Recent Publications
Lehtonen PK, Laaksonen T, Artemyev AV, Belskii E, Berg PR, Both C, Buggiotti L, Bureš S, Burgess MD, Bushuev AV, Krams I, Moreno J, Mägi M, Nord A, Potti J, Ravussin P-A, Sirkiä PM, Sætre G-P, Winkel W, Primmer CR (2012) Candidate genes for colour and vision exhibit signals of selection across the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) breeding range. Heredity 108:431-440.
Rytkönen, KT, Williams, TA, Renshaw, GM, Primmer, CR, Nikinmaa, M (2011) Molecular Evolution of the Metazoan PHD-HIF Oxygen-Sensing System. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 1913-1926.
Ellis JS, (and 29 co-authors including Primmer CR) (2011) Microsatellite standardization and evaluation of genotyping error in a large multi-partner research programme for conservation of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) . Genetica 139: 353-367.
Janhunen M, Peuhkuri N, Primmer CR, Kolari I, Piironen J (2011) Does Breeding Ornamentation Signal Genetic Quality in Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus? Evolutionary Biology 38: 68-78.
Primmer C.R (2011) Genetics of local adaptation in salmonid fishes. Heredity 106: 401-403.
Junge C, Vollestad LA, Barson NJ, Haugen TO, Otero J, Saetre GP, Leder EH, Primmer CR (2011) Strong gene flow and lack of stable population structure in the face of rapid adaptation to local temperature in a spring-spawning salmonid, the European grayling (Thymallus thymallus) Heredity 106:460-471.
Vähä JP, Erkinaro J, Niemela E, Primmer CR, Saloniemi I, Johansen M, Svenning M, Brors S (2011) Temporally stable population-specific differences in run timing of one-sea-winter Atlantic salmon returning to a large river system. Evolutionary Applications 4:39-53.
Viitaniemi H.M. and Leder E.H. (2011) Sex-Biased Protein Expression in Threespine Stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Journal of Proteome Research. Publication Date (Web): July 4, 2011
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. (2010) Passerine extrapair mating dynamics: A Bayesian modeling approach comparing four species. American Naturalist 176: 178-187.
Leder EH, JM Cano, T Leinonen, RB O’Hara, M Nikinmaa, CR Primmer, and J Merilä. (2010) 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
Nair A., K. S. Kumar, S. George, S. V. Gopalan, M-H. Li, E. Leder & J. Merilä. (2010) Sixty two new microsatellite markers for an endemic frog Indirana beddomii from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot. Conservation Genetics Resources 3: 167-171.
Papakostas, S., Vollestad, L.A., Primmer, C.R. & Leder, E.H. (2010) Proteomic profiling of early life stages of European grayling (Thymallus thymallus). Journal of Proteome Research, 9: 4790-4800.
Rytkönen, K.T., Renshaw, G.M.C., Ashton, K.J., Williams-Pritchard, G., Leder, E.H. and Nikinmaa, M. (2010) Elasmobranch qPCR reference genes: a case study of hypoxia preconditioned epaulette sharks. BMC Molecular Biology 11:27
Swatdipong, A., Vasemägi, A., Niva, T., Koljonen, M.-L. & Primmer, C.R. (2010) High level of population genetic structuring in lake-run brown trout, Salmo trutta, of the Inari basin, northern Finland. - Journal of Fish Biology 77: 2048–2071.
Yasuike,M.,Jantzen, S., Cooper, G.A., Leder, E., Davidson,W.S.& Koop, B.F. (2010) Grayling (Thymallinae) phylogeny within salmonids: complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of Thymallus arcticus and Thymallus thymallus. - Journal of Fish Biology 76:395-400.
Tonteri A, Vasemägi A, Lumme J & Primmer CR (2010) Beyond MHC: signals of elevated selection pressure in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) immune relevant loci. Molecular Ecology ‘from the cover’ 19: 1273-1282.
Ozerov MY, Veselov AJ, Lumme J, Primmer CR. (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. in press.
Leder EH, JM Cano, T Leinonen, RB O’Hara, M Nikinmaa, CR Primmer, and J Merilä. (2010) Female-Biased Expression on the X Chromosome as a Key Step in Sex Chromosome Evolution in Threespine Sticklebacks. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(7):1495-1503.
