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Otto Seppälä is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria and focuses on several areas within environmental and biological sciences. Their research predominantly intersects environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and immunology and microbiology.

Their work spans multiple subfields, including ecology, insect science, immunology, genetics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. These domains align closely with specific research topics such as invertebrate immune response mechanisms, parasite biology and host interactions, physiological and biochemical adaptations, mollusks and parasites studies, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, as well as evolution and genetic dynamics.

Seppälä has contributed to various scientific publications, with prominent recent papers including:

  • Transcriptome profiling of Lymnaea stagnalis (Gastropoda) for ecoimmunological research (2021) published in BMC Genomics
  • Examining adaptive evolution of immune activity: opportunities provided by gastropods in the age of 'omics' (2021) published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Coinfecting parasites can modify fluctuating selection dynamics in host-parasite coevolution (2020) published in Ecology and Evolution
  • Condition-dependent immune function in a freshwater snail revealed by stable isotopes (2022) published in Freshwater Biology

Additional publication venues where Seppälä has frequently contributed include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Collaborations with co-authors form an important part of Seppälä's research network. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Tiina Salo
  • Katri Seppälä
  • Teo Cereghetti
  • Coen M. Adema
  • Jean-Claude Walser

Seppälä's research integrates multiple disciplines to investigate ecological and immunological questions, with a focus on host-parasite dynamics, immune function in invertebrates, and evolutionary responses in natural populations.

Best Publications

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

    Otto Seppälä;Anssi Karvonen;E. Tellervo Valtonen

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

    Otto Seppälä;Anssi Karvonen;E. Tellervo Valtonen

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

    A. Karvonen;O. Seppälä;E. T. Valtonen

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

    A. Karvonen;O. Seppälä;E. T. Valtonen

  • Host condition as a constraint for parasite reproduction

    Otto Seppälä;Katri Liljeroos;Anssi Karvonen;Jukka Jokela

  • Shoaling behaviour of fish under parasitism and predation risk

    Otto Seppälä;Anssi Karvonen;E. Tellervo Valtonen

  • Immune defence under extreme ambient temperature.

    Otto Seppälä;Jukka Jokela;Jukka Jokela

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

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

  • 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

  • Impaired crypsis of fish infected with a trophically transmitted parasite

    Otto Seppälä;Anssi Karvonen;E. Tellervo Valtonen

  • Host manipulation by parasites in the world of dead-end predators: adaptation to enhance transmission?

    Otto Seppälä;Otto Seppälä;E. Tellervo Valtonen;Daniel P Benesh

  • Resistance against eye flukes: naïve versus previously infected fish.

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

  • MAINTENANCE OF GENETIC VARIATION IN IMMUNE DEFENSE OF A FRESHWATER SNAIL: ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY

    Otto Seppälä;Jukka Jokela

  • Host manipulation as a parasite transmission strategy when manipulation is exploited by non-host predators

    Otto Seppälä;Jukka Jokela;Jukka Jokela

  • An experimental heat wave changes immune defense and life history traits in a freshwater snail

    Katja Leicht;Katja Leicht;Jukka Jokela;Jukka Jokela;Otto Seppälä;Otto Seppälä

  • Multidimensionality and intra-individual variation in host manipulation by an acanthocephalan.

    D. P. Benesh;E. T. Valtonen;O. Seppälä

  • Host immunization shapes interspecific associations in trematode parasites.

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

  • Interactions among co-infecting parasite species: a mechanism maintaining genetic variation in parasites?

    Otto Seppälä;Otto Seppälä;Anssi Karvonen;E Tellervo Valtonen;Jukka Jokela;Jukka Jokela

  • Is more better? Polyploidy and parasite resistance

    K. C. King;O. Seppälä;O. Seppälä;M. Neiman

  • Effect of eye fluke infection on the growth of whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) —An experimental approach

    Anssi Karvonen;Otto Seppälä

  • Natural selection on quantitative immune defence traits: a comparison between theory and data.

    O. Seppälä;O. Seppälä

  • Ecological divergence of closely related Diplostomum (Trematoda) parasites.

    A. Karvonen;P. Terho;O. Seppälä;J. Jokela

Frequent Co-Authors

Anssi Karvonen
Anssi Karvonen University of Jyväskylä
Jukka Jokela
Jukka Jokela Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
E. Tellervo Valtonen
E. Tellervo Valtonen University of Jyväskylä
E. T. Valtonen
E. T. Valtonen University of Jyväskylä
Katja Räsänen
Katja Räsänen Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Anssi Vainikka
Anssi Vainikka University of Eastern Finland
Christian Stamm
Christian Stamm Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Peter J. Hudson
Peter J. Hudson Pennsylvania State University
Markus J. Rantala
Markus J. Rantala University of Turku
Jose C. Pedro
Jose C. Pedro University of Aveiro

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