Browsing by Author "Méndez, Marco"
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Vásquez, Dayana; Correa, Claudio; Pastenes, Luis; Palma, R. Eduardo; Méndez, Marco (Springer, 2013)Background: The Mediterranean zone of central Chile (30° to 38°S) is one of the 25 diversity hotspots in the world. However, there are few phylogeographic studies which identify the factors that have influenced ...
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Charrier, Andrés; Correa, Claudio; Castro, Camila; Méndez, Marco (Magnolia Press, 2015)Based on morphological and molecular evidence (mitochondrial and nuclear sequences) we describe a new species of spiny-chest frog, Alsodes cantillanensis, from central Chile (around 34 degrees S). The type locality, Quebrada ...
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Guerrero-Jiménez, Claudia Jimena; Peña, Fabiola; Morales, Pamela; Méndez, Marco; Sallaberry Ayerza, Michel; Vila Pinto, Irma; Poulin, Elie (Public Library of Science, 2017)© 2017 Guerrero-Jiménez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided ...
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Salazar, Erika; Correa, José; Araya, María José; Méndez, Marco; Carrasco, Basilio (Cambridge University Press, 2017)Choclero is a Chilean traditional floury maize, consumed as a vegetable, with large economic and cultural value due to its culinary properties that give unique characteristics to the traditional local cuisine. Market ...
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Jara Arancio, Paola; Arroyo, Mary T. K.; Guerrero, Pablo C.; Hinojosa Opazo, Luis; Arancio, Gina; Méndez, Marco (John Wiley, 2014)Aim Shifts between the western South American sclerophyll and winter-rainfall desert biomes and their relationship to climatic niche evolution and aridity development were investigated in the South American endemic ...
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Collado, Gonzalo A.; Méndez, Marco (2012)Isolated closed basins provide a natural laboratory to study the differentiation among wild populations. Here we examined the phylogenetic relationships of the Southern Altiplano populations of Biomphalaria, a genus with ...
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Correa, Claudio; Veloso Martínez, Alberto; Iturra, Patricia; Méndez, Marco (SOCIEDAD BIOLGIA CHILE, 2006-12)Most Chilean amphibians belong to the subfamily Telmatobiinae (Anura, Leptodactylidae). Several phylogenetic studies of Leptodactylidae and Telmatobimae, based principally on morphological characters, have implicitly ...
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Correa, Claudio; Pastenes, Luis; Sallaberry Ayerza, Michel; Veloso Martínez, Alberto; Méndez, Marco (BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, 2009-07-29)The southern part of the Altiplano of the Andes Range is characterized by a complex hydrography, due to an intense geologic activity and the effects of the Pleistocene glaciations. This has produced a high degree of ...
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Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Méndez, Marco; Astudillo, Pablo; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando (The American Society for Nutrition, 2008)Serum or plasma copper and ceruloplasmin concentrations are the most widely used laboratory indicators to evaluate copper status. Both indicators are decreased in moderate or severe copper deficiency. The activity of ...
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Aracena, Julio; González Canales, Mauricio; Zúñiga Páez, Alejandro; Méndez, Marco; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana (ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2006-03-07)Rapid and sequential cell shape changes take place during the formation of the ventral furrow (VF) at the beginning of Drosophila gastrulation. At the cellular level, this morphogenetic event demands close coordination of ...
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Correa Quezada, Claudio Luis (Universidad de Chile, 2006)La mayoría de los anfibios chilenos pertenece a la subfamilia Telmatobiinae (Anura, Leptodactylidae), la cual está constituida por 12 géneros que se distribuyen principalmente en el suroeste de Sudamérica y la cordillera ...
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Méndez, Marco; Araya, Magdalena; Ordóñez Pizarro, Fernando; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; González Canales, Mauricio (US DEPT HEALTH HUMAN SCIENCES PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, NATL INST HEALTH, NATL INST ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES, 2004-12)Previous studies indicated that sex might influence the response to copper exposure. Cenaloplasmin (Cp) is an indicator of Cu status, but it is not clear whether and how it reflects changes of Cu status among healthy ...
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Collado, Gonzalo A.; Espoz, Carmen; Méndez, Marco; Brown, Donald I. (INT SCIENCE SERVICES/BALABAN PUBLISHERS, 2008-12)This study presents results of the examination of the ultrastructure of the spermatozoon of seven South American species of Tegula using light and transmission electron microscopy. In all cases the spermatozoa were of ...
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Araya, Magdalena; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Méndez, Marco; González Canales, Mauricio; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (The Journal of Nutrition, 2005-10)The health consequences of mild copper excess in humans are unknown. In a previous study, 2 mo of supplementation with up to 6 mg Cu/L in drinking water did not induce detectable changes. Here we assessed a copper ...
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Cruz Jofré, Franco; Morales, Pamela; Esquer Garrigos, Yareli; Vila Pinto, Irma; Hugueny, Bernard; Gaubert, Philippe; Méndez, Marco (2014)A morphological comparison of two populations assigned to Orestias agassii from the Chilean Altiplano with the syntypes from Peru and Bolivia was performed. The results suggest that populations of Chile do not match the ...
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Araya, Magdalena; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Arredondo Olguín, Miguel; González Canales, Mauricio; Méndez, Marco (2006)
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Jiménez Huidobro, Paulina Andrea (Universidad de Chile, 2008)En este estudio se abordó el problema de la variación del ambiente térmico y sus consecuencias a nivel morfológico y fisiológico en larvas de Bufo spinulosus provenientes de tres localidades de Chile que presentan ...
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Cruz Jofre, Franco Alfredo (Universidad de Chile, 2014)