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    • Uribe, Sandra V.; Chiappe, Romina; Estades Marfán, Cristián (Sociedad de Biologia de Chile, 2017)
      © The Author(s). 2017. Background: Monitos del monte (Dromiciops gliroides) are old-growth forest specialists and, thus, believed to be very sensitive to habitat transformation, although some recent studies show some level ...
    • Manzano, Carlos A.; Marvin, Chris; Muir, Derek; Harner, Tom; Martin, Jonathan; Zhang, Yifeng (American Chemical Society, 2017)
      © 2017 American Chemical Society.The aromatic fractions of snow, lake sediment, and air samples collected during 2011-2014 in the Athabasca oil sands region were analyzed using two-dimensional gas chromatography following ...
    • Vergara, Ricardo; Noriega, Ximena; Aravena, Karla; Prieto, Humberto; Pérez, Francisco J. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2017)
      © 2017 Vergara, Noriega, Aravena, Prieto and Pérez. Recently, the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) has been implicated as a key player in the regulation of endodormancy (ED) in grapevine buds (Vitis vinifera L). In this ...
    • Ghosh, B.; Tamayo Calderón, Rocío María; Espinoza-González, R.; Hevia, Samuel A. (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier B.V. Studies on free standing flexible composite films of Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) incorporated with CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) functionalized by silver (Ag) nanoparticles (PVDF/CCTO:Ag) are presented here. ...
    • Naulin, Paulette I.; Valenzuela, Gerardo; Estay, Sergio A. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)
      © 2016 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2016 New Phytologist Trust Stomata distribution is an example of biological patterning. Formal methods used to study stomata patterning are generally based on point-pattern analysis, ...
    • Lacoste, Pablo; Jiménez, Diego; Aguilera, Paulette; Rendón, Bibiana; Castro, Amalia; Soto, Natalia (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Facultad de Agronomia e Ingenieria Forestal, 2014)
      This paper analyzes the historical antecedents of pisco (grape brandy) in Chile from unpublished original documents of the Archivo Nacional (National Archives) from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 18th ...
    • Guerrero, N.; Meynard, M. M.; Borgonovo, J.; Palma, K.; Concha Nordemann, Miguel; Hetz Flores, Claudio (Bentham Science Publishers B.V., 2017)
      © 2017 Bentham Science Publishers. More than thirty years have passed since the discovery of the prion protein (PrP) and its causative role in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Since a combination of both gain- and ...
    • Pinto, Mirele B.; Soares, Antonio Lenito; Mella Orellana, Andy; Duarte, Hélio A.; De Abreu, Heitor A. (American Chemical Society, 2017)
      © 2017 American Chemical Society. Different polymorphs of Nb2O5 can be obtained depending on the pressure and temperature of calcination leading to different catalytic properties. Two polymorphs of niobia, T-Nb2O5 and ...
    • Cretton, Sylvian; Muñoz Muñoz, Orlando; Tapia, Jorge; Marcourt, Laurence; Maes, Louis; Christen, Philippe (Natural Product Incorporation, 2017)
      Two new hygroline and tropane alkaloids, 4-hydroxybenzenepropanoylhygroline (1) and 3α,4β-dihydroxy-6β-angeloyoxytropane (2) have been isolated from the aerial parts of Schizanthus hookeri and S. tricolor, respectively, ...
    • San Martín Rovirosa, Carol; Veloso, Pablo; Adasme, Tatiana; Lobos, Pedro; Bruna, Barbara; Galaz, Jose; García, Alejandra; Hartel, Steffen; Hidalgo Tapia, María Cecilia; Paula Lima, Andrea (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017)
      © 2017 SanMartín, Veloso, Adasme, Lobos, Bruna, Galaz, García, Hartel, Hidalgo and Paula-Lima. Amyloid β peptide oligomers (AβOs), toxic aggregates with pivotal roles in Alzheimer’s disease, trigger persistent and low ...
