Browsing by Title Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias
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(Springer, 2020)Context Although saproxylic beetles use deadwood in industrial exotic forest plantations, deadwood and historical land use patterns may interact among each other making difficult the implementation sustainable management ...
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(MDPI, 2020)Simple Summary Infectious bronchitis (IB) is one of the more prevalent diseases in poultry, and it is caused by a virus belonging to the Coronaviridae family, the infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), a Gammacoronavirus ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Optimum contribution selection (OCS) and mate selection (MS) are alternative strategies to maximize genetic gain under controlled rates of inbreeding. There is evidence in the literature that MS outperforms OCS in controlling ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Undernourishment is a frequent condition in sheep pregnancies under extensive systems, since most of the pregnancies occur when the prairie has the lowest forage allowance. Underfed sheep pregnancies are associated with ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Repeated reports of microplastic pollution in the marine pinniped diet have emerged in the last years. However, only few studies address the drivers of microplastics presence and the potential implications for monitoring ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2020)During the last 5 years there has been an alarming number of reports of highly pathogenic avian influenza worldwide. However, little is known about the status of this disease in South America. Chile has been the only country ...
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(BMC, 2021)Background: Body traits are generally controlled by several genes in vertebrates (i.e. polygenes), which in turn make them difficult to identify through association mapping. Increasing the power of association studies ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2019)El presente estudio evaluó la hipótesis de que la gestación mellicera y la subnutrición materna en la preñez ovina generan hipoxia fetal y estrés oxidativo, afectando el normal crecimiento fetal, lo cual podría ser prevenido ...
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(BMC, 2020)Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia (SRS), caused by Piscirickettsia salmonis, is a severe bacterial disease in the Chilean salmon farming industry. Vaccines and antibiotics are the current strategies to fight SRS; however, ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2020)Non-O157 Shiga toxin-producingEscherichia coli(STEC) is a zoonotic pathogen that causes bloody diarrhea and hemolytic-uremic syndrome in humans, and a major cause of foodborne disease. Despite antibiotic treatment of STEC ...
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(MDPI, 2020)Simple Summary Canine brucellosis caused by Brucella canis is a zoonotic disease that is considered the main infectious cause of infertility and reproductive failure in dogs worldwide, particularly in Latin America. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2018)Los diastemas interproximales corresponden a un espacio anormal entre dientes, estos pueden ser de dos tipos, abiertos y cerrados, y que, debido a sus características anatómicas, parecieran generar distintos efectos en la ...
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Prevalencia de Trypanosoma cruzi en caprinos asociados a viviendas rurales de la Región de Coquimbo (Universidad de Chile, 2017)La enfermedad de Chagas está presente en gran parte de Chile, siendo la Región de Coquimbo una zona hiperéndemica. En este sector la actividad pecuaria más común es la crianza de cabras, las cuales actúan como reservorio ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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Recurrent horizontal transfer identifies mitochondrial positive selection in a transmissible cancer (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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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. ...