Aplicació de mètodes genètics en l'avaluació de la gestió per a la conservació de poblacions de truita comuna, Salmo trutta 

    Araguas Solà, Rosa M. (Date of defense: 2009-07-03)

    Durant anys, el principal mètode de gestió de les poblacions de truita comuna (Salmo trutta L.) ha estat la repoblació amb exemplars exògens. El seguiment genètic de les poblacions de truita comuna dels Pirineus orientals, ...

    Aquaporins in boar and bull spermatozoa: identification and functional implications 

    Prieto Martínez, Noelia (Date of defense: 2017-03-17)

    Aquaporins (AQPs) are proteins involved in the transport of water and some other solutes across plasma membranes. The fact that mammalian spermatozoa are highly permeable to water suggests the presence of these proteins. ...

    Caracterización de polimorfismos genéticos implicados con el metabolismo de la citarabina y asociación con la respuesta y toxicidad a la quimioterapia en pacientes con leucemia mieloide aguda de riesgo intermedio 

    Díaz Santa, Johana Alejandra (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)

    Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is adults' most common acute leukemia. Prognostic factors influencing treatment response and patient survival are diverse, the most relevant being those associated with specific cytogenetic and ...

    Desenvolupament d’una vacuna contra la mamitis bovina causada per Streptococcus uberis 

    Collado Gimbert, Rosa (Date of defense: 2019-11-11)

    Bovine mastitis caused by Streptococcus uberis is a major problem in the dairy industry worldwide. Despite of that, there is no vaccine commercial available against it. Therefore, the objectives of this doctoral thesis are ...

    Desenvolupament i aplicació dels microsatèl·lits a l'estudi de la dinàmica reproductiva de la Gamba rosada (Aristeus antennatus) 

    Planella Albí, Laia (Date of defense: 2018-06-27)

    The blue and red shrimp, Aristeus antennatus, is a commercially important crustacean in the Western Mediterranean Sea and has been listed as a priority species for fishery management. In this thesis, 97 potential and novel ...

    Disseny, construcció i caracterització de zimògens de ribonucleases 

    Callís i Figueres, Mariona (Date of defense: 2015-04-17)

    El disseny i la producció de zimògens de ribonucleases que puguin ser específicament activats per la proteasa d’un patogen, constitueix un enginyós mecanisme per controlar la seva activitat enzimàtica i, conseqüentment, ...

    Diversitat genètica de la truita comuna (Salmo trutta L.) a la Península Ibèrica: biogeografia i gestió 

    Sanz Ball-llosera, Núria (Date of defense: 2000-12-15)

    L'estudi de la diversitat i la diferenciació genètiques de les poblacions de truita comuna (Salmo trutta L.) a la Península Ibèrica ha confirmat l'elevada diferenciació observada en treballs previs i la divergència, ja ...

    Estructura poblacional y conectividad genética de la gamba roja, Aristeus antennatus, en el Mar Mediterráneo noroccidental 

    Agulló Chazarra, Melania (Date of defense: 2022-11-16)

    The conservation of a commercially exploited species is fundamental to ensure the long-term sustainability of the resource. Thus, genetic information is essential for the identification of reproductively isolated and ...

    Estructura poblacional y demografía genética en poblaciones de trucha común (Salmo trutta) del Pirineo catalán 

    Fernández Cebrián, Raquel (Date of defense: 2012-03-22)

    In the present study an amplification and genotyping system for 9 microsatellite loci has been developed and used to genotype brown trout (Salmo trutta) individuals. This system has allowed, on one hand, to efficiently ...

    Estudi de la funció del factor de transcripció StNAC103 en el fel·lema 

    Verdaguer i Serrat, Roger (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)

    The results obtained in this thesis indicate that StNAC103 promoter activity is induced in tissues undergoing suberin synthesis. Moreover StNAC103 transcript accumulation is concomitant to that of CYP86A33 and takes place ...

    Estudi de la reacció de trans-splicing i caracterització fisicoquímica de la inteïna partida Neq DNA polimerasa B de l'hipertermòfil N. equitans 

    Gordo Hernández, Verónica (Date of defense: 2021-06-23)

    Protein splicing is an autocatalytic process with different stages that involves the elimination of an internal sequence, called intein, from the precursor polypeptide chain and the formation of a peptide bond between ...

    Estudio de las variaciones espaciales y temporales de la diversidad genética de la trucha común, Salmo trutta, en ríos de la Península Ibérica 

    Vera Rodríguez, Manuel (Date of defense: 2006-07-28)

    Se ha analizado las causas de la distribución espacial de la variabilidad genética del ADN mitocondrial en poblaciones de trucha común de la cuenca del Duero y de los Pirineos Orientales. En total se han analizado de novo ...

    Estudio del impacto de UGT2B17 y PD-1 en el trasplante alogénico de progenitores hematopoyéticos a partir de donante emparentado HLA idéntico 

    Santos Carvajal, Nazly (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)

    Study of the impact of UGT2B17 and PD-1 on allogeneic transplantation of hematopoietic progenitors (allo-TPH) from HLA-identical related donor. everal genetic factors can favor the development of graft-versus-host disease ...

    Identificació de gens i processos rellevants pel fel·lema i la suberina usant noves aproximacions 

    Fernández Piñán, Sandra (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)

    The periderm is a complex structure that protects plants’ secondary organs and wounded tissues. This function is given by the phellem, a multilayered tissue formed by cells with suberized cell walls located on the outer ...

    In vitro production of porcine embryos. New insights into optimization of culture media with relevance to sex ratio purposes 

    Torner Bosch, Eva (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)

    This thesis is about challenges that currently concern in vitro production (IVP), sex determination procedures and sex-related survival of in vitro-produced porcine embryos. Specifically, the current thesis develops a new ...

    Molecular insights on arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: assessment of premature termination codons in desmosomal genes and variants reclassification 

    Vallverdú Prats, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-02-03)

    Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an entity that groups different clinical forms of hereditable cardiac diseases that are associated to ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. The main cases are characterized ...

    Novel insights into paternal factors influencing the maternal environment and embryo development 

    Mateo Otero, Yentel (Date of defense: 2023-06-13)

    For many years, reproductive outcomes were considered as being solely determined by the genome of oocytes and sperm. Yet, in the last decades, many other female and male factors have also been found to be relevant. Focusing ...

    Occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes in aquatic microbial communities exposed to anthropogenic activities 

    Marti Serrano, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)

    The overuse of antibiotics has led to the selection of resistant strains. This thesis investigated the occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in aquatic microbial communities influenced by anthropogenic activities. ...

    Phylogeographical analysis of two aristed shrimps, Aristeus antennatus and Aristaemorpha foliacea (Crustacea: Aristeidae), with implications for resource conservation 

    Fernández Hernández, Maria Victoria (Date of defense: 2012-11-28)

    The conservation of species relies on a deep knowledge of biology of the species concerned, as well as on the identification of reproductively isolated units, which are genetically different from one other (genetic stocks). ...

    Physiological role of mitochondrial and plasma membrane channels in sperm 

    Delgado Bermúdez, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2022-07-28)

    The spermatozoon is a highly specialised cell that travels along the female reproductive tract to deliver its genetic information into the oocyte. During this journey, the interaction with the varying environment is crucial ...