The object of study of the research group are the mechanisms that regulate the metamorphosis of insects , and how these mechanisms have evolved from ancestral species, with a gradual metamorphosis (like in cockroaches or locusts), to the most modified species, with a discontinuous metamorphosis (like in butterflies or flies). Therefore, the questions that the research group on the Evolution of insect metamorphosis seek to answer are: How did metamorphosis develop in insects? What endocrine and molecular mechanisms led to the evolutionary transition from gradual to discontinuous metamorphosis?
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Publicaciones
Maestro, JL.; Tobe. S.S, Bellés, X. 2011. Leucomyosuppressin modulates cardiac rhythm in the cockroach Blattella germanica. Journal of Insect Physiology 57: 1677-1681. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.(2011).09.001
Lozano, J.; Bellés, X. 2011. Conserved repressive function of Kru¨ppel homolog 1 on insect metamorphosis in hemimetabolous and holometabolous species. Scientific Reports.163 (1). doi: 10.1038/srep00163
Herraiz A, Chauvigné F, Cerdà J, Bellés X, Piulachs MD. 2011. Identification and functional characterization of an ovarian aquaporin from the cockroach Blattella germanica L. (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae). Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 3630-3638. do
Folguera G.; Bastías DA.; Caers J.; Rojas JM.; Piulachs MD.; Bellés X.; Bozinovic F. 2011. An experimental test of the role of environmental temperature variability on ectotherm molecular, physiological and life-history traits: Implications for global warming. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 159(3): 242-246.
Cristino, AS.; Tanaka, ED.; Rubio, M.; Piulachs, M-D.; Belles, X. 2011. Deep Sequencing of Organ- and Stage-Specific microRNAs in the Evolutionarily Basal Insect Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae). PLoS ONE 6(4): e19350. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019350
Clynen, E.; Ciudad,L.; Bellés, X.; Piulachs, MD. 2011. Conservation of fruitless' role as master regulator of male courtship behaviour from cockroaches to flies. Development Genes and Evolution 221(1): 43-48.
Bellés, X. 2011. When inordinate tissue growth is beneficial: Improving silk production by increasing silk gland size. Cell Research 21:862-863. doi:10.1038/cr.2011.68
Bauer, A. M.; Parham, J. F.; Brown, R. M.; [5 authors]; Carranza, S.; Grismer, J. L.; Wagner, P.; Schmitz, A.; Ananjeva, N. B.; Inger, R. F. 2011. Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 278: 490-492.
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