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Empirical model to assess leaching of pesticides in soil under a steady-state flow and tropical conditionsNARA Subscribed
An empirical model of leaching of pesticides was developed to simulate the concentration of fungicides throughout unsaturated soil. The model was based on chemical reactions and the travel time of a conservative tracer to represent the travel time required for water to flow between soil layers. The model’s performance was then tested using experimental data from dimethomorph and pyrimethanil applied to the soil under field and...
Obesity exacerbates aging-induced adipose tissue dysfunction. This study aimed to investigate the effects of long-term exercise on inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT) and interscapular brown adipose tissue (iBAT) of aged obese mice. Two-month-old female mice received a high-fat diet for 4 months. Then, six-month-old diet-induced obese animals were allocated to sedentarism (DIO) or to a long-term treadmill training (DIOEX) up...
Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne diseaseNARA Subscribed
Mosquito‐borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly to temperature and therefore to climate change. Here, we review how trait‐based approaches can synthesise and mechanistically predict the temperature dependence of transmission across vectors, pathogens, and environments. We present 11 pathogens transmitted by 15 differe...
Advances in genetic improvement for salmon and trout aquaculture: the Chilean situation and prospectsNARA Subscribed
Genetic improvement is key to the development of a more efficient aquaculture industry. By 2010, there were 104 breeding programmes for aquaculture species in the world, most of them for fish species. Usually, the breeding goals include traits such as growth rate, disease resistance, maturation and carcass quality. Resistance to specific pathogens has been one of the main objectives of research and development in the genetic i...
The mussels Perumytilus purpuratus and Semimytilus algosus are two dominant species of intertidal rocky shores of central Chile. These species have marked differences in their distribution patterns with P. purpuratus dominating the mid‐intertidal zone and S. algosus dominating the lower intertidal zone usually in habitats influenced by sand. Although it has been suggested that differences in tolerance to environmental conditio...