Pre-print articles / in review

Ahi E, Verta J-P, Kurko J, Ruokolainen A, Pooja S, Debes PV, Erkinaro J & Primmer C. 2024: Hippo-vgll3 signaling may contribute to sex differences in Atlantic salmon maturation age via contrasting adipose dynamics bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.21.619349v1 link

Ahi E, Verta J-P, Kurko J, Ruokolainen A, Pooja S, Debes PV, Erkinaro J & Primmer C. 2024: A salmon fish model reveals genetic signals in brain associated with early maturation bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.18.585557 link

Peer-reviewed articles

Verta J-P,Moustakas-Verho J, Donner I, Frapin M, Ruokolainen A, Debes PV, Erkinaro J, Primmer C. 2024: A complex mechanism translating variation of a simple genetic architecture into alternative life-histories Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in press link

Verta J-P, Jacobs A. 2024: The evolutionary significance of post-transcriptional regulation Heredity 132: 117-119 link

  • editorial

Ahi EP, Verta J-P, Kurko J, Ruokolainen A, Singh P, Debes PV, Erkinaro J, Primmer C. 2024: Gene co-expression patterns in Atlantic salmon adipose tissue provide a molecular link between seasonal changes, energy balance and age at maturity Molecular Ecology e17313 link

Verta J-P, Jacobs A. 2022: The role of alternative splicing in adaptation and evolution Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37: 299-308 link

Mobley K, Aykanat T*, Czorlich Y*, House A*, Kurko J*, Miettinen A*, Moustakas-Verho J*, Salgado A*, Sinclair-Waters M*, Verta J-P*, Primmer C. 2021: Maturation in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, Salmonidae): a synthesis of ecological, genetic, and molecular processes Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 31: 523–571. link * equal contribution, listed in alphabetical order

Verta J-P, Barton H, Pritchard V, Primmer C. 2021: Genetic drift dominates genome-wide regulatory evolution following an ancient whole genome duplication in Atlantic salmon Genome Biology and Evolution evab059 link

Verta J-P, Debes P, Piavchenko N, Ruokolainen A, Ovaskainen O, Moustakas-Verho J, Tillanen S, Parre N, Aykanat T, Erkinaro J, Primmer C. 2020: Cis-regulatory differences in isoform expression associate with life history strategy variation in Atlantic salmon PLOS Genetics 16(9), e1009055. link

Andrew S, Primmer C, Debes P, Erkinaro J, Verta J-P 2020: The Atlantic salmon whole blood transcriptome and how it relates to major locus maturation genotypes and other tissues Marine Genomics 100809 link

Verta J-P & Jones F. 2020: mRNA extraction from gill tissue for RNA-sequencing Bio-Protocol 10(5):e3539 link

Ojeda D, Mattila T, Ruttlink T, Kujala S, Kärkkäinen K, Verta J-P & Pyhäjärvi T. 2019: Utilization of tissue ploidy level variation in de novo transcriptome assembly of Pinus sylvestris. G3 9: 3409-3421. link

Verta J-P & Jones F. 2019: Predominance of cis-regulatory changes in parallel expression divergence of sticklebacks. eLife, 8:e43785. link

Verta J-P, Landry CR & MacKay J. 2016: Dissection of eQTL allele-specificity using a haploid/diploid plant system – insights into compensatory evolution of transcriptional regulation within populations. New Phytologist, 211: 159-171 link

Leducq J-B, Nielly-Thibault L, Charron G, Eberlein C, Verta J-P, Samani P, Sylvester K, Hittinger CT, Bell G & Landry CR. 2016: Speciation driven by hybridization and chromosomal plasticity in a wild yeast, Nature Microbiology, 1: 15003 link

Prunier J, Verta J-P & Mackay J. 2016: Conifer genomics and adaptation: at the crossroads of genetic diversity and genome function, New Phytologist 209: 44-62 link

Verta J-P, Landry CR & MacKay J. 2013: Are long-lived trees poised for evolutionary change? Single locus effects in the evolution of gene expression networks in spruce. Molecular Ecology 22(9):2369–2379 link

  • cover article

Raherison ES, Rigault P, Caron S, Poulin PL, Boyle B, Verta J-P, Giguère I, Bomal C, Bohlmann J & Mackay J. 2012: Transcriptome profiling in conifers and the PiceaGenExpress database show patterns of diversification within gene families and interspecific conservation in vascular gene expression, BMC Genomics 13(1):434 link

Verta J-P. 2022: Pinkit boomerit, Pohjolan Perhokalastaja, 2/2022

Verta J-P. 2021: Lohet eivät löydä kotiin, Pohjolan Perhokalastaja, 2/2021

Verta J-P. 2018: Suurlohigeenin jäljillä, Pohjolan Perhokalastaja, 3/2018