Anti Vasemägi

Bruneaux M, Johnston SE, et al. Genomics without the genome: molecular evolutionary and population genetic analysis of ninespine stickleback using a modified RAD tag approach. Submitted.

	Anti Vasemägi (PhD, docent) Present address: Division of Genetics and Physiology Dept. of Biology (Vesilinnantie 5) 20014 University of Turku FINLAND

Swatdipong A, et al. Genetic mixed-stock analysis of lake-run brown trout fisheries catch in the Inari basin, northern Finland: implications for conservation and management. Submitted.

Pukk P, Kuparinen A, Järv L, Gross R, Vasemägi V. Population replacement rather than fisheries-induced evolution causes life-history change in Eurasian perch. Submitted.

Bourret V, Kent MP, et al. SNP-array reveals genome wide patterns associated with geographical and potential adaptive divergence across the natural range of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Submitted.

Dash M, Vasemägi A (2012) Development of highly polymorphic major histocompatibility-associated microsatellite markers in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brown trout (Salmo trutta). Accepted, Molecular Ecology Resources.

Vuorisalo T, Arjamaa O, Vasemägi A, Taavitsainen J_P, Tourunen A, Saloniemi I (2012) Historical evidence suggests that high lactose tolerance in North Europeans cannot be explained by selection from in-situ milk consumption. Accepted, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.

Papakostas S, Vasemägi A, Vähä J-P, Himberg M, Peil L, Primmer C (2012) A proteomics approach reveals divergent molecular responses to salinity in populations of European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus). In press, Molecular Ecology.

Swatdipong A, Vasemägi A, Niva T, Koljonen M-L, Primmer CR (2010) High level of population genetic structuring in lake-run brown trout, Salmo trutta, of the Inari basin, northern Finland. Journal of Fish Biology 9, 2048-2071.

Ozerov MY, Lumme J, Päkk P, Rintamäki P, Ziętara MS, Barskaya Y, Lebedeva D, Saadre E, Gross R, Primmer CR, Vasemägi A (2010) High Gyrodactylus salaris infection rate in triploid Atlantic salmon Salmo salar. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 91, 129-136.

Vasemägi A, Gross R, Palm D, Paaver T & Primmer CR (2010). Discovery and application of insertion-deletion (INDEL) polymorphisms for QTL mapping of early life-history traits in Atlantic salmon. BMC Genomics 11, 156.

Swatdipong A, Primmer CR, Vasemägi A (2010) Historical and recent genetic bottlenecks in European grayling, Thymallus thymallus. Conservation Genetics 11, 279–292.

Vasemägi A (2009) Eel mystery: time makes a difference. Heredity, 103, 3–4.

Swatdipong A, Vasemägi A, Koskinen MT, Piironen P and Primmer CR (2009) Unanticipated population structure of European grayling in its northern distribution: implications for conservation prioritization. Frontiers in Zoology, 6:6.

Ryynänen H, Tonteri A, Vasemägi A, Primmer CR (2007) A comparison of the efficiency of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and microsatellites for the estimation of population and conservation genetic parameters in north European Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations. Journal of Heredity 98, 692-704.

Vasemägi A and Primmer CR (2005) Challenges for identifying fgenetic variation: the promise of combining complementary research strategies. Molecular Ecology 14, 3623-3642.

Vasemägi A, Nilsson J, Primmer CR (2005) Expressed sequence tag (EST) linked microsatellites as a source of gene associated polymorphisms for detecting signatures of divergent selection in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). Molecular Biology and Evolution 22, 1067-1076.

Supplementary appendix with primer sequences and electropherograms

Supplementary appendix with cross-species amplification information unctionally important

Vasemägi A, Gross R, Paaver T, Koljonen ML, Säisä M, Nilsson J (2005) Analysis of gene associated tandem repeat markers in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) populations: implications for restoration and conservation in the Baltic Sea. Conservation Genetics 6, 385-397.

