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Biodiversity

06.09.2021

The most complete evolutionary tree of beetles

Rosa Fernandez, at IBE
14.07.2021

Rosa Fernández (IBE): «Starting a research group is like entering a new house. You want to arrange so it feels like home”

El Projecte del Biogenoma de la Terra pretèn conèixer la biodiversitat del planeta i entendre com funcionen els ecosistemes. Photo by NASA on Unsplash
29.06.2021

The Earth’s biogenome project: the shelter of the planet’s biodiversity

Stylophora pistillata is a coral that inhabits the waters of the Red Sea. Credit: Hagai Native / University of Haifa.
07.06.2021

Immune cells found for the first time in a coral

27.05.2021

The history of Earth is our history

19.05.2021

Tomàs Marquès-Bonet (IBE): “We want to sequence the 70,000 species of vertebrates in the next 10 years”

16.04.2021

Roger Vila (IBE): “Being able to compare data from all butterflies is a luxury”

08.12.2020

Tomàs Marquès-Bonet (IBE): “We need to understand the genetic diversity of species to preserve it”

Beetle's adaptability to saline environments could be helpful in understanding the ecological consequences of climate change. Photo by James Wainscoat on Unsplash
15.10.2020

What the evolution of beetles can tell us about the effects of climate change

IBE researchers have developed a method to determine the chimpanzee subspecies with affordable genomic analysis that can be used to conserve endangered species.
08.06.2020

When genomics helps save chimps

IBE researchers, creators of the TreeScape activity, carried out from the design and manufacture of the activity, to the start up of the game. | Picture by the IBE communications officer, Pilar Rodríguez.
05.05.2020

TreeScape: learning about evolutionary biology through an “Escape Room”

Metamorphosis is considered one of the most innovative processes in the evolution of insects. | Picture taken from the cover of the book "Insect Metamorphosis: From Natural History to Regulation of Development and Evolution".
27.03.2020

The new book of the insect metamorphosis expert, Xavier Bellés, is out

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