中国特有金钱槭属植物物种分化研究

金钱槭属(Dipteronia Oliv.)隶属于槭树科(Aceraceae),是北温带植物区系中古老、残遗的木本属之一,为中国特有属,属下仅包括金钱槭(D.sinensis Oliv.)和云南金钱槭(D.dyerana Henry)2个物种。本实验从形态学、分子遗传学及基因序列分析等方面对金钱槭(D.sinensis Oliv.)和云南金钱槭(D.dyerana Henry)进行对比研究,探讨其物种间分化程度。结果表明:(1)形态学研究显示两物种形态性状存在显著差异,表明其在形态上发生了显著分化;(2)基因组DNA的AFLP标记分析表明,两物种间存在极显著遗传分化(ΦST=0.390 4),在物种水平及群体水平,两物种遗传多样性及遗传变异水平皆有明显差异(金钱槭云南金钱槭);(3)从GenBank数据库中选出2物种已知的叶绿体基因(psbM-trnD、trnD-trnT、trnL、trnL-trnF、rpl16)和核基因ITS(ITS1、5.8SRNA、ITS2)进行序列进化比对分析,t-test检验表明,2物种叶绿体基因序列间有极显著差异。研究结果表明:金钱槭和云南金钱槭两物种间产生了极显著的分化,推测可能由于长期的地理隔离所致。     

AFLP和RAPD标记技术在栉孔扇贝遗传多样性研究中的应用比较

AFLP和RAPD标记技术是近年来发展最快的基于PCR基础上的两种DNA标记技术,本文比较了两种标记技术在我国栉孔扇贝群体遗传多样性研究中的应用。共筛选20个RAPD引物和7个AFLP引物组合,检测到AFLP标记的有效等位基因数和平均多态信息量稍低于RAPD标记,但AFLP标记在每单位分析中扩增到的野生和养殖群体的多态性条带数(23．8,24．8)分别高于RAPD标记(5．6,5．6),AFLP多态性检测效率显著高于RAPD标记。AFLP和RAPD两种标记技术所揭示的野生种群与养殖群体间的近交系数、遗传距离两项指标均表明,我国栉孔扇贝养殖群体和野生种群之间尚未出现明显的遗传分化。研究结果表明：RAPD和AFLP这两种标记技术均可用于栉孔扇贝遗传多样性的分析,其分析结果是一致的。     

栽培沉香遗传多样性的ISSR和AFLP分析比较

探讨2种分子标记技术在沉香属药用植物遗传多样性研究中的应用。用ISSR和AFLP分子标记分析了海南、云南、广东、广西等地17份沉香属植物的遗传多样性。14个ISSR引物、8对AFLP引物分别检测到119、919个位点,多态位点百分率分别为73.95%、86.94%。由于AFLP标记具有较高的多态性位点检测效率,AFLP标记分析的遗传多样性参数高于ISSR。虽然基于Nei’s遗传距离的聚类分析结果存在着一定的差异,但用Mantel检测对两种方法检测的遗传一致度进行相关性分析表明,它们之间存在着明显的相关性（r=0.7705,P=0.0003）。ISSR标记与AFLP标记均能应用于沉香属植物的遗传多样性研究。两种标记的研究结果均揭示出沉香属植物具有较高的遗传多样水平。     

