Schunter, Celia (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
One of the most important challenges in marine ecology is understanding the dispersal capabilities of species. Connectivity, if from en evolutionary perspective or a more current ecological perspective, ...
Santa Bárbara Ruiz, Paula (Date of defense: 2017-07-28)
Countless environmental aggressors could damage the integrity of tissues and organs. In humans, the limited regenerative ability prevents often the recovery of injured tissues, but this is not the case ...
Balmori de la Puente, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2020-10-23)
Phylogenetic and phylogeographic methods allow studying the evolutionary relationships between populations and species, patterns of genetic structure, and historical events that have modelled the current ...
Roca Ayats, Neus (Date of defense: 2019-11-18)
Osteoporosis is a complex disease, determined by genetic and environmental factors, characterized by a low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, with a consequent decrease of ...
Yoskovitz, Guy (Date of defense: 2012-12-05)
Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disorder and the most common metabolic bone disease. It is recognized as one of the most prevalent problems facing postmenopausal women in western society. The World ...
Solé Castellví, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2011-11-25)
"R. solanacearum" is a devastating bacterial pathogen that infects "Solanaceae" spp. such as tomato, eggplant or banana. A functional T3SS is required for virulence and more than 70 putative effectors ...
Alagia, Adele (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
To direct post-transcriptionally gene silencing, RNAi machinery exploits the formation of base pairs between the loaded guide strand and the complementary mRNA. The Ago2 protein is the “slicer” effector ...
Almeida Ferreira, Ana Patricia de (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
The final size of a developing organ has to be finely modulated in order to give rise to fully functional organs and organisms. Final size is regulated by the nutritional status of the feeding animal ...
Iacobucci, Simona (Date of defense: 2021-03-18)
Taking into consideration the current knowledge about the subjects treated, several goals were proposed for this PhD thesis in order to further understand PHF8 function in both astrocytes and neural ...
Hidalgo Galiana, Amparo (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
This thesis studies a group of aquatic beetles (Agabus brunneus complex) that present important differences in the size of their geographic ranges. This complex is composed by an insular species (A. ...