Vähä J-P, Erkinaro J, Niemelä E, Primmer CR, Saloniemi I, Johansen M, Svenning M & Brørs S. (2010) Stable population-specific differences in run timing of adult Atlantic salmon returning to a large river system. Evolutionary Applications (in press).
Ozerov MY, Lumme J, Päkk P, Rintamäki, P, Zietara MS, Barskaya Y, Lebedeva D, Saadre E, Gross R, Primmer CR & Vasemägi A (2010) Elevated susceptibility of triploid Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) to monogenean parasite Gyrodactylus salaris. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (in press).
Vasemägi A, Gross R, Palm D, Paaver T and Primmer CR (2010) Discovery and application of insertion-deletion (INDEL) polymorphisms for QTL mapping of early life-history traits in Atlantic salmon. BMC Genomics 11: 156.
Junge C, Primmer CR, Vøllestad LA & Leder EH. (2010) Isolation and characterization of 19 new microsatellites for European grayling, Thymallus thymallus (Linnaeus, 1758), and their cross-amplification in four other salmonid species. Conservation Genetics Resources. 2:219-223.
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 wild salmon river: implications for monitoring. Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences 67: 130-142.
Swatdipong A, Primmer CR & Vasemägi A. (2010) Historical and contemporary genetic bottlenecks in European grayling, Thymallus thymallus. Conservation Genetics 11: 279-292.
Holmen J, Vøllestad LA, Jakobsen KS, Primmer CR. (2009) Cross-species amplification of 36 cyprinid microsatellite loci in Phoxinus phoxinus (L.) and Scardinius erythrophthalmus (L.) BMC Research Notes 2: 248
Laikre L, Nilsson T, Primmer CR, Ryman N, Allendorf FW (2009) Genetics is crucial in the interpretation of Favourable Conservation Status. Conservation Biology 6: 1378–1381.
Lehtonen P. K., Primmer, C. R. and Laaksonen, T. (2009) Different traits affect gain of extrapair paternity and loss of paternity in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca. Animal Behaviour, 77:1103-1110.
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 (2009) Geographic patterns of genetic differentiation and plumage colour variation are different in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) Molecular Ecology 18: 4463–4476.
Leder EH, Merilä J, & Primmer CRS (2009) A flexible whole-genome microarray for transcriptomics in threespine sticklebacks. BMC Genomics 10: 426.
Kekäläinen J, Vallunen JA, Rätty S, Primmer CR & Taskinen J (2009) Major Histocompatibility Complex overdominance in a wild salmonid population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Series B 276: 3133–3140.
Primmer CRS (2009) From conservation genetics to conservation genomics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1162: 357–368.
Lehtonen P. K., Tonteri A., Sendek D., Titov S., Primmer C.R. (2009) Spatio-temporal genetic structuring of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) populations within the River Luga, northwest Russia. Conservation Genetics, 10: 281-289.
Tiira K & Primmer CRS (2009) 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.
Swatdipong A, Koskinen MT, Piironen J, Vasemägi A & Primmer CRS (2009) Unanticipated population structure of European grayling in its northern distribution: implications for conservation prioritization. (Provisionally accepted in Frontiers in Zoology).
Tonteri A, Vasemägi A, Lumme J & Primmer CRS (2008) Use of differential expression data for identification of novel immune relevant expressed sequence tag-linked microsatellite markers in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) Molecular Ecology Resources 6: 1486-1490.
Backstrom N, Karaiskou N, Leder EH, Gustafsson L, Primmer CR, Qvarnstrom A & Ellegren H (2008) A gene-based genetic linkage map of the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) reveals extensive synteny and gene-order conservation during 100 million years of avian evolution. Genetics 179: 1479-1495
Rytkönen KT, Ryynänen HJ, Nikinmaa M & Primmer CRS (2008) Variable patterns in the molecular evolution of the hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1a) gene in teleost fishes and mammals. Gene 420: 1-10.
