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    • Pérez Álvarez, María José; Kraft Gutierrez, Sebastián Martín; Segovia, Nicolás I.; Olavarría, Carlos; Nigenda Morales, Sergio; Urbán R., Jorge; Viloria Gómora, Lorena; Archer, Frederick; Moraga, Rodrigo; Sepúlveda, Maritza; Santos Carvallo, Macarena; Pavez, Guido; Poulin, Elie Albert (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Four fin whale sub-species are currently considered valid: Balaenoptera physalus physalus in the North Atlantic, B. p. velifera in the North Pacific, B. p. quoyi and B. p. patachonica in the Southern Hemisphere. The last, ...
    • Ortiz Severín, Javiera Rocío; Tandberg, Julia I.; Winther Larsen, Hanne C.; Chávez Espinosa, Francisco; Cambiazo Ayala, Liliana Verónica (MDPI, 2021)
      Piscirickettsia salmonis is the etiologic agent of piscirickettsiosis, a disease that causes significant losses in the salmon farming industry. In order to unveil the pathogenic mechanisms of P. salmonis, appropriate ...
    • Muñoz Gálvez, Víctor; Garcés, N. Elizabeth (Science & Technology, 2021)
      We study the light curves of pulsating variable stars using a complex network approach to build visibility graphs. We consider various types of variables stars (e.g., Cepheids, delta Scuti, RR Lyrae), build two types of ...
    • Azat, Claudio; Valenzuela Sánchez, Andrés; Delgado, Soledad; Cunningham, Andrew A.; Alvarado Rybak, Mario; Bourke, Johara; Briones, Raúl; Cabeza, Osvaldo; Castro Carrasco, Camila; Charrier, Andrés; Correa, Cludio; Crump, Martha L.; Cuevas, César C.; Maza, Mariano de la; Díaz Vidal, Sandra; Flores, Edgardo; Harding, Gemma; Lavilla, Esteban O.; Méndez Torres, Marco Antonio; Oberwemmer, Frank; Ortiz, Juan Carlos; Pastore, Hernán; Peñafiel Ricaurte, Alexandra; Rojas Salinas, Leonora; Serrano, José Manuel; Sepúlveda, Maximiliano A.; Toledo, Verónica; Úbeda, Carmen; Uribe Rivera, David E.; Valdivia, Catalina; Wren, Sally; Angulo, Ariadne (Cambridge Univ Press, 2021)
      Darwin's frogs Rhinoderma darwinii and Rhinoderma rufum are the only known species of amphibians in which males brood their offspring in their vocal sacs. We propose these frogs as flagship species for the conservation of ...
    • Gómez, Rocío; Vilar, Miguel G.; Meraz Ríos, Marco Antonio; Véliz Baeza, Miguel Ángel; Zúñiga, Gerardo; Hernández Tobías, Esther Alhelı; Figueroa Corona, María del Pilar; Owings, Amanda C.; Gaieski, Jill B.; Schurr, Theodore G. (Cell Press, 2021)
      Native Mexican populations are crucial for understanding the genetic ancestry of Aztec descendants and coexisting ethnolinguistic groups in the Valley of Mexico and elucidating the population dynamics of the prehistoric ...
    • Villanueva, Andrea A.; Sánchez Gómez, Pilar; Muñoz Palma, Ernesto Fabián; Puvogel Vittini, Sofía; Casas, Bárbara S.; Arriagada, Cecilia; Peña Villalobos, Isaac Jonathan; Lois, Pablo; Ramírez Orellana, Manuel; Lubieniecki, Fabiana; Casco Claro, Fernando; Gallegos, Iván; García Castro, Javier; Torres, Vicente A.; Palma Alvarado, Verónica Alejandra (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
      Neuroblastoma is a highly metastatic tumor that emerges from neural crest cell progenitors. Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) is a regulator of cell migration that binds to the receptor Neogenin-1 and is upregulated in ...
    • Luque Campos, Noymar Jesús; Bustamante Barrientos, Felipe A.; Pradenas, Carolina; García, Cynthia; Araya, María Jesús; Bohaud, Candice; Contreras López, Rafael; Elizondo Vega, Roberto; Djouad, Farida; Luz-Crawford, Patricia Alejandra; Vega Letter, Ana María (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent adult stromal cells widely studied for their regenerative and immunomodulatory properties. They are capable of modulating macrophage plasticity depending on various ...
    • Gómez, Melissa; Baeza Cancino, Marcelo Enrique; Cifuentes Guzmán, Víctor; Alcaíno Gorman, Jennifer (Sociedad de Biología de Chile, 2021)
      Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous is a basidiomycete yeast that naturally produces the red-orange carotenoid astaxanthin, which has remarkable antioxidant properties. The biosynthesis of carotenoids and sterols share some ...
    • Lavergne, Céline; Aguilar Muñoz, Polette; Calle, Natalia; Thalasso, Frederic; Astorga España, María Soledad; Sepúlveda Jauregui, Armando; Martínez Cruz, Karla; Gandois, Laure; Mansilla, Andrés; Chamy Maggi, Rolando; Barret, Maialen; Cabrol, Lea Jeanne Marie (Elsevier, 2021)
      Freshwater ecosystems are responsible for an important part of the methane (CH4) emissions which are likely to change with global warming. This study aims to evaluate temperature-induced (from 5 to 20 ◦C) changes on microbial ...
