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    • Rodríguez San Pedro, Annia; Carrasco Allendes, Juan Luis; Beltrán, Clemente A.; Chaperón Gamboa, Pascal; Saldarriaga-Córdoba, Mónica María; Silva, Andrea X.; Grez Villarroel, Audrey (Elsevier, 2020)
      The top-down suppression of pest insects by their natural enemies, such as insectivorous bats, represents an important ecosystem service in agricultural systems. Recognizing the importance of bats to suppress pest populations ...
    • Ortúzar, Juan; Dogan, Onay; Sotomayor, Gustavo; Jiménez Tapia, Constanza; Clarke, Jennifer; Flores, Rolando; Gray, George; Rupnow, John; Wang, Bing (Elsevier, 2020)
      National governments are moving to integrate risk analysis frameworks into food safety management systems at the country level. However, this process is less advanced in developing countries. In this context, the Chilean ...
    • Lira, Lieschen V. G.; Ariede, Raquel B.; Freitas, Milena V.; Mastrochirico-Filho, Vito A.; Agudelo, John F. G.; Barría González, Agustín; Yáñez, José M.; Hashimoto, Diogo T. (Elsevier, 2020)
      Tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) is the main native fish produced in continental aquaculture from South America. However, its production has been negatively affected by significant economic losses due to frequent outbreaks ...
    • Strakova, Andrea; Nicholls, Thomas J.; Baez-Ortega, Adrian; Ni Leathlobhair, Maire; Sampson, Alexander T.; Hughes, Katherine; Bolton, Isobelle A. G.; Gori, Kevin; Wang, Jinhong; Airikkala-Otter, Ilona; Allen, Janice L.; Allum, Karen M.; Arnold, Clara L.; Bansse-Issa, Leontine; Bhutia, Thinlay N.; Bisson, Jocelyn L.; Blank, Kelli; Briceño, Cristóbal; Domracheva, Artemio Castillo; Corrigan, Anne M.; Cran, Hugh R.; Crawford, Jane T.; Cutter, Stephen M.; Davis, Eric; de Castro, Karina F.; De Nardi, Andrigo B.; de Vos, Anna P.; Delgadillo Keena, Laura; Donelan, Edward M.; Espinoza Huerta, Adela R.; Faramade, Ibikunle A.; Fazil, Mohammed; Fotopoulou, Eleni; Fruean, Skye N.; Gallardo-Arrieta, Fanny; Glebova, Olga; Gouletsou, Pagona G.; Hafeelin Manrique, Rodrigo; Henriques, Joaquim J. G. P.; Horta, Rodrigo S.; Ignatenko, Natalia; Kane, Yaghouba; King, Cathy; Koenig, Debbie; Krupa, Ada; Kruzeniski, Steven J; Lanza-Perea, Marta; Lazyan, Mihran; Lopez Quintana, Adriana M.; Losfelt, Thibault; Marino, Gabriele; Martinez Castaneda, Simon; Martinez-Lopez, Mayra F.; Masuruli, Bedan M.; Meyer, Michael; Migneco, Edward J.; Nakanwagi, Berna; Neal, Karter B.; Neunzig, Winifred; Nixon, Sally J.; Ortega-Pacheco, Antonio; Pedraza-Ordonez, Francisco; Peleteiro, Maria C.; Polak, Katherine; Pye, Ruth J.; Ramirez-Ante, Juan C.; Reece, John F.; Rojas Gutierrez, Jose; Sadia, Haleema; Schmeling, Sheila K.; Shamanova, Olga; Sherlock, Alan G.; Steenland-Smit, Audrey E.; Svitich, Alla; Tapia Martinez, Lester J.; Ngoka, Ismail Thoya; Torres, Cristian G.; Tudor, Elizabeth M.; van der Wel, Mirjam G.; Vitalaru, Bogdan A.; Vural, Sevil A.; Walkinton, Oliver; Wehrle-Martinez, Alvaro S.; Widdowson, Sophie A. E.; Zvarich, Irina; Chinnery, Patrick F.; Falkenberg, Maria; Gustafsson, Claes M.; Murchison, Elizabeth P. (Nature, 2020)
      Autonomous replication and segregation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) creates the potential for evolutionary conflict driven by emergence of haplotypes under positive selection for 'selfish' traits, such as replicative ...
    • Moreira, Rubén; García, Alfonso; Ahumada, Carolyn; Badía, Catalina; Suárez, Paulina; Yangari, Betty; Aguayo, Carolina; Herrera, José; Espejo, Gabriela; Pinto Peña, Enrique (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2019)
      The present study reports an outbreak of equine influenza (EI) occurred in Chile in January 2018, with cases spread along the country, from the Atacama to the Magallanes Region. The virus identified corresponded to the ...
