek R, Raymaekers S, Batsleer F, Belien T & Vesterinen EJ. (2021) First molecular evidence of an invasive agricultural pest, Drosophila suzukii, in the diet of a common bat, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, in Belgian orchards. Journal of Bat Research & Conservation [NA]
• Eitzinger B, Roslin T, Vesterinen EJ, Robinson SI, & O’Gorman EJ (2021). Temperature affects both the Grinnellian and Eltonian dimensions of ecological niches – A tale of two Arctic wolf spiders. Basic and Applied Ecology, 50, 132–143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.01.001
• Shapoval NA, Nokkala S, Nokkala C, Kuftina GN, Kuznetsova VG. (2021) The incidence of Wolbachia bacterial endosymbiont in bisexual and parthenogenetic populations of the psyllid genus Cacopsylla (Hemiptera, Psylloidea). Insects 12, 853. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12100853
• Castillo D., Donati V.L., Jørgensen J., Sundell K., et al. (2021) Comparative Genomic Analyses of Flavobacterium psychrophilum Isolates Reveals New Putative Genetic Determinants of Virulence Traits. Microorganisms.
• Kunttu H.M.T., Runtuvuori-Salmela A., Sundell K., et al. (2021) Bacteriophage Resistance Affects Flavobacterium columnare Virulence Partly via Mutations in Genes Related to Gliding Motility and Type IX Secretion System. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
• Donati V.L., Dalsgaard I., Sundell K., et al. (2021) Phage-Mediated Control of Flavobacterium psychrophilum in Aquaculture: In vivo Experiments to Compare Delivery Methods. Frontiers in Microbiology.
• Kankaanpää T, Abrego N, Vesterinen E, & Roslin T. (2020). Microclimate structures communities, predation and herbivory in the High Arctic. Journal of Animal Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13415
• Kankaanpää T, Vesterinen EJ, Hardwick B, Schmidt N, Andersson T, Aspholm P, Barrio IC, Beckers N, Bêty J, Birkemoe T, Desiervo M, Drotos K, Ehrich D, Gilg O, Gilg G, Hein N, Hoye T, Jakobsen K, Jodouin C, Jorna J, Kozlov MV, Kresse J-C, Leandri-Breton D-J, Lecomte N, Loonen M, Marr P, Monckton S, Olsen M, Otis J-A, Pyle M, Roos R, Raundrup K, Rozhkova D, Sabard B, Sokolov A, Sokolova N, Solecki A, Urbanowicz C, Villeneuve C, Vyguzova E , Zverev V, and Roslin T (2020). Parasitoids indicate major climate‐induced shifts in arctic communities. Global Change Biology, 26(11), 6276–6295. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15297
• Nyrhilä S, Sormunen JJ, Mäkelä S, Sippola E, Vesterinen EJ & Klemola T. (2020) One out of ten: low sampling efficiency of cloth dragging challenges abundance estimates of questing ticks. Experimental and Applied Acarology.
