Guillem Ylla

This study investigates miR-378a's role in cardiomyocyte metabolism, mitochondrial function, and angiogenic signaling, showing its impact on cardiac performance and limited therapeutic benefit from overexpression.

This study characterizes piRNA expression dynamics across developmental stages in Blattella germanica ovaries, revealing coordinated fluctuations and a shift toward gene-derived piRNAs during vitellogeny.

This paper presents a high-quality chromosome-scale genome assembly for Gryllus bimaculatus using long-read sequencing and Hi-C data, significantly improving contiguity and gene annotation completeness.

piRAT annotates, analyzes, and visualizes piRNAs from small RNA-seq data, providing reports and visualizations for cross-sample and cross-species studies.

This study uses Twitter data to track phenological patterns and public sentiment toward four insect species over 11 years, showing potential for ecological research.

This study identifies and characterizes piRNAs in the early embryo of Parhyale hawaiensis, showing their abundance early in development and subsequent reduction after germ cell specification.

The paper identifies chinmo as a novel regulator enabling differential response to Hippo signaling between germ line and somatic cells in Drosophila larval ovary development.

The paper presents the genome assembly of Loboptera subterranea, a cave-adapted cockroach, providing insights into its adaptation to subterranean environments.

The paper establishes a CRISPR/Cas9 method for targeted gene knock-in in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, enabling functional genetic studies in a hemimetabolous insect.

The paper examines how two avian Plasmodium species induce distinct transcriptional responses in their mosquito vector Culex pipiens at different stages of infection.

The paper investigates the role of E93 expression levels in the embryonic development of insects and links its reduction to the evolution of metamorphosis.

The paper analyzes gene expression dynamics in germ line and somatic tissues during ovariole morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster, revealing distinct temporal patterns of differential gene expression.

The paper compares cricket genomes to understand the evolutionary drivers of large genome sizes and DNA methylation in hemimetabolous insects.

This study investigates DNA methylation in cockroaches, showing its role in early embryo development and its ability to reduce gene expression noise.