La projection d’un modèle animal sur les plantes a pour effet paradoxal d’étendre nos connaissances scientifiques tout en nous empêchant de comprendre ce qui fait leur originalité ontologique. Pour dépasser cette contradiction, le concept intégrateur d’être ouvert, n’ayant ni dedans dehors, est appliqué à requalifier notions m...

Feeding state and food availability can dramatically alter an animals' sensory response to chemicals in its environment. Dynamic changes in the expression of chemoreceptor genes may underlie some of these food and state-dependent changes in chemosensory behavior, but the mechanisms underlying these expression changes are unknown. Here, we identified a KIN-29 (SIK)-dependent chemoreceptor, srh-2...

The aim of this study was to compare a real-time PCR assay, with a conventional culture/PCR method, to detect S. aureus, mecA and Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) genes in animals and retail meat, using a two-step selective enrichment protocol. A total of 234 samples were examined (77 animal nasal swabs, 112 retail raw meat, and 45 deli meat). The multiplex real-time PCR targeted the genes: nu...