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    • Vargas-Bello-Pérez, Einar; Cancino Padilla, Nathaly; Geldsetzer Mendoza, Carolina Luisa; Morales Silva, María Sol; Leskinen, Heidi; Garnsworthy, Philip C.; Loor, Juan J.,; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (Nature, 2020)
      The objective of this study was to compare the effect of contrasting sources of dietary n-6 and n-3 PUFA on expression of genes related to lipid metabolism in dairy cows. During 63 days, fifteen lactating cows were assigned ...
    • Iturriaga, M. P.; Cocio Vilches, Jocelyn; Barrs, V. R. (Wiley, 2020)
      Objectives To describe the clinicopathological findings and outcomes of cases of feline congenital hypothyroidism diagnosed in a single veterinary hospital in Santiago, Chile. Materials and Methods Medical records were ...
    • Figueroa, J.; Mueller, M.; Guzmán Pino, Sergio; Franco Rossello, R.; Sola Oriol, D.; Borda, E.; Dwyer, D. M.; Pérez, J. F. (CAmbridge Univ Press, 2020)
      It is known that pigs can acquire flavour preferences by brief social interactions with conspecifics that previously consumed a flavoured solid feed. However, there is no information about whether a flavoured solution could ...
    • Castro, Rodrigo; Morales Muñoz, Pamela; Parraguez Gamboa, Víctor (Elsevier, 2020)
      In this work, we investigated the influence of age and seasonality on sperm motility and DNA fragmentation in post-thawing semen from Chilean Purebred Stallions (CPS), a horse breed presenting the oldest genealogy record ...
    • Rodríguez San Pedro, Annia; Carrasco Allendes, Juan Luis; Beltrán, Clemente A.; Chaperón Gamboa, Pascal; Saldarriaga-Córdoba, Mónica María; Silva, Andrea X.; Grez Villarroel, Audrey (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 ...
    • Ortega, René; Mena Vásquez, Juan; Grecco, Sofía; Pérez, Rubén; Panzera, Yanina; Napolitano, Constanza; Zegpi, Nhur-Aischa; Sandoval, Alberto; Sandoval, Daniel; González Acuña, Daniel; Cofré, Sergio; Neira Ramírez, Víctor; Castillo Aliaga, Cristóbal (Wiley, 2020)
      Carnivore protoparvovirus 1is one of the most important pathogens affecting both wild and domestic carnivores. Here, we reported the genetic characterization of canine parvovirus (CPV-2) strains from a rescued guina ...
    • Sepúlveda Cerda, Felipe; Butto Miranda, Nicole; Arias Bautista, José Luis; Yazdani Pedram, Mehrdad; Szewczyk, Priot K.; Gruszczynski, Adam; Stachewicz, Urszula; Neira Castillo, Andrónico (American Chemical Society, 2020)
      The effect of nonporous (NP-PCL) and porous (P-PCL) fibrous polycaprolactone (PCL) meshes, used as templates, on in vitro CaCO3 crystallization via a gas diffusion (GD) method at 20 degrees C for 24 h was studied. The ...
    • Tapia, Rodrigo; Torremorell, Montserrat; Culhane, Marie; Medina, Rafael; Neira Ramírez, Víctor (Nature, 2020)
      Novel H1N2 influenza A viruses (IAVs) in swine have been identified in Chile co-circulating with pandemic H1N1 2009-like (A(H1N1)pdm09-like) viruses. The objective of this study was to characterize antigenically the swine ...
    • Chagas Teodózio de Araújo, Filipe; Lopes de Oliveira, Carlos Antonio; Costa Campos, Eric; Massako Yoshida, Grazyella; Lewandowsk, Vanessa; Todesco, Humberto; Hong Nguyen, Nguyen; Pereira Ribeiro, Ricardo (Springer, 2020)
      Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is the major fish species produced in Brazil, a country with a vast territory and great climate diversity. This study assessed the effects of the genotype x environment interaction on ...
