Papers by Joaquin Baixeras
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J. BAIXERAS, M. DOMÍNGUEZ y S. MARTÍNEZ El género Rhyacionia se encuentra representado en la Pení... more J. BAIXERAS, M. DOMÍNGUEZ y S. MARTÍNEZ El género Rhyacionia se encuentra representado en la Península Ibérica por seis especies. Cuatro de ellas constituyen uno de los conjuntos más importantes de especies plaga desde el punto de vista forestal, debido a los daños que causan a especies de Pinus L.. Se trata de R. buoliana, R. pinicolana, R. pinivorana y R. duplana. Estas cuatro especies llegan a ser muy comunes en nuestro territorio. Las otras dos especies del género son menos conocidas. R. maritimana, estrechamente emparentada con R. pinivorana, es una especie común en las zonas más bajas del Sistema Ibérico pero la información existente sobre ella es todavía escasa. La última especie que se trata, R. piniana U.S., es la de menor tamaño y su biología es completamente desconocida, su genitalia es drásticamente diferente de las del resto del género y su presencia en la Península se ha detectado muy recientemente.
Resumé. -Révision de quatre especes d'olethreutinae décrites d'Espagne (Lepidoptera : Tor... more Resumé. -Révision de quatre especes d'olethreutinae décrites d'Espagne (Lepidoptera : Tortricidae). -On présente une révision de quatre especes d'olethreutinae décrites de la faune espagnole dont la taxonomie a été jusqu'h présent incorrecte. On propose cinq nouvelles synonymies et une nouvelle com-binaison. On présente la description de la fernelle d'Endorhenia paiiperc~ilatia Staudinger inconnue jusqu'i présent. On propose trois nouvelles synonymies pour cette espece trouvée rnaintenant des Iles Canaries, Péninsule Ibérique, Cer-dagne et Monaco. Nous confirrnons les especes Phiaris predorai Hartig et Eiicos-rna nlbarracina Hartig et on décrit poiir la preniiere fois leur génitalia. On pro-pose deux nouvelles synonyrnies pour Cydia srrigiilntntzn Kennel et on clarifie son identification taxonomique. Abstract. -Four species of Olethreutinae, described from Spain and whose taxo-nomy has hitherio been confuced, are rerised. Five n e x synzqmies and m e new comb...
En este trabajo se dan a conocer citas de 29 espècies de Tortricidae procedentes de Cataluña, en ... more En este trabajo se dan a conocer citas de 29 espècies de Tortricidae procedentes de Cataluña, en su mayoría y también de Huesca y Andorra. Se trata de citas de especial interés, cuatro de ellas, las correspondientes a Phalonidae albipalpana, Lozotaenia forsterana, Clepis rayana y Pantene aurana, son primeras citas para la Península Ibérica. Por otro lado también se comenta la variabilidad observada en la especie Agapeta angetana.
Citem 62 espècies de macroheteròers valencians, entre les que destaquen les captures de Graellsia... more Citem 62 espècies de macroheteròers valencians, entre les que destaquen les captures de Graellsia isabelae Graells, Phalera bucephaloides O., Phyllodesma kermesiofolia Laj. i Dysauxes punctata F. Així mateix augmenten l'àrea de distribució de moltes altres espècies, fins al moment mal conegudes en el País Valencià.
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Two species of Tortricidae (Olethreutinae, Grapholitini) belonging to the genus Pammene Hübner, [... more Two species of Tortricidae (Olethreutinae, Grapholitini) belonging to the genus Pammene Hübner, [1825] : P. obscurana (Stephens, 1834) and P. suspectana ([Lienig] & Zeller, 1846) are reported in this work. These were diagnosed after the genitalic analysis of males collected in Catalonia in pheromone-baited delta sticky traps; pheromones used were those of Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus, 1758) and Grapholita molesta (Busck, 1916). The former is new to Catalonia (Spain); the latter is new to the ibero balearican fauna.
Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods, 2015
The genitalia of male and female Lepidoptera are complex organs, composed of several structures t... more The genitalia of male and female Lepidoptera are complex organs, composed of several structures that exhibit great diversity of shapes, sizes, and positions, suggesting that they have evolved in a relatively rapid and divergent way. In this chapter, we explore the selective pressures responsible for the evolution of genital morphology in the Lepidoptera, emphasizing the possible role of post-copulatory intersexual selection (PCIS) mechanisms (cryptic female choice and sexual conflict). Our exploration is in great extent speculative because knowledge on the functional morphology of genitalia in this group is limited. We start by describing the complexity and diversity of genitalia in Lepidoptera, discussing the available information about the role of the different structures in copulation. Then, we discuss possible ways in which PCIS and other types of selective pressures could have influenced the evolution of genitalia by developing illustrative hypothesis for several structures whose function is not well understood. Finally, we describe in detail recent experimental and comparative studies aimed at understanding the function and selective pressures responsible for the evolution of a female genital trait known as signum.
Miscel· lània Zoològica, 1989
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2002
ABSTRACT Argyroploce unedana Baixeras, new species, is described from the Iberian Peninsula. The ... more ABSTRACT Argyroploce unedana Baixeras, new species, is described from the Iberian Peninsula. The species is closely related to A. arbutella (L., 1758), which occurs on most of the European continent; the two species are allopatric. Although they share similar biologies, the two can be distinguished by structures of the male and female genitalia. Genitalia variability is analyzed. Forewing patterns and hindwing anal roll are discussed in relation to their systematic significance. The olethreutine wing pattern is reexamined. A review of the genus-level taxonomic problems surrounding Argyroploce Hübner, [1825] and allied genera suggests a fragile situation in the present systematic scenario within the Olethreutini.