    • Rojas Aedo, Juan F.; Gil Durán, Carlos; Del-Cid, Abdiel; Valdés, Natalia; Álamos, Pamela; Vaca Cerezo, Inmaculada; García Rico, Ramón O.; Levicán, Gloria; Tello, Mario; Chávez, Renato (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017)
      © 2017 Rojas-Aedo, Gil-Durán, Del-Cid, Valdés, álamos, Vaca, García-Rico, Levicán, Tello and Chávez. Penicillium roqueforti is a filamentous fungus involved in the ripening of several kinds of blue cheeses. In addition, ...
    • Araneda, Cristian; Lam, Natalia; Iturra, Patricia; Jilberto, Felipe; Cordova, Valentina; Villarroel Gallardo, Pablo Antonio (Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, 2017)
      © 2017, Escuela de Ciencias del Mar. All Right Reserved.The Patagonian toothfish or Chilean sea bass (Dissostichus eleginoides), found in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, is an important fishery species for Chile. ...
    • Santelices, Bernabé; González, Alejandra V.; Beltrán, Jessica; Flores, Verónica (Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2017)
      © 2016 Phycological Society of America Chimerism is produced by the somatic fusion of two or more genetically distinct conspecific individuals. In animals, the main cost of fusion is competition between genetically different ...
    • Chua, Sook Wern; Cornejo, Alberto; Van Eersel, Janet; Stevens, Claire H.; Vaca Cerezo, Inmaculada; Cueto, Mercedes; Kassiou, Michael; Gladbach, Amadeus; Macmillan, Alex; Lewis, Lev; Whan, Renee; Ittner, Lars M. (American Chemical Society, 2017)
      In Alzheimer’s disease, the microtubule-associated protein tau forms intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). A critical step in the formation of NFTs is the conversion of soluble tau into insoluble filaments. ...
    • Orellana, Carlos; Mendizábal Emaldía, Fernando; González Moraga, Guillermo; Miranda Rojas, Sebastián; Barrientos Poblete, Lorena (Elsevier B.V., 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier B.V.A complete theoretical characterization of the factors involved in the stabilization of hybrid laminar composites is reported, with the purpose of understanding the main interactions involved in the ...
    • Fibla, Pablo; Sáez, Paola A.; Salinas, Hugo; Araya, Carolina; Sallaberry Ayerza, Michel; Méndez, Marco (Magnolia Press, 2017)
      Copyright © 2017 Magnolia Press. On the basis of molecular and morphological evidence, we evaluated the taxonomic identity of two species of Andean frogs of the genus Telmatobius: Telmatobius pefauri and T. zapahuirensis, ...
    • Aguilera-Olivares, Daniel; Palma-Onetto, Valeria; Flores-Prado, Luis; Zapata, Víctor; Niemeyer, Hermann M. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 The Netherlands Entomological Society Investment in soldier production in eusocial lineages involves a trade-off between maintenance costs and defense benefits. Termites are eusocial insects that live in colonies ...
    • Heine-Fuster, Inger; Aránguiz-Acuña, Adriana; Ramos Jiliberto, Rodrigo (Springer International Publishing, 2017)
      © 2017, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. In addition to natural stressors such as predation risk, aquatic organisms receive the simultaneous impact of anthropogenic stressors like pollution. In order to advance ...
    • Hugo, Estefanía A.; Cassels Niven, Bruce; Fierro, Angélica (Springer Verlag, 2017)
      © 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The activation mechanism of dopamine receptors is unknown. The amino acids S5.42, S5.43, and S5.46 located in helix 5 appear to be crucial, but their specific roles in receptor ...
    • Fontúrbel, Francisco E.; Salazar, Daniela A.; Medel Contreras, Rodrigo (Ecological Society of America, 2017)
      © 2017 Fontúrbel et al. Anthropogenic disturbance can modify habitat structure and resource availability, potentially disrupting ecological interactions. This issue may be critical for pollination and seed dispersal, which ...