Occurrence and Exposure Assessment of Aflatoxin B1 in Omena (Rastrineobola argentea) from Kenya by Esther Marijani, Harrison Charo-Karisa, Emmanuel Kigadye, Sheila Okoth

“…Omena (Rastrineobola argentea) is the most consumed fish species in Kenya. In this study, we assessed the occurrence of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) in Omena and the potential health risk of AFB1 to Kenyan consumers of this fish. …”
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Emergency response in overturned pig transport vehicles: Description and discussion of Danish cases from a One Welfare perspective by Cecilie Kobek-Kjeldager, Kirstin Dahl-Pedersen, Mette S Herskin

“…Overall, the analyses of the interviews showed that the emergency response at an overturned pig transport vehicle involves different professional groups, requires technical knowledge regarding animal transport vehicles as well as knowledge of the species involved and how to handle the animals. The results are discussed from a One Welfare perspective, suggesting that these emergency responses include an inherent societal prioritisation dilemma involving the balancing of, for example, training, preparation and debriefing of different professional groups. …”
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Studyof resistance of pathogenic and opportunistic fungi toantimycotics by A. D. Kozlova, S. P. Yatsentyuk, V. V. Sokolov, M. G. Manoyan

“…The analysis of gene ERG11 nucleotide sequences of 10 Candida albicans isolates, recovered from different animal species, enabled the division of phenotypically resistant and susceptible strains, but could not differentiate between the strains, which have dose-dependent resistance to azoles. …”
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MDA-DETR: Enhancing Offending Animal Detection with Multi-Channel Attention and Multi-Scale Feature Aggregation by Haiyan Zhang, Huiqi Li, Guodong Sun, Feng Yang

“…In the dataset section, this article uses a dataset from the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, which includes images of six common offending animal species. In the comprehensive experiments on the dataset, the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>m</mi><mi>A</mi><msub><mi>P</mi><mn>50</mn></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> index of MDA-DETR was 1.3%, 0.6%, 0.3%, 3%, 1.1%, and 0.5% higher than RT-DETR-r18, yolov8n, yolov9-C, DETR, Deformable-detr, and DCA-yolov8, respectively, indicating that MDA-DETR is superior to other advanced methods.…”
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Antibiotic resistance gene occurrence in poultry farms in northeast Brazil by Henrique Francisco de Almeida, Paulo Ricardo Conceição Marques Trindade, César Roberto Viana Teixeira, Claudson Oliveira Brito, Silvio Santana Dolabella, Sona Jain, Maíra Pompeu Martins, Ana Andréa Barbosa

“…Some of the sequences that were amplified by PCR were similar to resistance factors found in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria of different species, mostly enterobacteria. Furthermore, similarity was observed for resistance determinants located both on the chromosome and on plasmids, transposons, and integrons. …”
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Clonorchis sinensis and Echinostoma hortense detected by endoscopy and molecular characterization: two case reports and update on diagnosis by Lijia Wen, Benhe Wang, Hui Zhang

“…Based on the morphology of the worms and their eggs, an initial diagnosis of Echinostoma was made. To confirm the species, we designed primers targeting the ribosomal ITS (internal transcribed spacer) and mitochondrial COX-1 (cyclooxygenase-1) genes, followed by PCR amplification and sequencing. …”
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First molecular diagnosis of the human pathogen Rickettsia raoultii and other spotted fever group rickettsiae in Sudanese ixodid ticks from domestic ruminants by Nagwa Eisawi, Jabbar Ahmed, Mohammed A. Bakheit, Dina A. Hassan, Mohammed O. Hussien, Abdel Rahim M. El Hussein

“…Sequence and phylogenetic analysis of the positive samples revealed four different species of SFG rickettsiae: Rickettsia aeschlimannii, Rickettsia rhipicephali, Rickettsia massiliae and Rickettsia raoultii. …”
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Time in and for nature-based solutions. No quick fix solutions for complex ecological and social processes by Ina Lehmann, Julia Grosinger, Steffen Bauer, Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco, Katarzyna Negacz, Jonas Hein

“…For instance, the long maturation time of many species and ecosystems may be incompatible with the often short-term logic of NbS projects or with the dynamic character of ecosystems that may be challenging for continuous benefit provision. …”
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Genetic tracking of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic orthonairovirus in Hyalomma population infesting cattle in Nigeria. by Oluwafemi Babatunde Daodu, Joseph Ojonugwa Shaibu, Rosemary Ajuma Audu, Daniel Oladimeji Oluwayelu

