Capella Gutiérrez, Salvador Jesús (Date of defense: 2012-11-16)
Phylogenomics is a biological discipline which can be understood as the intersection of the fields of genomics and evolution. Its main focuses are the analyses of genomes through the evolutionary lens ...
Prado Martínez, Javier (Date of defense: 2014-12-22)
Els grans simis són els nostres parents evolutius més propers i com a tals són la millor eina per entendre els nostres orígens més recents. Mitjançant la genòmica comparativa ara podem estudiar en ...
Prieto Barja, Pablo (Date of defense: 2017-01-12)
In this PhD I have used NGS technologies in different organisms and scenarios such as in ENCODE, comparing the conservation and evolution of long non-coding RNA sequences between human and mouse, using ...
Platania, Leonardo (Date of defense: 2023-10-11)
The South Pacific is an intriguing region for studying evolutionary biology, presenting an exceptional diversity and complex geological and environmental characteristics. New Caledonia, in particular, ...
Balart i García, Pau (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)
Under very specific pressures, evolution turns extremely convergent, to the extent that distantly-related organisms show highly similar morphological, physiological and behavioral adaptations. Life into ...
Plass Pórtulas, Mireya (Date of defense: 2011-07-12)
L’splicing és el mecanisme pel qual els introns són eliminats del pre-mRNA per generar un trànscrit madur. Aquest procés és dut a terme per un complex macromolecular anomenat spliceosoma i requereix el ...
Mantica, Federica (Date of defense: 2023-05-11)
Regulated Gene Expression (rGE) and Alternative Splicing (rAS) are two of the main mechanisms contributing to tissue-phenotypic diversity within and between species. In this thesis, we aim at characterizing ...
Pittis, Alexandros (Date of defense: 2016-10-14)
The origin of eukaryotic compartmentalization stands as a major conundrum in biology. Current evidence indicates that the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) already possessed many eukaryotic hallmarks, ...
Carvalho, Tiago Loureiro de (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)
Genetic variation in humans and the great apes has been amply explored using a wide variety of markers, among them tandem repeats (TRs). Because of the nature of TRs, highly variable in length due to ...
Pich Roselló, Oriol (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
Cells of our body are constantly exposed to events that can create lesions in the DNA. If unremoved by the DNA repair mechanisms, the lesion may lead to a mutational event. Some of these events might ...