Plass Pórtulas, Mireya (Date of defense: 2011-07-12)
L’splicing és el mecanisme pel qual els introns són eliminats del pre-mRNA per generar un trànscrit madur. Aquest procés és dut a terme per un complex macromolecular anomenat spliceosoma i requereix el ...
Pich Roselló, Oriol (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
Cells of our body are constantly exposed to events that can create lesions in the DNA. If unremoved by the DNA repair mechanisms, the lesion may lead to a mutational event. Some of these events might ...
Bonforti, Adriano (Date of defense: 2022-07-27)
L'aparició de la pluricel·lularitat (MC) va definir un esdeveniment evolutiu important en la història de la vida al nostre planeta. Ha tingut lloc diverses vegades dins de grups independents i diferents ...
López Valenzuela, María (Date of defense: 2015-01-15)
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are major contributors to phenotypic diversity and have a demonstrated role in evolution. We performed an analysis on how miRNA nucleotide substitutions may have contributed to human ...
Garriga i Rigau, Damià (Date of defense: 2010-01-21)
La malaltia de la bursitis infecciosa, o alaltia de Gumboro, és una patologia aviària d'origen viral que afecta principalment les cries d'aus. En les granges de cria d'aviram, el virus que la origina, ...
Heredia Genestar, José María (Date of defense: 2020-01-28)
La mutació és un procés essencial per l’evolució, tot i que també té un rol important tant en el càncer com en altres malalties. Les mutacions no s’acumulen uniformement al llarg del genoma i la seva ...
Renom, Pere (Date of defense: 2023-02-22)
According to estimates, over the 3.5 billion years that have elapsed since the appearance of life, the Earth has been inhabited by some 4 billion different species, of which 99.99% have already become ...
Elek, Anamaria (Date of defense: 2024-04-19)
Single-cell genomics methods have revolutionized the study of gene expression and regulation at the cell type level. Generating single-cell atlases for species at key phylogenetic positions of the animal ...
Piñero, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-05-08)
This thesis aims at establishing the basis for a statistical physics theory of major evolutionary transitions. Its structure is based on three major pillars: nonequilibrium thermodynamics and information ...