• Vesterinen EJ, Kaunisto KM, & Lilley TM. (2020). A global class reunion with multiple groups feasting on the declining insect smorgasbord. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 16595. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73609-9
• Sormunen JJ, Kulha N, Klemola T, Mäkelä S, Vesilahti E, & Vesterinen EJ. (2020). Enhanced threat of tick‐borne infections within cities? Assessing public health risks due to ticks in urban green spaces in Helsinki, Finland. Zoonoses and Public Health, zph.12767. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12767
• Noreikiene K, Ozerov M, Ahmad F, Kõiv T, Kahar S, Gross R, Sepp M, Pellizzone A, Vesterinen EJ, Kisand V and Vasemägi A. (2020) Humic-Acid-Driven Escape from Eye Parasites Revealed by RNA-Seq and Target-Specific Metabarcoding. Parasites & Vectors 13, no. 1 433. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04306-9
• Gaultier SP, Blomberg AS, Ijäs A, Vasko V, Vesterinen EJ, Brommer JE, and Lilley TM. (2020) Bats and Wind Farms: The Role and Importance of the Baltic Sea Countries in the European Context of Power Transition and Biodiversity Conservation. Environmental Science & Technology 54, no. 17 10385–98. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c00070
• Sormunen JJ, Andersson T, Aspi J, Bäck J, Cederberg T, Haavisto N, Halonen H, Hänninen J, Inkinen J, Kulha N, Laaksonen M, Loehr M, Mäkelä S, Mäkinen K, Norkko J, Paavola R, Pajala P, Petäjä T, Puisto A, Sippola E, Snickars M, Sundell J, Tanski N, Uotila A, Vesilahti E-M, Vesterinen EJ, Vuorenmaa S, Ylönen H, Ylönen J, and Klemola T. (2020) Monitoring of ticks and tick-borne pathogens through a nationwide research station network in Finland. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
• Vasko V, Blomberg AS, Vesterinen EJ, Suominen KM, Ruokolainen L, Brommer JE, Norrdahl K, Niemelä P, Laine VN, Selonen V, Santangeli A, Lilley TM. (2020) Within-season changes in habitat use of forest-dwelling boreal bats. Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6253
• Kaunisto K, Roslin T, Forbes M, Morrill A, Puisto A, Sääksjärvi IE, Lilley T and Vesterinen EJ. (2020) Threats from the Air: Damselfly Predation on Diverse Prey Taxa. Journal of Animal Ecology. 1365-2656.13184. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13184
• Ahmad F., Debes P., Nousiainen I., Kahar S., Pukk L., Gross R., Ozerov M., Vasemagi A. (2020) The strength and form of natural selection on transcript abundance in the wild. Molecular Ecology 30:2724-2737.
• Ozerov M.Yu., Flajshans M., Noriekene K., Vasemagi A., Gross R. (2020) Draft genome assembly of the freshwater apex predator wels catfish (Silurus glanis) using linked-read sequencing. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 10(11):3897-3906.
• Noreikiene K., Ozerov M., Ahmad F., Koiv T., Kahar S., Gross R., Sepp M., Pellizzone A., Vesterinen E.J., Kisand V., Vasemagi A. (2020) Humic-acid-driven escape from eye parasites revealed by RNA-seq and target-specific metabarcoding. Parasite and Vectors 13, 433.
• Aykanat T., Rasmussen M., Ozerov M., Niemela E., Paulin L., Vaha J.-P., Hindar K., Wennevik V., Pedersen T., Svenning M., Primmer C. (2020) Life history genomic regions explain differences in Atlantic salmon marine diet specialization. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 2677-2691.
• Sundell K., Landor L., Castillo D., et al. (2020) Bacteriophages as Biocontrol Agents for Flavobacterium psychrophilum Biofilms and Rainbow Trout Infections. PHAGE.
• Kunttu H.M.T., Runtuvuori-Salmela A., Sundell K., et al. (2020) Bacteriophage Resistance Affects Flavobacterium columnare Virulence Partly via Mutations in Genes Related to Gliding Motility and Type IX Secretion System. Preprint.
• Muinonen A, Rinne V and Vesterinen EJ. (2019) Dichrooscytus fervens sp. n., a new species of Miridae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from Finland. Entomologica Fennica 30: 159–167. https://doi.org/10.33338/ef.87171
• Sormunen J, Sippola E, Kaunisto K, Vesterinen EJ and Sääksjärvi I. (2019) First evidence of Ixodiphagus hookeri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) parasitization in Finnish castor bean ticks (Ixodes ricinus L.). Experimental and Applied Acarology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-019-00437-6
• Gripenberg S, Basset Y, Lewis OT, Terry JC, Wright SJ, Simón I, Fernández DC, Cedeño‐Sanchez M, Rivera M, Barrios H, Brown JW, Calderón O, Cognato AI, Kim J, Miller SE, Morse GE, Pinzón‐Navarro S, Quicke DL, Robbins RK, Salminen J and Vesterinen EJ. (2019) A highly resolved food web for insect seed predators in a species‐rich tropical forest. Ecology Letters 22: 1638-1649 https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13359
• Heim O, Puisto AIE, Fukui D and Vesterinen EJ. (2019) Molecular evidence of bird-Eating behavior in Nyctalus Aviator. Acta Ethologica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10211-019-00319-5
• Hokynar K, Kurkela S, Nieminen T, Saxen H, Vesterinen EJ, Mannonen L, Pietikäinen R and Puolakkainen M. (2019) Parachlamydia acanthamoebae detected during a pneumonia outbreak in southeastern Finland, in 2017–2018. Microorganisms 7: 141. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7050141.
