Seguel M,, Perez-Venegas D, Gutierrez J, Crocker D.E, DeRango E.J. Hookworm parasitism elicits a stress response that allocates resources for immune response in South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis). 2019. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 96: 326-338 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/702960
Seguel M, Montalva F, Perez-Venegas D, Gutierrez J, Paves H, Muller A, Valencia C, Howerth E, Mendiola V, Gottdenker N. 2018. Immune mediated hookworm clearance and survival of a marine mammal decreases with warmer ocean temperatures. eLife 7: 1-31. elifesciences.org/articles/38432
Seguel M, Muñoz M, Perez-Venegas D, Muller A, Pavés H, Gottdenker N. The life history strategy of a fur seal hookworm in relation to pathogenicity and host health status. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. 7:251-260. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2018.07.003
Seguel M, Gutierrez J, Hernandez C, Montalva F, Verdugo C. Respiratory Mites (Orthohalarachne diminuata) and ß-hemolytic Streptococci Associated Bronchopneumonia Outbreak in South American Fur Seal Pups (Arctocephalus australis). Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 54:380-385. doi.org/10.7589/2017-09-214
Seguel M, Muñoz M, Paredes E, Navarrete MJ, Gottdenker N. Pathological Findings in Wild Rats (Rattus rattus) Captured at Guafo Island, Northern Chilean Patagonia. 157(2): 163-173. Journal of Comparative Pathology.
Seguel M, Muñoz F, Navarrete MJ, Howerth E, Paredes E, Gottdenker N. Hookworm infection in South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis) pups: pathology and factors associated with host tissue damage and mortality. Veterinary Pathology. Cover of the Journal (March 2017). 54: 288-297 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0300985816677151
Seguel M, Muñoz F, Keenan A, Perez-Venegas DJ, DeRango G, Paves H, Gottdenker N, Muller A. 2016. Hematology and Serum Chemistry Parameters in Free-Ranging South American Fur Seals (Arctocephalus australis). Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 52: 663-668 http://www.jwildlifedis.org/doi/abs/10.7589/2015-11-293
Seguel, M., Howerth, E. W., Ritter, J., Paredes, E., Colegrove, K., & Gottdenker, N. (2015). Encephalitozoonosis in 2 South American Fur Seal (Arctocephalus australis) Pups. Veterinary Pathology, 52:720-723. http://vet.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/23/0300985814551424.
Seguel M., Paredes E., Pavés H., & Gottdenker N. L. (2014). Capture‐induced stress cardiomyopathy in South American fur seal pups (Arctophoca australis gracilis). Marine Mammal Science 30: 1149-1157. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.12079/abstract).
Seguel M, Paredes E, Pavés H, Molina R, Henriquez F, De Groote F and Schlatter R. (2011). Pathological findings in South American fur seal pups (Arctocephalus australis) found dead at Guafo Island, Southern Chile. Journal of Comparative Pathology 145: 308-317. Cover of the Journal (November 2011) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021997511000090
Marine mammals ecology
Montalva F*, Perez-Venegas D, Gutierrez J, Seguel M. 2019. The contrasting hidden consequences of parasitism: Effects of a hematophagous nematode (Uncinaria sp.) in the development of a marine mammal swimming skills. Ecology and Evolution. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.4914
Seguel M. and Paves H. 2018. Sighting Patterns and Habitat Use of Marine Mammals at Guafo Island, Northern Chilean Patagonia, during eleven summer seasons. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia. 53:237-250 doi.org/10.22370/rbmo.2018.53.2.1296
Seguel M, Muñoz M, Montalva F, Perez-Venegas D, Pavés H, Gottdenker N. 2017. Kelp and dolphin gulls cause perineal wounds in South American fur seals at Guafo Island, Chilean Patagonia. . Royal Society Open Science, 4: 170638. rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/7/170638 Pavés, H. J., Schlatter, R. P., Franco-Trecu, V., Páez, E., Sielfeld, W., Araos, V., ... & Cappozzo, H. L. (2016). Breeding season of the South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis, Otariidae: Carnivora): New data for establishing independent evolutionary histories?. Rev. biol. mar. oceanogr, 51(2), 241-253. www.revbiolmar.cl/resumenes/v512/512-241.pdf Túnez, J. I., Cappozzo, H. L., Pavés, H., Albareda, D. A., & Cassini, M. H. (2013). The role of Pleistocene glaciations in shaping the genetic structure of South American fur seals (Arctocephalus australis). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 47(2), 139-152. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00288330.2012.753463
Paves, H. J., & SCHLATTER, R. P. (2008). Breeding season of the southern fur seal, Arctocephalus australis at Guafo Island, southern Chile. Revista chilena de historia natural, 81(1), 137-149. www.scielo.cl/pdf/rchnat/v81n1/art11.pdf
General ecology and conservation
Perez-Venegas D,Seguel M., Paves H, Pulgar J, Urbina M, Ahrendt C, Pulgar J. (2018). Ingestion of plastic microfibers in the South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann, 1783) in the Chilean Northern Patagonia. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 125(1-2):530-34. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X18306374
Rodrigues P, Seguel M, Gutierrez J, Paves H, Verdugo C. 2018. Genetic connectivity of South American fur seals (Arctocephalus australis) across Atlantic and Pacific Oceans revealed by mitochondrial genes. Aquatic Conservation. 28:315-323. doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2870
Rodrigues P, Gutierrez J, Seguel M, Verdugo C. (2017). Complete mitochondrial genome of the South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis). Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 2(2):871-72 doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2017.1407692
Perez-Venegas D, Pavés H, Pulgar J, Ahrendt C, Seguel M, Galbán-Malagón. Coastal Debris Survey in a Pristine Island of the Chilean Northern Patagonia. Accepted for publication. Marine Pollution Bulletin.
Reyes-Arriagada, R., Campos-Ellwanger, P., Schlatter, R. P., & Baduini, C. (2007). Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) on Guafo Island: the largest seabird colony in the world?. Biodiversity and Conservation, 16(4), 913-930. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-006-9087-9
Moreno-Gómez, F. N., Reyes-Arriagada, R., & Schlatter, R. P. (2010). Introduced rats on Guafo Island (Chile) and their potential impact on Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus. Aliens: The Invasive Species Bulletin, (29), 34-39. Click here for full length article
Reyes-Arriagada R., Campos-Ellwanger P, Schlatter RP. 2009. AVIFAUNA DE ISLA GUAFO. Boletín Chileno de Ornitología, 15(1), 35-43. www.aveschile.cl/boletin/PDF/35-43.pdf
Earth Sciences
Melnick, D., Li, S., Moreno, M., Cisternas, M., Jara-Muñoz, J., Wesson, R., ... & Deng, Z. (2018). Back to full interseismic plate locking decades after the giant 1960 Chile earthquake. Nature communications, 9(1), 1-10. www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05989-6