Sandoval Mendoza, Karla (Date of defense: 2010-04-25)
Mesoamerica is one of the main centers of New World civilization. It represents today a large geographical area exhibiting one of the highest genetic, cultural, and archeological diversity in the Americas. ...
Gardner, Michelle (Date of defense: 2007-06-25)
El treball presentat en aquesta tesi és un estudi de la diversitat genètica en un conjunt de gens implicats en funcions neurològiques ("Gens cerebrals"). Hom ha examinat vint-i-dos gens implicats en els ...
Tejedor Vaquero, Juan Ramón (Date of defense: 2014-06-11)
Alternative splicing is an essential regulatory layer of gene expression that expands the coding potential of the genome in multicellular organisms. The spliceosome -the sophisticated machinery involved ...
Bogaerts Márquez, María (Date of defense: 2022-01-11)
Entender cómo las especies se adaptan al ambiente es aún una pregunta sin resolver en el campo de la Biología Evolutiva. Mientras el foco principal siempre ha estado en la base genética, los factores ...
Kamaid Toth, Andres (Date of defense: 2008-12-19)
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are diffusible molecules involved in a variety of cellular interactions during development. In particular, Bmp4 expression accompanies the development of the ear sensory ...
Mocavini, Ivano (Date of defense: 2022-03-31)
Polycomb repressive complex (PRC)1 and 2 are major players in gene regulation, devoted to maintenance of the epigenetic memory of gene silencing. Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) have been extensively ...
Ventos Alfonso, Alba (Date of defense: 2021-09-07)
The idea of this work has been to identify factors that determine the adult body plan in hemimetabolan embryogenesis, using the cockroach Blattella germanica as model. Comparative genomics studies pointed ...
Güney, Emre (Date of defense: 2012-09-25)
The cell is governed by the complex interactions among various types of biomolecules. Coupled with environmental factors, variations in DNA can cause alterations in normal gene function and lead to a ...
Ivanova, Tsvetomira Georgieva (Date of defense: 2012-11-30)
DNA damage is an ongoing threat to both the ability of the cell to faithfully transmit genetic information to its offspring as well as to its own survival. In order to maintain genomic integrity, ...
Elshaer, Nashwa Ahmed Ali Mohammed (Date of defense: 2015-03-16)
The present work aims at establishing the first bases for studying the insect oocyte polarity in a phylogenetically basal species, the cockroach Blattella germanica. Our approach was to choose some genes ...