ProfessorMERIL?, Juha
Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU
MSc (Finland); PhD (Sweden)
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KBSB 3N19
Teaching areas
EvolutionEcological genetics
Conservation genetics
Zoology
Research Interests
Local adaptationEvolution in small populations
Determinants of genetic diversity
Relative roles of natural selection, genetic drift and phenotypic plasticity in explaining population differentiation
Evolution in response to climate change
Current research
Determinants of genetic diversityHeterogenous parallel evolution – causes & consequences
Inbreeding and mutation loads in population isolates
Publications and news
Fang B, Kemppainen P, Momigliano P, Merilä J 2020. Oceans apart: heterogenous patterns of parallel evolution in sticklebacks. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4:1105-1115Natri HM, Merilä J, Shikano T 2019. The evolution of sex determination associated with chromosomal inversion. Nature Communications 10: 145.
Radchuk V, T Reed, C Teplitsky, M van de Pol, A Charmantier, C Hassall, P Adamik, F Adriaensen, M Ahola, P Arcese, JM Avilés, J Balbontin, W Blanckenhorn, A Borras, S Burthe, J Clobert, N Dehnhard, F de Lope, AA Dhondt, NJ Dingemanse, H Doi, T Eeva, J Fickel, I Filella, F Fossøy, AE Goodenough, SJG Hall, B Hansson, M Harris, D Hasselquist, T Hickler, J Joshi, H Kharouba, J Gabriel Martinez, J-B Mihoub, JA Mills, M Molina Morales, A Moksnes, A Ozgul, D Parejo, P Pilard, M Poisbleau, F Rousset, Mark-Oliver Rödel, D Scott, JC Senar, Constanti Stefanescu, BG Stokke, K Tamotsu, M Tarka, C Tarwater, K Thonicke, J Thorley, A Wilting, P Tryjanowski, J Merilä, B Sheldon, AP Møller, E Matthysen, F Janzen, S Dobson, ME Visser, SR Beissinger, A Courtiol, S Kramer-Schadt. Adaptive responses of animals to climate change: not universal, likely insufficient. Nature Communications 10:3109.
Li Z, Kemppainen P, P Rastas P, Merilä J 2018. Linkage disequilibrium clustering based approach for association mapping with tightly linked genome-wide data. Molecular Ecology Resources 18: 809-824.
Momigliano P, Jokinen H, Fraimont A, Florin A-B, Norkko A & Merilä J 2017. Extraordinarily rapid speciation in a marine fish. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences USA, 114:6074-6079.