金钱槭和云南金钱槭遗传多样性比较研究

金钱槭属(Dipteronia)是我国特有少种属,属下仅金钱槭(D. sinensis)和云南金钱槭(D. dyeriana)两种。该文用RAPD标记揭示了金钱槭的遗传多样性和遗传结构,并与云南金钱槭的RAPD研究结果进行了比较。同时,对两物种遗传距离与地理距离的相关性进行了分析,结果有助于阐释该属植物遗传变异的产生机制。研究显示,18条随机引物在17个金钱槭居群(226个个体)中检测到128个扩增位点,物种水平的多态位点比率为92.97%,在4个云南金钱槭居群(45个个体)中则检测到103个扩增位点,物种水平的多态位点比率为81.55%,金钱槭的多态位点比率高于云南金钱槭。相似性系数值、Shannon多样性指数和Nei基因多样性指数分析反映了与多态位点比率相一致的结果。AMOVA(Analysis of molecular variance)分析结果显示,金钱槭居群内、居群间的遗传变异分别占总变异量的56.89%和43.11%。云南金钱槭居群内、居群间的遗传变异分别占总变异量的57.86 %和42.14%。Shannon多样性指数、Nei基因多样性指数的分析结果与AMOVA分析结果趋势相同。上述特征值揭示,金钱槭和云南金钱槭居群间的遗传分化均已达到较高水平,推测居群间低水平的基因流可能是导致上述现象产生的原因之一。遗传距离与地理距离的相关分析结果显示,金钱槭居群间的遗传距离与经度差异存在极显著水平的相关性(p<0.01),云南金钱槭居群间的遗传距离与地理隔离则无显著相关关系。说明在大尺度上遗传距离与地理距离相关而在小范围内则无上述关系,该结果可能与位于不同分布区内的物种所承受的生境选择压力不同有关。建议在对该属植物进行就地保护时,应设立多个保护点,保护自然居群及其周围生境;在迁地保护时,应通过加大居群间种子和幼苗的交换,人为创造基因交流和重组的条件,保存该属植物的遗传多样性。     

云南金钱槭 等位酶 遗传多样性 生境片段化 保育策略

云南金钱槭（Dipteronia dyeriana）是我国特有的国家Ⅱ级重点保护珍稀濒危植物,仅分布于云南的文山、屏边和蒙自三县交界地区。采用水平切片淀粉凝胶电泳等位酶分析方法,对采自三个县的天然居群的63个样品进行了遗传多样性检测。8个酶系统的13个等位基因位点分析表明,云南金钱槭的遗传多样性水平低,其平均多态位点百分率P=15.4%,每位点平均等位基因数A=1.2,平均预期杂合度He=0.064,各居群都偏离Hardy-Weinberg平衡,杂合子过量,居群间的基因分化系数GST=0.099,遗传变异主要发生在居群内（90.1%）,居群间分化较小,居群间遗传一致度较高（I=0.985～1）,具有一定的基因流（Nm=2.669）。不加权对平均法（UPGMA）聚类可将4个居群分为两支,水头箐居群和马家寨居群亲缘关系最近,聚类后与黑洞居群形成一支再和中槽子居群聚类,这与其地理分布格局大致吻合。据此提出了关于云南金钱槭保育策略的建议。     

云南金钱槭形态变异与遗传变异的相关性研究

对我国特有珍稀濒危保护植物云南金钱槭的形态变异水平、遗传变异模式以及两者之间的相关性进行了研究。形态学性状分析结果表明 :各居群形态性状变异系数的平均值从大到小排列为 :文山居群 (WSh)、屏边居群 (PB)、黑龙潭居群 (HL T)、蒙自居群 (MZ) ;文山居群与屏边、黑龙潭、蒙自居群间已产生显著或极显著水平的形态差异 ,而后三者间的差异未达显著水平。RAPD分析检测到 10 3个位点 ,其中多态位点 84个 ,云南金钱槭物种水平的多态位点比率为 81.5 5 % ,与其它珍稀濒危植物相比该种的遗传多样性水平不低。 AMOVA和 N ei基因多样性指数分析显示 ,尽管大部分遗传变异仍存在于居群内 (分别为5 7.86 %、5 7.33% ) ,但居群间的遗传变异已达较高水平 (分别为 4 2 .14 %、4 2 .6 7% )。相关分析结果显示 ,云南金钱槭的形态变异与海拔、土壤有机质等生态因子有着显著或极显著水平的相关性 ,但与遗传变异的相关性未达显著水平 ,说明云南金钱槭的形态变异虽然具有一定的遗传基础 ,但可塑性及环境压力对形态变异的产生作用更大一些。基于形态性状和 RAPD数据的聚类分析则进一步说明 ,云南金钱槭的形态变异受到环境因子的强烈影响而与遗传背景的关系不显著     

