Mikko Koskinen

Name: Mikko Koskinen Position: Director Institution: Finnzymes Diagnostics E-mail: mikko.koskinen[at]finnzymes.fi Homepage: www.diagnostics.finnzymes.fi

Fields of interest:

• PCR related technologies
• Nucleic acid -based diagnostics
• Evolutionary genetics
• Population genetics
• Molecular ecology

Recent publications:

A. Pitkala, L. Salmikivi, P. Bredbacka, A.L. Myllyniemi and M.T. Koskinen:
Comparison of tests for detection of beta-lactamase-producing staphylococci,
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Vol. 45, (2007), pp. 2031-2033.

C.R. Primmer, A.J. Veselov, A. Zubchenko, A. Poututkin, I. Bakhmet and M.T. Koskinen:
Isolation by distance within a river system: genetic population structuring of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, in tributaries of the Varzuga River in northwest Russia,
Molecular Ecology, Vol. 15, (2006), pp. 653-666.

C.R. Primmer, J.N. Painter, M.T. Koskinen, J.U. Palo and J. Merilä:
General features of avian cross-species microsatellite amplification,
Journal of Avian Biology, Vol. 36, (2005), pp. 348-360.

M.T. Koskinen, H. Hirvonen, P.-A. Landry and C.R. Primmer:
The benefits of increasing the number of microsatellites utilized in genetic population studies: an empirical perspective,
Hereditas, Vol. 141, (2004), pp. 61-67.

M.T. Koskinen:
Individual assignment using microsatellite DNA reveals unambiguous breed identification in the domestic dog,
Animal Genetics, Vol. 34, (2003), pp. 297-301.

M.T. Koskinen, T.O. Haugen and C.R. Primmer:
Contemporary Fisherian life-history evolution in small salmonid populations,
Nature, Vol. 419, (2002), pp. 826-830.

M.T. Koskinen, I. Knizhin, C.R. Primmer, C. Schlötterer and S. Weiss:
Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogeography of Thymallus spp. (grayling) provides evidence of ice-age mediated environmental perturbations in the world's oldest body of freshwater, Lake Baikal,
Molecular Ecology, Vol. 11, (2002), pp. 2599-2611.

P.-A. Landry, M.T. Koskinen and C.R. Primmer:
Deriving evolutionary relationships among populations using microsatellites and (delta-mu)2: all loci are equal, but some are more equal than others...,
Genetics, Vol. 161, (2002), pp. 1339-1347.

M.T. Koskinen, J. Nilsson, A.Je. Veselov, A.G. Potutkin, E. Ranta and C.R. Primmer:
Microsatellite data resolve phylogeographic patterns in European grayling, Thymallus thymallus, Salmonidae,
Heredity, Vol. 88, (2002), pp. 391-402.

M.T. Koskinen, J. Piironen and C.R. Primmer:
Genetic assessment of spatiotemporal evolutionary relationships and stocking effects in grayling (Thymallus thymallus, Salmonidae),
Ecology Letters, Vol. 5, (2002), pp. 193-205.