Light pollution, i.e., the detrimental alteration of the natural levels of darkness due to artifi... more Light pollution, i.e., the detrimental alteration of the natural levels of darkness due to artificial lights, has aroused in recent years a growing interest among the scientific community. Besides the widely known consequences of the increased skyglow for science, in particular for optical astronomy, the misuse of artificial light at night has been shown to have measurable and unwanted effects on global energy consumption, ecosystem dynamics, human and animal health and on the preservation of key aspects of mankind's cultural immaterial heritage. The rapid pace of development of new lighting technologies based in solid-state devices opens interesting possibilities for light pollution reduction and control, but at the same time poses a non-negligible risk of increasing some of its most negative effects. Addressing this complex issue, which involves light generation, steering and detection, atmospheric propagation and scattering, visual and physiological optics, photochemistry, bi...
Gayana (Concepción), 2001
International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology, 2014
The cockroach gut harbors a wide variety of microorganisms that, among other functions, collabora... more The cockroach gut harbors a wide variety of microorganisms that, among other functions, collaborate in digestion and act as a barrier against pathogen colonization. Blattabacterium, a primary endosymbiont, lives in the fat body inside bacteriocytes and plays an important role in nitrogen recycling. Little is known about the mode of acquisition of gut bacteria or their ecological succession throughout the insect life cycle. Here we report on the bacterial taxa isolated from different developmental instars of the cockroach Blattella germanica. The bacterial load in the gut increased two orders of magnitude from the first to the second nymphal stage, coinciding with the incorporation of the majority of bacterial taxa, but remained similar thereafter. Pyrosequencing of the hypervariable regions V1-V3 of the 16S rRNA genes showed that the microbial composition differed significantly between adults and nymphs. Specifically, a succession was observed in which Fusobacterium accumulated with...
PLoS ONE, 2014
Resin is a chemical and physical defensive barrier secreted by many plants, especially coniferous... more Resin is a chemical and physical defensive barrier secreted by many plants, especially coniferous trees, with insecticidal and antimicrobial properties. The degradation of terpenes, the main components accounting for the toxicity of resin, is highly relevant for a vast range of biotechnological processes, including bioremediation. In the present work, we used a resinbased selective medium in order to study the resin-tolerant microbial communities associated with the galls formed by the moth Retinia resinella; as well as resin from Pinus sylvestris forests, one of the largest ecosystems on Earth and a yetunexplored source of terpene-degrading microorganisms. The taxonomic and functional diversity of the cultivated, resintolerant fraction of the whole microbiota were unveiled by high-throughput sequencing, which resulted in the detection of more than 40 bacterial genera among the terpene-degrading microorganisms, and a range of genes involved in the degradation of different terpene families. We further characterized through culture-based approaches and transcriptome sequencing selected microbial strains, including Pseudomonas sp., the most abundant species in both environmental resin and R. resinella resin-rich galls, and three fungal species, and experimentally confirmed their ability to degrade resin and also other terpene-based compounds and, thus, their potential use in biotechnological applications involving terpene catabolism.
Systematic Biology, 2011
This paper addresses the question of whether one can economically improve the robustness of a mol... more This paper addresses the question of whether one can economically improve the robustness of a molecular phylogeny estimate by increasing gene sampling in only a subset of taxa, without having the analysis invalidated by artifacts arising from large blocks of missing data. Our case study stems from an ongoing effort to resolve poorly understood deeper relationships in the large clade Ditrysia (>150,000 species) of the insect order Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). Seeking to remedy the overall weak support for deeper divergences in an initial study based on five nuclear genes (6.6 kb) in 123 exemplars, we nearly tripled the total gene sample (to 26 genes, 18.4 kb) but only in a third (41) of the taxa. The resulting partially augmented data matrix (45% intentionally missing data) consistently increased bootstrap support for groupings previously identified in the five-gene (nearly) complete matrix, while introducing no contradictory groupings of the kind that missing data have been predicted to produce. Our results add to growing evidence that data sets differing substantially in gene and taxon sampling can often be safely and profitably combined. The strongest overall support for nodes above the family level came from including all nucleotide changes, while partitioning sites into sets undergoing mostly nonsynonymous versus mostly synonymous change. In contrast, support for the deepest node for which any persuasive molecular evidence has yet emerged (78-85% bootstrap) was weak or nonexistent unless synonymous change was entirely excluded, a result plausibly attributed to compositional heterogeneity. This node (Gelechioidea + Apoditrysia), tentatively proposed by previous authors on the basis of four morphological synapomorphies, is the first major subset of ditrysian superfamilies to receive strong statistical support in any phylogenetic study. A "more-genes-only" data set (41 taxa × 26 genes) also gave strong signal for a second deep grouping (Macrolepidoptera) that was obscured, but not strongly contradicted, in more taxon-rich analyses.
PLoS ONE, 2012
Background: Tortricidae, one of the largest families of microlepidopterans, comprise about 10,000... more Background: Tortricidae, one of the largest families of microlepidopterans, comprise about 10,000 described species worldwide, including important pests, biological control agents and experimental models. Understanding of tortricid phylogeny, the basis for a predictive classification, is currently provisional. We present the first detailed molecular estimate of relationships across the tribes and subfamilies of Tortricidae, assess its concordance with previous morphological evidence, and re-examine postulated evolutionary trends in host plant use and biogeography.
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