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Weaving a vicuña shawl

open access: yesPastoralism, 2022
Vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) were at risk of extinction due to indiscriminate hunting for their fibre in the mid-twentieth century. The conservation of the species included numerous international and regional legal mechanisms, as well as the will and care ...
Bibiana Vilá, Yanina Arzamendia
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Epidemiology of sarcoptic mange in free-ranging vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna): a cross-sectional study in Andean highland communities in Peru [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
Sarcoptic mange or scabies is a contagious parasitic skin disease that affects a wide range of domestic and wildlife species. A cross-sectional study was carried out to determine the prevalence, molecular identification, and characteristics of sarcoptic ...
Marcos Enrique Serrano-Martínez   +9 more
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Las organizaciones de usuarios de agua en la construcción de la escasez hídrica. De las acciones geolegales a una territorialización securitaria del agua

open access: yesRevista INVI, 2020
En el contexto ideológico y jurídico hídrico chileno, orientado hacia la eficiencia del uso del agua, la existencia de huertos urbanos en el norte del país sorprende.
Chloé Nicolas Artero
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Energy balance of pregnant vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) in the Chilean High Andes

open access: yesAustral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2019
Energy unbalance may be the cause of low fertility rates found in vicuñas. The objective of this study was to estimate the temporal variation of the nutritional status in pregnant vicuñas from a herd kept under captivity in the Chilean High Andes.
Cecilia Norambuena   +4 more
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De novo assembly of highly diverse viral populations

open access: yesBMC Genomics, 2012
Background Extensive genetic diversity in viral populations within infected hosts and the divergence of variants from existing reference genomes impede the analysis of deep viral sequencing data.
Yang Xiao   +9 more
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The first complete mitochondrial genome of an ancient South American vicuña, Vicugna vicugna, from Tulán-54 (3200–2400 B.P. Northern Chile)

open access: yesMitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019
The first complete ancient mitochondrial genome of a vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) (3200–2400 B.P.) recovered from the Tulán-54 site (San Pedro de Atacama, Northern of Chile) was sequenced using mitochondrial enrichment by hybridization capture and subsequent
Paloma F. Díaz-Maroto   +2 more
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Los Animales en la Wik’uña de Cecilia Vicuña: Figuras Opuestas y Complementarias

open access: yesLa Palabra, 2013
El presente trabajo consiste en un análisis del poemario La Wik’uña (1990), de la poeta chilena Cecilia Vicuña (1948), enfocado en las figuras de los animales poetizados y su vinculación con la cultura indígena andina, en especial con el principio de ...
Yenny Ariz Castillo
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De bienes comunes bioculturales a commodities: un análisis comparado del litio y de la fibra de vicuña en los Andes

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques Latines, 2022
Vicuñas and salt flats have been part of the biocultural heritage of the people living on the Altiplano since immemorial times. In recent decades, both common pool resources have undergone a commodification process for the extraction of lithium and ...
Rodrigo Azócar, Gabriela Lichtenstein
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Polimorfismos de nucleótido simple (PNSs) del gen MC1R en alpacas negras y marrones

open access: yesRevista Peruana de Biología, 2021
En alpacas los fenotipos del color de vellón tienen diferentes terminologías que induce a una confusión dentro del color marrón y sus tonalidades, el que requiere de una mejor descripción y cuantificación. En consecuencia los objetivos del estudio fueron
Rubén Pinares   +7 more
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Photo-thermionic emission and photocurrent dynamics in low crystallinity carbon nanotubes

open access: yesJournal of Materiomics, 2021
Within this work, it is studied the photo-thermionic and photocurrent behavior of two kinds of carbon nanotube arrays, grown by chemical vapor deposition.
J.A. García-Merino   +3 more
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