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    • Genome diversification within a clonal population of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus seems to depend on ... 
      Loyola, David E.; Navarro, Cristell; Uribe, Paulina; García, Katherine; Mella, Claudia; Díaz, Diego; Valdes, Natalia; Martínez Urtaza, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: New strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus that cause diarrhea in humans by seafood ingestion periodically emerge through continuous evolution in the ocean. Influx and expansion in the Southern Chilean ocean of ...
    • Genome editing and protein energy malnutrition 
      Moreno Nombela, S.; Romero Parra, Javier Hernán; Ruiz Ojeda, F. J.; Solis Urra, P.; Baig, A. T.; Plaza Díaz, J. (2023)
      Protein-energy malnutrition is a state of disordered catabolism resulting from metabolic derangements or starvation. It is associated with chronic disease, hypoglycemia, hypothermia, serious infections, and even an increased ...
    • Genome sequencing and transcriptomic analysis of the andean killifish orestias ascotanensis reveals adaptation ... 
      Di Genova, Alex; Nardocci, Gino; Maldonado Agurto, Rodrigo Alejandro; Hodar Quiroga, Christian Eduardo; Valdivieso, Camilo; Morales, Pamela; Gajardo, Felipe; Marina, Raquel; Gutiérrez, Rodrigo A.; Orellana, Ariel; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana Verónica; González Canales, Mauricio Alejandro; Glavic Maurer, Alvaro Alberto; Mendez Torres, Marco Antonio; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro Eduardo; Allende Connelly, Miguel Luis; Montecino, Martin A. (Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2021)
      Orestias ascotanensis (Cyprinodontidae) is a teleost pupfish endemic to springs feeding into the Ascotan saltpan in the Chilean Altiplano (3,700 m.a.s.l.) and represents an opportunity to study adaptations to high-altitude ...
    • Genome type analysis of chilean adenovirus strains isolated in a children's hospital between 1988 and 1990 
      Kajon, Adriana E.; Larrañaga, Carmen; Suárez, Mónica; Wadell, Göran; Avendaño, Luis F. (1994)
      In a study designed to evaluate the genetic variability of adenovirus strains associated with infantile cases of respiratory disease requiring hospitalization, a collection of 136 adenovirus isolates obtained in the Roberto ...
    • Genome type analysis of South American adenoviruses of subgenus C collected over a 7-year period 
      Kajon, Adriana E.; Vicente Suárez, M.; Avendaño, L. F.; Hortal, M.; Wadell, G. (Springer-Verlag, 1993)
      A collection of 148 adenovirus strains of subgenus C collected in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay were studied by restriction enzyme analysis of genomic DNA with endonucleases Bam HI, Bgl II, Bst EII, Eco RI, Hind III, Kpn ...
    • Genome wide association analysis for resistance to Caligus rogercresseyi in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) 
      Correa, K.; Lhorente, Jean Paul; López, M. E.; Figuera, R.; Bassini, Liane; Di Genova, Alex; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; Davidson, W.; Yáñez López, José (Elsevier, 2017)
    • Genome wide association study for resistance to Caligus rogercresseyi in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) ... 
      Correa, Katharina; Lhorente, Jean Paul; Bassini, Liane; López, María E.; Di Genova, Alex; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; Davidson, William S.; Yáñez López, José (Elsevier, 2017)
      The sea louse (Caligus rogercresseyi) is an external parasite and considered one of the most important health problems in the salmon farming industry. Resistance to conventional chemical treatments has been demonstrated ...
    • Genome wide identification of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (ATCC 23270) transcription factors and comparative ... 
      Hödar Quiroga, Christian; Moreno, Pablo; Genova, Alex di; Latorre, Mauricio; Reyes Jara, Angélica; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; González Canales, Mauricio; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana (Springer, 2012)
      Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is a chemolithoautotrophic acidophilic bacterium that obtains its energy from the oxidation of ferrous iron, elemental sulfur, or reduced sulfur minerals. This capability makes it of great ...