Karaiskou N, Buggiotti L, Leder E & Primmer CRS (2008) High degree of transferability of 86 newly developed zebra finch EST-linked microsatellite markers in 8 bird species. Journal of Heredity 6: 688-693.
Buggiotti L, Kouvonen P, Corthals GR, Primmer CR and Leder E (2008) Identification of differentially expressed proteins in Ficedula flycatchers. Proteomics10: 2150-2153
Karaiskou N and Primmer CR (2008) PCR-multiplexing for maximising genetic analyses with limited DNA: an example in the collared flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis Annales Zoologici Fennici45: 478-482.
Leder EH, Karaiskou N and Primmer CR (2008) 70 new microsatellites for the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca and amplification in other passerine birds. Molecular Ecology Resources8: 874-880.
Nikinmaa M, Leveelahti L, Dahl E, Rissanen E, Rytkönen KT, Laurila A. (2008) Population origin, development and temperature of development affect the amounts of HSP70,HSP90 and putative hypoxia-inducible factor in the tadpoles of the common frog Rana temporaria. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 1999-2004.
Tonteri, A. (2008) Phylogeography and population genetics of north European Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, ser. AII, 220
Vähä J-PK, Erkinaro J, Niemelä E, Primmer CR (2008) Retrospective genetic monitoring of Atlantic salmon populations within a river system over two decades –implications for management. Evolutionary Applications 1: 137-154.
Buggiotti, L. (2007) Avian evolutionary genomics: studies of Ficedula flycatchers. - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, ser. AII, 218, 35 s.
Vähä, J-P. (2007) Conservation Genetics of Teno River Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar). – Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, ser. AII, 217, 54 s.
Johansson M, Primmer CR & Merilä J. (2007) Does habitat fragmentation reduce fitness and adaptability? A case study of the common frog (Rana temporaria). Molecular Ecology 16: 2693-2700 .
Rytkönen KT, Vuori KAM, Primmer CR & Nikinmaa M (2007) Comparison of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF-1a) in hypoxia-sensitive and hypoxia-tolerant fishes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 2: 177-186.
Lesbarrères D, Schmeller D, Primmer CR, Merilä J (2007) Genetic variability predicts common frog (Rana temporaria) size at metamorphosis in the wild. Heredity 99: 41-6.
Vähä J-PK, Erkinaro J, Niemelä E, and Primmer CR (2007) Life-history and habitat features influence the within-river genetic structure of Atlantic salmon. Molecular Ecology 16: 2638-54.
Tonteri A, Veselov A, Titov S, Lumme J and Primmer CR (2007) The effect of migratory behavior on genetic diversity and population divergence: a comparison of anadromous and freshwater Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) Journal of Fish Biology 70, supplement C: 381-398.
Tiira K, Piironen J and Primmer CR (2006) Evidence for reduced genetic variation in severely deformed juvenile salmonids. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63: 2700-2707.
Buggiotti L, Hellström M and Primmer CR (2006) Characterization of the first growth hormone gene sequence for a passerine bird - the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca). DNA Sequence 17:401-406.
Lesbarrères D, Primmer CR, Lodé T and Merilä J (2006) The effects of 20 years of highway presence on the genetic structure of Rana dalmatina populations. Ecoscience13: 531-538.
Buggiotti L and Primmer CR (2006) Molecular evolution of the avian growth hormone gene and comparison with its mammalian counterpart. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 844-854.
Ryynänen HJ and Primmer CR (2006) Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery in duplicated genomes: intron-primed exon-crossing (IPEC) as a strategy for avoiding amplification of duplicated loci in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and other salmonid fishes. BMC Genomics 7: 192
Johansson M, Primmer CR and Merilä J. (2006) History vs. current demography: Explaining the genetic population structure of the common frog (Rana temporaria). Molecular Ecology 15: 975-983.
Primmer CR, Veselov AJ, Zubchenko A, Poututkin A, Bakhmet I & Koskinen MT (2006) Isolation by distance within a river system: genetic population structuring of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, in tributaries of the Varzuga River in northwest Russia. Molecular Ecology 15: 653-666.
