Schunter, Celia (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
One of the most important challenges in marine ecology is understanding the dispersal capabilities of species. Connectivity, if from en evolutionary perspective or a more current ecological perspective, ...
Yoskovitz, Guy (Date of defense: 2012-12-05)
Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disorder and the most common metabolic bone disease. It is recognized as one of the most prevalent problems facing postmenopausal women in western society. The World ...
Solé Castellví, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2011-11-25)
"R. solanacearum" is a devastating bacterial pathogen that infects "Solanaceae" spp. such as tomato, eggplant or banana. A functional T3SS is required for virulence and more than 70 putative effectors ...
Almeida Ferreira, Ana Patricia de (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
The final size of a developing organ has to be finely modulated in order to give rise to fully functional organs and organisms. Final size is regulated by the nutritional status of the feeding animal ...
Hidalgo Galiana, Amparo (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
This thesis studies a group of aquatic beetles (Agabus brunneus complex) that present important differences in the size of their geographic ranges. This complex is composed by an insular species (A. ...
Fabregas Vallvé, Norma (Date of defense: 2013-09-20)
The general objective of this PhD thesis is to investigate the mechanistic bases for plant hormones Brassinosteroids (BRs) action in plant vascular development. To this end, we have used a multidisciplinary ...
Recasens Álvarez, Carles (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)
During my thesis I studied the developmental roles of the JAK/STAT pathway in the wing imaginal disc and we show that it controls organ size and fate specification by regulating morphogen production and ...
Moreno González, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2010-06-30)
One of the main issues in animal evolution deal with the transition from radial organisms (Cnidaria and Ctnenophora), with only one axis of symmetry, the Oral-Aboral (OA) axis, to bilateral organism ...
Ricolo, Delia (Date of defense: 2017-05-19)
The embryonic tracheal system of Drosophila melanogaster consists of a network of interconnected epithelial tubes of different size and architecture characterized by different cellular mechanisms of ...
Chiodin, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-02-15)
The mesoderm is the third germ layer, which is formed at gastrulation between the endoderm and the ectoderm in triploblastsc animals (Bilateria). The mesoderm differentiates into muscles, connective ...