Silva Uusi-Heikkilä
PhD in Evolutionary Ecology. Docent in Evolutionary Biology
silva.uusi-heikkila@utu.fi Natura, yliopistonmäki Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6503-455X |
Evolutionary ecology; Experimental ecology; Molecular biology; Next-generation sequencing; Genomics; Microbiomes.
Equine gut microbiota and responses to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at the molecular level: FINEBIOME (Finnish eDNA/equine microbiome). Fisheries-induced evolution and adaptive potential.
Currently I am investigating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in horses and how it affects gut microbiota diversity and composition and the function of mitochondria in the gut.
I am also studying the effect of anthropogenic stressors on experimental fish populations. My main focus has been on the effect of size-selective fisheries and during the recent years we have exposed the fish populations to other stressors occurring simultaneously, such as thermal stress, starvation, pollution and infections. In my research group, we have studied the responses at both phenotypic and molecular level (whole genome sequencing, whole genome bisulfate sequencing and RNA sequencing). We also study how thermal stress, hypoxia and genotype affects fish skin microbiota diversity and composition.
Finally, I have studied community ecology by modeling aquatic food webs and their dynamics in response to changes in life-history strategies, stocking and size-selective fishing.
- Differential Allocation by Female Zebrafish (Danio rerio) to Different-Sized Males - An Example in a Fish Species Lacking Parental Care (2012)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Paternal body size affects reproductive success in laboratory-held zebrafish (Danio rerio) (2011)
- Environmental Biology of Fishes
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Population genomics of wild and laboratory zebrafish (Danio rerio) (2011)
- Molecular Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Experimental assessment of the probabilistic maturation reaction norm: condition matters (2010)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Size‐dependent reproductive success of wild zebrafish Danio rerio in the laboratory (2010)
- Journal of Fish Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A behavioral perspective on fishing-induced evolution (2008)
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)