Jukka-Pekka Verta

A comprehensive analysis of Atlantic salmon gonad and pituitary transcriptomes identifies novel players in sexual maturation 2025 BMC Genomics - Xin-Di Huang, Morgane Frapin, Ehsan Pashay Ahi, Craig Robert Primmer, Jukka-Pekka Verta

Testicular heterochrony in vgll3-mediated maturation age in Atlantic salmon 2025 G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics - Ehsan Pashay Ahi, Jukka-Pekka Verta, Johanna Kurko, Annukka Ruokolainen, Paul Vincent Debes, Craig R Primmer

Hippo-vgll3 signaling may contribute to sex differences in Atlantic salmon maturation age via contrasting adipose dynamics 2025 Biology of Sex Differences - Ehsan Pashay Ahi, Jukka-Pekka Verta, Johanna Kurko, Annukka Ruokolainen, Paul Vincent Debes, Craig R. Primmer

Brain-associated alterations of Hippo pathway transcription in early maturing Atlantic salmon 2025 BMC Ecology and Evolution - Ehsan Pashay Ahi, Jukka-Pekka Verta, Johanna Kurko, Annukka Ruokolainen, Pooja Singh, Paul Vincent Debes, Jaakko Erkinaro, Craig R. Primmer

Gene co‐expression patterns in Atlantic salmon adipose tissue provide a molecular link among seasonal changes, energy balance and age at maturity 2024 Molecular Ecology - Ehsan Pashay Ahi, Jukka-Pekka Verta, Johanna Kurko, Annukka Ruokolainen, Pooja Singh, Paul Vincent Debes, Jaakko Erkinaro, Craig R. Primmer

The evolutionary significance of post-transcriptional gene regulation 2024 Heredity - Jukka-Pekka Verta, Arne Jacobs

A complex mechanism translating variation of a simple genetic architecture into alternative life histories 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) - Jukka-Pekka Verta, Jacqueline E. Moustakas-Verho, Iikki Donner, Morgane Frapin, Annukka Ruokolainen, Paul V. Debes, Jaakko Erkinaro, Craig R. Primmer

The role of alternative splicing in adaptation and evolution 2022 Trends in Ecology & Evolution - Jukka-Pekka Verta, Arne Jacobs

Genetic Drift Dominates Genome-Wide Regulatory Evolution Following an Ancient Whole-Genome Duplication in Atlantic Salmon 2021 Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE) - Jukka-Pekka Verta, Henry J Barton, Victoria Pritchard, Craig R Primmer

The Atlantic salmon whole blood transcriptome and how it relates to major locus maturation genotypes and other tissues 2021 Marine Genomics - Samuel C. Andrew, Craig R. Primmer, Paul V. Debes, Jaakko Erkinaro, Jukka-Pekka Verta

Cis-regulatory differences in isoform expression associate with life history strategy variation in Atlantic salmon 2020 PLoS Genetics - Jukka-Pekka Verta, Paul Vincent Debes, Nikolai Piavchenko, Annukka Ruokolainen, Outi Ovaskainen, Jacqueline Emmanuel Moustakas-Verho, Seija Tillanen, Noora Parre, Tutku Aykanat, Jaakko Erkinaro, Craig Robert Primmer

Predominance of cis-regulatory changes in parallel expression divergence of sticklebacks 2019 eLIFE - Jukka-Pekka Verta, Felicity C Jones