Selected publications

[pdf files or copies of full articles are available by request, from risto.vainola -at- helsinki.fi]

• Daneliya ME, Kamaltynov RM, Väinölä R (2011) Phylogeography and systematics of Acanthogammarus s. str., giant amphipod crustaceans from Lake Baikal. Zoologica Scripta 40: 623-637. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Strelkov P (2011) Mytilus trossulus in Northern Europe. Marine Biology 158: 817-833 [Abstract] [full text pdf]
• Daneliya ME, Kamaltynov RM, Kontula T, Väinölä R (2009) Systematics of the Baikalian Babr (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pallaseidae). Zootaxa 2276: 49-68 [Abstract]
• Audzijonyte A , Wittmann KJ, Ovcarenko I, Väinölä R (2009) Invasion phylogeography of the Ponto-Caspian crustacean Limnomysis benedeni dispersing across Europe. Diversity and Distributions 15: 346-355 [Abstract]
• Wilke T, Väinölä R, Riedel F (eds) (2008). Patterns and Processes of Speciation in Ancient Lakes. Developments in Hydrobiology Vol. 205. 236 p. Springer, Dordrecht. ISBN: 978-1-4020-9581-8
• Audzijonyte A, Ovcarenko I, Bastrop R, Väinölä R (2008) Two cryptic species of the Hediste diversicolor group (Polychaeta, Nereididae) in the Baltic Sea , with mitochondrial signatures of different colonization histories. Marine Biology 155:599–612 [Abstract]
• Maggs CA, Castilho R, Foltz DW, Henzler C, Jolly MT, Kelly J, Olsen J, Perez KE, Stam W, Vainola R, Viard F, Wares JP (2008) Evaluating signatures of glacial refugia for North Atlantic benthic marine taxa. Ecology 89: s108-s122 [Abstract]
• Nikula R, Strelkov P, Väinölä R (2008) A broad transition zone between an inner Baltic hybrid swarm and a pure North Sea subspecies of Macoma balthica (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Molecular Ecology 17:1505-1522 [Abstract]
• Audzijonyte A, Daneliya, ME, Mugue N, Väinölä R (2008) Phylogeny of Paramysis (Crustacea: Mysida) and the origin of Ponto-Caspian endemic diversity: resolving power from nuclear protein coding genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46:738-759 [Abstract]
• Audzijonyte A, Wittmann KJ, Väinölä R (2008) Tracing recent invasions of the Ponto-Caspian mysid shrimp Hemimysis anomala across Europe and to North America with mitochondrial DNA. Diversity and Distributions 14:179-186 [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Witt JDS, Grabowski M, Bradbury JH, Jazdzewski K, Sket B (2008) Global diversity of amphipods (Amphipoda; Crustacea) in freshwater. In Balian E et al.(eds) Freshwater animal diversity assessment. Hydrobiologia 595:241-255 [Abstract]
• Daneliya ME, Audzijonyte A, Väinölä R (2007) Diversity within the Ponto-Caspian Paramysis baeri Czerniavsky sensu lato revisited: P. bakuensis G.O. Sars restored (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae). Zootaxa 1632: 21-36 [Abstract]
• Strelkov P, Nikula R, Väinölä R (2007) Macoma balthica in the White and Barents Seas: properties of a widespread marine hybrid swarm. Molecular Ecology 16: 4110-4127 [Abstract]
• Audzijonyte A, Väinölä R (2007) Mysis nordenskioldi n.sp. (Crustacea, Mysida), a circumpolar coastal mysid separated from the NE Pacific M. litoralis (Banner, 1948). Polar Biology 30: 1137-1157 [Abstract]
• Nikula R, Strelkov P, Väinölä R (2007) Diversity and trans-Arctic invasion history of mtDNA lineages in the North Atlantic Macoma balthica complex (Bivalvia: Tellinidae). Evolution 61: 928-941 [Abstract] [Full text] ©
• Arnason U, Gullberg A, Janke A, Kullberg M, Lehman N, Petrov EA, Vainola R (2006) Pinniped phylogeny and a new hypothesis for their origin and dispersal. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 345-354 [Abstract]
• Audzijonyte A, Daneliya ME, Väinölä R (2006) Comparative phylogeography of Ponto-Caspian mysid crustaceans: isolation and exchange among dynamic inland sea basins. Molecular Ecology 15: 2969-2984 [Abstract]
• Audzijonyte A, Väinölä R (2006) Phylogeographic analyses of a circumarctic coastal and a boreal lacustrine mysid crustacean, and evidence of fast post-glacial mtDNA rates. Molecular Ecology 15: 3287-3301 [Abstract]
• Palo JU, Väinölä R (2006) The enigma of the landlocked Baikal and Caspian seals addressed through phylogeny of phocine mitochondrial sequences. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88: 61-72. [Abstract]
• Audzijonyte A , Damgaard J, Varvio SL, Vainio JK, Väinölä R (2005) Phylogeny of Mysis (Crustacea, Mysida): history of continental invasions inferred from molecular and morphological data. Cladistics 21: 575-596. [Abstract]
• Audzijonyte A, Väinölä R (2005) Diversity and distributions of circumpolar fresh- and brackish-water Mysis (Crustacea: Mysida): descriptions of M. relicta Lovén, 1862, M. salemaai n.sp., M. segerstralei n.sp. and M. diluviana n.sp., based on molecular and morphological characters. Hydrobiologia 544: 89-141. [Abstract]
• Audzijonyte A , Pahlberg J, Väinölä R, Lindström M (2005) Spectral sensitivity differences in two Mysis sibling species (Crustacea, Mysida): Adaptation or phylogenetic constraints? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 325: 228-239. [Abstract]
• Kontula T, Vainola R (2004) Molecular and morphological analysis of secondary contact zones of Cottus gobio in Fennoscandia: geographical discordance of character transitions. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 81: 531-552. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R (2003) Repeated trans-Arctic invasions in littoral bivalves: molecular zoogeography of the Macoma balthica complex. Marine Biology 143: 935-946. [Abstract]
