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Maestro Lab Nutritional signals and reproduction in insects |
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José L. Maestro Staff Scientist (Científico Titular, CSIC) |
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF)
Barcelona, Spain |
Research Interests Our main interest focuses in understanding how nutritional signals are detected by the organisms and which are the processes triggered in the different tissues in response to the nutritional status. Our model is the cockroach Blattella germanica, an anautogenous hemimetabolous insect, with reproduction governed by juvenile hormone. These characteristics make this species specially convenient for these studies, because its anautogeny provides a very different physiology for different nutritional conditions and because their dependence on juvenile hormone for reproduction makes B. germanica a good model for the majority of insects, in contrast with flies and mosquitoes with ecdisteroid-dependent reproduction.
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