Scientific articles

• Woestmann L & Saastamoinen M (2016) The importance of trans-generational effects in Lepidoptera. Current Zoology, in press.

• Ahola V, Koskinen P, Wong SC, Kvist J, Paulin L, Auvinen P, Saastamoinen M, Frilander M, Lehtonen R, Hanski I (2015) Temperature and sex related effects of serine protease alleles on larval development in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 224-2235.

• Saastamoinen M & Rantala MJ (2013) Influence of developmental conditions on immune function and dispersal-related traits in the Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) butterfly. PLoS ONE 8 (11): e81289.

• Saastamoinen M, Brommer JE, Brakefield PM & Zwaan BJ (2013) Quantitative genetic analysis of responses to larval food limitation in a polyphenic butterfly indicates environment and trait specific effects. Ecology and Evolution 3:3576-3589.

• Travis JMJ, Delgado M, Bocedi G, Baguette M, Barton K, Bonte D, Boulangeat I, Hodgson JA, Kubisch A, Penteriani V, Saastamoinen M, Stevens VM & Bullock JM (2013). Dispersal and biodiversity responses to climate change. Oikos 122: 1532-1540.

• Saastamoinen M, Ikonen S, Wong SW, Lehtonen R & Hanski I (2013) Plastic larval development in a butterfly has complex environmental and genetic causes and consequences for population dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology 82: 529-539.

• Van den Heuvel J, Saastamoinen M, Brakefield PM, Kirkwood TBL, Zwaan BJ & Shanley DP (2013) The predictive adaptive response: Modeling the life-history evolution of the butterfly Bicyclus anynana in seasonal environments. American Naturalist 181: E28-E42.

• Kvist J. W. C. W., Kallioniemi E., Saastamoinen M, Hanski I. & Frilander M. (2013). Temperature treatments during larval development reveal extensive heritable and plastic variation in gene expression and life history traits. Molecular Ecology 22: 602-619.

• Saastamoinen M, Norio H & Van Nouhuys S (2013) Direct and trans-generational responses to food deprivation during development in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Oecologia 171: 93-104.

• Saastamoinen M, Brakefield PM & Ovaskainen O (2012) Environmentally induced dispersal-related life-history syndrome in the tropical butterfly, Bicyclus anynana. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 2264-2275.

• Bonte D, Van Dyck H, Bullock JM, Coulon A, Delgado M, Gibbs M, Lehouck V, Matthysen E, Mustin K, Saastamoinen M, Schtickzelle N, Stevens VM, Vandewoestijne S, Baguette M, Barton K, Benton TG, Chaput-Bardy A, Clobert J, Dytham C, Hovestadt T, Meier CM, Palmer S, Turlure C & Travis J (2012) Cost of Dispersal. Biological Reviews 87:290-312.

• Nieberding CM, Fischer K, Saastamoinen M, Allen CE, Wallin EA, Hedenström E & Brakefield PM (2012) Cracking the olfactory code of a butterfly: the scent of aging. Ecology Letters 15:415-424.

• Saastamoinen M, van der Sterren D, Vastenhout N, Zwaan BJ & Brakefield PM (2010) Predictive adaptive responses: Condition-dependent impact of adult nutrition and flight in the tropical butterfly Bicyclus anynana. American Naturalist 176:689-698.

• Gibbs M, Saastamoinen M, Coulon A & Stevens VM (2010) Organisms on the move: ecology and evolution of dispersal. Biology Letters 6: 146-148.

• Saastamoinen M, Ikonen S & Hanski I (2009) Significant effects of Pgi genotype and body reserves on lifespan in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. 276: 1313-1322.

• Marden JH, Fescemyer HW, Saastamoinen M, MacFarland SP, Vera JC, Frilander MJ & Hanski I (2008) Weight and nutrition affect pre-mRNA splicing of a muscle gene associated with performance, energetics and life history. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3653-3660.

• Saastamoinen M & Hanski I (2008) Genotypic and environmental effects on flight activity and oviposition in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. American Naturalist 171:701-712.

• Saastamoinen M (2008) Heritability of dispersal and other life history traits in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Heredity 100: 39-46.

• Saastamoinen M (2007) Mobility and lifetime fecundity in new versus old populations of the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Oecologia 153:569-578.

• Zheng C, Ovaskainen O, Saastamoinen M & Hanski I (2007) Age-dependent survival analyzed with Bayesian models of mark-recapture data. Ecology 88:1970-1976.

• Saastamoinen M (2007) Life-history, genotypic, and environmental correlates of clutch size in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Ecological Entomology 32:235-242.

• Saastamoinen M, van Nouhuys S, Nieminen M, O'Hara B & Suomi J (2007) Development and survival of a specialist herbivore, Melitaea cinxia, on host plants producing high and low concentrations of iridoid glycosides. Annales Zoologici Fennici 44:70-80.

• Hanski I, Saastamoinen M, & Ovaskainen O (2006) Dispersal related life history trade-offs in a butterfly metapopulation. Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 91-100.

• Haag CR, Saastamoinen M, Marden JH & Hanski I (2005) A candidate locus for variation in dispersal rate in a butterfly metapopulation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 272:2449-2456.

Book chapter

• Bonte, D & Saastamoinen M (2012) Dispersal syndromes in arthropods: butterflies and spiders as a model system (eds. Clobert, J. Baguette, M, Benton, T.G & Bullock, J.M.) Dispersal Ecology and Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp.161-170.

Theses

• PhD thesis: Saastamoinen, M (2007) Dispersal and related life history traits in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. University of Helsinki, Finland. University of Helsinki, Finland.

• MSc thesis: Saastamoinen, M (2002) Effects of secondary chemical compounds of the host plants Plantago lanceolata and Veronica spicata on the growth and survival of the Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) larvae. University of Helsinki, Finland.

• BSc thesis: Saastamoinen, M (2000) The diet of pre-laying Corn Buntings, Miliaria calandra, on lowland farmland. University of Sussex, United Kingdom.