artículo académico

• Developmental biology in Chile: an open window to Latin America and the world.  DIFFERENTIATION.  144. 2025
• Liver-specific enhancers evolved from independent episodes of MITE domestication in Xenopus tropicalis.  MOBILE DNA.  16(1). 2025
• Analysis of a shark reveals ancient, Wnt-dependent, habenular asymmetries in vertebrates.  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.  15(1). 2024
• Skull Ossification in the Andean Toad Rhinella spinulosa (Bufonidae) and the Genetic Model Organism Xenopus tropicalis (Pipidae) Reveals Heterochrony Phenomena and Frontoparietal Suture Modifications.  JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B: MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION.  1-10. 2024
• The sodium/ascorbic acid co-transporter SVCT2 distributes in a striated membrane-enriched domain at the M-band level in slow-twitch skeletal muscle fibers.  BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH.  57(1). 2024
• Xenopus tropicalis osteoblast-specific open chromatin regions reveal promoters and enhancers involved in human skeletal phenotypes and shed light on early vertebrate evolution.  CELLS & DEVELOPMENT .  179. 2024
• Parallel Evolution of Ameloblastic scpp Genes in Bony and Cartilaginous Vertebrates.  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION.  39(5). 2022
• Divergent Expression of SPARC, SPARC-L, and SCPP Genes During Jawed Vertebrate Cartilage Mineralization.  FRONTIERS IN GENETICS.  12. 2021
• Genetic regulation of amphioxus somitogenesis informs the evolution of the vertebrate head mesoderm.  NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION.  3(8):1233-1240. 2019
• Skeletal mineralization in association with type X collagen expression is an ancestral feature for jawed vertebrates.  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION.  36(10):2265-2276. 2019
• Bone regeneration after traumatic skull injury in Xenopus tropicalis.  MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT.  154:153-161. 2018
• Evolution of dental tissue mineralization: an analysis of the jawed vertebrate SPARC and SPARC-L families.  BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY.  18:1-12. 2018
• Factorial Structure and Reliability of the Motivation and Strategies Learning Questionnaire, MSLQ, in Chilean First Year University Students.  REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA DE DIAGNOSTICO Y EVALUACION-E AVALIACAO PSICOLOGICA.  47(2):21-35. 2018
• The Ric-8A/Ga13/FAK signalling cascade controls focal adhesion formation during neural crest cell migration in Xenopus.  DEVELOPMENT.  145(22):1-12. 2018
• The neuromuscular junction of Xenopus tadpoles: Revisiting a classical model of early synaptogenesis and regeneration.  MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT.  154:91-97. 2018
• A Single Chance to Contact Multiple Targets: Distinct Osteocyte Morphotypes Shed Light on the Cellular Mechanism Ensuring the Robust Formation of Osteocytic Networks.  JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B: MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION.  326(5):280-289. 2016
• Cellular and molecular characterization of a novel primary osteoblast culture from the vertebrate model organism Xenopus tropicalis.  HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY.  143(4):431-442. 2015
• Molecular footprinting of skeletal tissues in the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula and the clawed frog Xenopus tropicalis identifies conserved and derived features of vertebrate calcification.  FRONTIERS IN GENETICS.  6:1-14. 2015
• A dynamic history of gene duplications and losses characterizes the evolution of the SPARC family in eumetazoans.  SIN NOMBRE.  280(1757):1-9. 2013
• Ric-8A, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for heterotrimeric G proteins, is critical for cranial neural crest cell migration.  DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY.  378:74-82. 2013
• SCO-spondin from embryonic cerebrospinal fluid is required for neurogenesis during early brain development.  FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE.  7:1-14. 2013
• The vitamin C transporter SVCT2 is down-regulated during postnatal development of slow skeletal muscles.  HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY.  139:887-894. 2013
• Evolution of the Interaction Between Runx2 and VDR, Two Transcription Factors Involved in Osteoblastogenesis.  BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY.  10. 2010
• Two Families of Xenopus tropicalis Skeletal Genes Display Well-Conserved Expression Patterns with Mammals in Spite of their Highly Divergent Regulatory Regions.  EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT.  12(6):541-551. 2010
• Vitamin D Control of Gene Expression: Temporal and Spatial Parameters for Organization of the Regulatory Machinery.  CRITICAL REVIEWS IN EUKARYOTIC GENE EXPRESSION.  18(2):163-172. 2008
• Nucleosome Organization and Targeting of SWI/SNF Chromatin-Remodeling Complexes: Contributions of the DNA Sequence.  BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY-BIOCHIMIE ET BIOLOGIE CELLULAIRE.  85:419-425. 2007