锦鸡儿属种系发生关系重建的探讨

基于形态学、染色体、花粉形态24个特征,采用分支系统学方法研究锦鸡儿属（Caragana）的种系发生关系。根据分支图结果,将锦鸡儿属72种排列成12系5组。分支图也表达出分类群演化关系,对Moore(1968)种系发生方案提出了修改,重建了本属的种系发生关系。     

分支系统学简介

分支系统学是本世纪70年代以来发展起来的一个新的系统学派。本文扼要地介绍了分支系统学的创立、历史和发展,分支系统学的基本概念、特征分析法以及分支系统学的广泛应用给现代生物系统学所带来的广泛影响和冲击。     

分支系统学简介

分支系统学是本世纪70年代以来发展起来的一个新的系统学派。本文扼要地介绍了分支系统学的创立、历史和发展,分支系统学的基本概念、特征分析法以及分支系统学的广泛应用给现代生物系统学所带来广泛影响和冲击。     

分支系统学简介

分支系统学简介樊晋江（浙江省医学科学院寄生虫病研究所杭州３１００１３），关键词分支系统学，分支分类，系统发育１９５０年诞生的分支系统学，现在已经发展成为探索生物系统发育的有效工具之一。分支系统学与现代计算机技术的结合形成了新的分支学科─—数值分支系统...     

锦鸡儿属种系发生关系重建的探讨

基于形态杂色体、花粉形态２４个特征,采用分支系统学方法研究锦鸡儿属的种系发生关系。根据分支图结果,将锦鸡儿属７２种排列成１２系５组。分支图也表达出分类群演化关系,对Ｍｏｏｒｃ（１９６８）种系发生方案提出了修改,本属的种系发生关系。     

分支系统学当前的理论和方法概述及华东地区山胡椒属十二个种的…

本概述了当前分支系统学研究中涉及的主要理论和方法,包括性状的选取、性状状态和极性的确定、数据矩阵的分析计算、结果分支图的处理、分支图可靠性的评价及分支图的应用。本同时以华东地区樟科山胡椒属Ｌｉｎｄｅｒａ１２个种的分支系统学研究为例,讨论了用形态性状进行分支系统学研究中可能遇到的问题,也揭示了一些分支系统学与传统的系统学在应用性状推导进化关系上的不同点。对这１２个种的分支系统学研究得出了一些不同     

分支系统学当前的理论和方法概述及华东地区山胡椒属十二个种的分支系统学研究

本文概述了当前分支系统学研究中涉及的主要理论和方法,包括性状的选取、性状状态和极性的确定、数据矩阵的分析计算、结果分支图的处理、分支图可靠性的评价及分支图的应用。本文同时以华东地区樟科山胡椒属Linderal2个种的分支系统学研究为例,讨论了用形态性状进行分支系统学研究中可能遇到的问题,也揭示了一些分支系统学与传统的系统学在应用性状推导进化关系上的不同点。对这12个种的分支系统学研究得出了一些不同于传统系统学方法所推测的山胡椒属内的系统发育关系,如分支系统学研究显示山胡椒组和球果组很近缘。在严格一致性分支图上,杯托组的黑壳楠和江浙山胡椒分别位于最原始和最进化的分支,表明这个组是复系类群。分支图也显示山胡椒组可能是复系类群。     

分支系统学简介

分支系统学简介史立群分支系统学（Ｃｌａｄｉｓｔｉｃｓ）（也有人译为分支分类学、支序学等等）,是推测生物体之间相互关系的一种特殊方法。象其他方法一样,它有着一套自身的假设、程式和局限性。它于１９５０年由德国昆虫学家和分类学家Ｗ．Ｈｅｎｎｉｇ首次提出并兴...     