    • Soza Ossandón, Paula; Rivera, Dácil; Tardone, Rodolfo; Riquelme Neira, Rodolfo; García, Patricia; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Adell, Aiko D.; González Rocha, Gerardo; Moreno Switt, Andrea (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Salmonella entericais a highly infectious microorganism responsible for many outbreaks reported in equine hospitals. Outbreaks are characterized by high morbidity and mortality rates, nosocomial transmission to other ...
    • Bravo-Vasquez, Nicolas; Baumberger, Cecilia; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Di Pillo, Francisca; Lazo Escobar, Andrés; Sanhueza, Juan; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton West, Christopher (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 ...
    • Di Pillo, Francisca; Jimenez-Bluhm, Pedro; Baumberger, Cecilia; Marambio, Víctor; Galdames, Pablo; Monti, Gustavo; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (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 ...
    • Tardone, Rodolfo; Rivera, Dácil; Dueñas, Fernando; Sallaberry Pincheira, Nicole; Hamilton West, Christopher; Adell, Aiko D.; Moreno Switt, Andrea I. (Wildlife Disease Association, 2020)
      Salmonella enterica is one of the main causes of gastrointestinal disease worldwide. Wild birds are capable of harboring a variety of Salmonella serovars, which could have an important role in the epidemiology of salmonellosis ...
    • Galarce Gálvez, Nicolás; Sánchez García, Fernando; Fuenzalida, Verónica; Ramos Ríos, Romina; Escobar González, Beatriz; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette; Paredes Osses, Esteban; Arriagada, Gabriel; Alegría Morán, Raúl; Lincopán, Nilton; Fuentes Castillo, Danny; Vera Leiva, Alejandra; González Rocha, Gerardo; Bello-Toledo, Helia; Borie Polanco, Consuelo (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 ...
    • Peralta Troncoso, Óscar; Carrasco, C.; Vieytes, C.; Tamayo, M. J.; Muñoz, I.; Sepúlveda, S.; Tadich Gallo, Tamara; Duchens Arancibia, Mario; Meléndez, P.; Mella, A.; Torres, C. G. (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. ...
    • Ramírez Toloza, Galia; Aguilar Guzmán, Lorena Andrea; Valck, Carolina; Ferreira, Viviana P.; Ferreira, Arturo (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Because of its capacity to increase a physiologic inflammatory response, to stimulate phagocytosis, to promote cell lysis and to enhance pathogen immunogenicity, the complement system is a crucial component of both the ...
    • Agüero Aguirre, Belén; Mena Vásquez, Juan; Berríos, Felipe; Tapia Tapia, Rodrigo; Salinas Gatica, Carlos; Dutta, J.; van Bakel, H.; Mor, S. K.; Brito, B.; Medina, R. A.; Neira Ramírez, Víctor (Elsevier, 2020)
      Porcine respirovirus 1 (PRV1) is an emerging virus in pigs that has been previously described in the USA and China. There are no reports of its presence in the rest of the world. The objective of this study was to determine ...
    • Yáñez López, José; Joshi, R.; Yoshida, Grazyella Massako (Wiley, 2020)
      Selective breeding of tilapia populations started in the early 1990s and over the past three decades tilapia has become one of the most important farmed freshwater species, being produced in more than 125 countries around ...
    • Yoshida, Grazyella; Cáceres Refusta, Andrés; Marín Nahuelpi, Rodrigo; Koop, Ben F.; Yáñez López, José (MDPI, 2020)
      The characterization of runs of homozygosity (ROH), using high-density single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) allows inferences to be made about the past demographic history of animal populations and the genomic ROH has ...
    • Berger, Joel; Wangchuk, Tshewang; Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal; Vila, Alejandro; Lambert, Joanna E. (MDPI, 2020)
      The human population grows inexorably. When Charles Darwin explored the southern cone of South America in 1830, fewer than 1.2 billion people inhabited Earth. When Ehrlich'sPopulation Bombappeared in 1968, there were similar ...