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?

Lab website: Bellés Lab

 

Investigador principal Investigador principal

Bellés Ros, Xavier
CSIC Research Professor
Evolution of Insect Metamorphosis Lab

Miembros del grupo Miembros del grupo

Kamsoi, Orathai
Predoctoral Researcher
Evolution of Insect Metamorphosis

Pagone, Viviana Carina
Laboratory Technician
Insect Reproduction Lab

Ventos Alfonso, Alba
Predoctoral Researcher
Evolution of Insect Metamorphosis

Proyectos en curso Proyectos en curso

Transiciones clave en la embriogénesis de un insecto hemimetabolo. Hormona juvenil, factores de transcripción y microRNAs (CGL2015-64727-P)

Genòmica Funcional i Evolució (2017 SGR 01030)
GRUP DE RECERCA CONSOLIDAT RECONEGUT I FINANÇAT GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA

Publicaciones Publicaciones

Huang, J.-H.;  Lozano, J.; Belles, X. 2013. Broad-complex functions in postembryonic development of the cockroach Blattella germanica shed new light on the evolution of insect metamorphosis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects 1830(1): 2178-2187

Garbutt, J.S.;  Bellés, X.; Richards, E. H.; Reynolds, S. E. 2013. Persistence of double-stranded RNA in insect hemolymph as a potential determiner of RNA interference success: Evidence from Manduca sexta and Blattella germanica. Journal of Insect Physiology. 59 (2):171-8.


Rubio, M.; de Horna, A.; Bellés, X.  2012. MicroRNAs in metamorphic and non-metamorphic transitions in hemimetabolan insect metamorphosis. BMC Genomics 13: 386. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-386.

Mané-Padrós, D.; Borr.s-Castells, F.; Bellés, X.; Martín, D.  2012. Nuclear receptor HR4 plays an essential role in the ecdysteroid-triggered gene cascade in the development of the hemimetabolous insect Blattella germanica. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 348: 322-330.

Lozano, J.; Gómez-Orte, E.; Lee, H.J.; Bellés, X.  2012. Super-induction of Dicer-2 expression by alien double-stranded RNAs. An evolutionary ancient response to viral infection? Development, Genes and Evolution 222: 229-235.

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