• Klemola T, Sormunen JJ, Mojzer J, Mäkelä S and Vesterinen EJ. (2019) High Tick Abundance and Diversity of Tick-Borne Pathogens in a Finnish City. Urban Ecosystems. 22: 817–826. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-019-00854-w
• Ossa J, Johnson J, Puisto AIE, Rinne V, Sääksjärvi IE, Waag A, Vesterinen EJ and Lilley TM. (2019) The Klingon batbugs: morphological adaptations in the primitive bat bugs, Bucimex chilensis and Primicimex cavernis, including updated phylogeny of Cimicidae. Ecology and Evolution. 9, 1736–1749. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4846
• Rytkönen S, Vesterinen EJ, Westerduin C, Leviäkangas T, Vatka E, Mutanen M, Välimäki P, Hukkanen M, Suokas M, Orell M (2019) From feces to data: a metabarcoding method for analyzing consumed and available prey in a bird-insect food web. Ecology and Evolution 9, 631–639. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4787
• Eitzinger B, Abrego NA, Gravel D, Huotari TT, Vesterinen EJ and Roslin TV (2019) Assessing changes in arthropod predator-prey interactions through DNA-based gut content analysis – variable environment, stable diet. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14872
• Deagle BE, Thomas AC, McInnes JC, Clarke LJ, Vesterinen EJ, Clare EL, Kartzinel TR, Eveson JP (2019) Counting with DNA in metabarcoding studies: how should we convert sequence reads to dietary data? Molecular Ecology. 28, 391–406. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14734
• Koskinen J, Roslin T, Nyman T, Abrego N, Michell C, and Vesterinen EJ (2019) Finding flies in the mushroom soup: host specificity of fungus-associated communities revisited with a novel molecular method. Molecular Ecology. 28, 190–202. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14810
• Nokkala C, Kuznetsova VG, Rinne V, Nokkala S. (2019) Description of two new species of the genus Cacopsylla Ossiannilsson, 1970 (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) from northern Fennoscandia recognized by morphology, cytogenetic characters and COI barcode sequence. Comp. Cytogenetics 13: 367-382. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v13i4.47395
• Svenning M.-A., Falkegard M., Niemela E., Vaha J.-P., Wennevik V., Ozerov M., Prusov S., Dempson B.J., Power M., Fauchald P. (2019) Coastal migration patterns of the four largest Barents Sea Atlantic salmon stocks inferred using genetic stock identification methods. ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(6):1379-1389.
• Aykanat T., Ozerov M., Vaha J.-P., Orell P., Niemela E., Erkinaro J., Primmer C.R. (2019) Co-inheritance of sea age at maturity and iteroparity in the Atlantic salmon vgll3 genomic region. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32(4):343-355.
• Sundell K, Landor L, Nicolas P, Jørgensen J, Castillo D, Middelboe M, Dalsgaard I, Donati VL, Madsen L and Wiklund T (2019) Phenotypic and Genetic Predictors of Pathogenicity and Virulence in Flavobacterium psychrophilum. Front. Microbiol. 10:1711.