5种松树的遗传多样性和遗传分化研究

利用cpSSR和AFLP标记,比较了巴山松、黄山松、油松、马尾松以及云南松的遗传多样性与遗传分化结果.发现5种松树都表现出较高水平的遗传多样性与种间分化,但cpSSR比AFLP标记提供了更多的种内种间分化,而展示的遗传多样性相对要少.在对不同方法指标的对比研究后,认为将cpSSR的单倍体关系考虑在内,能够更有效地分析植物居群遗传分化造成的地理结构.对于显性标记AFLP,传统的平方根法会低估遗传参数,而Lynch和Milligen的方法因样本量的限制也可能高估遗传多样性,Bayesian法被认为是最精确的方法,提供了与分子方差分析(AMOVA)近似的遗传分化值.     

几种常用分子标记遗传多样性参数的统计分析

对235篇文献中314种野生种子植物的遗传多样性参数进行了统计分析.结果表明,目前常用的五种分子标记中,ISSR、等位酶和SSR的参数值间差异显著,彼此不宜直接比较,且与RAPD和AFLP的参数也不宜直接比较;显性标记RAPD和AFLP的参数之间可以直接比较.基于Hardy-Weinberg平衡的遗传分化指数GR值明显低于基于AMOVA分析的ΦR值,两者亦不宜直接比较.对基于RAPD和AFLP标记的179种植物的遗传多样性参数进行联合分析,结果表明:在种群水平上,裸子植物的遗传多样性比双子叶植物和单子叶植物都要高,而其遗传分化值较低;乔木的遗传多样性比草本和灌木高,而分化值更低;克隆植物具有比有性生殖更高的遗传多样性,在有性生殖植物中,异交植物最高,而自交植物最低;广布种的遗传多样性明显高于濒危和狭域分布种.     

四川西部濒危植物桃儿七遗传多样性的RAPD分析

桃儿七是一种具有重要药用价值的珍稀濒危植物。采用RAPD分子标记技术,对在四川西部地区的桃儿七7个自然种群的遗传多样性水平和遗传结构进行了分析。用12个RAPD引物对7个种群共140个样品进行了扩增,共得到111条清晰带,其中32条具有多态性,在物种水平上多态位点百分率(PPB)为28.83%,在种群内的多态位点百分率变动幅度为4.50%至16.22%。同其它一些濒危植物相比,桃儿七种群具有较低的遗传多样性(He=0.0622,Ho=0.0987)。7个自然种群间出现了很强的遗传分化,分化指数接近70%。种群间的基因流低(Nm=0.2240)。造成上述结果的可能原因是与桃儿七的繁育方式和有限的基因流等因素有关。应将遗传多样性相对较高的松潘县牟尼沟种群作为原位保护的核心种群进行保护,尽量保护所有现有种群。     

中国食用向日葵种质资源遗传变异的RAPD及AFLP分析

本研究采用RAPD和AFLP方法对23个中国不同地区的食用向日葵(Helianthus annuus L.)骨干品种进行了遗传变异分析,同时对两种标记系统进行了比较.26个RAPD引物产生了总计192条DNA条带,大小分布于0.26 kb～1.98 kb之间,其中165条(86.12%)具有多态性,每条引物产生DNA条带的平均数为7.38.8对AFLP引物组合共产生了576条带,分布于100 bp～500 bp之间,其中的341条具有多态性,多态百分率为76.00%,每对引物组合产生DNA条带的平均数为72.RAPD方法检测到的每位点有效等位基因数(1.76)大于AFLP(1.65),AFLP标记位点的平均多态性信息量(PIC)(0.38)低于RAPD标记位点的PIC(0.41),但AFLP标记具有很高的多态性检测效率(Ai=38.52).用RAPD标记分析23个食用向日葵材料的亲缘关系,Nei氏相似性系数分布在47.84%～82.06%,平均相似性系数为0.649 5, 而采用AFLP的Nei氏相似性系数分布在54.15%～83.52%,平均相似性系数为0.688 4.RAPD数据的标准差为0.13,而AFLP数据的标准差为0.08.因此,采用RAPD和AFLP方法分析食用向日葵遗传变异,RAPD标记具有较低相似性系数和较高方差而AFLP则相反.源于两种不同标记的遗传相似性矩阵的相关系数为0.51,说明采用RAPD和AFLP系统分析食用向日葵遗传变异得到的结果有一定的相关性.无论采用RAPD还是AFLP标记进行聚类分析,都将23个不同基因型的食用向日葵材料分成了三个类群.     

