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Filker, Sabine; Sommaruga, Rubén; Vila Pinto, Irma; Stoeck, Thorsten (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)Microbial eukaryotes hold a key role in aquatic ecosystem functioning. Yet, their diversity in freshwater lakes, particularly in high-mountain lakes, is relatively unknown compared with the marine environment. Low nutrient ...
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Collado, Gonzalo A.; Vila Pinto, Irma; Méndez, Marco (2011)The landscape of the Neotropical southern Andean Altiplano is characterized by a succession of closed basins originated from the Miocene to the Holocene. In this region, the number of species and phylogenetic relationships ...
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Arratia, Gloria; Vila Pinto, Irma; Lam Pastén, Natalia; Guerrero, Claudia Jimena; Quezada Romegialli, Claudio (Public Library Science, 2017)A new genus and species, Pseudorestias lirimensis, is described from the southern part of the Chilean Altiplano. While sharing several characters that clearly align the new species with Orestias, this new fish is characterized ...
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Castro, Sergio A.,; Rojas Venegas, Pablo; Vila Pinto, Irma; Habit, Evelyn; Pizarro Konczak, Jaime; Abades, Sebastián; Jaksic, Fabián M. (Public Library Science, 2020)Aim Exotic species' introductions together with extinction of native species represent the main mechanisms driving biotic homogenization of freshwater fish assemblages around the world. While generally ichtyofaunistic ...
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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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Marín Briano, Víctor; Delgado Isasi, Luisa; Vila Pinto, Irma; Tironi, Antonio; Barrera, Vilma; Ibáñez, Carlos (Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, 2014)During April-May 2004 the Cruces River wetland ecosystem, located in Valdivia (40°S), southern Chile, was described as shifting from a clear water regime, dominated by the exotic macrophyte Egeria densa, to turbid waters ...
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Vila Pinto, Irma; Pardo Luksic, Rodrigo (2003)The Rapel reservoir (34º S; 71ºW) was impounded in 1968 and the phytoplankton community shows the effects of eutrophication processes and later contamination due to the affluence of agrochemicals and copper mining clear ...
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Vega Retter, Caren; Vila Pinto, Irma; Véliz, David (Springer Verlag, 2015)© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Currently environmental pollution is one of the most important factors affecting natural populations and acting as a strong selective pressure. Therefore, identifying genes ...
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Cruz Jofré, Franco; Morales, Pamela; Esquer Garrigos, Yareli; Vila Pinto, Irma; Hugueny, Bernard; Gaubert, Philippe; Méndez, Marco (Universidad de Concepcion, 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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Soto, Doris; Vila Pinto, Irma; Villalobos, Boris (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1984)Rotifers were sampled at monthly intervals for a year at four monitoring stations in Rapel Reservoir (a hydroelectric impoundment) in Central Chile (34°02′S; 71°35′W). Fifteen species were identified, but only Keratella ...
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Quezada Romegialli, Claudio; Jimena Guerrero, Claudia; Véliz Baeza, David; Vila Pinto, Irma (Taylor & Francis, 2016)The killifish Orestias ascotanensis is endemic to the small isolated springs of Ascotan salt pan in the Central High Andes, Chile. Due to small populations, mining activity, and increasing aridity, this species is catalogued ...
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Quezada Romegialli, Claudio; Guerrero Guerrero, Claudia; Véliz Baeza, David; Vila Pinto, Irma (Taylor and Francis, 2015)The killifish genus Orestias is endemic to freshwater ecosystems in the High Andes of Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Phylogenetic and phylogeographic studies with partial mitochondrial genes have failed to resolve relationship ...
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Véliz Baeza, David; Catalán, Laura; Pardo, Rodrigo; Acuña, Patricio; Díaz Lorca, Angie; Poulin, Elie; Vila Pinto, Irma (Sociedad de Biología de Chile, 2012)There is still doubt as to the number of species of the freshwater Chilean ichthyofauna, 64 % of which have conservation problems. One of the groups is that of the silversides of the genus Basilichthys. Three morphological ...
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Cruz Jofré, Franco; Valladares, Moisés; Vila Pinto, Irma; Méndez Torres, Marco (Magnolia Press, 2013)
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Delgado Isasi, Luisa; Tironi, Antonio; Vila Pinto, Irma; Verardi, Gabriela; Ibáñez, Carlos; Agüero, Belén; Marín Briano, Víctor (Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, 2014)© 2014, Escuela de Ciencias del Mar. All rights reserved. We review in this article the 2004-2014 scientific information on the Río Cruces wetland ecosystem, Valdivia, Chile. This information is used in the generation of ...
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Vila Pinto, Irma; Méndez Torres, Marco Antonio; Scott Alarcón, Sergio; Morales, Pamela; Poulin, Elie (Springer, 2007)
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Guerrero, Claudia J.; Poulin, Elie; Méndez, Marco; Vila Pinto, Irma (Universidad de Concepcion, 2015)© 2015, Universidad de Concepcion. All rights reserved.Fish exhibit a wide diversity of feeding behaviors, sometimes associated with specifi c morphologies, which may refl ect adaptations to exploit the resources depending ...
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Scott, Sergio; Pardo, Rodrigo; Vila Pinto, Irma (Sociedad de Biologia de Chile, 2007)Trichomycterus areolatus and Trichomycterus chiltoni are endemic siluriform fishes of Chile. They are the only Chilean species of this genus that live in sympatry and coexist in the Biobio basin. High trophic niche overlap ...
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Dorador, Cristina; Vila Pinto, Irma; Remonsellez, Francisco; Imhoff, Johannes F.; Witzel, Karl Paul (2010)Analyses of clone libraries from water and sediments of different sites from Salar de Huasco, a high-altitude athalassohaline wetland in the Chilean Altiplano, revealed the presence of five unique clusters of uncultured ...