• Sormunen JJ, Klemola T, Hänninen J, Mäkelä S, Vuorinen I, Penttinen R, Sääksjärvi IE and Vesterinen EJ (2018) The importance of study duration and spatial scale in pathogen detection – Evidence from a tick-infested island. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 7, 189. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41426-018-0188-9
• Laaksonen M, Klemola T, Feuth E, Sormunen JJ, Puisto AIE, Mäkelä S, Penttinen R, Ruohomäki K, Hänninen J, Sääksjärvi IE, Vuorinen I, Hytönen J* and Vesterinen EJ* (2018) Tick-borne pathogens in Finland: comparison of Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus in sympatric and parapatric areas. Parasites & Vectors. 11, 556. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-3131-y [* Equal contributions]
• Vesterinen EJ, Puisto AIE, Blomberg A and Lilley TM (2018) Table for five, please: dietary partitioning in boreal bats. Ecology and Evolution. 8, 10914–10937. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4559
• Hokynar K, Salava A, Vesterinen EJ, Lauerma A, Ranki A, and Puolakkainen M (2018) Chlamydiales Bacterial Sequences in Lesional and Healthy Skin of Patients with Parapsoriasis. Acta Dermato-Venereologica 98, 898–899. https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-2999
• Schmidt NM, Mosbacher JB, Eitzinger B, Vesterinen EJ, Roslin T (2018) High resistance towards herbivore-induced habitat change in a high Arctic arthropod community. Biology Letters 14, 20180054. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0054
• Schmidt NM, Mosbacher JB, Vesterinen EJ, Roslin T, and Michelsen A (2018) Limited dietary overlap amongst resident Arctic herbivores in winter: complementary insights from complementary methods. Oecologia 187, 689–699. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4147-x
• Basset Y, Dahl C, Ctvrtecka,R, Gripenberg S, Lewis OT, Segar ST, Klimes P, Barrios H, Brown JW, Bunyavejchewin S, Butcher BA, Cognato AI, Davies S, Kaman O, Knizek M, Miller SE, Morse GE, Novotny N, Pongpattananurak N, Pramual P, Quicke DLJ, Robbins RK, Sakchoowong W, Schutze M, Vesterinen EJ, Wang W, Wang Y, Weiblen G and Wright JS (2018) A cross-continental comparison of assemblages of seed- and fruit-feeding insects in tropical rainforests: faunal composition and rates of attack. Journal of Biogeography 45, 1395–1407. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13211
• Murtonen M, Nokkala C, Sodervik I. (2018) Challenges in understanding meiosis: fostering metaconceptual awareness among university biology students. Journal of Biological Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00219266.2018.1538016
• Ozerov M.Yu., Ahmad F., Gross R., Pukk L., Kahar S., Kisand V., Vasemagi A. (2018) Highly continuous genome assembly of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) using linked-read sequencing. G3: Genes Genomes Genetics 8(12):3737-3743.
• Duchaud E., Rochat T., Habib C., Sundell K., et al. (2018) Genomic Diversity and Evolution of the Fish Pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum. Frontiers in Microbiology.