Foreign exploration for Scirtothrips perseae Nakahara (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and associated natural enemies on avocado (Persea americana Miller)

Scirtothrips perseae Nakahara was discovered attacking avocados in California, USA, in 1996. Host plant surveys in California indicated that S. perseae has a highly restricted host range with larvae being found only on avocados, while adults were collected from 11 different plant species. As part of a management program for this pest, a “classical” biological control program was initiated and foreign exploration was conducted to delineate the home range of S. perseae, to survey for associated natural enemies and inventory other species of phytophagous thrips on avocados grown in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad, and Brazil. Foreign exploration efforts indicate that S. perseae occurs on avocados grown at high altitudes (>1500 m) from Uruapan in Mexico south to areas around Guatemala City in Guatemala. In Costa Rica, S. perseae is replaced by an undescribed congener as the dominant phytophagous thrips on avocados grown at high altitudes (>1300 m). No species of Scirtothrips were found on avocados in the Dominican Republic, Trinidad, or Brazil. In total, 2136 phytophagous thrips were collected and identified, representing over 47 identified species from at least 19 genera. The significance of these species records is discussed. Of collected material 4% were potential thrips biological control agents. Natural enemies were dominated by six genera of predatory thrips (Aeolothrips, Aleurodothrips, Franklinothrips, Leptothrips, Scolothrips, and Karnyothrips). One genus each of parasitoid (Ceranisus) and predatory mite (Balaustium) were found. Based on the results of our sampling techniques, prospects for the importation of thrips natural enemies for use in a “classical” biological control program in California against S. perseae are not promising.     

Taxonomic status of the species of the green algal genusNeochloris

Komárek has recently reviewed the various species assigned to the green algal genusNeochloris Starr (Chlorococcales, Chlorococcaceae) and removed those with uninucleate vegetative cells to a new genus,Ettlia. Watanabe & Floyd, unaware ofKomárek's work, also reviewed the species ofNeochloris and distributed them among three genera—Neochloris, Chlorococcopsis gen. nov., andParietochloris gen. nov.—on the basis of details of the covering of the zoospore and the arrangement of the basal bodies of the flagellar apparatus. This paper reconciles these two treatments and makes additional recommendations at the ranks of genus, family, order, and class.     

Die GattungKarschia — Bindeglied zwischen bitunicaten Ascomyceten und lecanoralen Flechtenpilzen?

The genusKarschia, in the earlier sense, including saprophytes and parasites on lichens, has been thought to be a non-lichenized parallel genus of the lichen genusBuellia. Modern workers included it on the one hand inBuellia, on the other hand combined it with bitunicate ascomycetes. It is now proved thatKarschia is heterogeneous and contains but superficially similar members both of the genusBuellia of theLecanorales and of typical or masked bitunicateAscomycetes. Therefore, it can not be regarded as a link betweenLecanorales andDothideales. The type species ofKarschia belongs to theDothideales.

     

Systematic significance of mature embryo of bamboos

The mature embryo of seven species belonging to five genera of Indian bamboos is described. In all these the basic pattern of embryo organisation is same: the scutellar and coleoptilar bundles are not separated by an internode, the epiblast is absent, the lower portion of the scutellum and the coleorhiza are separated by a cleft and the margins of embryonic leaves overlap. The features unique to fleshy fruited bamboos are: presence of a massive scutellum, the juxtaposition of plumule and radicle and the occurrence of a bud in the axil of the coleoptile. The fleshy fruit bearing bamboos should be classified into one group, the tribeMelocanneae. Evidence is provided to recognise additional groups in the subfamilyBambusoideae.     

