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    • Oetiker, Nia; Norambuena, Rodrigo; Martínez-Bussenius, Cristóbal; Navarro, Claudio A.; Amaya, Fernando; Álvarez, Sergio A.; Paradela, Alberto; Jerez, Carlos A. (MDPI AG, 2018)
      © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans resists extremely high concentrations of copper. Strain ATCC 53993 is much more resistant to the metal compared with strain ATCC ...
    • Pérez, Francisco J.; Noriega, Ximena (Springer Verlag, 2018)
      © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. Main conclusion: Bud-break assays under forced growth conditions suggest that a drop in ABA content and an increase in sugars are common features in the sprouting ...
    • Pouchucq, Luis; Undurraga, Cristian A.; Fuentes, Ricardo; Cornejo, Mauricio; Allende Connelly, Miguel; Monasterio Opazo, Octavio (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 The centrosomal protein γ-tubulin is part of the cytoplasmic γ-tubulin small (γ-TuSCs) and large complexes (γ-TuRCs). Both, molecular and cellular evidence indicate that γ-tubulin plays a central role in microtubule ...
    • Ramírez Otarola, Natalia; Naya, Daniel E.; Sabat Kirkwood, Alejandro Pablo (Canadian Science Publishing, 2018)
      © Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada 2018. Most animals must cope with seasonal fluctuations in environmental conditions, including variations in food availability and composition. Accordingly, it is expected that ...
    • Escudero Páez, Sandra; Botero Delgadillo, Esteban; Estades Marfán, Cristián (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018)
      © 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2018. Information on how wildlife is affected by pine plantation clearcutting is relevant for designing management strategies to promote biodiversity conservation in productive ...
    • González-Itier, Sergio; Contreras, Esteban G.; Larraín, Juan; Glavic Maurer, Álvaro; Faunes, Fernando (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V.Insect metamorphosis has been a classic model to understand the role of hormones in growth and timing of developmental transitions. In addition to hormones, transitions in some species are regulated by ...
    • Bravo, Dalibel; Salduz, Ahmet; Shogren, Kristen L.; Okuno, Madison N.; Herrick, James L.; Okuno, Scott H.; Galindo, Mario A.; van Wijnen, Andre J.; Yaszemski, Michael J.; Maran, Avudaiappan (Elsevier B.V., 2018)
      © 2018 Osteosarcoma is a malignant bone tumor that occurs mainly in children and adolescents. Because Wnt signaling has been implicated in the pathogenesis of osteosarcoma, we have investigated the circulating and local ...
    • Sandoval Guzmán, Rodrigo; Lazcano Sánchez, Pablo; Ferrari Soto, Franco; Pinto Pardo, Nicolás; González Billault, Christian; Utreras Puratich, Elías (Frontiers Media, 2018)
      The participation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated by NOX1 and NOX2/NADPH oxidase has been documented during inflammatory pain. However, the molecular mechanism involved in their activation is not fully understood. ...
    • Gil Durán, Carlos; Ravanal, María Cristina; Ubilla, Pamela; Vaca Cerezo, Inmaculada; Chávez, Renato (Elsevier B.V., 2018)
      © 2018 British Mycological SocietyNumerous endoxylanases from mesophilic fungi have been purified and characterized. However, endoxylanases from cold-adapted fungi, especially those from Antarctica, have been less studied. ...
    • Cassels Niven, Bruce; Sáez Briones, Patricio (American Chemical Society, 2018)
      Archeological studies in the United States, Mexico, and Peru suggest that mescaline, as a cactus constituent, has been used for more than 6000 years. Although it is a widespread cactus alkaloid, it is present in high ...
    • Tapia Monsalve, Romina; Newsome, Seth; Sánchez Hernández, Juan Carlos; Bozinovic, Francisco; Nespolo, Roberto; Sabat Kirkwood, Alejandro Pablo (Springer, 2018)
      Life in saline environments represents a major physiological challenge for birds, particularly for passerines that lack nasal salt glands and hence are forced to live in environments that do not contain salty resources. ...
    • Ramírez, M.; Pérez, L. M.; Montealegre, J. R. (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Facultad de Agronomia e Ingenieria Forestal, 2018)
      Canes obtained from one-year-old stems of the grapevine cultivars Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah (all non-grafted) were used as models to test their susceptibility to Diplodia seriata and ...
    • Peña-Rojas, Karen; Donoso, Sergio; Pacheco, Cristian; Riquelme, Alejandro; Gangas, Rodrigo; Guajardo, Antonella; Durán, Sergio (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2018)
      © 2018, Universidad Austral de Chile. All rights reserved. Lithraea caustica (litre) is an endemic tree species of Chile that grows in a Mediterranean climate, characterized by a summer with low water availability in the ...
    • Rojano, Roberto E.; Manzano, Carlos A.; Toro, Richard A.; Morales, Raul G.E.S.; Restrepo, Gloria; Leiva, Manuel A.G. (Springer Netherlands, 2018)
      © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature The original publication incorrectly presented the names of 3 authors: Richard Toro A., Raul G. E. Morales S., and Manuel A. Leiva G. The initials were ...
    • Mandakovic, Dinka; Maldonado, Jonathan; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo; Cabrera, Pablo; Gaete, Alexis; Urtuvia, Viviana; Seeger, Michael; Cambiazo Ayala, Verónica; González, Mauricio (Springer, 2018)
      As a consequence of the severe climatic change afecting our entire world, many lakes in the Andes Cordillera are likely to disappear within a few decades. One of these lakes is Lejía Lake, located in the central Atacama ...
    • Norambuena, Heraldo V.; Areta, Juan Ignacio; Medrano, Fernando; Ortiz, Patricio; Victoriano, Pedro F. (Neotropical Ornithological Society, 2017)
      © The Neotropical Ornithological Society.Anthus correndera Chilensis is one of the six subspecies of the Correndera Pipit. It is widely distributed in Chile and Argentina, but despite being common in its habitat, knowledge ...
    • Escobar-Gimpel, Víctor; Alvarado, Sergio; Vargas, Hernán; Bonacic, Cristian (Neotropical Ornithological Society, 2015)
      The age and sex structures of the Andean Condor are known for some parts of its range while in other such areas data are lacking. The aim of this study was to obtain demographic data from the Andes of central Chile and to ...
    • Lemus, David; Illanes, Julio; Fuenzalida, Marcela; Repetto Scaramelli, Yolanda; De La Vega, Yolanda Paz; Blańquez, Maria José (1987)
      The developmental processes related to odontogenesis are similar in all vertebrates and they occur during embryogenesis. The dental papilla can exercises directive morphogenetic role on epithelia of different phylogenetic ...
    • Vega, M.; Fuentes, S.; Martín, I. R.; Llanos, J. (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
      © 2016 Elsevier LtdThe structural and up-conversion properties of Er3+ doped BaTiO3 phases have been studied. All phases were synthesized using the sol-gel process. X-ray powder diffraction (PXRD), Raman spectra, scanning ...
    • Hwang, Yun Tae; Dudding, Tracy; Aliaga, Solange Mabel; Arpone, Marta; Francis, David; Li, Xin; Slater, Howard Robert; Rogers, Carolyn; Bretherton, Lesley; du Sart, Desirée; Heard, Robert; Godler, David Eugeny (MDPI AG, 2016)
      © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Mosaicism for FMR1 premutation (PM: 55–199 CGG)/full mutation (FM: >200 CGG) alleles or the presence of unmethylated FM (UFM) have been associated with a less ...