2026 Anssi Karvonen: Animal Science and Veterinary Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Animal Science and Veterinary	32	2127	1943	16	15	93	3917

Overview

Anssi Karvonen is affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. A significant portion of their work focuses on the fields of ecology, genetics, and immunology, with a particular emphasis on parasite biology, host interactions, and aquaculture disease management.

Their main fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Karvonen's subfields cover:

Ecology
Genetics
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Immunology

The primary topics addressed in their publications are:

Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Genetic diversity and population structure
Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Species Distribution and Climate Change

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Karvonen include:

Quantity and Quality of Aquaculture Enrichments Influence Disease Epidemics and Provide Ecological Alternatives to Antibiotics, 2021, Antibiotics
Negative associations between parasite avoidance, resistance and tolerance predict host health in salmonid fish populations, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Sensitivity of bipartite network analyses to incomplete sampling and taxonomic uncertainty, 2023, Ecology
Life-history genotype explains variation in migration activity in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Opposing health effects of hybridization for conservation, 2021, Conservation Science and Practice

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Karvonen include:

Pekka Hyvärinen
Ines Klemme
Cristina Llopis-Belenguer
Juan Antonio Balbuena
Isabel Blasco-Costa

Karvonen's work appears regularly in several publication venues, notably:

JYX
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Conservation Science and Practice
Oecologia

Best Publications

Increasing water temperature and disease risks in aquatic systems: Climate change increases the risk of some, but not all, diseases

Anssi Karvonen;Päivi Rintamäki;Jukka Jokela;E. Tellervo Valtonen

348
Citations
Parasite-induced change in host behaviour and susceptibility to predation in an eye fluke–fish interaction

Otto Seppälä;Anssi Karvonen;E. Tellervo Valtonen

231
Citations
Manipulation of fish host by eye flukes in relation to cataract formation and parasite infectivity

Otto Seppälä;Anssi Karvonen;E. Tellervo Valtonen

161
Citations
Is the population genetic structure of complex life cycle parasites determined by the geographic range of the most motile host

Katja-Riikka Louhi;Katja-Riikka Louhi;Anssi Karvonen;Christian Rellstab;Jukka Jokela;Jukka Jokela

147
Citations
The role of parasitism in adaptive radiations – when might parasites promote and when might they constrain ecological speciation?

Anssi Karvonen;Ole Seehausen

142
Citations
Eye fluke-induced cataract formation in fish: quantitative analysis using an ophthalmological microscope.

A. Karvonen;O. Seppälä;E. T. Valtonen

140
Citations
Parasite resistance and avoidance behaviour in preventing eye fluke infections in fish.

A. Karvonen;O. Seppälä;E. T. Valtonen

138
Citations
Host condition as a constraint for parasite reproduction

Otto Seppälä;Katri Liljeroos;Anssi Karvonen;Jukka Jokela

133
Citations
Transmission, infectivity and survival of Diplostomum spathaceum cercariae.

A. Karvonen;S. Paukku;E. T. Valtonen;P. J. Hudson

120
Citations
Shoaling behaviour of fish under parasitism and predation risk

Otto Seppälä;Anssi Karvonen;E. Tellervo Valtonen

103
Citations
Patterns of cercarial production from Diplostomum spathaceum: terminal investment or bet hedging?

A. Karvonen;S. Kirsi;P. J. Hudson;E. T. Valtonen

93
Citations
Importance of Sequence and Timing in Parasite Coinfections

Anssi Karvonen;Jukka Jokela;Anna-Liisa Laine

89
Citations
Climate warming and disease risks in temperate regions--Argulus coregoni and Diplostomum spathaceum as case studies.

T. Hakalahti;A. Karvonen;E.T. Valtonen

88
Citations
Water temperature, not fish morph, determines parasite infections of sympatric Icelandic threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Anssi Karvonen;Bjarni K. Kristjánsson;Skúli Skúlason;Maiju Lanki

87
Citations
Parasite avoidance behaviours in aquatic environments

Donald C. Behringer;Anssi Karvonen;Jamie Bojko

87
Citations
Dynamics of Diplostomum spathaceum infection in snail hosts at a fish farm

Anssi Karvonen;Miia Savolainen;Otto Seppälä;E. Tellervo Valtonen

84
Citations
Synchronous attack is advantageous: mixed genotype infections lead to higher infection success in trematode parasites

Anssi Karvonen;Anssi Karvonen;Christian Rellstab;Katja-Riikka Louhi;Katja-Riikka Louhi;Jukka Jokela

84
Citations
Transmission dynamics of a trematode parasite: exposure, acquired resistance and parasite aggregation

Anssi Karvonen;Peter J. Hudson;Peter J. Hudson;Otto Seppälä;E. Tellervo Valtonen

76
Citations
Impaired crypsis of fish infected with a trophically transmitted parasite

Otto Seppälä;Anssi Karvonen;E. Tellervo Valtonen

76
Citations
Resistance against eye flukes: naïve versus previously infected fish.

Anssi Karvonen;Satu Paukku;Otto Seppälä;E. Tellervo Valtonen

71
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Otto Seppälä University of Innsbruck

Jukka Jokela Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

E. Tellervo Valtonen University of Jyväskylä

E. T. Valtonen University of Jyväskylä

Ole Seehausen University of Bern

Peter J. Hudson Pennsylvania State University

Raine Kortet University of Eastern Finland

Anna-Liisa Laine University of Helsinki

Petr Horák Charles University

Jouni Taskinen University of Jyväskylä

External Links

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