2025
                                                Altered spawning seasons of Atlantic salmon broodstock transcriptionally and epigenetically influence cell cycle and lipid-mediated regulations in their offspring
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Takaya Saito, Marit  Espe, Maren  Mommens, Christoph  Bock, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    PLOS ONE 
                                                        20
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2024
                                                Exogenous growth hormone (GH) increases dimension and reduces strength of vertebrae in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Per Gunnar Fjelldal, Takaya  Saito, Björn Thrandur  Björnsson, Peng  Yin, Tom Johnny  Hansen, Audun Østby  Pedersen, Kristin  Hamre
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Aquaculture 
                                                        589
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2024
                                                One-carbon metabolism nutrients impact the interplay between DNA methylation and gene expression in liver, enhancing protein synthesis in Atlantic salmon
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Takaya Saito, Marit  Espe, Vibeke  Vikeså, Christoph  Bock, Tårn H.  Thomsen, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Epigenetics 
                                                        19
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2024
                                                Environmentally driven changes in Atlantic salmon oxidative status interact with physiological performance
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Peng Yin, Takaya  Saito, Per Gunnar  Fjelldal, Björn Thrandur  Björnsson, Sofie C.  Remø, Sandeep  Sharma, Rolf-Erik  Olsen, Kristin  Hamre
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Aquaculture 
                                                        581
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2023
                                                Methionine: An Indispensable Amino Acid in Cellular Metabolism and Health of Atlantic Salmon
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Marit Espe, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Takaya  Saito, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Aquaculture Nutrition 
                                                        2023
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2023
                                                Seasonal Changes in Photoperiod: Effects on Growth and Redox Signaling Patterns in Atlantic Salmon Postsmolts
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Peng Yin, Takaya  Saito, Per Gunnar  Fjelldal, Björn Thrandur  Björnsson, Sofie C.  Remø, Tom Johnny  Hansen, Sandeep  Sharma, Rolf-Erik  Olsen, Kristin  Hamre
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Antioxidants 
                                                        12
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2022
                                                Micronutrient supplementation affects DNA methylation in male gonads with potential intergenerational epigenetic inheritance involving the embryonic development through glutamate receptor-associated genes
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Takaya Saito, Paul  Whatmore, John F.  Taylor, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Douglas R.  Tocher, Marit  Espe, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    BMC Genomics 
                                                        23
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2022
                                                Earlier or delayed seasonal broodstock spawning changes nutritional status and metabolic programming of growth for next-generation Atlantic salmon
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Kaja Helvik Skjærven, Maren  Mommens, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Takaya  Saito, Eystein  Oveland, Marit  Espe
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Aquaculture 
                                                        554
                                                        p. 1-14
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2022
                                                Impact of atioxidant feed and growth manipulation on the redox regulation of Atlantic salmon smolts
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Peng Yin, Bjørn Thrandur  Bjørnsson, Per Gunnar  Fjelldal, Takaya  Saito, Sofie C.  Remø, Rolf Brudvik  Edvardsen, Tom Johnny  Hansen, Sandeep  Sharma, Rolf Erik  Olsen, Kristin  Hamre
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Antioxidants 
                                                        11
                                                        p. 1-18
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2022
                                                Intracellular trafficking of fatty acids in the fish intestinal epithelial cell line RTgutGC
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Chandrasekar Selvam, Takaya  Saito, Nini  Sissener, P. Antony Jesu  Prabhu, Øystein  Sæle
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Frontiers in Marine Science 
                                                        9
                                                        p. 1-15
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2021
                                                Metabolic and molecular signatures of improved growth in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fed surplus levels of methionine, folic acid, vitamin B6 and B12 throughout smoltification.
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Anne-Catrin Adam, Takaya  Saito, Marit  Espe, Paul  Whatmore, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Vibeke  Vikeså, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    British Journal of Nutrition 
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2020
                                                Out-of-season spawning affects the nutritional status and gene expression in both Atlantic salmon female broodstock and their offspring
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Kaja Helvik Skjærven, Eystein  Oveland, Maren  Mommens, Elisa  Samori, Takaya  Saito, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Marit  Espe
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 
                                                        247
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2020
                                                Micronutrient supplementation affects transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of lipid metabolism in a dose-dependent manner
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Takaya Saito, Paul  Whatmore, John F.  Taylor, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Douglas R.  Tocher, Marit  Espe, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Epigenetics 
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2020
                                                The level of 1C diets fed prior to cell isolation affects lipid metabolism in primary liver cells isolated from Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Marit Espe, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven, Ming  Chen, Vibeke  Vikeså, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Takaya  Saito, Elisabeth  Holen
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Aquaculture Nutrition 
                                                        26
                                                        p. 1019-1025
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2020
                                                Parental selenium nutrition affects the one-carbon metabolism and the hepatic dna methylation pattern of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the progeny
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Pauline Wischhusen, Takaya  Saito, Cécile  Heraud, Sadasivam J.  Kaushik, Benoit  Fauconneau, P. Antony Jesu  Prabhu, Stéphanie  Fontagné-Dicharry, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Life 
                                                        10
                                                        p. 1-25
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2019
                                                Atlantic salmon fed a nutrient package of surplus methionine, vitamin B12, folic acid and vitamin B6 improved growth and reduced the relative liver size, but when in excess growth reduced
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Marit Espe, Vibeke  Vikeså, Tårn  Helgøy Thomsen, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Takaya  Saito, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Aquaculture Nutrition 
                                                        p. 1-13
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2016
                                                Precrec: fast and accurate precision-recall and ROC curve calculations in R
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Takaya Saito, Marc  Rehmsmeier
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Bioinformatics 
                                                        33
                                                        p. 145-147
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2015
                                                The precision-recall plot is more informative than the ROC plot when evaluating binary classifiers on imbalanced datasets
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Takaya Saito, Marc  Rehmsmeier
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    PLOS ONE 
                                                        10:e0118432
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2013
                                                MicroRNAs act complementarily to regulate disease-related mRNA modules in human diseases
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Sreenivas Chavali, Sören  Bruhn, Katrin  Tiemann, Pål  Sætrom, Fredrik  Barrenäs, Takaya  Saito, Kartiek  Kanduri, Hui  Wang, Mikael  Benson
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    RNA: A publication of the RNA Society 
                                                        19
                                                        p. 1552-1562
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2012
                                                Target gene expression levels and competition between transfected and endogenous microRNAs are strong confounding factors in microRNA high-throughput experiments
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Takaya Saito, Pål  Sætrom
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Silence 
                                                        3
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2011
                                                Inferring causative variants in microRNA target sites
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Laurent Thomas, Takaya  Saito, Pål  Sætrom
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) 
                                                        39
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2010
                                                MicroRNAs – targeting and target prediction
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Takaya Saito, Pål  Sætrom
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    New Biotechnology 
                                                        27
                                                        p. 243-249
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2010
                                                A two-step site and mRNA-level model for predicting microRNA targets
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Takaya Saito, Pål  Sætrom
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    BMC Bioinformatics 
                                                        11
                                                