• Kaunisto K, Roslin T, Sääksjärvi I ja Vesterinen EJ (2017) Pellets of proof: First glimpse of the dietary composition of adult odonates as revealed by metabarcoding of feces. Ecology and Evolution 7 (20), 8588-8598. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3404
• Lehtonen S, Lehtonen I, Teräs A, Varrela J, Virta P ja Vesterinen EJ (2017) DNA barcoding reveals widespread occurrence of Leptidea juvernica (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in southern Finland. Entomologisk Tidskrift 138:2
• Laaksonen M, Sajanti E, Sormunen JJ, Penttinen R, Hänninen J, Ruohomäki K, Sääksjärvi I, Vesterinen EJ, Vuorinen I, Hytönen J, Klemola T (2017) Crowdsourcing-based nationwide tick collection reveals the distribution of Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus and associated pathogens in Finland. Emerging Microbes & Infections 6, e31. DOI: 10.1038/emi.2017.17
• Lilley TM, Wilson CA, Bernard RF, Willcox EV, Vesterinen EJ, Webber QMR, Kurpiers L, Prokkola JM, Ejotre I, Kurta A, Field KA, Reeder DM and Pulliainen AT (2017) Molecular Detection of Candidatus Bartonella mayotimonensis in North American Bats. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2016.2080
• Nokkala S, Kuznetsova VG, Nokkala C. (2017) Characteristics of parthenogenesis in Cacopsylla ledi (Flor, 1861) (Hemiptera, Sternorryncha, Psylloidea): cytological and molecular approaches. Comp. Cytogenetics 11: 807-817. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i4.21362
• Vasemagi A., Sulku J., Bruneaux M., Thalmann O., Makinen H., Ozerov M. (2017) Prediction of harmful variants on mitochondrial genes: test of habitat-dependent and demographic effects in a euryhaline fish. Ecology and Evolution 7(11):3826-3835.
• Ozerov M., Vaha J.-P., Wennevik V., Niemela E., Svenning M.-A., Prusov S, Diaz Fernandez R., Unneland L., Vasemagi A., Falkegard M., Kalske T., Christiansen B. (2017) Comprehensive microsatellite baseline for genetic stock identification of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in northernmost Europe. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences 74(8):2159-2169.
• Hokynar K, Vesterinen EJ, Lilley TM, Pulliainen A, Korhonen S, Paavonen J, and Puolakkainen M (2016) Molecular evidence of Chlamydia-like organisms in the faeces of the bat Myotis daubentonii. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, AEM.02951–16. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02951-16
• Sormunen JJ, Penttinen R, Klemola T, Vesterinen EJ, Hänninen J. (2016) Anaplasma phagocytophilum in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks in southwestern Finland. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 70:491–500. DOI: 10.1007/s10493-016-0093-7
• Hokynar K, Sormunen J, Vesterinen EJ, Partio E, Lilley T, Timonen V, Panelius J, Ranki A, and Puolakkainen M (2016) Chlamydia-Like Organisms (CLOs) in Finnish Ixodes ricinus Ticks and Human Skin. Microorganisms 4, 28. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms4030028
• Vesterinen EJ, Ruokolainen L, Wahlberg N, Peña C, Roslin T, Laine VN, Vasko V, Sääksjärvi IE, Norrdahl K, and Lilley TM (2016) What you need is what you eat? Prey selection by the bat Myotis daubentonii. Molecular Ecology. 24: 1581-1594. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13564
• Sormunen JJ, Penttinen R, Klemola T, Hänninen J, Vuorinen I, Laaksonen M, Sääksjärvi IE, Ruohomäki K, Vesterinen EJ (2016) Tick-borne bacterial pathogens in southwestern Finland. Parasites & Vectors 9:168, 1–10. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1449-x
• Eeva T, Andersson T, Berglund ÅMM, Brommer J, Hyvönen R, Klemola T, Laaksonen T, Loukola O, Morosinotto C, Rainio K, Sirkiä PM, Vesterinen EJ (2016) Species and abundance of ectoparasitic flies (Diptera) in pied flycatcher nests in Fennoscandia. Parasites & Vectors 8:648. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-1267-6
• Sormunen JJ, Klemola T, Vesterinen EJ, Vuorinen I, Hytönen J, Hänninen J, Ruohomäki K, Sääksjärvi IE, Tonteri E, Penttinen R (2016) Assessing the abundance, seasonal questing activity, and Borrelia and tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) prevalence of Ixodes ricinus ticks in a Lyme borreliosis endemic area in Southwest Finland. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 1: 208–215. DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.10.011
• MacNeil M.D., Alexander L.J., Kantanen J., Ammosov I.A., Ivanova Z.I., Popov R.G., Ozerov M., Millbrooke A., Cronin M.A. (2016) Potential emigration of Siberian cattle germplasm to Chirikof Island, Alaska. Journal of Genetics 96(1):47-51.
