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Overview

Jukka Jokela is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has a research portfolio spanning environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their recent publications include studies across various topics and journals: "Stream microbial communities and ecosystem functioning show complex responses to multiple stressors in wastewater" (2020, Global Change Biology), "The Size, Symmetry, and Color Saturation of a Male Guppy's Ornaments Forecast His Resistance to Parasites" (2020, The American Naturalist), "Sensitivity of bipartite network analyses to incomplete sampling and taxonomic uncertainty" (2023, Ecology), "Ornaments indicate parasite load only if they are dynamic or parasites are contagious" (2023, Evolution Letters), and "Gene Duplication and Gain in the Trematode Atriophallophorus winterbourni Contributes to Adaptation to Parasitism" (2021, Genome Biology and Evolution).

Their work covers multiple main fields of study:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields represented include:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics
  • Insect Science
  • Ecological Modeling

Research topics addressed in their publications focus on:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Jukka Jokela frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Cristina Llopis-Belenguer
  • Isabel Blasco-Costa
  • Claudia C. Buser
  • Juan Antonio Balbuena
  • Anssi Karvonen

Their work has appeared multiple times in these publication venues:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Oikos
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Best Publications

  • Speciation reversal and biodiversity dynamics with hybridization in changing environments

    Ole Seehausen;Ole Seehausen;Gaku Takimoto;Gaku Takimoto;Denis Roy;Jukka Jokela;Jukka Jokela

  • 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

  • The maintenance of sex, clonal dynamics, and host-parasite coevolution in a mixed population of sexual and asexual snails.

    Jukka Jokela;Mark F. Dybdahl;Curtis M. Lively

  • Predator avoidance and immune defence: costs and trade-offs in snails.

    Mark C Rigby;Jukka Jokela

  • Estimating species distribution and abundance in river networks using environmental DNA

    Luca Carraro;Hanna Hartikainen;Jukka Jokela;Enrico Bertuzzo

  • Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans

    Jenni E. Pettay;Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Jukka Jokela;Virpi Lummaa

  • Dr. Pangloss restrained by the Red Queen : steps towards a unified defence theory

    Jukka Jokela;Paul Schmid-Hempel;Mark C. Rigby

  • Spatial variation in infection by digenetic trematodes in a population of freshwater snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum).

    Jukka Jokela;Curtis M. Lively

  • Sons reduced maternal longevity in preindustrial humans.

    Samuli Helle;Virpi Lummaa;Jukka Jokela

  • The Geographic Mosaic of Sex and the Red Queen

    Kayla C. King;Lynda F. Delph;Jukka Jokela;Jukka Jokela;Curtis M. Lively

  • EVIDENCE FOR A COST OF SEX IN THE FRESHWATER SNAIL POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM

    Jukka Jokela;Curtis M. Lively;Mark F. Dybdahl;Jennifer A. Fox

  • Host Sex and Local Adaptation by Parasites in a Snail‐Trematode Interaction

    Curtis M. Lively;Mark F. Dybdahl;Jukka Jokela;Erik E. Osnas

  • PARASITES, SEX, AND EARLY REPRODUCTION IN A MIXED POPULATION OF FRESHWATER SNAILS.

    Jukka Jokela;Jukka Jokela;Curtis M. Lively

  • 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

  • GENETIC STRUCTURE OF COEXISTING SEXUAL AND CLONAL SUBPOPULATIONS IN A FRESHWATER SNAIL (POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM)

    Jennifer A. Fox;Mark F. Dybdahl;Jukka Jokela;Jukka Jokela;Curtis M. Lively

  • Host condition as a constraint for parasite reproduction

    Otto Seppälä;Katri Liljeroos;Anssi Karvonen;Jukka Jokela

  • Virulence of parasites in hosts under environmental stress: experiments with anoxia and starvation

    Jukka Jokela;Jouni Taskinen;Pia Mutikainen;Kirstin Kopp

  • Are reproductive and somatic senescence coupled in humans? Late, but not early, reproduction correlated with longevity in historical Sami women

    Samuli Helle;Virpi Lummaa;Jukka Jokela

  • Effects of host condition on susceptibility to infection, parasite developmental rate, and parasite transmission in a snail–trematode interaction

    A. C. Krist;J. Jokela;J. Wiehn;C. M. Lively

  • Unravelling the Impacts of Micropollutants in Aquatic Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary Studies at the Interface of Large-Scale Ecology

    Christian Stamm;Katja Räsänen;Francis J. Burdon;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt

  • Report The Geographic Mosaic of Sex and the Red Queen

    Kayla C. King;Lynda F. Delph;Jukka Jokela;Curtis M. Lively

Frequent Co-Authors

Curtis M. Lively
Curtis M. Lively Indiana University
Otto Seppälä
Otto Seppälä University of Innsbruck
Anssi Karvonen
Anssi Karvonen University of Jyväskylä
Virpi Lummaa
Virpi Lummaa University of Turku
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Francesco Pomati
Francesco Pomati Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Katja Räsänen
Katja Räsänen Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Lynda F. Delph
Lynda F. Delph Indiana University
Andrea Rinaldo
Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
E. Tellervo Valtonen
E. Tellervo Valtonen University of Jyväskylä

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