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Overview

Jaume Baguñà is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain and works primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Their research encompasses subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Paleontology, Epidemiology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their work addresses a variety of topics, including:

  • Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer

Jaume Baguñà has published research articles in venues such as the Journal of Biogeography and the European Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Recent papers include:

  • Three dispersal routes out of Africa: A puzzling biogeographical history in freshwater planarians, 2022, Journal of Biogeography
  • Phenotypic patterns of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in type 2 diabetes: The impact of insulin, 2025, European Journal of Clinical Investigation

Their frequent coauthors list includes Eduard Solà, Laia Leria, Giacinta Angela Stocchino, Reza Bagherzadeh, and Michael Balke.

Best Publications

  • Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

    Andreas Hejnol;Matthias Obst;Alexandros Stamatakis;Michael Ott

  • First molecular evidence for the existence of a Tardigrada + Arthropoda clade.

    G Giribet;S Carranza;J Baguñà;M Riutort

  • Regeneration and pattern formation in planarians: I. The pattern of mitosis in anterior and posterior regeneration in Dugesia (G) tigrina, and a new proposal for blastema formation

    Emili Saló;Jaume Baguñà

  • Regeneration and pattern formation in planarians. III. that neoblasts are totipotent stem cells and the cells

    J. Baguna;E. Salo;C. Auladell

  • Are the Platyhelminthes a monophyletic primitive group? An assessment using 18S rDNA sequences.

    S Carranza;J Baguñà;M Riutort

  • A phylogenetic analysis of myosin heavy chain type II sequences corroborates that Acoela and Nemertodermatida are basal bilaterians

    Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo;Jordi Paps;Mercè Loukota;Carles Ribera

  • Quantitative analysis of cell types during growth, degrowth and regeneration in the planarians Dugesia mediterranea and Dugesia tigrina

    J. Baguñá;R. Romero

  • JNK signaling pathway required for wound healing in regenerating Drosophila wing imaginal discs.

    Manel Bosch;Florenci Serras;Enrique Martín-Blanco;Jaume Baguñà

  • The Nemertodermatida are basal bilaterians and not members of the Platyhelminthes

    Ulf Jondelius;Iñaki Ruiz‐Trillo;Jaume Baguñà;Marta Riutort

  • The planarian neoblast: the rambling history of its origin and some current black boxes.

    Jaume Baguñà

  • Lophotrochozoa internal phylogeny: new insights from an up-to-date analysis of nuclear ribosomal genes

    Jordi Paps;Jaume Baguñà;Marta Riutort

  • Regeneration in planarians and other worms: New findings, new tools, and new perspectives.

    Emili Saló;Jaume Baguñà

  • Spatial distribution and differentiation potential of stem cells in hatchlings and adults in the marine platyhelminth macrostomum sp.: a bromodeoxyuridine analysis.

    Peter Ladurner;Reinhard Rieger;Jaume Baguñà

  • The dawn of bilaterian animals: the case of acoelomorph flatworms

    Jaume Baguñà;Marta Riutort

  • Acoel flatworms are not platyhelminthes: evidence from phylogenomics.

    Hervé Philippe;Henner Brinkmann;Pedro Martinez;Marta Riutort

  • Mitosis in the intact and regenerating planarian Dugesia mediterranea n.sp. II. Mitotic studies during regeneration, and a possible mechanism of blastema formation

    Jaume Baguñà

  • Mitosis in the intact and regenerating planarian Dugesia mediterranea n.sp. I. Mitotic studies during growth, feeding and starvation

    Jaume Baguñà

  • Molecular phylogeny of the Platyhelminthes

    Jaume Baguñà;Marta Riutort

  • Internal phylogeny of the Chilopoda (Myriapoda, Arthropoda) using complete 18S rDNA and partial 28S rDNA sequences

    Gonzalo Giribet;Salvador Carranza;Marta Riutort;Jaume Baguñà

  • REGENERATION AND PATTERN FORMATION IN PLANARIANS : CELLS, MOLECULES AND GENES

    Jaume Baguna;Emili Salo;Rafael Romero;Jordi Garcia-Fernandez

Frequent Co-Authors

Marta Riutort
Marta Riutort University of Barcelona
Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez
Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez University of Barcelona
Salvador Carranza
Salvador Carranza Pompeu Fabra University
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Pompeu Fabra University
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Eduard Batlle
Eduard Batlle Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Henner Brinkmann
Henner Brinkmann Leibniz Association
Antonio García-Bellido
Antonio García-Bellido Spanish National Research Council
Jeffrey L. Boore
Jeffrey L. Boore University of California, Berkeley
Gary Ruvkun
Gary Ruvkun Harvard University

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