• Ozerov M.Yu., Himberg M., Debes P.V., Hagerstrand H., Vasemagi A. (2016) Combining genetic markers with an adaptive meristic trait improves performance of mixed-stock analysis in Baltic whitefish. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences 73(10):2529-2538.
• Iso-Touru T., Tapio M., Vilkki J., Kiseleva T., Ammosov I., Ivanova Z., Popov R., Ozerov M., Kantanen J. (2016) Genetic diversity and genomic signatures of selection among cattle breeds from Siberia, eastern and northern Europe. Animal Genetics 47(6):647-657.
• Kjaerner-Semb E., Ayllon F., Furmanek T., Wennevik V., Dahle G., Niemela E., Ozerov M., Vaha J.P., Glover K.A., Rubin C.J., Wargelius A., Edvardsen R.B. (2016) Atlantic salmon populations reveal adaptive divergence of immune related genes - a duplicated genome under selection. BMC Genomics 17:610.
• Vasemagi A., Kahar S., Ozerov M.Y. (2016) Genes that affect Atlantic salmon growth in hatchery do not have the same effect in the wild. Functional Ecology 30(10):1687-1695.
• Ozerov M.Y., Gross R., Bruneaux M., Vaha J.P., Burimski O., Pukk L., Vasemagi A. (2016) Genomewide introgressive hybridization patterns in wild Atlantic salmon influenced by inadvertent gene flow from hatchery releases. Molecular Ecology 25(6):1275-1293.
• Shafiei S., Viljamaa-Dirks S., Sundell K., et al. (2016) Recovery of Edwardsiella piscicida from farmed whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus (L.), in Finland. Aquaculture.
• Wirta H*, Vesterinen EJ*, Hambäck PA, Weingartner E, Rasmussen C, Reneerkens J, Schmidt NM, Gilg O, Roslin T. (2015) Exposing the structure of an Arctic food web. Ecology and Evolution 17:3842–3856. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1647 [*Equal contributions]
• Nokkala, C., Kuznetsova, V.G. and Nokkala, S. (2015) Rare dipoid females coexist with rare males: a novel finding in tripoid parthenogenetic populations in the psyllid Cacopsylla myrtilli (W. Wagner, 1947) (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) in northern Europe. Genetica 143: 589-595. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-015-9858-x
• Ozerov M.Yu., Himberg M., Aykanat T., Sendek D.S., Hagerstrand H., Verliin A., Krause T., Olsson J., Primmer C.R., Vasemagi A. (2015) Generation of a neutral FST baseline for testing local adaptation on gill raker number within and between European whitefish ecotypes in the Baltic Sea basin. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28(5):1170-1183.
• Ozerov M., Jurgenstein T., Aykanat T., Vasemagi A. (2015) Use of sibling relationship reconstruction to complement traditional monitoring in fisheries management and conservation of brown trout. Conservation Biology 29(4):1164-1175.
• Sundell K., Wiklund T. (2015) Characteristics of epidemic and sporadic Flavobacterium psychrophilum sequence types. Aquaculture.
• Malinga GM, Valtonen A, Vesterinen EJ, Nyeko P, Roininen H (2014) Communities of galling insects on Neoboutonia macrocalyx trees in continuous forests and remnants of forest fragments in Kibale, Uganda. African Entomology 22: 742–754. DOI: 10.4001/003.022.0421
• Malinga GM, Valtonen A, Nyeko P, Vesterinen EJ, Roininen H (2014) Bottom-up impact on the cecidomyiid leaf galler and its parasitism in a tropical rainforest. Oecologia 2: 511–520. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3024-5
• Veikkolainen V*, Vesterinen EJ*, Lilley T, Pulliainen AT (2014): Bats as Reservoir Hosts of Human Bacterial Pathogen, Bartonella Mayotimonensis. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 6: 960–967. DOI: 10.3201/eid2006.130956 [* Equal contributions]
• Sundell K., Högfors-Rönnholm E., Wiklund T. (2014) Fish Vaccination. Chapter.
