Research Interests

I am interested in finding the honey bee's (Apis mellifera) QTLs of resistance to Varroa destructor. The aim of the study is to find practical ways to manage honey bees by fighting the parasite in the hive system using the resistance traits of the host rather than using external sources of parasite control like acaricides.

Curriculum vitae

Education

• 2007: PhD, at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• 2000: Master of Science in Genetics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Professional Career

• Since 2020: deputy chair, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
• Since 2015: Lecturer, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
• 2012-2014: Postdoc, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
• 2007-2012: Postdoc, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
• 2003-2007: PhD student, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Publications

• Hall MD, Routtu J, Ebert D (2019): Dissecting the genetic architecture of a stepwise infection process. Mol Ecol (accepted)
• Conlon BH, Aurori A, Giurgiu AI, Kefuss J, Dezmirean DS, Moritz RFA, Routtu J (2019): A gene for resistance to the Varroa mite (Acari) in honey bee (Apis mellifera) pupae. Mol Ecol
• Czypionka T, Fields PD, Routtu J, van den Berg E, Ebert D, Meester L (2018): The genetic architecture underlying diapause termination in a planktonic crustacean. Mol Ecol
• Conlon BH, Frey E, Rosenkranz P, Locke B, Moritz RFA, Routtu J (2018): The role of epistatic interactions underpinning resistance to parasitic Varroa mites in haploid honey bee (Apis mellifera) drones. JEB
• Krebs M, Routtu J, Ebert D (2017): QTL mapping of a natural genetic polymorphism for long-term parasite persistence in Daphnia populations. Parasitology 24: 1-9
• Bento G*, Routtu J*, Fields PD, Bourgeois Y, Du Pasquier L, Ebert D (*Equal contribution) (2017): The genetic basis of resistance and matching-allele interactions of a host-parasite system: the Daphnia magna-Pasteuria ramosa model. PLOS Genetics 13:e1006596
• Kurze C, Routtu J, Moritz RFA (2016): Parasite resistance and tolerance in honeybees at the individual and social level. Zoology 119: 290-7.
• Arbore R, Andras J, Routtu J, Ebert D (2016): Genetic mapping of sediment browsing behaviour in a planktonic crustacean. JEB 29: 1999-2009.
• Izhar R, Routtu J, Ben-Ami F (2015): Host age modulates within-host parasite competition. Biol Lett 11: 20150131.
• Routtu J, Ebert D (2015): Genetic architecture of resistance in Daphnia hosts against two species of host-specific parasites. Heredity 114: 241-248.
• Routtu J, Hall MD, Albere B, Beisel C, Bergeron RD, Chaturvedi A, Choi J-H, Colbourne J, De Meester L, Stephens MT, Stelzer C-P, Solorzano E, Thomas WK, Pfrender ME, Ebert D (2014): An SNP-based second-generation genetic map of Daphnia magna and its application to QTL analysis of phenotypic traits. BMC Genomics 15: 1033.
• Goren L, Routtu J, Ben-Ami F. (2014): Trematode-associated morbidity and mortality of tadpoles in Israel. Parasitol Res 113(10): 3833-3841.
• Routtu J, Grunberg D, Izhar R, Dagan Y, Guttel Y, Ucko M, Ben-Ami F. (2014): Selective and universal primers for trematode barcoding in freshwater snails. Parasitol Res 113(7): 2535-2540.
• Ben-Ami F, Routtu J. (2013): The expression and evolution of virulence in multiple infections: the role of specificity, relative virulence and relative dose. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 97.
• Roulin A, Routtu J, Hall MD, Janicke T, Coulson I, Haag CR, Ebert D. (2013): The genetic basis of local adaptation of sex induction in the cyclical parthenogenetic crustacean Daphnia magna. Mol Ecol 22: 3567-3579.
• Lagisz M, Wen S-Y, Routtu J, Klappert K, Morales-Hojas R, Schäfer M, Vieira J, Hoikkala A, Ritchie MG, Butlin RK (2012): Two distinct genomic regions, harbouring the period and fruitless genes, affect male courtship song in Drosophila montana. Heredity 108: 602-608.
• Schäfer MA, Routtu J, Vieira J, Hoikkala A, Ritchie MG, Schlötterer C (2011): Multiple quantitative trait loci influence intra-specific variation in genital morphology between phylogenetically distinct lines of Drosophila montana. JEB 24: 1879–1886.
• Routtu J, Jansen B, Colson, I, De Meester L, Ebert D (2010): The first-generation linkage map of Daphnia magna. BMC Genomics 11: 508.
• Mirol P, Routtu J, Hoikkala A, Butlin R (2008): Signals of demographic expansion in Drosophila virilis. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 59 .
• Huttunen S, Aspi J, Schlötterer C, Routtu J, Hoikkala A (2008): Variation in male courtship song traits in Drosophila virilis: the effects of selection and drift on song divergence at the intraspecific level. Behav Genet 38: 82-92.
• Routtu J, Hoikkala A, Kankare M (2007): Microsatellite-based identification method for D. virilis group species. Hereditas 144: 213-221.
• Routtu J, Mazzi D, van der Linde K, Mirol P, Butlin RK, Hoikkala, A (2007): The extent of variation in male song, wing and genital characters among allopatric Drosophila montana populations. JEB 20: 1591-1601.
• Mirol PM, Schäfer MA, Orsini L, Routtu J, Schlötterer C, Hoikkala A, Butlin RK (2007): Phylogeographic patterns in Drosophila montana. Mol Ecol 16: 1085-1097.
• Lehtimäki S, Rantakari A, Routtu J, Tuikkala A, Li J, Virtaharju O, Palva ET, Romantschuk M, Saarilahti HT (2003): Characterization of the hrp pathogenicity cluster of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora: high basal level expression in a mutant causes reduced virulence. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 270: 263–272.
• Boureau T, Routtu J, Roine E, Taira S, Romantschuk, M (2002): Localization of hrpA induced Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 in infected tomato leafs. Molecular Plant Pathology 3: 451-460.

Books

• Routtu J (2007): Genetic and phenotypic divergence in Drosophila virilis and D. montana. PhD thesis, Jyväskylä Studies in Biological and Environmental Science, vol 181, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• Romantschuk M, Boureau T, Routtu J, Taira S, Roine E (2001): Expression of the Pseudomonas syringae Hrp Pilus in Planta. Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, 87-92. Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands.