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    • Orell, Alvaro; Navarro, Claudio A.; Arancibia, Rafaela; Mobarec, Juan C.; Jerez Guevara, Carlos (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2010-07-11)
      Industrial biomining processes to extract copper, gold and other metals involve the use of extremophiles such as the acidophilic Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (Bacteria), and the thermoacidophilic Sulfolobus metallicus ...
    • Lein, Max; Mantoiu, Marius; Richard, Serge (KYOTO UNIV, RESEARCH INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, 2009-04-24)
      In previous articles, a magnetic pseudodifferential calculus and a family of C-algebras associated with twisted dynamical systems were introduced and the connections between them have been established. We extend this ...
    • Niemeyer Marich, August (ALLURED PUBL CORP, 2010-08)
      Air-dried aerial parts of Satureja danvinii (Benth.) Bdq. and Satureja multißora (R. et P.) Briíj. (Lamiaceae) collected in Chile at full flowering stage were hydrodistilled. The yields of essential oils were 0.68% and ...
    • Naya, Daniel; Veloso Iriarte, Claudio; Sabat Kirkwood, Alejandro Pablo; Bozinovic, Francisco (WILEY-LISS, DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 2010-10-21)
      The understanding of animal functioning in fluctuating environments is a major goal of physiological and evolutionary ecology. In temperate terrestrial habitats, one of the most pervasive changes in environmental conditions ...
    • Haye, Pilar A.; Salinas, Pilar; Acuña, Enzo; Poulin, Elie (WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2010-11)
      Two forms of the squat lobster Pleuroncodes monodon can be found along the Pacific coast of South America: a smaller pelagic and a larger benthic form that live respectively in the northern and southern areas of the ...
    • Garrido, C.; Aliaga, A. E.; Gómez Jeria, Juan; Clavijo Campos, Ernesto; Campos Vallette, Marcelo; Sánchez Cortés, S. (JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD, 2010-01-18)
      The MRKDV peptide structurally associated with an immunomodulatory protein, as well as model peptides ADEDRDA and LGRGISL with common amino acid residues were studied using surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) supported ...
    • Gallardo, Viviana E.; Liang, Jin; Behra, Martine; Elkahloun, Abdel; Villablanca, Eduardo J.; Russo, Vincenzo; Allende Connelly, Miguel; Burgess, Shawn M. (BIOMED CENTRAL, 2010-12-13)
      Background: Development of the posterior lateral line (PLL) system in zebrafish involves cell migration, proliferation and differentiation of mechanosensory cells. The PLL forms when cranial placodal cells delaminate ...
    • Fuentes Ramírez, Andrés; Pauchard, Aníbal; Marticorena, Alicia; Sánchez, Paulina (EDICIONES UNIV. CONCEPCION, COMITE DE PUBLICACION, 2010-05-05)
      La invasión de árboles puede generar cambios en la composición de las comunidades vegetales y reducciones en el número de especies nativas. Acacia dealbata Link (aromo) fue introducida en Chile con fines ornamentales. ...
    • Escobar, Hugo; Bustos, Richard; Fernández, Felipe; Cárcamo, Henry; Silva Ascencio, Herman; Frank, Nicolás; Cardemil Oliva, Liliana (PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA CHILE, FAC AGRONOMIA INGENIERIA FORESTAL, 2009-11-10)
      H. Escobar, R. Bustos, F. Fernández, H. Cárcamo, H. Silva, N. Frank, and L. Cardemil. 2010. Mitigating effect of salicylic acid and nitrate on water relations and osmotic adjustment in maize, cv. Lluteño exposed to ...
    • Díaz, Iván; Correa, Claudio; Peña Foxon, Maurice E.; Méndez, Marco; Charrier, Andrés (UNIV AUSTRAL CHILE, FAC CIENCIAS FORESTALES, 2010-04-05)
      We record for the first time arboreal habits in amphibians from the temperate rainforests of southern South America. In April 2006 we collected an individual of Eupsophus calcaratus at 16 m height, in a large Eucryphia ...
    • Dhaunchak, Ajit S.; Huang, Jeffrey K.; De Faria Junior, Omar; Roth Metcalfe, Alejandro Darío; Pedraza, Liliana; Antel, Jack P.; Bar-Or, Amit; Colman, David R. (WILEY-LISS, DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 2010-09-09)
      Compact myelin, the paranode, and the juxtaparanode are discrete domains that are formed on myelinated axons. In humans, neurological disorders associated with loss of myelin, including Multiple Sclerosis, often also ...
    • Davis, Sergio; Loyola, Claudia; González, Felipe; Peralta, Joaquín (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2010-08-25)
      Las Palmeras Molecular Dynamics (LPMD) is a highly modular and extensible molecular dynamics (MD) code using interatomic potential functions. LPMD is able to perform equilibrium MD simulations of bulk crystalline solids, ...
    • d’Alencon, Claudia; Peña, Oscar A.; Wittmann, Christine; Gallardo, Viviana E.; Jones, Rebecca A.; Loosli, Felix; Liebel, Urban; Grabher, Clemens; Allende Connelly, Miguel (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010-12-22)
      Background: Studies on innate immunity have benefited from the introduction of zebrafish as a model system. Transgenic fish expressing fluorescent proteins in leukocyte populations allow direct, quantitative visualization ...
    • Cuartas Domínguez, Marcela; Medel Contreras, Rodrigo (WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2010-05-20)
      1. While many studies of flower evolution have relied on the assessment of selection coefficients, these estimates represent correlative evidence of selection. Few studies have combined correlative with experimental ...
    • Colleoni, Christophe; Linka, Marc; Deschamps, Philippe; Handford, Michael; Dupree, Paul; Weber, Andreas P. M.; Ball, Steven G. (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2010-12)
      The acquisition of photosynthesis by eukaryotic cells through enslavement of a cyanobacterium represents one of the most remarkable turning points in the history of life on Earth. In addition to endosymbiotic gene transfer, ...
    • Castro Castillo, Vicente; Rebolledo Fuentes, Marco; Theoduloz, Cristina; Cassels Niven, Bruce (AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2010-10-20)
      Lakshminine (6-amino-1-aza-5-methoxy-7H-dibenzo[de,h]quinolin-7-one, 1) is a recent addition to the small family of oxoisoaporphine alkaloids and a member of an even smaller set bearing an amino group at C-6. This rare ...
    • Canals Lambarri, Mauricio (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2010-08-02)
      In order to increase awareness of the pandemic and to streamline control measures before any new outbreak of infl uenza we analyze the behavior of the cases of Chile and from 9 countries with more cases in 2009. Reproductive ...
    • Bozinovic, Francisco; Rojas, José M.; Maldonado, Karin; Sabat Kirkwood, Alejandro Pablo; Naya, Daniel (ELSEVIER GMBH, 2010-08-28)
      The flexibility of digestive traits characterizes a standard model of physiological flexibility, demonstrating that animals adjust their digestive attributes in order to maximize overall energy return. Using an intraspecific ...
    • Bozinovic, Francisco; Sabat Kirkwood, Alejandro Pablo (CURRENT ZOOLOGY, CHINESE ACAD SCIENCES, 2010-04-20)
      The food habits hypothesis (FHH) stands as one of the most striking and often-cited interspecific patterns to emerge from comparative studies of endothermic energetics. The FHH identifies three components of diet that ...
    • Behn Von Schmieden, Antonio; Hentzel, Irvin Roy (ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2010-10-08)
      In this paper we study plenary train algebras of arbitrary rank. We show that for most parameter choices of the train identity, the additional identity (x2 − ω(x)x)2 = 0 is satisfied. We also find sufficient conditions ...