    • Genome-enabled predictions for fruit weight and quality from repeated records in European peach progenies 
      Biscarini, Filippo; Nazzicari, Nelson; Bink, Marco; Arús, Pere; Aranzana, Maria José; Verde, Ignazio; Micali, Sabrina; Pascal, Thierry; Quilot-Turion, Benedicte; Lambert, Patrick; Da Silva Linge, Cassia; Pacheco, Igor; Bassi, Daniele; Stella, Alessandra; Rossini, Laura (BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)
      © 2017 The Author(s). Background: Highly polygenic traits such as fruit weight, sugar content and acidity strongly influence the agroeconomic value of peach varieties. Genomic Selection (GS) can accelerate peach yield and ...
    • Genome-scale metabolic models of Microbacterium species isolated from a high altitude desert environment 
      Mandakovic, Dinka; Cintolesi, Ángela; Maldonado, Jonathan; Mendoza, Sebastián; Aite, Meziane; Gaete, Alexis; Saitua, Francisco; Allende, Miguel; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana; Siegel, Anne; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; González Canales, Mauricio; Latorre Mora, Mauricio (Nature, 2020)
      The Atacama Desert is the most arid desert on Earth, focus of important research activities related to microbial biodiversity studies. In this context, metabolic characterization of arid soil bacteria is crucial to understand ...
    • Genome-scale reconstruction of Salinispora tropica CNB-440 metabolism to study strain-specific adaptation 
      Contador, C. A.; Rodríguez, V.; Andrews Farrow, Bárbara; Asenjo, J. A. (Springer, 2015)
      The first manually curated genome-scale metabolic model for Salinispora tropica strain CNB-440 was constructed. The reconstruction enables characterization of the metabolic capabilities for understanding and modeling the ...
    • Genome-wide analyses reveal drivers of penguin diversification 
      Vianna, Juliana A.; Fernandes, Flavia A. N.; Frugone Wielandt, María José; Figueiro, Enrique V.; Pertierra, Luis R.; Nolla, Daly; Bi, Ke; Wang-Claypool, Cynthia Y.; Lowther, Andrew; Parker, Patricia; Le Bohec, Celine; Bonadonna, Francesco; Wienecke, Barbara; Pistorius, Pierre; Steinfurth, Antje; Burridge, Christopher P.; Dantas, Gisele P. M.; Poulin, Elie; Simison, W. Brian; Henderson, Jim; Eizirik, Eduardo; Nery, Mariana F.; Bowie, Rauri C. K. (National Academy of Sciences, 2020)
      Penguins are the only extant family of flightless diving birds. They currently comprise at least 18 species, distributed from polar to tropical environments in the Southern Hemisphere. The history of their diversification ...
    • Genome-wide analysis of genetic susceptibility to language impairment in an isolated Chilean population 
      Villanueva, Pia; Newbury, Dianne F.; Jara, Lilian; Barbieri Ortiz, Zulema de,; Mirza, Ghazala; Palamino, Hernán M.; Fernández, María Angélica; Cazier, Jean Baptiste; Monaco, Anthony P.; Palomino, Hernán (2011)
      Specific language impairment (SLI) is an unexpected deficit in the acquisition of language skills and affects between 5 and 8% of pre-school children. Despite its prevalence and high heritability, our understanding of the ...
    • Genome-wide analysis of in vivo CcpA binding with and without its key co-factor HPr in the major human ... 
      DebRoy, Sruti; Aliaga Tobar, Víctor; Gálvez, Gabriel; Arora, Srishtee; Liang, Xiaowen; Horstmann, Nicola; Maracajá Coutinho, Vinicius; Latorre Mora, Mauricio; Hook, Magnus; Flores, Anthony; Shelburne, Samuel A. (Wiley, 2020)
      Catabolite control protein A (CcpA) is a master regulator of carbon source utilization and contributes to the virulence of numerous medically important Gram-positive bacteria. Most functional assessments of CcpA, including ...
