Biography:

Dr. Beldades work focuses on the colour patterns of the wings of Bicyclus anynana butterflies to address key issues of Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Butterfly wing patterns are ideally suited to study the reciprocal interactions between evolutionary and developmental processes (evo-devo) that shape morphological variation (pub#3). They are visually compelling products of selection, often with a clear adaptive value, and are also amenable to a detailed developmental characterization at different levels, including a new generation of genomic tools (pub#10). She is also interested in the Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics analysis in non-model systems. The need to diversify study organisms has been repeatedly acknowledged and the generalization of genomic resources outside classical model systems is making it possible..

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