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Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir - Director

Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir

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Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir

Director

Location
Utan H.Í.
Phone
8989037 8989037
Email
gaol [at] hi.is

Unit
University of Iceland Research Centre in Westfjords Region
Website
http://www.vest.hi.is

Published works

2024

Discriminating populations of Atlantic herring mixing in the Norwegian Sea feeding ground using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)Marine Ecology Progress Series
Temperature and body size affect movement of juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and saithe (Pollachius virens) at nearshore nurseriesJournal of Fish Biology
Let’s talk aliens - Stakeholder perceptions of an alien species differ in time and spaceNeoBiota
Gaps in legislation and communication identified as stakeholders reflect on 30×30 policy in Icelandic watersMarine Policy

2023

Personality in juvenile Atlantic cod ecotypes and implications for fisheries managementEcology and Evolution
Genetic assignment predicts depth of benthic settlement for 0-group Atlantic codPLoS ONE
Detection and distribution of the North Atlantic capelin (Mallotus villosus) using environmental DNA—comparison with data from the main fishery management surveyEnvironmental DNA

2022

Laboratory measures of boldness correlate with ecological niche in threespine sticklebackEcology and Evolution
Activity vs explorationBehavioural Processes
Fishing for DNA? Designing baits for population genetics in target enrichment experimentsMolecular Ecology Resources

2021

Evidence of unidirectional hybridization and second-generation adult hybrid between the two largest animals on Earth, the fin and blue whalesEvolutionary Applications
A millennium of trophic stability in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)Scientific Reports

2020

The genetic composition of feeding aggregations of the Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) in the central north AtlanticICES Journal of Marine Science
First record of niche overlap of native european plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) and non-indigenous european flounder (platichthys flesus) on nursery grounds in icelandAquatic Invasions
From DNA to biomassICES Journal of Marine Science
Hreiðurgerð og hrygningaratferli hornsíla í ÞingvallavatniNáttúrufræðingurinn
Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (DONOP)Quaternary International

2019

Change in Atlantic cod migrations and adaptability of early land-based fishers to severe climate variation in the North AtlanticQuaternary Research
Trophic dynamics of anadromous brown trout and Arctic charr in NW Iceland and their correlation to salmon lice infectionPolar Biology

2018

Biological Invasions in Conservation Planning: A Global Systematic ReviewFrontiers in Marine Science
DNA barcoding revealing mislabeling of seafood in European mass cateringsFood Control
International interlaboratory study on taqman real-time polymerase chain reaction authentication of black seabream (Spondyliosoma cantharus)Journal of Food and Nutrition Research
Plasticity in activity and latency to explore differs between juvenile atlantic cod gadus morhua across a temperature gradientJournal of Fish Biology

2017

A millennium of north-east Atlantic cod juvenile growth trajectories inferred from archaeological otolithsPLoS ONE

2016

Interactions between boldness, foraging performance and behavioural plasticity across social contextsBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

2015

More rapid shift to a benthic niche in larger Gadus morhua juvenilesJournal of Fish Biology

2014

Historical DNA reveals the demographic history of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in medieval and early modern IcelandProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Genetic structure of the lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus across the North AtlanticICES Journal of Marine Science
Divergence in social foraging among morphs of the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatusBiological Journal of the Linnean Society

2013

Twenty-two novel microsatellite loci for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus)Conservation Genetics Resources
Habitat complexity affects how young of the year Atlantic cod Gadus morhua perceive predation threat from older conspecificsJournal of Fish Biology
Isolation and characterization of thirty microsatellite loci for Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus L.)Conservation Genetics Resources

2012

Reaching the limitJournal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
A note on a mother-foetus pair and alleged father match in the Atlantic fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) off IcelandJournal of Cetacean Research and Management
Fourteen new microsatellite markers for Atlantic herring Clupea harengusJournal of Fish Biology
Parasites and parallel divergence of the number of individual MHC alleles between sympatric three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus morphs in IcelandJournal of Fish Biology

2011

Detection and mapping of mtDNA SNPs in Atlantic salmon using high throughput DNA sequencingBMC Genomics
Myndun tegunda og afbrigðamyndun íslenskra ferskvatnsfiska
Evolutionary origins of widespread small benthic charr (Salvelinus alpinus (L.)) in IcelandHeredity

2010

Tegundamyndun

2009

Parallels, nonparallels, and plasticity in population differentiation of threespine stickleback within a lakeBiological Journal of the Linnean Society
Immune response against equine gammaherpesvirus in Icelandic horsesVeterinary Microbiology

2008

Correlated pedigree and molecular estimates of inbreeding and their ability to detect inbreeding depression in the Icelandic sheepdog, a recently bottlenecked population of domestic dogsConservation Genetics
Report of the 3rd Havemeyer workshop on allergic diseases of the Horse, Hólar, Iceland, June 2007Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

2007

Morphological and genetic divergence of intralacustrine stickleback morphs in IcelandJournal of Evolutionary Biology
Parallel evolution? Microsatellite variation of recently isolated marine and freshwater three-spined sticklebackJournal of Fish Biology
Postglacial intra-lacustrine divergence of Icelandic threespine stickleback morphs in three neovolcanic lakesJournal of Evolutionary Biology

2006

Positive assortative mating between recently described sympatric morphs of Icelandic sticklebacksBiology Letters

2002

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Keywords for Specialisation:

Evolutionary Biology