胎盘亚纲目间关系和分支分类问题

主要根据近两年的文献,从分支系统学观点综述了现生胎盘类哺乳动物的目变动,目上组群和目间种系发生关系,给出了其19目的分支图,讨论了目上水平分支分类的几个问题。     

滇桐属系统位置的分支分析

本文以讨论系统位置有争议的滇桐属的归属问题,尝试在植物分类学中具体应用分支系统学原理和方法的可能性。作者认为近年来分支系统学中出现的一种倾向,即不再强调祖先和直接的谱系关系,而把分支图解仅仅作为一种归类手段,为本文提供了理论基础。通过对梧桐科和椴树科7个属15个性状状态的分支分析,建立了符合简约性原则的分支图解。分支图解表明,滇桐属与通常置于梧桐科的马克韦桐属具有较密切的关系,而它们与椴树科的关系比与梧桐科的关系更接近。结论支持把滇桐属作为椴树科成员的观点。     

Species delimitation in the Aloysia gratissima complex (Verbenaceae) following the phylogenetic species concept

The Aloysia gratissima complex is a group of 22 accepted, specific and infraspecific taxa, the boundaries of which are controversial. Various different authors have chosen different characters as criteria for delimiting taxa in this complex, which has been reflected in the variable number of accepted species. To resolve the taxonomy of this group, a modified population aggregation analysis, based on the phylogenetic species concept, was employed. As a result, the Aloysia gratissima complex is here circumscribed as compromising only four species, A. decipiens, A. gratissima s.s., A. oblanceolata and A. schulziana. These species are sustained by a different combination of four characters, of the 16 qualitative attributes analysed. A new approach based on cluster analysis is proposed here delimiting varieties. As a consequence two varieties, supported by significant differences in quantitative characters, are recognized here: A. gratissima var. gratissima and A. gratissima var. sellowii. A complete taxonomic revision of the accepted taxa is presented and six new synonyms are proposed. A key, illustrations and geographical distribution maps are included. © 2015 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2016, 180 , 193–212.     

Impalement of marine turtles (Reptitia,Chelonia: Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae) by billfishes (Osteichthyes,Perciformes: Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae)

Synopsis Billfishes have long been known to impale a great variety of objects, but there are only two brief, obscure records of marine turtles being speared. Details are presented on these two, as well as on two other confirmed records; data from two additional unconfirmed records are also presented. In total, three species of marine turtles are known to have been impaled by three species of billfishes; a fourth species of fish and a fourth species turtle are listed in an unconfirmed case. Records come from the eastern and western Pacific as well as the eastern Atlantic. Of the four confirmed cases, the turtles survived in two, and apparently died as an effect of the spearing in the other two. In three confirmed cases only the impaled rostrum was encountered, and in one confirmed case the entire fish was found, with its rostrum piercing the turtle. There is no obvious advantage — or clear disadvantage — involved in impaling turtles. It is argued that these attacks are accidental, and the result of attempts made by the billfish to capture prey that are near the turtle. These spearings indicate that the chelonians serve as shelters for prey animals on the high seas, and thus, are further evidence of the pelagic existence of marine turtles. The impalings are evidence of a singular ecological role of the turtles — as live fish aggregation devices.     

The geometry of habitat fragmentation: Effects of species distribution patterns on extinction risk due to habitat conversion

Land‐use changes, which cause loss, degradation, and fragmentation of natural habitats, are important anthropogenic drivers of biodiversity change. However, there is an ongoing debate about how fragmentation per se affects biodiversity in a given amount of habitat. Here, we illustrate why it is important to distinguish two different aspects of fragmentation to resolve this debate: (a) geometric fragmentation effects, which exclusively arise from the spatial distributions of species and habitat fragments, and (b) demographic fragmentation effects due to reduced fragment sizes, and/or changes in fragment isolation, edge effects, or species interactions. While most empirical studies are primarily interested in quantifying demographic fragmentation effects, geometric effects are typically invoked as post hoc explanations of biodiversity responses to fragmentation per se. Here, we present an approach to quantify geometric fragmentation effects on species survival and extinction probabilities. We illustrate this approach using spatial simulations where we systematically varied the initial abundances and distribution patterns (i.e., random, aggregated, or regular) of species as well as habitat amount and fragmentation per se. As expected, we found no geometric fragmentation effects when species were randomly distributed. However, when species were aggregated, we found positive effects of fragmentation per se on survival probability for a large range of scenarios. For regular species distributions, we found weakly negative geometric effects. These findings are independent of the ecological mechanisms which generate nonrandom species distributions. Our study helps to reconcile seemingly contradictory results of previous fragmentation studies. Since intraspecific aggregation is a ubiquitous pattern in nature, our findings imply widespread positive geometric fragmentation effects. This expectation is supported by many studies that find positive effects of fragmentation per se on species occurrences and diversity after controlling for habitat amount. We outline how to disentangle geometric and demographic fragmentation effects, which is critical for predicting the response of biodiversity to landscape change.     