    • Moreno, Rodrigo A.; Labra, Fabio A.; Cotoras, Darko D.; Camus, Patricio A.; Gutiérrez, Dimitri; Aguirre, Luis; Rozbaczylo, Nicolás; Poulin, Elie Albert; Lagos, Nelson A.; Zamorano, Daniel; Rivadeneira, Marcelo M. (PEERJ, 2021)
      Latitudinal diversity gradients (LDG) and their explanatory factors are among the most challenging topics in macroecology and biogeography. Despite of its apparent generality, a growing body of evidence shows that 'anomalous' ...
    • Sacristán, Irene; Acuña, Francisca; Aguilar, Emilio; García Bustos, Sebastián Aurelio; López, María José; Cabello, Javier; Hidalgo Hermoso, Ezequiel; Sanderson, Jim; Terio, Karen A.; Barrs, Vanessa; Beatty, Julia; Johnson, Warren E.; Millán, Javier; Poulin, Elie Albert; Napolitano Valenzuela, Constanza Gabriela (Wiley, 2021)
      Human transformation of natural habitats facilitates pathogen transmission between domestic and wild species. The guigna (Leopardus guigna), a small felid found in Chile, has experienced habitat loss and an increased ...
    • Martinelli, Agustín G.; Soto Acuña, Sergio Gonzalo; Goin, Francisco J.; Kaluza, Jonatan; Bostelmann Torrealba, Juan Enrique; Fonseca, Pedro H. M.; Reguero, Marcelo A.; Leppe, Marcelo; Vargas Milne, Alexander Omar (Nature Research, 2021)
      In the last decades, several discoveries have uncovered the complexity of mammalian evolution during the Mesozoic Era, including important Gondwanan lineages: the australosphenidans, gondwanatherians, and meridiolestidans ...
    • Covarrubias, María Paz; Lillo Carmona, Victoria; Melet, Lorena; Benedetto, Gianfranco; Andrade, Diego; Maucourt, Mickael; Deborde, Catherine; Fuentealba, Claudia; Moing, Annick; Valenzuela, María Luisa; Pedreschi Plasencia, Romina Paola; Almeida, Andréa Miyasaka (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Peaches and nectarines [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] are among the most exported fresh fruit from Chile to the Northern Hemisphere. Fruit acceptance by final consumers is defined by quality parameters such as the size, ...
    • Cruz, Pablo; Ahumada Castro, Ulises Jonas; Bustos, Galdo; Molgó, Jordi; Sauma Mahaluf, Daniela Macarena; Lovy, Alenka; Cárdenas, César (MDPI, 2021)
      T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive hematological malignancy whose chemoresistance and relapse persist as a problem despite significant advances in its chemotherapeutic treatments. Mitochondrial ...
    • Yáñez, Osvaldo; Osorio, Manuel Isaías; Uriarte, Eugenio; Areche Medina, Carlos Alberto; Tiznado, William; Pérez Donoso, José M.; García Beltrán, Olimpo José; González Nilo, Fernando Danilo (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      The pandemic that started in Wuhan (China) in 2019 has caused a large number of deaths, and infected people around the world due to the absence of effective therapy against coronavirus 2 of the severe acute respiratory ...
    • Correa Araneda, Francisco; Ulloa Yáñez, Alfredo Alejandro; Núñez, Daniela; Boyero, Luz; Tonin, Alan M.; Cornejo, Aydeé; Urbina, Mauricio A.; Díaz, María Elisa; Figueroa Muñoz, Guillermo; Esse, Carlos (Nature Research, Germany, 2021)
      Several studies have examined the transmission dynamics of the novel COVID-19 disease in different parts of the world. Some have reported relationships with various environmental variables, suggesting that spread of the ...
    • Cornejo, Alberto; Caballero, Julio; Simirgiotis, Mario; Torres, Vanessa; Sánchez, Luisa; Díaz, Nicolás; Guimaraes, Marcela; Hernández, Marcos; Areche Medina, Carlos Alberto; Alfaro, Sergio; Caballero, Leonardo; Melo, Francisco (Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2021)
      Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects adult people whose treatment is palliative. Thus, we decided to test three dammarane triterpenes 1, 1a, 1b, and we determined that 1 and 1a inhibit ...
    • Moya Alvarado, Guillermo Adrian; Yáñez, Osvaldo; Morales, Nicole; González González, Angélica; Areche Medina, Carlos Alberto; Núñez González, Marco Tulio; Fierro, Angélica; García Beltrán, Olimpo José (MDPI, 2021)
      Fourteen coumarin-derived compounds modified at the C3 carbon of coumarin with an alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone were synthesized. These compounds may be designated as chalcocoumarins (3-cinnamoyl-2H-chromen-2-ones). Both ...
    • Correa Araneda, Francisco; Núñez, Daniela; Díaz, Ma Elisa; Gómez Capponi, Francisco; Figueroa, Ricardo; Acuña, Jaquelinne; Boyero, Luz; Esse, Carlos (Elsevier, 2021)
      Forest wetlands are biodiversity hotspots that perform functions of vital ecological importance, but they are among the world’s most threatened ecosystems. Due to their high diversity of habitats and species, the study ...
    • Drake, Anna; de Zwaan, Devin R.; Altamirano, Tomás A.; Wilson, Scott; Hick, Kristina; Bravo, Camila; Ibarra, José Tomás; Martin, Kathy (Wiley, 2021)
      1. Accurate biodiversity and population monitoring is a requirement for effective conservation decision making. Survey method bias is therefore a concern, particularly when research programs face logistical and cost ...