• Nikula R, Vainola R (2003) Phylogeography of Cerastoderma glaucum (Bivalvia: Cardiidae) across Europe: A major break in the Eastern Mediterranean. Marine Biology 143: 339-350. [Abstract]
• Kontula T, Väinölä R (2003) Relationships of Palearctic and Nearctic 'glacial relict' Myoxocephalus sculpins from mitochondrial DNA data. Molecular Ecology 12: 3179-3184. [Abstract]
• Vainio JK, Väinölä R (2003) Refugial races and postglacial colonization history of the freshwater amphipod Gammarus lacustris in Northern Europe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79: 523-542. [Abstract]
• Kontula T, Kirilchik SV, Väinölä R (2003): Endemic diversification of the monophyletic cottoid fish species flock in Lake Baikal explored with mtDNA sequencing. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27: 143-155. [Abstract]
• Palo JU, Hyvärinen H, Helle E, Mäkinen HS, Väinölä R (2003) Postglacial loss of microsatellite variation in the landlocked Lake Saimaa ringed seal. Conservation Genetics 4: 117-128. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Audzijonyte A, Riddoch BJ (2002) Morphometric discrimination among four species of the Mysis relicta group. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 155: 493-515. [Abstract]
• Kontula T, Vainola R (2001) Postglacial colonization of Northern Europe by distinct phylogeographic lineages of the bullhead, Cottus gobio. Molecular Ecology 10: 1983-2002. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Oulasvirta P (2001) The first record of Maeotias marginata (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Baltic Sea: a Pontocaspian invader. Sarsia 86: 401-404. [Abstract] [Full text pdf]
• Väinölä R, Vainio JK, Palo JU (2001) Phylogeography of "glacial relict" Gammaracanthus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from boreal lakes and the Caspian and White Seas. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58: 2247-2257. [Abstract]
• Palo JU, Mäkinen HS, Helle E, Stenman O, Väinölä R (2001) Microsatellite variation in ringed seals (Phoca hispida): genetic structure and history of the Baltic Sea population. Heredity 86: 609-617. [Abstract]
• Kostia S, Ruohonen-Lehto M, Väinölä R, Varvio SL (2000): Phylogenetic information in inter-SINE and inter-SSR fingerprints of the Artiodactyla and evolution of the Bov-tA SINE. Heredity 84: 37-45. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Kamaltynov RM (1999) Species diversity and speciation in the endemic amphipods of Lake Baikal: molecular evidence. Crustaceana 72: 945-956. [Abstract]
• Väinölä Risto (1998) A sex-linked locus (Mpi) in the opossum shrimp Mysis relicta: implications for early postglacial colonization history. Heredity 81: 621-629. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Vainio JK (1998) Distributions, life cycles and hybridization of two Mysis relicta group species (Crustacea, Mysida) in the northern Baltic Sea and Lake Båven. Hydrobiologia 368: 137-148. [Abstract]
• Ferris C, King RA, Väinölä R, Hewitt GM (1998) Chloroplast DNA recognizes three refugial sources of European oaks and suggests independent eastern and western immigrations to Finland. Heredity 80: 584-593. [Abstract]
• Palo J, Varvio SL, Hanski I, Väinölä R (1995) Developing microsatellite markers for insect population structure: complex variation in a checkerspot butterfly. Hereditas 123: 295-300. [Abstract]
• Vainola Risto (1995) Origin and recent endemic divergence of a Caspian Mysis species flock with affinities to the "glacial relict" crustaceans in boreal lakes. Evolution 49:1215-1223. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Valtonen ET, Gibson DI (1994) Molecular systematics in the acanthocephalan genus Echinorhynchus (sensu lato) in northern Europe. Parasitology 108:105-114. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Riddoch BJ, Ward RD, Jones RI (1994) Genetic zoogeography of the Mysis relicta species group (Crustacea: Mysidacea) in northern Europe and North America. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51:1490-1505. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R (1993) Pikkusydänsimpukka Lounais-Suomessa [Parvicardium hauniense in southwestern Finland]. Luonnon Tutkija 97:33-34. [Summary]
• Väinölä R (1992) Evolutionary genetics of marine Mysis spp. (Crustacea: Mysidacea). Marine Biology 114:539-550. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Hvilsom MM (1991) Genetic divergence and a hybrid zone between Baltic and North Sea Mytilus populations (Mytilidae: Mollusca). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 43:127-148. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Rockas H (1990) New distributional data on 'glacial relict' crustaceans. Annales Zoologici Fennici 27:215-220. [Abstract][Full text pdf]
• Väinölä R, Varvio SL (1989) Biosystematics of Macoma balthica in northwestern Europe. - pp. 309-316 In Ryland, J.S. & Tyler, P.A. (eds.) Reproduction, Genetics and Distributions of Marine Organisms. Olsen & Olsen, Fredensborg. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R, Varvio SL (1989) Molecular divergence and evolutionary relationships in Pontoporeia (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 46:1705-1713. [Abstract]
• Varvio SL, Koehn RK, Väinölä R (1988) Evolutionary genetics of the Mytilus edulis complex in the North Atlantic region. Marine Biology 98:51-60. [Abstract]
• Väinölä R (1986) Sibling species and phylogenetic relationships of Mysis relicta (Crustacea: Mysidacea). Annales Zoologici Fennici 23:207-221. [Abstract]