    • Genome-wide analysis of somatic embryogenesis-related transcription factors in cultivated strawberry (fragaria ... 
      Garrido Bigotes, Adrián; Silva Ascencio, Herman Patricio; Hasbún, Rodrigo (MDPI, 2021)
      Somatic embryogenesis is a plant regeneration method commonly used in tissue culture. Its molecular mechanisms are well-known in model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana L. LEAFY COTYLEDON1 (LEC1), LEAFY COTYLEDON2 (LEC2), ...
    • Genome-wide association analysis for body weight identifies candidate genes related to development and ... 
      Reis Neto, Rafael Vilhena; Yoshida, Grazyella Massako; Lhorente, Jean Paul; Yáñez López, José (Springer Verlag, 2019)
      Growth is one of the most important traits from both a physiological and economic perspective in aquaculture species. Thus, identifying the genomic regions and genes underpinning genetic variation for this trait is of ...
    • Genome-wide association analysis reveals loci associated with resistance against Piscirickettsia salmonis ... 
      Correa, Katharina; Lhorente, Jean Paul; López, María E.; Bassini, Liane; Naswa, Sudhir; Deeb, Nader; Di Genova, Alex; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; Davidson, William S.; Yáñez López, José (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Pisciricketssia salmonis is the causal agent of Salmon Rickettsial Syndrome (SRS), which affects salmon species and causes severe economic losses. Selective breeding for disease resistance represents one approach ...
    • Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) for Growth Rate and Age at Sexual Maturation in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) 
      Gutiérrez, Alejandro P.; Yáñez López, José; Fukui, Steve; Swift, Bruce; Davidson, William S. (Public Library Science, 2015)
      Early sexual maturation is considered a serious drawback for Atlantic salmon aquaculture as it retards growth, increases production times and affects flesh quality. Although both growth and sexual maturation are thought ...
    • A genome-wide association study identifies multiple loci for variation in human ear morphology 
      Adhikari, Kaustubh; Reales, Guillermo; Smith, Andrew J.P.; Konka, Esra; Palmen, Jutta; Quinto Sánchez, Mirsha; Acuña Alonzo, Víctor; Jaramillo, Claudia; Arias, William; Fuentes, Macarena; Pizarro, María; Barquera Lozano, Rodrigo; Macín Pérez, Gastón; Gómez Valdés, Jorge; Villamil Ramírez, Hugo; Hunemeier, Tábita; Ramallo, Virginia; Silva de Cerqueira, Caio C.; Hurtado, Malena; Villegas, Valeria; Granja, Vanessa; Gallo, Carla; Poletti, Giovanni; Schuler Faccini, Lavinia; Salzano, Francisco M.; Bortolini, Maria Cátira; Canizales Quinteros, Samuel; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Bedoya, Gabriel; Calderón, Rosario; Rosique, Javier; Cheeseman, Michael; Bhutta, Mahmood F.; Humphries, Steve E.; González José, Rolando; Headon, Denis; Balding, David; Ruiz Linares, Andrés (Nature Publishing, 2015)
      Here we report a genome-wide association study for non-pathological pinna morphology in over 5,000 Latin Americans. We find genome-wide significant association at seven genomic regions affecting: lobe size and attachment, ...
    • Genome-wide association study identifying novel variant for fasting insulin and allelic heterogeneity in ... 
      Buchanan, Victoria L.; Wang, Yujie; Blanco, Estela; Graff, Mariaelisa; Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Santos, José L.; Ángel, Barbara; Lozoff, Betsy; Voruganti, Venkata Saroja; Guo, Xiuqing; Taylor, Kent D.; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Yao, Jie; Tan, Jingyi; Downie, Carolina; Highland, Heather M.; Justice, Anne E.; Gahagan, Sheila; North, Kari E. (Wiley, 2020)
      Background The genetic underpinnings of glycemic traits have been understudied in adolescent and Hispanic/Latino (H/L) populations in comparison to adults and populations of European ancestry. Objective To identify genetic ...