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Sami Merilaita

Sami Merilaita

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
6533
World Ranking
5598
National Ranking
83

Overview

Sami Merilaita is affiliated with the University of Turku in Finland. Their research primarily falls within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a concentration on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics. Additional subfields of study include Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's main research topics encompass Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, and Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy.

Merilaita has published in a variety of scientific journals, contributing to the following venues:

  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Aquatic Invasions

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Merilaita illustrate a range of ecological and evolutionary topics:

  • Dark-eyed females: sexually dimorphic prespawning coloration results from sex-specific physiological response to hormone exposure in the sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae), 2021, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Habitat heterogeneity limits prey colour polymorphism maintained via negative frequency-dependent selection, 2024, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetic structure, UV-vision, wing coloration and size coincide with colour polymorphism in Fabriciana adippe butterflies, 2024, Molecular Ecology
  • On the spectrum of animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al., 2022, Behavioral Ecology
  • Functionally novel invasive predator eradicates herbivores of a littoral community, 2023, Aquatic Invasions

Frequent collaborators in Merilaita's research include:

  • Karin H. Olsson
  • Helén Nilsson Sköld
  • Charlotta Kvarnemo
  • Gopal Murali
  • Ullasa Kodandaramaiah

Best Publications

  • Animal camouflage: current issues and new perspectives

    Martin Stevens;Sami Merilaita

  • Defining disruptive coloration and distinguishing its functions.

    Martin Stevens;Sami Merilaita

  • Optimization of cryptic coloration in heterogeneous habitats

    Sami Merilaita;Juha Tuomi;Veijo Jormalainen

  • Animal Camouflage: Mechanisms and Function

    Martin Stevens;Sami Merilaita

  • Background-matching and disruptive coloration, and the evolution of cryptic coloration

    Sami Merilaita;Johan Lind

  • Animal Camouflage: Plate section

    Martin Stevens;Sami Merilaita

  • How camouflage works

    Sami Merilaita;Nicholas E. Scott-Samuel;Innes C. Cuthill

  • Crypsis through disruptive coloration in an isopod

    Sami Merilaita

  • Selection for cryptic coloration in a visually heterogeneous habitat

    Sami Merilaita;Anne Lyytinen;Johanna Mappes

  • Aposematism and crypsis combined as a result of distance dependence: functional versatility of the colour pattern in the swallowtail butterfly larva

    Birgitta S Tullberg;Sami Merilaita;Christer Wiklund

  • VISUAL BACKGROUND COMPLEXITY FACILITATES THE EVOLUTION OF CAMOUFLAGE

    Sami Merilaita

  • Using potential reproductive rates to predict mating competition among individuals qualified to mate

    Ingrid Ahnesjö;Charlotta Kvarnemo;Sami Merilaita

  • Fearful symmetry: pattern size and asymmetry affects aposematic signal efficacy

    Anders Forsman;Sami Merilaita

  • Animal Camouflage: Crypsis through background matching

    Sami Merilaita;Martin Stevens

  • Female resistance and duration of mate-guarding in three aquatic peracarids (Crustacea)

    V. Jormalainen;S. Merilaita

  • Prey concealment: visual background complexity and prey contrast distribution

    Marina Dimitrova;Sami Merilaita

  • Background choice as an anti-predator strategy: the roles of background matching and visual complexity in the habitat choice of the least killifish

    Karin Kjernsmo;Sami Merilaita

  • CONSTRAINED CAMOUFLAGE FACILITATES THE EVOLUTION OF CONSPICUOUS WARNING COLORATION

    Sami Merilaita;Birgitta S. Tullberg

  • Evolution of sex differences in microhabitat choice and colour polymorphism in Idotea baltica

    Sami Merilaita;Veijo Jormalainen

  • Female mate choice determines reproductive isolation between sympatric butterflies

    Magne Friberg;Namphung Vongvanich;Anna Karin Borg-Karlson;Darrell J. Kemp

Frequent Co-Authors

Veijo Jormalainen
Veijo Jormalainen University of Turku
Anders Forsman
Anders Forsman Linnaeus University
Martin Stevens
Martin Stevens University of Exeter
Juha Tuomi
Juha Tuomi University of Oulu
Charlotta Kvarnemo
Charlotta Kvarnemo University of Gothenburg
H. Martin Schaefer
H. Martin Schaefer University of Freiburg
Graeme D. Ruxton
Graeme D. Ruxton University of St Andrews
Christer Wiklund
Christer Wiklund Stockholm University
John L. Fitzpatrick
John L. Fitzpatrick Stockholm University
Darrell J. Kemp
Darrell J. Kemp Macquarie University

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