Aller voir des animaux : analyse des offres touristiques d’observation de la faune sauvage dans les Alpes françaises by Louis Defraiteur, Laine Chanteloup, Clémence Perrin-Malterre

“…Indeed, rather than being linked to one or more concerted territorial policies, the tourist diversification processes around wildlife observation are the result of the addition of individual intentions to enhance the value of wild animals.…”
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De l’avoir lieu à l’être-lieu : parcours dans l’œuvre de Dorothy Cross by Valérie Morisson

“…By staging the sudden appearance of an archaic bestiality embodied by the shark, the jellyfish or the snake, animals both wild and culturally significant, and by immersing in wild settings, the artist creates spatial reversals. …”
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Going to See Animals: An Analysis of Tourist Offerings for Wildlife Observation in the French Alps by Louis Defraiteur, Laine Chanteloup, Clémence Perrin-Malterre

“…Indeed, rather than being linked to one or more concerted territorial policies, the tourist diversification processes around wildlife observation are the result of the addition of individual intentions to enhance the value of wild animals.…”
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Comparison of Fecundity and Gall-Forming of the Horned-Gall Aphid, <i>Schlechtendalia chinensis</i> (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from Different Populations by Xin Xu, Zhaohui Shi, Chang Tong, Shuxia Shao, Hongyuan Wei, Zixiang Yang

“…In this study, autumn migrant aphids of <i>S. chinensis</i> from wild, artificial and introduced populations were used as materials to cultivate and inoculate under the same environment. …”
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Bio-ecological characteristics of Malus genus species in the context of prospective directions in horticulture and landscape forestry by Tetiana Moskalets, Oleksandr Kratiuk, Mariana Ivankiv, Sergii Shevchenko, Nataliia Shevchuk

“…It was also shown that the seeds of the wild apple are relatively large, with the 100-seed weight exceeding 3.9 g. …”
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Bactericide, Immunomodulating, and Wound Healing Properties of Transgenic Kalanchoe pinnata Synergize with Antimicrobial Peptide Cecropin P1 In Vivo by A. A. Lebedeva, N. S. Zakharchenko, E. V. Trubnikova, O. A. Medvedeva, T. V. Kuznetsova, G. A. Masgutova, M. V. Zylkova, Y. I. Buryanov, A. S. Belous

“…K. pinnata extracts (both wild-type and transgenic) did not exhibit general toxicity and accelerated wound recovery. …”
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Reproductive effects of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) deficiency in mice by S. O. Maslennikova, G. V. Kontsevaya, M. A. Zolotykh, M. V. Anisimova, N. A. Feofanova, M. P. Moshkin, S. A. Nedospasov, L. A. Gerlinskaya

“…Additionally, the sensitivity of reproductive functions to female stimuli was different between TNF-/- mice and wild-type mice, while interactions with females increased the concentrations of sper­matozoids in both TNF-/- and wild-type mice. …”
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Adipose Tissue-Specific Deletion of 12/15-Lipoxygenase Protects Mice from the Consequences of a High-Fat Diet by Banumathi K. Cole, Margaret A. Morris, Wojciech J. Grzesik, Kendall A. Leone, Jerry L. Nadler

“…High-fat diet-fed ad-12/15-LO exhibited improved fasting glucose levels and glucose metabolism, and epididymal adipose tissue from these mice exhibited reduced inflammation and macrophage infiltration compared to wild-type mice. Furthermore, fat-specific deletion of 12/15-LO led to decreased peripheral pancreatic islet inflammation with enlarged pancreatic islets when mice were fed the high-fat diet compared to wild-type mice. …”
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Fine mapping and expression characteristics analysis of male-sterile gene BrRNR1 in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis) by Meihui Xue, Jiahang Li, Ruiqi Liao, Junjie Xu, Mingwei Zhou, Runpeng Yao, Zhiyong Liu, Hui Feng, Shengnan Huang

“…Results Compared with the wild-type ‘FT’, the anthers of mutant msm7 were completely aborted, accompanied by the defects in leaf and petal development. …”
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Avian influenza annual report 2023 by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), José Cortiñas Abrahantes, Inma Aznar, Iancu Catalin, Lisa Kohnle, Kenneth Fergus Mulligan, Lina Mur, Anca Stoicescu, Aniek vanHoutum, Gabriele Zancanaro

“…Twenty RCs reported 1940 wild birds testing positive for LPAI or AIV of unknown pathogenicity. …”
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Role of intestinal mucin-2 in the effectiveness of the treatment of Helicobacter spp. infection in laboratory mice by E. A. Litvinova, M. D. Belyaev, A. V. Prokhortchouk, V. S. Korostina, E. B. Prokhortchouk, E. N. Kozhevnikova

