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• Rosoff, Meg. Meet Wild Boars

  Author:Mary ElamFrom:School Library Journal (Vol. 51, Issue 7)

  July 2005198 words Book review, Brief a... ROSOFF, Meg. Meet Wild Boars. illus. by Sophie Blackall. unpaged. CIP. Holt. 2005. RTE $15.95. ISBN 0-8050-7488-0. LC 2004008985. K-Gr 3--In this silly cautionary tale, Rosoff presents the catastrophic results of...

• Going Hog Wild

  From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 48, Issue 03)

  Sept. 14, 2001272 words Brief article 1730LByline: DANA MULHAUSER The porcine guerrillas descend on the campus at all hours, uprooting plants, trampling flower beds, and wreaking landscape havoc before retreating to a secret hideaway. Meet the wild pigs of...

• Seroprevalence of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in wild boars (Sus scrofa), hunting dogs, and hunters of Brazil.

  Authors:Fernanda Pistori Machado, Louise Bach Kmetiuk, Pedro Irineu Teider-Junior, Maysa Pellizzaro, Ana Carolina Yamakawa, Camila Marinelli Martins, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 11, 20196,117 words Report 1610LSeroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii has been extensively studied in wild boars worldwide due to the emerging risk for human infection through meat consumption. However, this is the first study that reports toxoplasmosis...

• Persistence of hepatitis E virus in the liver of non-viremic naturally infected wild boar

  Authors:Maria A. Risalde, Antonio Rivero-Juarez, Fernando Romero-Palomo, Mario Frias, Pedro Lopez-Lopez, David Cano-Terriza, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 8, 20175,309 words Report 1520LHepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging zoonotic pathogen with pigs and wild boar serving as reservoirs for human infection through direct contact with infected animals or the consumption of raw or undercooked pork...

• Do changes in soil properties after rooting by wild boars (Sus scrofa) affect understory vegetation in Swiss hardwood forests?

  Authors:Sven Wirthner, Martin Schutz, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Matt D. Busse, James W. Kirchner, and Anita C. RischFrom:Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20125,242 words Report 1560L: Recovering from small fragmented populations, wild boars (Sus scrofa L.) have considerably increased their numbers and their habitat range in many European countries during the past two decades. Although several...

• Characterization of African swine fever virus Caucasus isolate in European wild boars

  Authors:Claudia Gabriel, Sandra Blome, Alexander Malogolovkin, Stanislav Parilov, Denis Kolbasov, Jens P. Teifke, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 17, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 20111,589 words Report 1260LSince 2007, African swine fever has spread from the Caucasus region. To learn more about the dynamics of the disease in wild boars (Sus scrofa), we conducted experiments by using European wild boars. We found high...

• Investigating the Role of Free-Ranging Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) in the Re-Emergence of Enzootic Pneumonia in Domestic Pig Herds: A Pathological, Prevalence and Risk-Factor Study

  Authors:Mainity Batista Linhares, Luc Belloy, Francesco C. Origgi, Isabel Lechner, Helmut Segner, and Marie-Pierre Ryser-DegiorgisFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 6, 201511,666 words Report 1560LEnzootic pneumonia (EP) caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae has a significant economic impact on domestic pig production. A control program carried out from 1999 to 2003 successfully reduced disease occurrence in...

• Molecular cloning, characterization and expression analysis of Frizzled 6 in the small intestine of pigs (Sus scrofa)

  Authors:Lijun Zou, Xiaocheng Wang, Liping Jiang, Shengping Wang, Xia Xiong, Huansheng Yang, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 14, 20176,624 words Report 1420LFrizzled 6 (FZD6) encodes an integral membrane protein that functions in multiple signal transduction pathways, for example, as a receptor in Wnt/planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling pathway for polarized cell migration...

• Stochastic assessment of management strategies for a Mediterranean peri-urban wild boar population

  Authors:Carlos Gonzalez-Crespo, Emmanuel Serrano, Sean Cahill, Raquel Castillo-Contreras, Lluis Cabaneros, Jose Maria Lopez-Martin, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 29, 20187,654 words Report 1670LWild boar (Sus scrofa) population spread into urban and periurban areas has exacerbated conflicts with humans. There is a need for planned wild boar management strategies, and Population viability analysis (PVA)...

• Antioxidant supplementation mitigates DNA damage in boar (Sus scrofa domesticus) spermatozoa induced by tropical summer

  Authors:Santiago T. Pena, Bruce Gummow, Anthony J. Parker, and Damien B. B. P. ParisFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 30, 20197,006 words Report 1530LHeat stress-induced sperm DNA damage has recently been demonstrated in boars during tropical summer; which could negatively impact early embryo survival and litter size in sows. Given the boar's inefficient capacity to...