Säisä M, Koljonen ML, Gross R, Nilsson J, Tahtinen J, Koskiniemi J, Vasemägi A (2005) Population genetic structure and postglacial colonization of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the Baltic Sea area based on microsatellite DNA variation. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62, 1887-1904.

Vasemägi A, Gross R, Paaver T, Koljonen ML, Nilsson J (2005) Extensive immigration from compensatory hatchery releases into wild Atlantic salmon population in the Baltic sea: spatio-temporal analysis over 18 years. Heredity 95, 76-83.

Supplementary appendix

Vasemägi A, Gross R, Paaver T, Kangur M, Nilsson J, Eriksson L-O (2001) Identification of the origin of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) population in a recently recolonized river in the Baltic Sea. Molecular Ecology 10, 2877-2882.

Nilsson J, Gross R, Dove O, Jansson H, Kohlmann K, Löytynoja A, Nielsen EE, Paaver T, Penttilä H, Primmer CR, Vasemägi A, Veselov A, Öst T, Lumme J. (2001) Matrilinear phylogeography of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in Europe and postglacial colonization of the Baltic Sea area. Molecular Ecology 10, 89-102.

Vasemägi A (2011) Fishing for genes that matter in wild. (Kummipükstes geene püüdmas – lõhe molekulaar-ökoloogilistest uuringutest Eestis). Estonian Science Foundation yearbook.

ICES WGAGFM Report (2008) Report of the Working Group on the Application of Genetics in Fisheries and Mariculture (WGAGFM). Dahle G, Johansen T, Vasemägi A, Carvalho G, Florin A-B, Was A, Prödohl P, Khrustaleva AM. Review the potential for application of SNP´s (single nucleotide polymorphisms) in fisheries genetics and aquaculture. Pitlochry, UK.

ICES WGAGFM Report (2008) Report of the Working Group on the Application of Genetics in Fisheries and Mariculture (WGAGFM). Boudry P, Gilbey J, Vasemägi A , Lallias D & Gosling E. Review current and future prospects of QTL based studies in fisheries and aquaculture. Pitlochry, UK.

Cross TF, McGinnity P, Coughlan J, Dillane E, Ferguson A, Koljonen M-L, O’Reilly P, Vasemägi A, Wilkins NP (2006) Genetic considerations for Stocking and Ranching of Atlantic salmon. In The Atlantic Salmon: Genetics, Conservation and Management, (eds.) Verspoor, E., L. Stradmeyer and J. Nielsen. Blackwells, Oxford.

Paaver T, Tohvert T, Gross R,Vasemägi A (1998) Changes of quality indices of common carp during overwintering in a storage basin. Estonian Agricultural University Proceedings, Tartu, 69, 65-71. Reports

Aho T, et al. incl.Vasemägi A (2004) Genetic Diversity in Commercially Exploited Fish Species. Nordic Council of Ministers Report, Iceland. 17 pp.

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Main page Curriculum Vitae Publications & data Research projects People Teaching Photos Links & collaborators	Refereed journals	LD patters along MHCI region in brown trout (Megha & Vasemägi 2012, MER). Got milk? Read why high lactose tolerance in North Europeans cannot be explained by selection from in-situ milk consumption (Vuorisalo et al. 2012). Protein-protein interaction model in the brackishwater whitefish (Papakostas et al. 2012). Live G. salaris on Atlantic salmon. Click to the video or here to enlarge (Ozerov et al. 2010). Studied salmon populations and temperature gradient in Northern Europe (Tonteri et al. 2010). Population prioritization of wild Finnish grayling populations along the genetic diversity and differentiation axes (Frontiers in Zoology, 6:6). The relationship between isolation by distance (IBD) and the proportion of loci exhibiting clinal variation (Genetics, 173). Electroporegram of the developed EST-microsatellite. Click appendix of Mol.Ecol.Notes 5, to view the rest of the loci. Fin-damaged Atlantic salmon strayer of hatchery origin caught from the R. Umeälven, Sweden. Click supplementary appendix of Heredity 95, to see more photos. First book to review genetic data on Atlantic salmon. International team of contributing authors. Blackwells, Oxford. Present and potential production of salmon in Estonian rivers. Estonian Academy publishers,Tallinn.


