Benítez Álvarez, Lisandra (Date of defense: 2022-06-16)
Evolutionary Biology offers a set of methods and theories to elucidate the evolutionary processes that lead to the diversification of life. With the development of sequencing technologies, the access ...
Escuer Pifarré, Paula (Date of defense: 2022-12-21)
[eng] During the last decade, advances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies have increased exponentially the generation of genomic data, especially of non-model species. In this thesis, we ...
Pino, V. Beatriz (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
In the Drosophila larva, most of the juvenile tissues are made up of large polyploid cells fated to die during metamorphosis stage. The dorsal trunk of the tracheal system is composed mainly of these ...
García Vernet, Raquel (Date of defense: 2022-05-06)
El objetivo global de esta tesis es ampliar el conocimiento sobre la biología y ecología del rorcual común, con foco principal en la población de rorcual común de Islandia. Dadas las numerosas incógnitas ...
Aísa Marín, Izarbe (Date of defense: 2022-05-13)
The transcription factor NR2E3 participates in photoreceptor cell fate determination as it functions as both transcriptional repressor of cone genes and activator of rod genes. Mutations in NR2E3 cause ...
De Giorgio, Ettore (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
Chitin has a recognised importance in physiology but also as a biomaterial. In insects, it is the principal component of the apical extracellular matrix of epidermis, tracheae, foregut and hindgut. In ...
Camilleri Robles, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are defined as transcripts longer than 200 nucleotides that lack protein-coding potential. Although multiple examples of functional lncRNAs have been described, particularly ...