The Coloso Basin, situated in northern Chile, southeast of Antofagasta, is a pull-apart type basin that was filled during the Early Cretaceous. The basin began to fill with continental sediments deposited between the Berriasian and possibly the late Barremian, this was followed by fossiliferous c...
En la Cuenca de Coloso, y a 18 km de Antofagasta, se encuentra la Formación El Way, una sucesión de rocas calcáreas que contienen un registro fósil abundante y diverso que va desde el Barremiano tardío al Aptiano tardío, y posiblemente hasta el Albiano.
Formación El Way se divide de base a techo ...
Invasive species are recognised as one of the most important, growing threat to food biosecurity, causing a significant economic loss in agricultural systems. Despite their damaging effect, they are attractive models for the study of evolution and adaptation in newly colonised environments. Curre...
El conocimiento del estado de fragmentación y transformación de un paisaje boscoso es crucial para una adecuada planificación y conservación de la biodiversidad. En Chile se encuentra uno de los hotspot mundiales de biodiversidad; dentro de este, se encuentra la Cordillera de Nahuelbuta, la cual ...
Knowledge of the state of fragmentation and transformation of a wooded landscape is crucial for proper planning and conservation of biodiversity. In Chile, there is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots; within this, is the Nahuelbuta Mountain Range, which is considered a world reserve of biod...
The geomorphology of the Mejillones Peninsula, northern Chile, evidences a Quaternary
tectonic uplifting process. Upper plate faults located close to the peninsula show recent activity.
However, there is no consensus about the uplift rate of the Mejillones Peninsula in the millennial
timescale an...
Piscirickettsia salmonis es una bacteria patógena intracelular facultativa que causa la Septicemia Rickettsial de Salmónidos (SRS). Esta bacteria coloniza diversos tejidos y órganos, lo que culmina con la septicemia y muerte del animal. Es capaz de sobrevivir al interior de macrófagos, y se multi...
Piscirickettsia salmonis is a facultative intracellular pathogen, and the etiological agent of Salmonid Rickettsial Septicemia (SRS). This bacterium colonizes fish tissues and organs, causing septicemia and death of the animal. P. salmonis is able to survive inside the macrophages, and replicates...
