An increased mating rate benefits wild-type alleles at the expense of SR distorters as their carriers perform better in sperm competition (with increased female mating rate) and show less decrease in fertility after repeated matings due to sperm depletion (with increased male mating rate).
We finance groundbreaking research benefiting wild dolphins, and support programs to rescue and rehabilitate sick and injured wild dolphins -- which have stranded on our beaches -- and release them back to the sea.
The Chinese are committed to using the money to benefit wild pandas, but most of it goes towards strengthening the captive infrastructure on the pretext that this, in turn, is of benefit to free-range pandas.
It's the first field demonstration of an engineered bacterial gene in crops benefiting wild plants, and it suggests that they could become invasive weeds.
However, our findings on how bomas, changes in woody cover, and to some extent fire (depending on the productivity of the system and its resilience) can benefit wild herbivores would apply across a wide variety of landscapes and livestock systems.
Roddy Gabel, who oversees import/export permitting for FWS, explains that research projects that do not directly benefit wild chimpanzee could still receive permits via "enhancement," which is akin to a carbon-offset program.
Leonardo DiCaprio donates $3 million to benefit wild tigers.
Furthermore, metformin is unable to extend median lifespan of the feeding-compromised eat-2 mutant; instead, metformin doses that normally benefit wild-type actually are deleterious to eat-2, possibly by inducing a starvation-like state from excessive metabolic shutdown.
My fear is that a more of us are growing up estranged from the benefits of wild nature and, lacking personal experience of their value, will not even know what we are losing, much less work to preserve and nurture it.
The set-aside obligation under the Common Agricultural Policy CAPP) brought widespread benefits for wild farmland species.
We then assess the role and benefits of wild urban spaces in relation to other types of green space.