Vähä J-PK and Primmer CR (2006) Detecting hybridization between individuals of closely related populations - a simulation study to assess the efficiency of model-based Bayesian methods to detect hybrid individuals. Molecular Ecology 15: 63-72.
Ryynänen H and Primmer CR. (2006) Varying signals of the effects of natural selection during teleost growth hormone gene evolution. Genome 49: 42-53.
Tiira K, Laurila A, Enberg K, Piironen J, Aikio S, Ranta E and Primmer CR (2006) Do dominants have higher heterozygosity? Social status and genetic variation in brown trout, Salmo trutta. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59: 657-665.
Vasemägi A. 2006: The adaptive hypothesis of clinal variation revisited: single-locus clines as a result of spatially restricted geneflow. Genetics 4: 173.
Vasemägi A and Primmer CR (2005) Challenges for identifying functionally important genetic variation: the promise of combining complementary research strategies. Invited Review in Molecular Ecology 14: 3623-3642. Full document (pdf)
Johansson M. Primmer CR, Sahlsten J and Merilä J (2005) The influence of landscape structure on occurrence, abundance and genetic diversity of the common frog, Rana temporaria. Global Change Biology 11: 1664-1679.
Holmen J, Vøllestad LA, Jakobsen KS and Primmer CR (2005) Cross-species amplification of zebrafish and central stoneroller microsatellite loci in six other cyprinids. Journal of Fish Biology 66: 851-859.
Vasemägi A, Nilsson J and Primmer CR (2005) Expressed sequence tag (EST) linked microsatellites as a source of gene associated polymorphisms for detecting signatures of divergent selection in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). Molecular Biology and Evolution 22: 1067-1076 Full document (pdf)
Primmer CR, Painter JN, Koskinen MT, Palo JU and Merilä J (2005) Factors affecting avian cross-species microsatellite amplification. Journal of Avian Biology 36: 348-360. Full document (pdf)
Tonteri A, Titov S, Veselov A, Zubchenko A, Koskinen MT, Lesbarrères D, Kaluzhin S, Bakhmet I, Lumme J & Primmer CR (2005) Phylogeography of anadromous and non-anadromous Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from northern Europe Annales Zoologici Fennici 42: 1-22. Full document (pdf)
Vasemägi A, Nilsson J and Primmer CR (2005) Seventy five EST-linked Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) microsatellite markers and their cross-species amplification in salmonids. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 282-288.
Supplementary appendix with primer sequences and electropherograms
Supplementary appendix with cross-species amplification information
Ryynänen HJ and Primmer CR (2004) Distribution of genetic variation in the growth hormone 1 gene in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations from Europe and North America. Molecular Ecology 13: 3857-3869. Full document (pdf)
Ryynänen HJ and Primmer CR (2004) PCR-based molecular markers for detecting genetic variation in the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) growth hormone 1-gene. Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 664-667.
Lesbarreres D, Primmer CR, Laurila A & Merilä J (2005) Environmental and population dependency of heterozygosity-fitness correlations in Rana temporaria populations. Molecular Ecology 14: 311-323.
Koskinen MT, Hirvonen H, Landry P-A and Primmer CR (2004) The benefits of increasing the number of microsatellites utilized in genetic population studies: an empirical perspective from analyses of grayling (Thymallus thymallus) evolutionary relationships. Hereditas 141: 61-67. Full document (pdf)
Palo JU, Lesbarreres D, Schmeller DS, Primmer CR & Merilä J (2004) Microsatellite marker data suggest sex-biased dispersal in the common frog Rana temporaria. Molecular Ecology 13: 2865-2869. Full document (pdf)
Palo JU, Schmeller DS, Laurila A, Primmer CR, Kumzin SL & Merilä J (2004) High degree of population subdivision in a wide-spread amphibian. Molecular Ecology 13: 2631-2644. Full document (pdf)
Asplund T, Veselov A, Primmer CR, Bakhmet I, Potutkin A, Titov S, Zubchenko A, Studenov I, Kaluzchin S and Lumme J (2004) Origin of maternal lineages of anadromous Atlantic salmon (Salmo salarL.) in the Barents Sea and White Sea rivers. Annales Zoologici Fennici 41: 465-475. Full document (pdf)