141. BATTRAM, J.C. & JOHNSTON, I.A. (1991). Muscle growth in the Antarctic teleost, Notothenia neglecta (Nybelin). Antarctic Science, 3, 29-33. download pdf
190. JOHNSTON, I.A. & McLAY, A. (1997). Temperature and family effects on muscle cellularity at hatch and first feeding in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar L.). Can. J. Zool., 75, 64-74.download pdf
196. JOHNSTON , I.A., COLE , N.J. , ABERCROMBY, M. & VIEIRA, V.L.A. (1998). Embryonic temperature modulates muscle growth characteristics in larval and juvenile herring. J. Exp. Biol. 201, 623-646. download pdf
204. JOHNSTON , I.A., STRUGNELL, G., McCRACKEN, M.L. & JOHNSTONE, R. R. (1999). Muscle growth and development in normal-sex-ratio and all-female diploid and triploid Atlantic salmon. J. Exp. Biol., 202, 1991-2016.download pdf
219. JOHNSTON , I.A., ALDERSON, D., SANDHAM, C., DINGWALL, A., MITCHELL, D., SELKIRK, C., NICKELL, B., BAKER, R., ROBERTSON, B., WHYTE, A. & SPRINGATE, J. (2000). Patterns of muscle growth in early and late maturing populations of Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar L.). Aquaculture 189, 307-333. download pdf
223. TEMPLE , G.K., FOX, C.J., STEWART, R. & JOHNSTON, I.A. (2000). Variability in muscle growth characteristics during the spawning season in a natural population of Atlantic salmon ( Clupea harengus L.). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 205, 271-281. download pdf
225. JOHNSTON , I.A. (2001). Implications of muscle growth patterns for the colour and texture of fish flesh. In. Farmed Fish Quality. (eds.) S. Kestin and P. Warris, pp. 13-30. Blackwells Scientific Oxford .download pdf
229. COLE , N.J. & JOHNSTON, I.A. (2001). Plasticity of myosin heavy chain expression with temperature acclimation is gradually acquired during ontogeny in the common carp ( Cyprinus carpio L.). J. Comp. Physiol. B 171, 321-326. download pdf
244. JOHNSTON , I.A., FERNANDEZ, D., CALVO, J., VIERIA, V.L.A., NORTH, T.W., ABERCROMBY, M. and GARLAND , T. Jr. (2003). Reduction in muscle fibre number during the adaptive radiation of Notothenioid fishes: a phylogenetic perspective. J. Exp. Biol. 206, 2595-2609. download pdf
251. Catalán, I.A., Johnston, I.A. and Olivar, M.P. (2004). Seasonal differences in muscle fibre recruitment of pilchard larvae in the north-western Mediterranean.
J. Fish Biol , 64 , 1605-1625. download pdf
252. JOHNSTON, I.A., MANTHRI, S., BICKERDIKE, R., DINGWALL, A., LUIJKX, R., CAMPBELL, P., NICKELL, D., ALDERSON, R., (2004). Growth performance, muscle structure and flesh quality in out-of-season Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts reared under two different photoperiod regimes. Aquaculture 237, 281-300. download pdf
254. Ian A. Johnston1,*, Marguerite Abercromby1, Vera L. A. Vieira1, Rakel J. Sigursteindóttir2,BjarniK. Kristjánsson2, Dean Sibthorpe1 and Skúli Skúlason2 (2004). Rapid evolution of muscle fibre number in post-glacial populations of ArcticcharrSalvelinus alpinus J. Exp. Biol. 207, 4343-4360. download pdf
262. Jorge M. O. Fernandes, Matthew G. Mackenzie, Greg Elgar, Yuzuru Suzuki, Shugo Watabe, James R. Kinghorn, and Ian A. Johnston. A genomic approach to reveal novel genes associated with myotube formation in the model teleost, Takifugu rubripes (2005). Physiol. Genomics. 22, 327-338. link to journal download
264. Johnston, I.A., Abercromby, M. and Andersen, O. (2005). Loss of muscle fibres in a landlocked dwarf salmon population. Biology letters 1 , 419-422 . download pdf
272. Johnston, I.A. (2006). Environment and plasticity of myogenesis in teleost fish.
J. Exp. Biol. 209, 2249-2264. download pdf - ( Terms and
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274. Johnston, I. A., Abercromby, M., and Andersen, Ø. (2006). Muscle fibre number varies with haemoglobin phenotype in Atlantic cod as predicted by the optimal fibre number hypothesis. Biol. Letters doi: 10.1098/rsbl.20060500. Published on-line.download pdf
275. MacQueen, D and Johnston, I. A. (2006). A novel salmonid myoD gene is distinctly regulated during development and probably arose by duplication after the genome tetraploidization. FEBS Letters, 580, 4996-5002. download pdf
278. Hagen, Ø., Solberg, C. and Johnston, I. A. (2006). Sexual dimorphism of fast muscle fibre recruitment in farmed Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.). Aquaculture 261, 1222-1229.download pdf
293. . Macqueen, D.J., Robb, D.H.F., Olsen, T., Melstveit, L., Paxton, C.G.M. and Johnston, I.A. (2008). Temperature until the ‘eyed stage’ of embryogenesis programmes the growth trajectory and muscle phenotype of adult Atlantic salmon. Biol. Lett. 4, 294-298. download pdf
294.Fernandes, J.M.O., Macqueen, D.J., Lee, H-T., and Johnston, I.A., (2008). Genomic, evolutionary, and expression analyses of cee, an ancient gene involved in normal growth and development. Genomics. 91, 315-325. download pdf
297. Johnston, I.A., Macqueen, D.J. & Watabe, S. (2008). Molecular biotechnology of development and growth in fish muscle. In. Fisheries for Global Welfare and Environment, 5th World Fisheries Congress 2008. (ed. K. Tsukamoto, T. Takeuchi, T.D. Beard jr. & M. J. Kaiser) pp. 241-262.
