Browsing by Author "Figueroa, Jaime"
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Manubens, Augusto; Salazar, Fabián; Haussmann, Denise; Figueroa, Jaime; Del Campo, Miguel; Pinto, Jonathan Martínez; Huaquín, Laura; Venegas, Alejandro; Becker, María Inés (2010)Hemocyanins are copper-containing glycoproteins in some molluscs and arthropods, and their bestknown function is O2 transport. We studied the site of their biosynthesis in the gastropod Concholepas concholepas by using ...
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Isla, Adolfo; Martínez Hernández, Jesús Eduardo; Levipan, Héctor A.; Haussmann, Denise; Figueroa, Jaime; Rauch, María Cecilia; Maracaja Coutinho, Vinicius; Yáñez, Alejandro (Frontiers Media SA, 2021)Piscirickettsia salmonis is a bacterial pathogen that severely impact the aquaculture in several countries as Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, and Chile. It provokes Piscirickettsiosis outbreaks in the marine phase of ...
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Luna, Daniela; González, Catalina; Byrd, Christopher J.; Palomo Bartolotti, Rocío María Paz; Huenul, Elizabeth; Figueroa, Jaime (MDPI, 2021)The human-animal relationship is an important component of farm animal welfare. Previous studies have shown that allowing animals to observe the gentle handling of a conspecific reduces fear and increases their affinity ...
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Alegría-Morán, Raúl A.; Guzmán-Pino, Sergio A.; Egaña, Juan Ignacio; Muñoz, Carem; Figueroa, Jaime (MDPI AG, 2019)A ten-year food preference database (2007–2017) was used to relate food selection in dogs to the nutritional components of diets by doing a principal component analysis (PCA) and a linear regression between components ...
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Figueroa, Jaime; Valenzuela Venegas, Carolina Paz; Guzmán Pino, Sergio Alejandro (MDPI, 2022)Pigs display an innate preference for sweet taste compounds such as sucrose. However, the influence of sucrose supplementation into maternal diets has not been examined in pigs. We tested the hypothesis that sucrose inclusion ...
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Luna, Daniela; González, Catalina; Byrd, Christopher J.; Palomo Bartolotti, Rocío María Paz; Huenul, Elizabeth; Figueroa, Jaime (MDPI, 2021)In this study, we addressed the social attentiveness, as well as the phenomenon of social facilitation and inhibition in the context of a positive human–pig relationship. Specifically, we investigated whether the social ...