Aggregation of littoral macrobenthic species: some theoretical and practical considerations

The spatial pattern of macrozoobenthos in an intertidal area was studied. Four commonly used measures of aggregation, the V/m ratio, k of the negative binomial distribution, the indices of Lloyd and b of the Taylor power function, were calculated and compared for 13 species based on 176 samples. It is argued that, contrary to common practice, the b value of the Taylor power function should not be used without the value of a, since it only measures how aggregation changes with density. The parameter k of the NBD is found to be an unreliable index of aggregation and the indices of Lloyd are difficult to interpret as well. There is very good agreement between the results of the V/m ratio and the b value of the Taylor power function. Only three species are distributed randomly, all others being aggregated. The consequences on the accuracy of sampling is discussed and it is concluded that 5 samples of 176 cm² give an accuracy of 50% for the common species.     

Species delimitation in Lippia section Goniostachyum (Verbenaceae) using the phylogenetic species concept

Lippia section Goniostachyum comprises plants distinguished by their numerous axillary florescences (three to six, sometimes up to nine) and tetrastichous floral bracts. Species of section Goniostachyum occur in the Neotropics, from Mexico to northern Argentina. Delimitation of the species grouped under Goniostachyum has remained unclear. Forty‐one names exist under this section, but only c. eight to ten names have been used frequently. To resolve the taxonomy of this group, a modified population aggregation analysis, based on the phylogenetic species concept, was employed. As a result, Goniostachyum is here circumscribed to only four species: L. grata, L. origanoides, L. sericea and L. stachyoides. These species are supported by different combinations of three characters of the 13 qualitative attributes analysed: canescent sericeous pubescence, frondose or frondose‐bracteose inflorescences and free or fused florescence apical bracts. Two varieties based on significant differences among quantitative characters are recognized: L. stachyoides var. stachyoides and L. stachyoides var. martiana comb. nov. Fifteen lectotypifications and four neotypifications are proposed. © 2012 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012, 170 , 197–219.     

Are ectoparasite communities structured? Species co-occurrence, temporal variation and null models

1. We studied temporal variation in the structure of flea communities on small mammalian hosts from eastern Slovakia using null models. We asked (a) whether flea co-occurrences in infracommunities (in the individual hosts) in different hosts as well as in the component communities (in the host species) demonstrate a non-random pattern; (b) whether this pattern is indicative of either positive or negative flea species interactions; (c) whether this pattern varies temporally; and (d) whether the expression of this pattern is related to population size of either fleas or hosts or both. 2. We constructed a presence/absence matrix of flea species for each temporal sample of a host species and calculated four metrics of co-occurrence, namely the C-score, the number of checkerboard species pairs, the number of species combinations and the variance ratio (V-ratio). Then we compared these metrics with the respective indices calculated for 5000 null matrices that were assembled randomly using two algorithms, namely fixed-fixed (FF) and fixed-equiprobable (FE). 3. Most co-occurrence metrics calculated for real data did not differ significantly from the metrics calculated for simulated matrices using the FF algorithm. However, the indices observed for 42 of 75 presence/absence matrices differed significantly from the null expectations for the FE models. Non-randomness was detected mainly by the C-score and V-ratio metrics. In all cases, the direction of non-randomness was the same, namely the aggregation, not competition, of flea species in host individuals and host species. 4. The inclusion or exclusion of the uninfested hosts in the FE models did not affect the results for individual host species. However, exclusion of the uninfested host species led to the acceptance of the null hypothesis for only six of 13 temporal samples of the component flea communities for which non-randomness was detected when the uninfested hosts were included in the analysis. 5. In most host species, the absolute values of the standardized size effect of both the C-score and V-ratio increased with an increase in host density and a concomitant decrease in flea abundance and prevalence. 6. Results of this study demonstrated that (a) flea assemblages on small mammalian hosts were structured at some times, whereas they appeared to be randomly assembled at other times; (b) whenever non-randomness of flea co-occurrences was detected, it suggested aggregation but never segregation of flea species in host individuals or populations; and (c) the expression of structure in flea assemblages depended on the level of density of both fleas and hosts.     

