Xavier Bellés Lab
Insect Physiology and Molecular Biology Lab
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF)
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Decade 1970
Basic data

- The first activities took place late in the decade of 1970, when XB started working on the antimetamorphic action of juvenile hormone and juvenile hormone analogues.

- Lab located in the Institute of BioOrganic Chemistry (CSIC, Barcelona).

 

Methodological milestones
- Development of biological tests to evaluate the antimetamorphic activity of juvenile hormone and juvenile hormone analogues in different insect species [collaboration with Miroslav Romanuk and Karel Slama, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, CAS, Prague].  

Selected references

- Bellés, X. 1979. Perspectives to control the cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorne (F.) (Col. Anobiidae), with juvenile hormone bioanalogues (Translated from Spanish). Boletín del Servicio de Plagas 5 (2): 157-163.