298. Hagen, Ø., Vieira, V. L. A., Solberg, C. & Johnston, I.A. (2008). Myotube production in fast myotomal muscle is switched-off at shorter body lengths in male than female Atlantic halibut Hippoglossus hippoglossus (L.) resulting in a lower final fibre number. J. Fish Biol. 72, 1-14. download pdf
300. Bower, N.I., Li, X., Taylor, R., & Johnston, I A. (2008). Switching to fast growth: the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system in skeletal muscle of Atlantic salmon. J. Exp. Biol. 211, 3859-3870. JEB pdf Download
301. Johnston, I.A. & Andersen, Ø. (2008). Number of muscle fibres in adult Atlantic cod varies with temperature during embryonic development and pantophysin (PanI) genotype. Aquat. Biol. 4, 167-173. Download from Journal
302. Hagen, Ø., Fernandes, J.M.O., Solberg, C. and Johnston, I.A. (2009). Expression of growth-related genes in muscle during fasting and refeeding of juvenile Atlantic halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus L. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B. 152, 47-53. download pdf
303. McQueen, D.J. & Johnston, I.A. (2009). Evolution of the multifaceted eukaryotic akirin gene family. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9: 34, doi: 10. 1186/1471-2148-9-34. Download from Journal
304. Johnston, I.A., Lee, H-T., Macqueen, D.J., Paranthaman, K., Kawashima, C., Anwar, A., Kinghorn, J.R. and Dalmay, T. (2009). Embryonic temperature affects muscle fibre recruitment in adult zebrafish: genome-wide changes in gene and microRNA expression associated with the transition from hyperplastic to hypertrophic growth phenotypes. J. Exp. Biol. 212, 1781-1793. Download from Journal
306. Bower, N.I. & Johnston, I.A. (2009). Selection of reference genes for expression studies with fish myogenic cell cultures. BMC Molecular Biology. 10: 80, doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-10-80. Download from Journal
307. Bower, N.I., Taylor, R.G & Johnston, I.A. (2009). Phasing of muscle gene expression with fasting-induced recovery growth in Atlantic Salmon. Frontiers in Zoology. 6: 18. Doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-18. Download from Journal
313. Bower, N. I. & Johnston I. A. (2010). Paralogs of Atlantic salmon myoblast determination factor genes are distinctly regulated in proliferating and differentiating myogenic cells Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol 298, 1615-1626 Doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00114. download pdf
314. Macqueen, D.J., Kristjánsson, B.K. & Johnston, I.A. (2010). Salmonid genomes have a remarkably expanded akirin family, coexpressed with genes from conserved pathways governing skeletal muscle growth and catabolism Physiol. Genomics 42, 134-148 Doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00045.2010
316. Bower, N.I & Johnston, I.A. (2010). Transcriptional Regulation of the IGF Signaling Pathway by Amino Acids and Insulin-Like Growth Factors during Myogenesis in Atlantic Salmon. PLoS ONE 5(6): e11100. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011100.Download from Journal
317. Macqueen, D.J., Bower, N.I. and Johnston, I.A. (2010). Positioning the expanded akirin gene family of Atlantic salmon within the transcriptional networks of myogenesis. Biochem. Biophy. Res. Comm. 400, 599-605. download pdf
318. Bower, N.I. and Johnston, I.A. (2010). Discovery and characterisation of nutritionally regulated genes associated with muscle growth in Atlantic salmon. Physiological Genomics 42A, 114-130. download pdf
320. Johnston, I.A., Bower, N.I. and Macqueen, D.J. (2011). Growth and the regulation of myotomal muscle mass in teleost fish. J. Exp. Biol. 214, 1617-1628. download pdf
320. Johnston, I.A., Bower, N.I. and Macqueen, D.J. (2011). Growth and the regulation of myotomal muscle mass in teleost fish. J. Exp. Biol. 214, 1617-1628. download pdf
321. Amaral, I.P.G. and Johnston, I. A. (2011) Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signalling and genome-wide transcriptional regulation in the fast muscle of zebrafish following a single-satiating meal. J. Exp. Biol. 214, 2125-2139. download pdf
322. Macqueen, D.J.M., Kristjánsson, Paxton, C.G.M., Vieira, V.L.A. and Johnston, I.A. (2011). The parallel evolution of dwarfism in Arctic charr is accompanied by adaptive divergence in m-Tor-pathway gene expression.
Molecular Ecology 20, 3167-3184. download pdf
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323. Amaral, I.P.G. and Johnston, I.A. (2012) Circadian expression of clock and putative clock-controlled genes in skeletal muscle of the zebrafish. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 302, R193-R206. download pdf
324. Johnston, I.A., Kristjánsson, B.K., Paxton, C.G., Vieira, V.L.A., Macqueen, D.J. and Bell, M.A. (2012). Universal scaling rules predict evolutionary patterns of myogenesis in species with indeterminate growth. Proc. R. Soc. B. published online 11 January doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2536. Open access.
