Gigli, Elena (Date of defense: 2011-06-20)
The evolutionary history of H. neanderthalensis, interwoven with that of H. sapiens, has always fascinated the scientific world. Recent adavncess in paleogenetics shedds new light on the phylogenetic ...
Dios Martínez, Toni de (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Infectious diseases have affected humanity since its apparition in Africa 300,000 years ago. Demographic changes associated to the Neolithic transition, and ensuing population movements, have facilitated ...
Sampietro Bergua, Mª Lourdes (Date of defense: 2007-01-19)
In this thesis we have addressed three different although related topics. First, we studied the post-mortem mutation damage rate of contaminated DNA sequences in ancient human remains focusing on the ...
Olalde Marquínez, Íñigo (Date of defense: 2016-07-22)
The general objective of this thesis is to use ancient genomic data to study the European prehistory. Thanks to the latest advances in DNA sequencing technologies, the field of ancient DNA has suffered ...
Sánchez Quinto, Federico A (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
Almost 20 years of Neandertal paleogenetics studies have significantly increased our knowledge about their evolutionary history. The analysis of DNA recovered from Neandertal remains to date, suggest ...
Gelabert Xirinachs, Pere (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
La malària és una malaltia infecciosa causada per diverses espècies de protozous del gènere Plasmodium, capaces d’infectar eritròcits humans. La malària és probablement la patologia infecciosa que ha ...
Ferrando-Bernal, Manuel (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
The aim of this thesis is to apply Identity by Descent (IBD) methodology to identify ancestry connections among individuals from genetically similar populations. Recombination events diminish the ...
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 ...