Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias
Recent Submissions
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Vulnerability of Xenopus laevis to Gambusia holbrooki: Can the larval phase of the African clawed frog be the Achilles heel in its invasive potential?
(Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre-Reabic, 2020)Xenopus laevis has been present in the Chilean Mediterranean region since at least the 1970s. Studies of the global invasion of the African clawed frog have paid little attention to its early life stages, whose environmental ... -
Epidemiology and molecular characterization of Carnivore protoparvovirus-1 infection in the wild felid Leopardus guigna in Chile
(Wiley, 2020)Landscape anthropization has been identified as one of the main drivers of pathogen emergence worldwide, facilitating pathogen spillover between domestic species and wildlife. The present study investigated Carnivore ... -
Corticofugal modulation of audition
(Elsevier, 2020)The mammalian brain is connected to the ear through corticofugal pathways. These neural circuits link non-auditory regions of the cerebral cortex like frontal and visual areas with the auditory cortex or the inferior ... -
Factores ambientales relacionados con la presentación de virus influenza A en aves silvestres
(Univ Córdoba, Fac Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, 2020)La investigación y el interés por el virus influenza aviar han aumentado considerablemente en las últimas décadas en respuesta a los brotes de influenza aviar de alta patogenicidad en aves de corral y a su potencial ... -
Prevalence and genomic characterization of brucella canis strains isolated from kennels, household, and stray dogs in Chile
(MDPI, 2020)Simple Summary Canine brucellosis caused by Brucella canis is a zoonotic disease that is considered the main infectious cause of infertility and reproductive failure in dogs worldwide, particularly in Latin America. ... -
Live attenuated infectious bronchitis virus vaccines in poultry: modifying local viral populations dynamics
(MDPI, 2020)Simple Summary Infectious bronchitis (IB) is one of the more prevalent diseases in poultry, and it is caused by a virus belonging to the Coronaviridae family, the infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), a Gammacoronavirus ... -
In Vitro hyperthermia evaluation of electrospun polymer composite fibers loaded with reduced graphene oxide
(MDPI, 2020)Electrospun meshes (EM) composed of natural and synthetic polymers with randomly or aligned fibers orientations containing 0.5% or 1% of thermally reduced graphene oxide (TrGO) were prepared by electrospinning (ES), and ... -
Exploring anhedonia in kennelled dogs: could coping styles a_ect hedonic preferences for sweet and umami flavours?
(MDPI, 2020)Kennelled dogs are susceptible to suffer chronic stress when social interactions with conspecifics and spatial needs are long-term restricted. Chronic stress may affect pleasure perception of food and solutions in dogs as ... -
Polycarboxylated eggshell membrane scaffold as template for calcium carbonate mineralization
(MDPI, 2020)Biomineralization is a process in which specialized cells secrete and deliver inorganic ions into confined spaces limited by organic matrices or scaffolds. Chicken eggshell is the fastest biomineralization system on earth, ... -
La Palma island (Spain) geothermal system revealed by 3D magnetotelluric data inversión
(Nature, 2020)The study of geothermal systems is nowadays a topic of great importance because of the huge amount of energy that could be converted in electricity for human consumption from such sources. Among the various geophysical ... -
Encapsulación de extractos antioxidantes desde sub-productos agroindustriales: una revisión
(Sociedad Chilena de Nutrición, 2020)Actualmente se generan grandes cantidades de subproductos agroindustriales como residuos, aun cuando pueden ser fuente importante de variados compuestos antioxidantes. Una de las formas de aprovechar esta funcionalidad ... -
Pharmacological iron-chelation as an assisted nutritional immunity strategy against Piscirickettsia salmonis infection
(BMC, 2020)Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia (SRS), caused by Piscirickettsia salmonis, is a severe bacterial disease in the Chilean salmon farming industry. Vaccines and antibiotics are the current strategies to fight SRS; however, ... -
Detection of Antimicrobial Resistant Salmonella enterica Strains in Larval and Adult Forms of Lesser Mealworm (Alphitobius diaperinus) From Industrial Poultry Farms
(Frontiers Media, 2020)The lesser mealworms (Alphitobius diaperinus) constitute a common cosmopolitan pest in poultry flocks andmay colonize the litter in adult and larval forms. Previous studies have documented their potential as carriers of ... -
Field margin floral enhancements increase pollinator diversity at the field edge but show no consistent spillover into the crop field: a meta-analysis
(Wiley, 2020)Conventional intensification of agriculture has reduced the availability of resources for pollinators, reducing their diversity and affecting plant pollination, both in natural habitats and croplands. Field margin floral ... -
Opportunities and challenges of phenomics applied to livestock and aquaculture breeding in South America
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Annotated list of island lady beetles from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
(Magnolia Press, 2020)We provide a list of coccinellids (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) species from the island territories of Chile. We report a total of 68 records, coming from ten islands, including 42 species corresponding to more than 35% of ... -
Temporal dynamics and the influence of environmental variables on the prevalence of avian influenza virus in main wetlands in central Chile
(Wiley, 2020)Although wild birds are considered the main reservoir of the influenza A virus (IAV) in nature, empirical investigations exploring the interaction between the IAV prevalence in these populations and environmental drivers ...