• Nilsen H., Sundell K., Duchaud E., et al. (2014) Multilocus Sequence Typing Identifies Epidemic Clones of Flavobacterium psychrophilum in Nordic Countries. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
• Vesterinen EJ, Lilley T, Laine VN, Wahlberg N (2013): Next Generation Sequencing of Fecal DNA Reveals the Dietary Diversity of the Widespread Insectivorous Predator Daubenton’s Bat (Myotis daubentonii) in Southwestern Finland. PLoS ONE 8 (11). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082168
• Nokkala, C., Kuznetsova V.G. and Nokkala, S. (2013) Meiosis in rare males in parthenogenetic Cacopsylla myrtilli (Wagner, 1947) (Hemiptera, Psyllidae) populations from northern Europe. Comp. Cytogenet. 7: 241-251. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/compcytogen.v7i3.6126
• Ozerov M., Vasemagi A., Wennevik V., Diaz-Fernandez R., Kent M., Gilbey J., Niemela E., Prusov S., Vaha J.-P. (2013) Finding markers that make a difference: DNA pooling and SNP-arrays identify population informative markers for genetic stock identification. PLOS One 8(12): e82434.
• Ozerov M.Yu., Veselov A.Je., Lumme J., Primmer C.R. (2013) Temporal variation of genetic composition in Atlantic salmon populations from the Western White Sea Basin: influence of anthropogenic factors? BMC Genetics 14:88.
• Ozerov M., Vasemagi A., Wennevik V., Niemela E., Prusov S., Kent M., Vaha J.-P. (2013) Cost-effective genome-wide estimation of allele frequencies from pooled DNA in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). BMC Genomics 14:12.
• Sundell K., Heinikainen S., Wiklund T. (2013) Structure of Flavobacterium psychrophilum populations infecting farmed rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.
• Lilley T, Ruokolainen L, Vesterinen EJ, Paasivirta L, Norrdahl K (2012) Sediment organic tin contamination promotes impoverishment of non-biting midge species communities in the Archipelago Sea, S-W Finland. Ecotoxicology 21: 1333–1344. DOI: 10.1007/s10646-012-0887-2
• Lilley TM, Meierjohann A, Ruokolainen L, Peltonen J, Vesterinen EJ, Kronberg L, Nikinmaa M. (2012) Reed beds may facilitate transfer of tributyltin from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems through insect vectors in the Archipelago Sea, SW Finland. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 31: 1781–1787. DOI: 10.1002/etc.1878
• Pilipenko V, Salmela J, Vesterinen EJ (2012) Description and DNA barcoding of Tipula (Pterelachisus) recondita sp. n. from the Palaearctic region (Diptera, Tipulidae). ZooKeys 192: 51–65. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.192.2364.
• Sorvari J, Härkönen SK, Vesterinen EJ (2012) First record of an indoor pest sawtoothed grain beetle Oryzaephilus surinamensis (Coleoptera: Silvanidae) from wild outdoor wood ant nest. Entomologica Fennica 23: 69–71.
• Salokannel J, Wahlberg N, Vesterinen EJ, Martinez J, & González M. (2012) A Study of a Caddisfly Oxyethira falcata Morton, 1893 (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) by Means of Genital Morphology and DNA barcoding. Entomologica Fennica 23: 199–205.
• Ozerov M.Yu., Veselov A.Je., Lumme J., Primmer C.R. (2012) Riverscape genetics: river characteristics influence the genetic structure and diversity of anadromous and freshwater Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations in northwest Russia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69(12):1947-1958.
• Kuznetsova, V., Grozeva, S., Nokkala, S. and Nokkala, C. (2011) Cytogenetics of the true bug infraorder Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera, Heteroptera): a review. ZooKeys 154: 31-70.