	Bruneaux M, Johnston SE, et al. Genomics without the genome: molecular evolutionary and population genetic analysis of ninespine stickleback using a modified RAD tag approach. Submitted.
	Swatdipong A, et al. Genetic mixed-stock analysis of lake-run brown trout fisheries catch in the Inari basin, northern Finland: implications for conservation and management. Submitted.
	Pukk P, Kuparinen A, Järv L, Gross R, Vasemägi V. Population replacement rather than fisheries-induced evolution causes life-history change in Eurasian perch. Submitted.
	Bourret V, Kent MP, et al. SNP-array reveals genome wide patterns associated with geographical and potential adaptive divergence across the natural range of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Submitted.
	Dash M, Vasemägi A (2012) Development of highly polymorphic major histocompatibility-associated microsatellite markers in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brown trout (Salmo trutta). Accepted, Molecular Ecology Resources.
	Vuorisalo T, Arjamaa O, Vasemägi A, Taavitsainen J_P, Tourunen A, Saloniemi I (2012) Historical evidence suggests that high lactose tolerance in North Europeans cannot be explained by selection from in-situ milk consumption. Accepted, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.
	Papakostas S, Vasemägi A, Vähä J-P, Himberg M, Peil L, Primmer C (2012) A proteomics approach reveals divergent molecular responses to salinity in populations of European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus). In press, Molecular Ecology.
	Swatdipong A, Vasemägi A, Niva T, Koljonen M-L, Primmer CR (2010) High level of population genetic structuring in lake-run brown trout, Salmo trutta, of the Inari basin, northern Finland. Journal of Fish Biology 9, 2048-2071.
	Ozerov MY, Lumme J, Päkk P, Rintamäki P, Ziętara MS, Barskaya Y, Lebedeva D, Saadre E, Gross R, Primmer CR, Vasemägi A (2010) High Gyrodactylus salaris infection rate in triploid Atlantic salmon Salmo salar. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 91, 129-136.
	Vasemägi A, Gross R, Palm D, Paaver T & Primmer CR (2010). Discovery and application of insertion-deletion (INDEL) polymorphisms for QTL mapping of early life-history traits in Atlantic salmon. BMC Genomics 11, 156.

	Tonteri A, Vasemägi A, Lumme J & Primmer CR (2010). Beyond MHC: signals of elevated selection pressure in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) immune relevant loci. Molecular Ecology 7, 1273-1282.

	Swatdipong A, Primmer CR, Vasemägi A (2010) Historical and recent genetic bottlenecks in European grayling, Thymallus thymallus. Conservation Genetics 11, 279–292.
	Vasemägi A (2009) Eel mystery: time makes a difference. Heredity, 103, 3–4.
	Swatdipong A, Vasemägi A, Koskinen MT, Piironen P and Primmer CR (2009) Unanticipated population structure of European grayling in its northern distribution: implications for conservation prioritization. Frontiers in Zoology, 6:6.

