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    • Mura-Jornet, Isidora; Pimentel, Carolina; Dantas, Gisele P. M.; Petry, María Virginia; González Acuña, Daniel; Barbosa, Andrés; Lowther, Andrew D.; Kovacs, Kit M.; Poulin, Elie; Vianna, Juliana (Biomed Central, 2018)
      Background: Historical factors, demography, reproduction and dispersal are crucial in determining the genetic structure of seabirds. In the Antarctic marine environment, penguins are a major component of the avian biomass, ...
    • Jiménez, J. E.; Briceño, C.; Alcaíno, H.; Vásquez, P.; Funk, S.; González Acuña, Daniel (2012)
      A total of 189 faecal samples of the critically endangered Darwin's fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes [Martin, 1837]), from different areas within Chiloé Island in southern Chile were examined for parasites eggs and oocysts using ...
    • Cortés Correa, Valentina Alejandra (Universidad de Chile, 2017)
      Existe evidencia de que las plantaciones de pino de Chile central albergan poblaciones de fauna silvestre. Esto implica que durante la cosecha de las plantaciones, muchos individuos deban relocalizarse, presentándose altas ...
    • Mura-Jornet, Isidora; Pimentel, Carolina; Dantas, Gisele P.M.; Petry, Maria Virginia; González Acuña, Daniel; Barbosa, Andrés; Lowther, Andrew D.; Kovacs, Kit M.; Poulin, Elie; Vianna, Juliana (BioMed Central Ltd., 2018)
      © 2018 The Author(s). Table 3 of this original publication contained some errors. The updated Table 3 is published in this correction article. (Table Presented).
    • Retamal Merino, Patricio; Fresno, Marcela; Dougnac, Catherine; Gutiérrez, Sindy; Gornall, Vanessa; Vidal, Roberto; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando; Pujol, Myriam; Barreto, Marlen; González Acuña, Daniel; Abalos Pineda, Pedro (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015)
      Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis is a worldwide zoonotic agent that has been recognized as a very important food-borne bacterial pathogen, mainly associated with consumption of poultry products. The aim of this ...
    • Sallaberry Pincheira, N.; Garin, C. F.; González Acuña, Daniel; Sallaberry, M. A.; Vianna, J. A. (Blackwell, 2011)
      Aim The Chilean long-tailed snake (Philodryas chamissonis) has a wide distribution across different latitudes and ecosystems in Chile ranging from the south of the Atacama Desert (26 S) to the extremely humid Valdivian ...
    • Peña M., Fabiola; Poulin, Elie; Dantas, Gisele P.; González Acuña, Daniel; Petry, María Virginia; Vianna, Juliana (Estonian Biocentre and Tartu University, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, 2014)
      The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) has been suffering an increase in its atmospheric temperature during the last 50 years, mainly associated with global warming. This increment of temperature trend associated with changes ...
    • Botto Mahan, Carezza Veronica; Correa, Juana P.; Araya Donoso, Raúl; Farías Pizarro, Francisca Javiera; San Juan C., Esteban; Quiroga, Nicol; Campos Soto, Ricardo; Reyes Olivares, Claudio; González Acuña, Daniel (Centers Disease Control & Prevention, 2022)
      We assessed 4 lizard species in Chile for Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, and 1 species for its ability to transmit the protozoan to uninfected kissing bugs. All lizard species were infected, and ...
    • Vianna, Juliana; Noll, Daly; Dantas, Gisele P.M.; Petry, Maria Virginia; Barbosa, Andrés; González Acuña, Daniel; Le Bohec, Céline; Bonadonna, Francesco; Poulin, Elie (Academic Press Inc., 2017)
      © 2016 Elsevier Inc. Two main hypotheses have been debated about the biogeography of the Southern Ocean: (1) the Antarctic Polar Front (APF), acting as a barrier between Antarctic and sub-Antarctic provinces, and (2) the ...
    • Figueroa R., Ricardo A.; Alvarado O., Sergio; González Acuña, Daniel; Corales S., E. Soraya (2007)
      During the breeding seasons 2001–2005 we determined the nest measurements and characteristics of a Chilean Hawk (Accipiter chilensis) pair in an Andean Nothofagus forest of northern Patagonia (36uS; 50 km east of Chilla´n). ...
    • Muñoz, Pamela; Fredes Martínez, Fernando; Raffo Carvajal, Eduardo; González Acuña, Daniel; Muñoz, Lisandro; Cid, César (Springer, 2011)
      One hundred and ninety five specimens of free tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) obtained from two regions of Chile were analized to determine parasite infection. From those specimens the endoparasites identified were: ...
    • Landaeta Aqueveque, Carlos; Robles, María Del Rosario; Henríquez, Analía; Yáñez Meza, Andrea; Correa, Juana Paola; González Acuña, Daniel; Cattan Ayala, Pedro (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
      Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018. In order to analyse the effect of hosts' relationships and the helminthic load on the switching of parasites between native and introduced hosts, we sampled rodents belonging ...
    • Marín Vial, Paula; González Acuña, Daniel; Celis Diez, Juan L.; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Guglielmone, Alberto A. (2007)
      The presence of Ixodes neuquenensis (Ringuelet, Notas Mus la Plata 12:207-216, 1947) (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing populations of Dromiciops gliroides Thomas, 1894 (Microbiotheria: Microbiotheriidae) at Chiloé Island ...
    • Di Cataldo, Sophia; Cevidanes, Aitor; Ulloa Contreras, Claudia Andrea; Sacristán, Irene; Peñaloza Madrid, Diego; Vianna, Juliana; González Acuña, Daniel; Sallaberry Pincheira, Nicole; Cabello, Javier; Napolitano, Constanza; Hidalgo Hermoso, Ezequiel; Acosta Jamett, Gerardo; Millán, Javier (MDPI, 2021)
      Blood samples of 626 rural dogs, 140 Andean foxes (Lycalopex culpaeus), and 83 South American grey foxes (L. griseus) from six bioregions of Chile spanning 3000 km were screened for Mycoplasma DNA by conventional PCR and ...