• Forecasting the range expansion of a recolonising wild boar Sus scrofa population

  Authors:Masayuki Saito, Fumito Koike, Hiroshi Momose, Tosaku Mihira, Seiji Uematsu, Toru Ohtani, et al.From:Wildlife Biology (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 20124,596 words Report 1450LRecolonising native mammals have the potential to cause environmental and agricultural damage. However, if their future distribution can be predicted, effective control measures can be scheduled beforehand to prevent...

• Arguing Along Fault-lines: A Rhetorical Analysis of Public Divides over Wildlife Comeback

  Authors:Ann Van Herzele and Noelle AartsFrom:Conservation and Society (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  October-December 201910,428 words Report 1380LByline: Ann. Van Herzele, Noelle. Aarts Across Europe, several wildlife species are making surprising comebacks. The returnees help create conservation success stories, but at the same time are subject of commotion...

• Trichinella pseudospiralis Outbreak in France

  Authors:Stephane Rangue, Bernard Faugere, Edoardo Pozio, Giuseppe La Rosa, Alessandra Tamburrini, Jean-Francois Pellissier, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 6, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20002,293 words Article Four persons became ill with trichinellosis after eating meat from a wild boar hunted in Camargue, France. Nonencapsulated larvae of Trichinella pseudospiralis were detected in meat and muscle biopsy specimens. The...

• Asia-wide phylogeography of wild boar (Sus scrofa) based on mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome: Revising the migration routes of wild boar in Asia

  Authors:Sung Kyoung Choi, Kyung Seok Kim, Maryana Ranyuk, Elmar Babaev, Inna Voloshina, Damdingiin Bayarlkhagva, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 24, 20207,926 words Report 1500LAuthor(s): Sung Kyoung Choi 1,2, Kyung Seok Kim 1,3, Maryana Ranyuk 4, Elmar Babaev 5, Inna Voloshina 6, Damdingiin Bayarlkhagva 7, Jong-Ryol Chong 8, Naotaka Ishiguro 9, Li Yu 10, Mi-Sook Min 1, Hang Lee 1,*, Nickolay...

• Simulated wild boar bioturbation increases the stability of forest soil carbon

  Authors:Axel Don, Christina Hagen, and Cora VosFrom:BiogeosciencesPeer-Reviewed

  Oct. 30, 201942 words Author abstract, Bri... Byline: Axel Don, Christina Hagen, Erik Grü,neberg, Cora Vos To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Genome sequence of a pathogenic Corynebacterium ulcerans strain isolated from a wild boar with necrotizing lymphadenitis.

  Authors:Anne Busch, Jens Möller, Andreas Burkovski, and Helmut HotzelFrom:BMC Research NotesPeer-Reviewed

  Oct. 25, 20191,112 words Report 1360LObjectives Corynebacterium ulcerans can colonize a wide variety of animals and also humans are infected, typically by zoonotic transmission. Symptoms range from skin ulcers or systemic infections to diphtheria-like...

• Blurring Boundaries: Feral Rewilding, Biosecurity and Contested Wild Boar Belonging in England.

  Author:Kieran O'MahonyFrom:Conservation and Society (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  April-June 202010,241 words Report 1460LByline: Kieran. O'Mahony Unsanctioned life is often categorised as 'feral', a value-embedded term that orders non-humans in relation to various temporal-spatial, genetic or behavioural logics. Such labelling is...

• Stable isotopes in tissues discriminate the diet of free-living wild boar from different areas of central Italy

  Authors:Giuseppe Russo, Pier Paolo Danieli, Riccardo Primi, Andrea Amici, and Marco LauteriFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 17, 20174,894 words Report 1420LThe use of isotopic signatures in animal tissues provides information on the environment where they are living and, notably, on their diet. Carbon and, whenever possible, nitrogen stable isotope analyses were performed...

• Contact Zone of Asian and European Wild Boar at North West of Iran

  Authors:Parinaz Khalilzadeh, Hamid Reza Rezaei, Davoud Fadakar, Malihe Serati, Mansour Aliabadian, James Haile, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 21, 20165,365 words Report 1500LWild boar (Sus scrofa) are widely distributed throughout the Old World. Most studies have focused on Europe and East Asia with the genetic diversity of West Asia being less well studied. In particular, the genetic...

• Effects of hunting on wild boar Sus scrofa behaviour

  Authors:Henrik Thurfjell, Goran Spong, and Goran EricssonFrom:Wildlife Biology (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20134,138 words Report 1460LPredation risk may affect space use and foraging patterns of prey animals, with strong down-stream effects on diet composition and ecological interactions. Wild boar Sus scrofa is a notorious crop raider but also a...