    • Siel, Daniela; Ubilla, María José; Vidal Vilches, Sonia; Loaiza Farias, Alexandra; Quiroga Ardiles, John; Cifuentes Ramos, Federico; Hardman, Timothy; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette; Paredes, Rodolfo; Sáenz Iturriaga, Leonardo (MDPI, 2020)
      Simple Summary Population control of free-roaming dogs is a topic of great interest worldwide. Immunocastration (immune blockade of GnRH-I, the hormone that commands reproductive ability) has emerged as a complementary ...
    • Rojas Toledo, Carolina Alejandra (Universidad de Chile, 2019)
      La gestación de mellizos es una buena estrategia para incrementar la productividad y la rentabilidad en la industria ovina. Sin embargo, en la Patagonia chilena, donde se encuentra la mayor parte de la masa ovina nacional, ...
    • Neira Carrillo, Andrónico; Fernández Garay, María Soledad; Poblete Hevia, Gonzalo Andrés; Arias Bautista, José Luis; Gebauer, Denis; Coelfen, Helmut (Elsevier, 2017)
      Gastroliths are highly calcified structures formed in the cardiac stomach wall of crustaceans for the temporary storage of amorphous CaCO3 (ACC). The gastrolithic ACC is stabilized by the presence of biomolecules, and ...
    • Bravo-Vasquez, Nicolas; Baumberger, Cecilia; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Di Pillo, Francisca; Lazo Escobar, Andrés; Sanhueza, Juan; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton West, Christopher (Wiley, 2020)
      Backyard production systems (BPS) are a common form of poultry and swine production worldwide. The limited implementation of biosecurity standards in these operations makes BPS a potential source for the emergence of ...
    • Reyes Leiva, Fernando José (Universidad de Chile, 2017)
      Introducción. El cáncer mamario es el tipo de tumor más prevalente en la hembra canina. Información reciente demuestra que simvastatina exhibe un efecto antitumoral in vitro e induce autofagia sobre diversas líneas celulares ...
    • Cartes Lillo, Daniel Ignacio (Universidad de Chile, 2016)
      La Seguridad Alimentaria se define como la condición en donde todas las personas tienen, en todo momento, acceso físico y económico a suficientes alimentos inocuos y nutritivos, para satisfacer sus necesidades alimenticias ...
    • Peralta Troncoso, Óscar; Carrasco, C.; Vieytes, C.; Tamayo, M. J.; Muñoz, I.; Sepúlveda, S.; Tadich Gallo, Tamara; Duchens Arancibia, Mario; Meléndez, P.; Mella, A.; Torres, C. G. (Nature, 2020)
      Although, antibiotics are effective in the treatment of bovine mastitis, they do not address the regeneration of mammary glandular tissue and have been associated to the increment in antimicrobial resistance worldwide. ...
    • Tardone, Rodolfo; Rivera, Dácil; Dueñas, Fernando; Sallaberry Pincheira, Nicole; Hamilton West, Christopher; Adell, Aiko D.; Moreno Switt, Andrea I. (Wildlife Disease Association, 2020)
      Salmonella enterica is one of the main causes of gastrointestinal disease worldwide. Wild birds are capable of harboring a variety of Salmonella serovars, which could have an important role in the epidemiology of salmonellosis ...
    • García López, Alejandra; Galante, Eduardo; Mico, E. (Oxford Univ Press, 2016)
      The knowledge of the distributional patterns of saproxylic beetles is essential for conservation biology due to the relevance of this fauna in the maintenance of ecological processes and the endangerment of species. The ...
    • Ströh, Sina María (Universidad de Chile, 2018)
      La molécula del ácido hialurónico (AH) tiene un gran valor económico por su uso en la industria cosmética, la medicina humana y veterinaria. En este trabajo se plantea como objetivo el separar esta molécula mediante ...
    • Tadich Gallo, Tamara; Tapia, Constanza; González, Daniela (Elsevier, 2016)
      Urban working horses live in close contact with their owners. They are usually kept in periurban areas of big cities and cohabit with other animals under precarious sanitary conditions, whereas army horses are kept under ...
    • Moreno Beas, Eduardo; Abalos Pineda, Pedro; Hidalgo Hermoso, Ezequiel (Amer. Assoc. Zoo Veterinarian, 2015)
      Serum samples from 130 individuals representing 42 species of carnivores, ungulates, and primates from a population of captive mammals in Metropolitan Region in Chile were tested for antibodies against nine serovars of ...
    • Zaldaña Soto, Samantha Paz (Universidad de Chile, 2019)
      El síndrome metabólico equino (SME) se puede definir como una agrupación de factores de riesgo, asociados a desregulación endocrina y metabólica, que predicen un mayor riesgo de laminitis. Hoy en día, se reconoce que las ...
    • Romero Figueroa, Jaime Hernán; Gasalla, Patricia; Müller Bravo, Maximiliano; Dwyer, Dominic (Elsevier, 2020)
      In two experiments, the social influence on choosing between two novel diets was analyzed. In Experiment 1, a group of rats (demonstrators) ingested a novel flavor cue presented in powdered food or in a 4% sucrose solution. ...