“…Blood samples and Hyalomma ticks were collected from cattle, with ticks identified to species, pooled, and homogenized for RNA extraction. …”
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Neretva Science Week 2022 – shedding light on the biodiversity of the upper Neretva River valley, Bosnia and Herzegovina by Gabriel Singer, Ulrich Eichelmann, Vera Knook, Steven Weiss, Vladimir Topić, Jelena Ivanić, Špela Borko, Maja Zagmajster

“…Altogether, more than 1000 species of animals and plants were documented, numerous of them protected, underscoring the extremely high conservation value of the various ecosystems in the upper Neretva river valley. …”
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Divergent alkynylative difunctionalization of amide bonds through C–O deoxygenation versus C–N deamination by Feng Liu, Xueyuan Yan, Fangfang Cai, Wenjuan Hou, Jianyu Dong, Shuang-Feng Yin, Genping Huang, Tieqiao Chen, Michal Szostak, Yongbo Zhou

“…By altering the N-substitution or the acyl group, the tetrahedral intermediate species selectively undergoes C–O or C–N cleavage with a concomitant capture by an alkynyl nucleophile generated in situ. …”
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Inferring Tripartite Associations of Vector-Borne Plant Pathogens Using a Next-Generation Sequencing Approach by Ava M. Gabrys, Christopher H. Dietrich, Valeria Trivellone

“…We observed incongruence between plant and insect phylogenies. Many leafhopper species, including presumed grass specialists, fed on distantly related plant lineages; 66% of sampled leafhoppers fed on plants from at least two different orders. …”
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A Comprehensive Genetic Analysis of Mycotoxin-Producing Penicillium expansum Isolated from River Water Using Molecular Profiling, DNA Barcoding, and Secondary Structure Prediction by R. Ravikiran, G. Raghu and B. Praveen

“…This article revolves around the use of morphological traits for Penicillium genus identification. Precise species determination involved PCR analysis using universal primers ITS1 and ITS4, followed by sequence analysis through NCBI-BLASTn and the ITS2 database. …”
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Living in fear: How experience shapes caribou responses to predation risk by Laurie Derguy, Mathieu Leblond, Martin‐Hugues St‐Laurent

“…This would give hope for the conservation of caribou, a species at risk in Canada, provided levels of risk do not surpass the limits of their behavioral plasticity.…”
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Potential Pitfalls of the Humanized Mice in Modeling Sepsis by Krzysztof Laudanski, Michael Stentz, Matthew DiMeglio, William Furey, Toby Steinberg, Arpit Patel

“…., bone marrow mesenchymal cells, endothelium) cannot interact with the grafted human leukocytes effectively due to species specificity. Also the interaction between mice gut flora and the human immune system may be paradoxical. …”
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Changes in structural composition of field margins and related landscape homogenization following EU accession of Poland by Andrzej Wuczyński, Krzysztof Kujawa, Remigiusz Pielech, Wojciech Grzesiak, Paweł Jarzembowski, Sylwia Wierzcholska, Zygmunt Dajdok

“…No significant changes were found in the shrub layer nor species composition of woody plants. Cutting trees and shrubs were more visible along roads whereas succession along railways. …”
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Symbiotic Root-Endophytic Soil Microbes Improve Crop Productivity and Provide Environmental Benefits by Gary E. Harman, Norman Uphoff

“…For example, all induce gene expression that produces proteins which detoxify reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS are increased by environmental stresses on plants or by overexcitation of photosynthetic pigments. …”
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The WRKY Transcription Factor Genes in Lotus japonicus by Hui Song, Pengfei Wang, Zhibiao Nan, Xingjun Wang

“…The recent release of the L. japonicus whole genome sequence provides an opportunity for a genome wide analysis of WRKY genes in this species. In this study, we identified 61 WRKY genes in the L. japonicus genome. …”
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Control of meiotic crossing over in plant breeding by S. R. Strelnikova, R. A. Komakhin

“…Also discussed are attempts to extrapolate these results to other plant species, in which a decrease in reproductive properties and microsatellite instability in the genome have been noted. …”
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Antioxidant Peptide Derived from Spirulina maxima Suppresses HIF1α-Induced Invasive Migration of HT1080 Fibrosarcoma Cells by Won Suk Kim, Won Kyo Jung, Sun Joo Park

“…HT1080 cells treated with a hypoxia-inducing agent, CoCl2, exhibited an increase in invasive migration and intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS), which is associated with an increase in the expression of hypoxia-induced factor 1α (HIF1α) accompanied by the activation of PI3K/Akt and ERK1/2. …”
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