Phylogeny of cardinalfishes (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Apogonidae) and the evolution of visceral bioluminescence

The cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) are a diverse clade of small, mostly reef-dwelling fishes, for which a variety of morphological data have not yielded a consistent phylogeny. We use DNA sequence to hypothesize phylogenetic relationships within Apogonidae and among apogonids and other acanthomorph families, to examine patterns of evolution including the distribution of a visceral bioluminescence system. In conformance with previous studies, Apogonidae is placed in a clade with Pempheridae, Kurtidae, Leiognathidae, and Gobioidei. The apogonid genus Pseudamia is recovered outside the remainder of the family, not as sister to the superficially similar genus Gymnapogon. Species sampled from the Caribbean and Western Atlantic (Phaeoptyx, Astrapogon, and some Apogon species) form a clade, as do the larger-bodied Glossamia and Cheilodipterus. Incidence of visceral bioluminescence is found scattered throughout the phylogeny, independently for each group in which it is present. Examination of the fine structure of the visceral bioluminescence system through histology shows that light organs exhibit a range of morphologies, with some composed of complex masses of tubules (Siphamia, Pempheris, Parapriacanthus) and others lacking tubules but containing chambers formed by folds of the visceral epithelium (Acropoma, Archamia, Jaydia, and Rhabdamia). Light organs in Siphamia, Acropoma, Pempheris and Parapriacanthus are distinct from but connected to the gut; those in Archamia, Jaydia, and Rhabdamia are simply portions of the intestinal tract, and are little differentiated from the surrounding tissues. The presence or absence of symbiotic luminescent bacteria does not correlate with light organ structure; the tubular light organs of Siphamia and chambered tubes of Acropoma house bacteria, those in Pempheridae and the other Apogonidae do not.     

Biological control of three floating water weeds,<Emphasis Type="Italic">Eichhornia crassipes,Pistia stratiotes</Emphasis>, and <Emphasis Type="Italic">Salviniamolesta</Emphasis> in the Republic of Congo

Since 1999, four specific weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) were released in the Republic of Congo against three exotic floating water weeds: Neochetina eichhorniae Warner and N. bruchi Hustache against water hyacinth, Neohydronomus affinis Hustache against water lettuce, and Cyrtobagous salviniae Calder and Sands against water fern. Recoveries of exotic weevils were made from all 24 release sites except one, and all four species have established and spread (up to 800 km for water hyacinth weevils). Within a few years of releases, control of water fern and water lettuce was such that fishing and navigation could be resumed, while reductions of water hyacinth populations were only beginning.     

A molecular phylogeny of Hebeloma species from Europe

In order to widen the scope of existing phylogenies of the ectomycorrhizal agaric genus Hebeloma a total of 53 new rDNA ITS sequences from that genus was generated, augmented by sequences retrieved from GenBank, and analysed using Bayesian, strict consensus and neighbour joining methods. The lignicolous Hebelomina neerlandica, Gymnopilus penetrans, and two species of Galerina served as outgroup taxa. Anamika indica, as well as representatives of the genera Hymenogaster and Naucoria, were included to test the monophyly of Hebeloma, which is confirmed by the results. Hebeloma, Naucoria, Hymenogaster and Anamika indica cluster in a strongly supported monophyletic hebelomatoid clade. All trees largely reflect the current infrageneric classification within Hebeloma, and divide the genus into mostly well-supported monophyletic groups surrounding H. crustuliniforme, H. velutipes, H. sacchariolens, H. sinapizans, and H. radicosum, with H. sarcophyllum being shown at an independent position; however this is not well supported. The section Indusiata divides with strong support into three groups, the position of the pleurocystidiate Hebeloma cistophilum suggests the possible existence of a third subsection within sect. Indusiata. Subsection Sacchariolentia is raised to the rank of section.