“…The weight of wild-type mice showed no decrease during the treatment. …”
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Altered Forebrain Functional Connectivity and Neurotransmission in a Kinase-Inactive Mouse Model of Autism by Shiyu Tang PhD, Elizabeth M. Powell PhD, Wenjun Zhu MS, Fu-Sun Lo MD, Reha S. Erzurumlu PhD, Su Xu PhD

“…We employed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and in vivo high-resolution proton MR spectroscopy to examine neuronal connectivity and neurotransmission of wild-type, heterozygous Met–Emx1 , and fully inactive homozygous Met–Emx1 mice. …”
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Optimizing the thermostability of triketone dioxygenase for engineering tolerance to mesotrione herbicide in soybean and cotton by Stephen M. G. Duff, Stephen M. G. Duff, Lei Shi, Danqi Chen, Xiaoran Fu, Mingsheng Peng, Clayton T. Larue, Janice Weihe, Jessica Koczan, Brian Krebel, Qungang Qi

“…Temperature stabilization resulted in enzymes with Kcat values less than half of wild-type TDO. The best variant TDO had a Kcat of 1.2 min−1 compared to wild-type TDO, which had a Kcat of 2.7 min−1. …”
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Green gram and black gram: prospects of cultivation and breeding in Russian Federation by M. A. Vishnyakova, M. O. Burlyaeva, M. G. Samsonova

“…Some genes and QTL of adaptability traits have been marked and mapped in a number of wild species of the genus Vigna. The role of wild relatives in the breeding of crops concerned is discussed. …”
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Navigating access and benefit sharing in international trade of endemic species: The case of Colombia's poison frogs (Dendrobatidae) by German Forero‐Medina, Luz Dary Acevedo, Andrés Balcazar, Marcela Delgado, Alfred DeGemmis, Susan Lieberman, Felber Arroyave

“…However, international trade in wild species is often associated with over‐exploitation and illegal extraction. …”
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Unraveling the distinctive gut microbiome of khulans (Equus hemionus hemionus) in comparison to their drinking water and closely related equids by Víctor Hugo Jarquín-Díaz, Anisha Dayaram, Eirini S. Soilemetzidou, Amelie Desvars-Larrive, Julia Bohner, Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar, Petra Kaczensky, Chris Walzer, Alex D. Greenwood, Ulrike Löber

“…Wild khulans exhibit greater microbial diversity and richness compared to captive ones, likely due to adaptations to the harsh nutritional conditions of the Gobi desert. …”
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Biodiversité et viabilité de l'agriculture paysanne dans la Réserve de Biosphère Sierra de Manantlán, Mexique by Enrique J. Jardel Peláez, Sergio H. Graf Montero, Eduardo Santana C., Ricardo Ávila Palafox

“…The conservation of the téosinte Zea diploperennis and other wild relatives of cultivated plants, of land-races of traditional crops such as corn and other species and habitats associated with the agricultural landscape, has been one of the goals of the SMBR since its foundation 25 years ago. …”
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Porphyromonas gingivalis affects neutrophil pro-inflammatory activities by Agnieszka Zimny, Alicja Płonczyńska, Alicja Płonczyńska, Wiktor Jakubowski, Natalia Zubrzycka, Natalia Zubrzycka, Jan Potempa, Jan Potempa, Maja Sochalska

“…To investigate the impact of gingipains on neutrophil viability and function, we conducted studies using murine HoxB8 neutrophils and primary human neutrophils infected with wild-type strains of Porphyromonas gingivalis (W83 and ATCC 33277), or a gingipains-null mutant with deleted gingipains encoding genes, or wild-type bacteria preincubated with specific gingipain inhibitors. …”
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Du road movie au « voyage sauvage » : la quête d’aventure sur la route et le mythe du voyageur héroïque by Pascale Argod

“…Les conceptions de « Wild », abordées dans le carnet de voyage cinématographique de fiction interrogent le rapport de l’homme à l’espace et la forme du voyage qui suscitent le dépassement de soi par la confrontation à l’environnement. …”
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Differences in Transcriptional Activation by the Two Allelic (L162V Polymorphic) Variants of PPARα after Omega-3 Fatty Acids Treatment by Iwona Rudkowska, Mélanie Verreault, Olivier Barbier, Marie-Claude Vohl

“…Additionally, the V162 allelic form of PPARα demonstrated consistently lower transcriptional activation when incubated with EPA, DHA or EPA:DHA mixtures than, the wild-type variant. In conclusion, both allelic variants of the PPARα L162V are activated by omega-3 FAs; however, the V162 allelic form displays a lower transcriptional activity than the wild-type variant.…”
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