Silva Uusi-Heikkilä
PhD in Evolutionary Ecology. Docent in Evolutionary Biology
silva.uusi-heikkila@utu.fi Natura, yliopistonmäki Turku |
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.
- Size does matter — the eco-evolutionary effects of changing body size in fish (2020)
- Environmental Reviews
- Association Mapping Based on a Common-Garden Migration Experiment Reveals Candidate Genes for Migration Tendency in Brown Trout (2019)
- G3: genes, genomes, genetics
- Comparing RADseq and microsatellites for estimating genetic diversity and relatedness Implications for brown trout conservation (2019)
- Ecology and Evolution
- Experimental Size‐Selective Harvesting Affects Behavioral Types of a Social Fish (2019)
- Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Size‐selective harvesting fosters adaptations in mating behaviour and reproductive allocation, affecting sexual selection in fish (2019)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- Size-selective harvesting fosters adaptations in mating behaviour and reproductive allocation, affecting sexual selection in fish (2019)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- Comparison of Migratory and Resident Populations of Brown Trout Reveals Candidate Genes for Migration Tendency (2018)
- Genome Biology and Evolution
- Genome-wide divergence patterns support fine-scaled genetic structuring associated with migration tendency in brown trout (2018)
- Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
- Relatively large males lower reproductive success in female zebrafish (2018)
- Environmental Biology of Fishes
- Species’ ecological functionality alters the outcome of fish stocking success predicted by a food-web model (2018)
- Royal Society Open Science
- Sustainability of Fishing Is about Abundance: A Response to Bernatchez et al. (2018)
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution
- Rapid, broad-scale gene expression evolution in experimentally harvested fish populations (2017)
- Molecular Ecology
- Altered trait variability in response to size-selective mortality (2016)
- Biology Letters
- Body length rather than routine metabolic rate and body condition correlates with activity and risk-taking in juvenile zebrafish Danio rerio (2016)
- Journal of Fish Biology
- Isoja emokaloja tarvitaan (2015)
- Suomen Kalastuslehti
- Isojen kalojen pyytäminen heikentää kalakantoja (2015)
- Helsingin Sanomat
- The evolutionary legacy of size-selective harvesting extends from genes to populations (2015)
- Evolutionary Applications
- Turbidity affects social dynamics in Trinidadian guppies (2015)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Evolutionary impact assessment: accounting for evolutionary consequences of fishing in an ecosystem approach to fisheries management (2014)
- Fish and Fisheries
- Can fisheries-induced evolution shift reference points for fisheries management? (2013)
- ICES Journal of Marine Science