• Sundell K., Wiklund T. (2011) Effect of biofilm formation on antimicrobial tolerance of Flavobacterium psychrophilum. Journal of Fish Diseases.
• Ozerov M.Yu., Lumme J., Pakk P., Rintamaki P., Zietara M.S., Barskaya Y., Lebedeva D., Saadre E., Gross R., Primmer C.R., Vasemagi A. (2010) High Gyrodactylus salaris infection rate in triploid Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 91:129-136.
• Ozerov M.Yu., Veselov A.Je., Lumme J., Primmer C.R. (2010) Genetic structure of freshwater Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) populations from the lakes Onega and Ladoga of northwest Russia and implications for conservation. Conservation Genetics 11:1711-1724.
• Tapio M., Ozerov M., Tapio I., Toro M., Marzanov N., Cinkulov M., Goncharenko G., Kiselyova T., Murawski M., Kantanen J. (2010) Microsatellite based genetic diversity and population structure of domestic sheep in Northern Eurasia. BMC Genetics 11:76.
• Cinkulov M., Tapio M., Ozerov M., Kiselyova T., Marzanov N., Pihler I., Olsaker I., Vegara M., Kantanen J. (2008) Genetic differentiation between the old and new types of Serbian Tsigai sheep. Genetics, Selection, Evolution 40(3):321-331.
• Nokkala, C., Kuznetsova, V., Grozeva, S. and Nokkala, S. (2007) Direction of karyotype evolution in the bug family Nabidae (Heteroptera): New evidence from 18S rDNA analysis. Eur. J. Entomol. 104: 661-665.
• Tapio M., Ozerov M., Viinalass H., Kiseliova T., Kantanen J. (2007) Molecular genetic variation in sheep of the central Volga area inhabited by Finno-Ugric peoples. Agricultural and Food Science 16(2):157-169.
• Nokkala, S., Kuznetsova, V.G., Maryanska-Nadachowska, A. & Nokkala, C. (2006) Holocentric chromosomes in meiosis. II. The modes of orientation and segregation of a trivalent. Chromosome Res. 14: 559-565.
• Tapio M., Marzanov N., Ozerov M., Cinkulov M., Goncharenko G., Kiselyova T., Murawski M., Viinalass H., Kantanen J. (2006) Sheep mitochondrial variation in European, Caucasian and Central Asian areas. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23(9):1776-1783.
• Nokkala, S. & Nokkala, C. (2004) Interaction of B chromosomes with A or B chromosomes in segregation in insects. Cytogenet. Genome Res. 106: 394-397.
• Nokkala, S., Kuznetsova, V.G., Maryanska-Nadachowska, A. & Nokkala, C. (2004) Holocentric chromosomes in meiosis. I. Restriction of the number of chiasmata in bivalents. Chromosome Res. 12: 733-739.
• Nokkala, S., Laukkanen, A. & Nokkala, C. (2001) Mitotic and meiotic chromosomes in Somatochlora metallica (Odonata, Corulidae). The absence of localized centromere and inverted meiosis. Hereditas 136: 7-12.
• Nokkala, S. & Nokkala, C. (1999) Chromosomes in two species of Hebrus (Hebridae, Heteroptera). The occurrence of neo-XY sex chromosome system in Heteroptera. Caryologia 52: 27-30.
• Nokkala, C., Nokkala, S. & Nordell-Paavola, A. (1998) European and North American populations of Galerucella nymphaeae (L.) (Chrysomelidae, Coleoptera): Two separate species revealed by chorion polypeptide analysis. Eur. J. Entomol. 95: 269-274.
• Nokkala, C. & Nokkala, S. (1998) Species and habitat races in the chrysomelid Galerucella nymphaeae species complex in northern Europe. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 89: 1-13.
• Nokkala, S. & Nokkala, C. (1997) The absence of chiasma terminalization and inverted meiosis in Myrmus miriformis Fn. (Corizidae, Heteroptera). Heredity 78: 561-566.
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