                                             
                                         
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                    2024
                                                Metabolic programming from broodstock to offspring. Talk and poster
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Kaja Helvik Skjærven, Takaya  Saito, Jorge M.O.  Fernandes, Maren  Mommens, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Marit  Espe
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2022
                                                Seasonal broodstock management influences the nutritional status, gene expression and epigenetic gene regulation in Atlantic salmon progeny
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Kaja Helvik Skjærven, Takaya  Saito, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Maren  Mommens, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Marit  Espe
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2022
                                                Nutrient-sensitive epigenetic regulation in salmon muscle
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Anne-Catrin Adam, Takaya  Saito, A.L.K.  Putman, Paul  Whatmore, Marit  Espe, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Eric A.  Miska, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2022
                                                1-carbon nutrients impact histone modification enrichment in the Atlantic salmon genome
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     A.L.K. Putman, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Takaya  Saito, Marit  Espe, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven, Eric A.  Miska
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2021
                                                Epigenetic mechanism of improved post-smolt growth in Atlantic salmon fed a moderate surplus package of methionine, folic acid, vitamin B6 and B12 throughout smoltification
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Kaja Helvik Skjærven, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Takaya  Saito, Paul  Whatmore, A.L.K.  Putman, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Vibeke  Vikeså, Marit  Espe
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2021
                                                Surplus methionine, cobalamin, folate and pyridoxine improved growth and lipid metabolism in Atlantic salmon
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Marit Espe, Elisabeth  Holen, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Takaya  Saito, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2021
                                                Seasonal broodstock management alters the epigenome of the next generation of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Kaja Helvik Skjærven, Takaya  Saito, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Paul  Whatmore, Pedro  Araujo, Maren  Mommens, Marit  Espe
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2021
                                                Seasonal broodstock management influences the nutritional status, gene expression and epigenetic gene regulation in Atlantic salmon progeny
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Kaja Helvik Skjærven, Takaya  Saito, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Maren  Mommens, Paul  Whatmore, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Marit  Espe
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2021
                                                Påvirker endret gytetidspunkt neste generasjon?
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Kaja Helvik Skjærven, Takaya  Saito, Maren  Mommens, Eystein  Oveland, Anne-Catrin  Adam, Marit  Espe
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2020
                                                Moderat overskudd av mikronæringsstoff i laksefôr gir økt vekst og endrer ernæringssensitive epigenetiske reguleringsmekanismer i muskel til atlantisk laks
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Anne-Catrin Adam, Marit  Espe, Takaya  Saito, Paul  Whatmore, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2019
                                                The metabolic footprint of a surplus of dietary micronutrients on salmon muscle – stories from pre- and post-smolts
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Anne-Catrin Adam, Marit  Espe, Takaya  Saito, Paul  Whatmore, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2019
                                                Epigenetic effects of dietary micronutrients in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) muscle
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Anne-Catrin Adam, Marit  Espe, Takaya  Saito, Paul  Whatmore, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2019
                                                Nutrient-responsive epigenetic programming in Atlantic salmon and zebrafish
                                                
                                                        
                                                    
                                                     Anne-Catrin Adam, Paul  Whatmore, Takaya  Saito, Marit  Espe, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira  Fernandes, Luisa M.P.  Valente, Kaja Helvik  Skjærven
                                                    
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2010
                                                MicroRNA Targeting and Complex Loci
                                                
                                                        Saito, Takaya
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                     
                                                
                                             
                                            
                                                    2010
                                                Lecture: A two-step site and mRNA-level model for predicting microRNA targets
                                                
                                                        Saito, Takaya