Juha Merilä

University of Helsinki — Finland

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Genetic diversity and population structure(218), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(190), Amphibian and Reptile Biology(134), Fish Ecology and Management Studies(128), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock(127)

Publications602 total

Population Genomics of Endangered Lenoks ( <i>Brachymystax</i> spp.) in China Reveals the Presence of Cryptic Species
Systematic Biology·2026
Changing food availability and its effect on the heritability of offspring size in woodland passerine birds
Journal of Animal Ecology·2025Open Access
Genomic Insights Into Diversity, Phylogeny, Hybridization and Evolutionary History of Palearctic Fish Genus <i>Rutilus</i> (Leuciscidae)
Diversity and Distributions·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Ancient balanced polymorphism underlies long-standing adaptation for seasonal camouflage in the least weasel
2025· 1 cited
Editorial: Diagnostic tools and research applications to combat wildlife trade issues
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2025Open Access
Dynamics of Deleterious Mutations and Purifying Selection in Small Population Isolates
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Public aquarium as a key partner for taxonomic studies, an example with French nine-spined sticklebacks Pungitius spp. (Teleostei, Gasterosteiformes)
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)·2025Open Access
Rate of de novo mutations in the three-spined stickleback
Heredity·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Dissecting Factors Behind Temporal Trends in the Timing of Breeding in Two Songbird Species—Evolutionary Change or Phenotypic Plasticity?
The American Naturalist·2025· 1 cited
Estimating Recent and Historical Effective Population Size of Marine and Freshwater Sticklebacks
Molecular Ecology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Geolocator Tracking and Stable Isotope Analysis Suggest Mixed Migration Strategies in White‐Shouldered Starlings (<i>Sturnia sinensis</i>)
Ecology and Evolution·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
The interplay between epigenomic and transcriptomic variation during ecotype divergence in stickleback
BMC Biology·2025Open Access
Chromosome-level haplotype-resolved genome of the tropical loach (Oreonectes platycephalus)
Scientific Data·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Evolutionary responses to climate change
Elsevier eBooks·2025
Museomics Sheds Light on Evolutionary Diversity in a Critically Endangered Cockatoo Species From Wallacea
Molecular Ecology·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Loss and fragmentation of Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus) habitats
Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Rate of <i>de novo</i> mutations in the three-spined stickleback
2024Open Access
Review of: "High-Quality Genome Assembly of the Endemic, Threatened White-Bellied Sholakili Sholicola albiventris (Muscicapidae: Blanford, 1868) From the Shola Sky Islands, India"
2024Open Access
Genomic and Acoustic Biogeography of the Iconic Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Clarifies Species Limits and Patterns of Intraspecific Diversity
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Heterogeneous genomic architecture of skeletal armour traits in sticklebacks
Journal of Evolutionary Biology·2024Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Ben C. Sheldon(14), Loeske E. B. Kruuk(6), Jon E. Brommer(5), Anssi Laurila(5), Jussi Alho(4), James A. Mills(4), Robert B. O’Hara(4), Lars Gustafsson(4), Hannu Mäkinen(4), Céline Teplitsky(3), Tuomas Leinonen(3), Anne Charmantier(3), Marcel E. Visser(3), Peter Becker(3), Ane T. Laugen(3), Katja Räsänen(3), Craig R. Primmer(3), Phillip Gienapp(2), José Manuel Cano(2), Jean Clobert(2)