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RESEARCH GROUP

| Morphology and Molecules in Animal Systematics

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Our studies concentrate mainly on solving the problems of the phylogenetic relationships among insects at various taxonomic levels in Hemiptera and Lepidoptera using morphological and molecular characters. A prediction of the secondary structures of mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences is also used in the phylogenetic analyses. Next year, our team will get another science lab (the Bioinformatic Methods of Agrocenoses Analysis Laboratory) in a new building of the University of Opole. The laboratory equipment will broaden our interest in molecular genetic studies of non-model organisms, i.e., insect crop-pests and invasive species. Moreover, it will also allow starting the research on RNA interference (RNAi) of the homeotic genes (Hox) and the inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) in insect pests in various types of agrocenoses. Lists of publications are available at: [J.A. Lis] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1332-8331, [B. Lis] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3292-1109, [P. Domagała] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1005-7193, [A. Zielińska] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7569-6303.