Local‐scale spatial dynamics of ants in a temperate agroecosystem

At the local scale, spatial aggregations in ant distribution are often thought to be driven by competitive interactions among dominant ant species, although niche preferences and habitat heterogeneity might also lead to patchiness. Nevertheless, competitive interactions might be particularly important in agroecosystems that are structurally more homogeneous than natural habitats. The spatial patterns of ants in two Australian vineyards were investigated by intensive pitfall trapping to examine if non‐random patterns occur and whether these might be the result of competitive species interactions as well as the influence of woody vegetation adjacent to the vineyards. Null model analyses suggested competitive species interactions within ant assemblages that might have been driven by numerically dominant species, even though both positive and negative associations between these were found. Consistent spatial aggregations indicated significant spatial overlap in distributions of some species. Such overlap suggests that potential coexistence might be attributed to temporal partitioning or differences in foraging strategies. The presence of woody vegetation had a marked influence on ant assemblage structure and competitive interactions, and might facilitate coexistence by increasing resource heterogeneity. The implications of these findings for sampling strategies and ecological processes within vineyards are discussed.     

Assessing the magnitude of intra- and interspecific competition in two coral reef fishes

Spatial associations of seven herbivore species in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, are analyzed using a new technique, Correlative Coherence Analysis (CoCA). CoCA is a generalization of the concept of correlation to more than two sequences of numbers. Prior information on the feeding ecology and metabolic requirements of these species is used to contrast spatial scales at which hypothesized guild aggregation or competition occurs. These hypotheses are tested using 13 years of aerial census data collected during the dry season. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that distributions of large and small species of the same feeding type (i.e., grazers and browsers) overlap in potentially resource-rich areas, but have lower similarity values across all areas because the higher tolerance of large species for low quality foods results in a more even spatial distribution of large species compared to small species.     

Investigating the community consequences of competition among clonal plants

Although clonal plants comprise most of the biomass of several widespread ecosystems, including many grasslands, wetlands, and tundra, our understanding of the effects of clonal attributes on community patterns and processes is weak. Here we present the conceptual basis for experiments focused on manipulating clonal attributes in a community context to determine how clonal characteristics affect interactions among plants at both the individual and community levels. All treatments are replicated at low and high density in a community density series to compare plant responses in environments of different competitive intensity. We examine clonal integration, the sharing of resources among ramets, by severing ramets from one another and comparing their response to ramets with intact connections. Ramet aggregation, the spacing of ramets relative to each other, is investigated by comparing species that differ in their natural aggregation (either clumped growth forms, with ramets tightly packed together, or runner growth forms, with ramets loosely spread) and by planting individual ramets of all species evenly spaced throughout a mesocosm. We illustrate how to test predictions to examine the influence of these two clonal traits on competitive interactions at the individual and community levels. To evaluate the effect of clonal integration on competition, we test two predictions: at the individual level, species with greater clonal integration will be better individual-level competitors, and at the community level, competition will cause a greater change in community composition when ramets are integrated (connected) than when they are not. For aggregation we test at the individual level: clumped growth forms are better competitors than runner growth forms because of their ability to resist invasion, and at the community level: competition will have a greater effect on community structure when ramets are evenly planted. An additional prediction connects the individual- and community-level effects of competition: resistance ability better predicts the effects of competition on relative abundance in a community than does invasion ability. We discuss additional experimental design considerations as revealed by our ongoing studies. Examining how clonal attributes affect both the individual- and community-level effects of competition requires new methods and metrics such as those presented here, and is vital to understanding the role of clonality in community structure of many ecosystems.     

中国八种家鼠C—带核型的比较研究

本文对我国大陆八种家鼠的C-带核型进行了比较研究,并将其C-带差异数量化,进行模糊聚类分析,结果表明: 1.八种家鼠的C-带核型相互间存在一定的差异; ①八种家鼠染色体着丝点异染色质在数量上各不相同,按照一定的顺序呈现逐渐减少的趋势。②某些种类出现了插入异染色质、端位异染色质和异染色质短臂。 2.根据八种家鼠C-带核型的不同,结合地理分布等,对八种家鼠的分类地进行了讨论。 3.依据C-带核型的差异,推测八种家鼠的C-带核型进化方向可能是:①着丝点异染色质逐渐减少;②端位异染色质、插入异染色质或异染色质短臂的出现和增加。 4.按照从原始到特化的方向将C-带核型差异数量化,通过模糊聚类分析,得到了八种家鼠的聚类分析分支图,它们可以分为二个大组:斯氏家鼠和环齿鼠为一组,其余种类为另一组。