J. Merilä

The paper shows genetically based adaptive differentiation in head size and shape between freshwater and marine sticklebacks, driven by limnetic feeding selection, but gill-raker traits show less conclusive genetic divergence.

This study examines crossover rate variation in wild sticklebacks, finding low heritability and additive genetic variance, suggesting limited evolvability.

The paper documents inbreeding depression in an outbred nine-spined stickleback population, showing a significant decrease in offspring survival with increasing parental IBD sharing and an average inbreeding load of 15.896.

This study shows that reduced predation pressure in freshwater ponds drives parallel evolution of complex behaviors in sticklebacks by aligning evolutionary divergence with phenotypic plasticity responses.

This study shows that ignoring population size changes in demographic models leads to biased divergence time estimates and incorrect model selection in species divergence analysis.

This study identifies geographic differences in parallel evolution patterns in sticklebacks, showing that most parallel evolution is unique to the Eastern Pacific.

FishResp provides an R package and GUI for analyzing aquatic respirometry data, improving quality and comparability by detecting mechanical issues and correcting background respiration.