	Tonteri A, Vasemägi A, LummeJ, Primmer CR (2008) Use of differential expression data for identification of novel immune relevant expressed sequence tag-linked microsatellite markers in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) Molecular Ecology Resources 6, 1486-1490.
	Ryynänen H, Tonteri A, Vasemägi A, Primmer CR (2007) A comparison of the efficiency of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and microsatellites for the estimation of population and conservation genetic parameters in north European Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations. Journal of Heredity 98, 692-704.
	Vasemägi A (2006) The adaptive hypothesis of clinal variation revisited: single-locus clines as a result of spatially restricted geneflow. Genetics 173, 2411-2414.
	Vasemägi A and Primmer CR (2005) Challenges for identifying fgenetic variation: the promise of combining complementary research strategies. Molecular Ecology 14, 3623-3642.
	Vasemägi A, Nilsson J, Primmer CR (2005) Expressed sequence tag (EST) linked microsatellites as a source of gene associated polymorphisms for detecting signatures of divergent selection in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). Molecular Biology and Evolution 22, 1067-1076.
	Vasemägi A, Nilsson J and Primmer CR (2005) Seventy five EST-linked Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) microsatellite markers and their cross-species amplification in salmonids. Molecular Ecology Notes 5, 282-288.
	Supplementary appendix with primer sequences and electropherograms
	Supplementary appendix with cross-species amplification information unctionally important
	Vasemägi A, Gross R, Paaver T, Koljonen ML, Säisä M, Nilsson J (2005) Analysis of gene associated tandem repeat markers in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) populations: implications for restoration and conservation in the Baltic Sea. Conservation Genetics 6, 385-397.
	Säisä M, Koljonen ML, Gross R, Nilsson J, Tahtinen J, Koskiniemi J, Vasemägi A (2005) Population genetic structure and postglacial colonization of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the Baltic Sea area based on microsatellite DNA variation. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62, 1887-1904.
	Vasemägi A, Gross R, Paaver T, Koljonen ML, Nilsson J (2005) Extensive immigration from compensatory hatchery releases into wild Atlantic salmon population in the Baltic sea: spatio-temporal analysis over 18 years. Heredity 95, 76-83.
	Supplementary appendix
	Vasemägi A, Gross R, Paaver T, Kangur M, Nilsson J, Eriksson L-O (2001) Identification of the origin of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) population in a recently recolonized river in the Baltic Sea. Molecular Ecology 10, 2877-2882.
	Nilsson J, Gross R, Dove O, Jansson H, Kohlmann K, Löytynoja A, Nielsen EE, Paaver T, Penttilä H, Primmer CR, Vasemägi A, Veselov A, Öst T, Lumme J. (2001) Matrilinear phylogeography of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in Europe and postglacial colonization of the Baltic Sea area. Molecular Ecology 10, 89-102.
	Book chapters & non-refereed publications
	Vasemägi A (2011) Fishing for genes that matter in wild. (Kummipükstes geene püüdmas – lõhe molekulaar-ökoloogilistest uuringutest Eestis). Estonian Science Foundation yearbook.
	ICES WGAGFM Report (2008) Report of the Working Group on the Application of Genetics in Fisheries and Mariculture (WGAGFM). Dahle G, Johansen T, Vasemägi A, Carvalho G, Florin A-B, Was A, Prödohl P, Khrustaleva AM. Review the potential for application of SNP´s (single nucleotide polymorphisms) in fisheries genetics and aquaculture. Pitlochry, UK.
	ICES WGAGFM Report (2008) Report of the Working Group on the Application of Genetics in Fisheries and Mariculture (WGAGFM). Boudry P, Gilbey J, Vasemägi A , Lallias D & Gosling E. Review current and future prospects of QTL based studies in fisheries and aquaculture. Pitlochry, UK.
	Cross TF, McGinnity P, Coughlan J, Dillane E, Ferguson A, Koljonen M-L, O’Reilly P, Vasemägi A, Wilkins NP (2006) Genetic considerations for Stocking and Ranching of Atlantic salmon. In The Atlantic Salmon: Genetics, Conservation and Management, (eds.) Verspoor, E., L. Stradmeyer and J. Nielsen. Blackwells, Oxford.
	Paaver T, Gross R,Vasemägi A (2001) Genetic characterization of Estonian salmon populations. In Present and potential production of salmon in Estonian rivers (eds. M. Kangur, B. Wahlberg) pp.77-84. Estonian Academy publishers, Tallinn.
	Paaver T, Tohvert T, Gross R,Vasemägi A (1998) Changes of quality indices of common carp during overwintering in a storage basin. Estonian Agricultural University Proceedings, Tartu, 69, 65-71. Reports
	Aho T, et al. incl.Vasemägi A (2004) Genetic Diversity in Commercially Exploited Fish Species. Nordic Council of Ministers Report, Iceland. 17 pp.