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Gene regulation and morphogenesis

Evolutionary novelties at the origin of winged insects

Dr Isabel Almudi
Researcher associated to Dr Fernando Casares, CSIC

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Isabel Almudi#, Joel Vizueta, Alex de Mendoza, Chris Wyatt, Ferdinand Marletaz, Panos Firbas, Roberto Feuda, Giulio Masiero, Patricia Medina, Ana Alcaina, Fernando Cruz, Jessica Gomez-Garrido, Marta Gut, Tyler S Alioto, Carlos Vargas-Chavez, Kristofer Davie, Bernhard Misof, Josefa Gonzalez, Stein Aerts, Ryan Lister, Jordi Paps, Julio Rozas, Alejandro Sanchez-Gracia, Manuel Irimia, Ignacio Maeso, Fernando Casares#. Genomic adaptations to aquatic and aerial life in mayflies and the origin of insect wings. Nature Communications, 11, 2631 (2020).

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Almudi I#, Martín-Blanco C, García-Fernandez I, López-Catalina A, Davie K, Aerts S, Casares F#: Establishment of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum as a new model system to investigate insect evolution (2019). EvoDevo 10 (1), 6.

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Almudi, I*#. and Pascual-Anaya, J*#. How do morphological novelties evolve? Novel approaches to define novel morphologies (2019). In: Martín-Durán J., Vellutini B. (eds) Old Questions and Young Approaches to Animal Evolution. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham

Arif, S.*, Murat, S*., Almudi, I., Nunes, M.D., Bortolamiol-Becet, D., McGregor, N.S., Currie, J.M., Hughes, H., Ronshaugen, M., Sucena, E., et al. (2013). Evolution of mir-92a underlies natural morphological variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology 23, 523-528.

Almudi, I., Corominas, M., and Serras, F. (2010). Competition between SOCS36E and Drk modulates Sevenless receptor tyrosine kinase activity. Journal of Cell Science 123, 3857-3862.

# corresponding author, * equally contributed