日本沼虾继饥饿后补偿生长研究

在25.0±1℃条件下,对日本沼虾Macrobrachium nipponense (湿重, 0.52～0.64 g )进行了不同时间的饥饿处理后再供食的恢复生长实验.对照组C连续饱食投喂18 d;处理组S2、S4和S8分别饥饿2、4和8 d后再饱食投喂16、14和10 d.结果 饥饿结束时各处理组的湿重均显著低于对照组;实验结束时S2、S4组与对照组间的湿重差异不显著,而S8组的湿重仍显著低于对照组;恢复生长时各处理组的湿重摄食率、食物转化率和生长率开始显著高于对照组,但随着恢复时间延长又逐步达到对照组水平.随着饥饿时间延长,日本沼虾标准代谢率降低.在恢复投喂后又逐步回升到对照组水平.实验结果表明,日本沼虾继饥饿后再恢复喂食出现完全或部分补偿生长效应不仅是由于增加食欲,提高了摄食水平,同时也改善了食物转化率.因此,补偿生长是这两种生理因素共同作用的结果.     

食物供应量对转红色荧光蛋白基因唐鱼 生存和生长的影响

选取雄性杂合子转红色荧光蛋白基因唐鱼(Tanichthys albonubes)(简称:转基因唐鱼)与雌性非转基因唐鱼交配产卵,出膜7d后,在水温(25.0 ±2.0)℃条件下,选择健康仔鱼进行饱食(食物供应量高)、半饥饿(食物供应量中)和饥俄(食物供应量低)3种处理,结果显示:(1)出膜后7～72 d的唐鱼饱食组与半...     

以豆蚜为食物的大草蛉生命表及饥饿对其食物利用率的影响

在温度25℃±1℃、RH 55％±5％、光周期16L:8 D条件下,构建了以豆蚜Aphis craccivora为食物的大草蛉Chrysopa pallens实验种群生命表,明确其种群发育情况,并研究了饥饿对大草蛉食物利用率的影响.结果 表明,大草蛉卵、1龄、2龄、3龄幼虫和蛹的发育历期分别为3.03、3.10、3.39、4.43和12.52 d,雌成虫平均寿命为29.38 d,个体繁殖力为325.76±16.06粒.内禀增长率(r)、周限增长率(λ)、净增殖率(R0)和世代平均周期(T)分别为0.1197 d-1、1.1076 d-1、68.41粒/个体和41.36 d.在饥饿胁迫下,大草蛉3龄幼虫的食物利用率显著高于2龄幼虫,且随着饥饿程度的增加,2龄、3龄幼虫的食物利用率也逐渐增大.说明在25℃时,以豆蚜为食物的大草蛉个体发育和种群增长情况较好,为以豆蚜作为替代食物饲养大草蛉以及大草蛉作为天敌昆虫防控豆蚜提供了理论基础;饥饿对大草蛉的食物利用率的研究为明确天敌昆虫在田间应用时面临食物短缺问题时的取食状况提供了基础数据.     

饥饿和食物单宁酸对东方田鼠(Microtus fortis)食物摄入量和觅食行为的影响

实验室条件下,测定饥饿和食物单宁酸对东方田鼠食物摄入量和觅食行为的影响。结果表明,饥饿使实验个体的食物总摄入量增加,食物摄入率及口量大小随饥饿强度的增大而增加,而觅食频次则无显著改变,实验个体每取食回合的觅食时间呈缓慢增加的趋势,与对照组比较,觅食时间差异不显著。东方田鼠优先选择0%单宁酸食物,次为3%单宁酸食物,而对6%单宁酸食物的摄入量最少。在饥饿条件下,东方田鼠食物摄入率的增加主要源于其口量大小,觅食频次和觅摄食时间对食物摄入量增加的贡献不显著。在饥饿条件下,植食性小哺乳动物并未通过延长觅食时间,降低用于防卫、繁殖活动时间来增加食物摄入量,而是通过增加口量大小,提高其食物摄入率来满足其营养需要。验证了饥饿与植物次生化合物共同作用引起田鼠类动物生理的改变,能影响其食物摄入量及觅食行为的假设。     

完全或部分的食物剥夺对中华鳖(Pelodiscus sinensis)幼体补偿生长反应的影响:生长率的时间变化模式与体组成的变化

为了探究中华鳖（Pelodiscus sinensis）幼体的补偿生长能力,我们对中华鳖幼鳖（平均湿重9．56g）进行如下6种处理：饥饿0（对照）、1、2、3、4周,或者食物限制4周,即只投喂体湿重百分之一的食物;然后对各组进行饱食处理直到10周的实验结束为止。结果发现在饱食期的第一周各饥饿处理组的特殊生长率均显著高于对照组（P〈0．05）,但是终体重均没有赶上对照组。当饥饿或食物限制结束时,脂肪含量随着饥饿期的延长而降低,灰分和水分则表现出相反的变化趋势：脂肪含量显著低于对照（P〈0．05）,而灰分和水分则显著高于对照（P〈0．05）。蛋白含量则没有显著变化（P〉0．05）。实验结束时,除了灰分外（P〈0．05）,其他个体组成指标均恢复到对照组的水平。以上结果表明中华鳖幼体在饥饿胁迫下首先利用脂肪作为主要能源以维持生存,以及在该研究条件下完全的食物剥夺可以诱发其部分补偿生长反应．而部分食物剥夺则不能诱发此反应。     

饥饿和食物单宁酸对东方田鼠(Microtus fortis)食物摄入量和觅食行为的影响

实验室条件下,测定饥饿和食物单宁酸对东方田鼠食物摄入量和觅食行为的影响。结果表明,饥饿使实验个体的食物总摄入量增加,食物摄入率及口量大小随饥饿强度的增大而增加,而觅食频次则无显著改变,实验个体每取食回合的觅食时间呈缓慢增加的趋势,与对照组比较,觅食时间差异不显著。东方田鼠优先选择0％单宁酸食物,次为3%单宁酸食物,而对6%单宁酸食物的摄入量最少。在饥饿条件下,东方田鼠食物摄入率的增加主要源于其口量大小,觅食频次和觅摄食时间对食物摄入量增加的贡献不显著。在饥饿条件下,植食性小哺乳动物并未通过延长觅食时间,降低用于防卫、繁殖活动时间来增加食物摄入量,而是通过增加口量大小,提高其食物摄入率来满足其营养需要。验证了饥饿与植物次生化合物共同作用引起田鼠类动物生理的改变,能影响其食物摄入量及觅食行为的假设。     

根田鼠幼体食物选择的社群学习

社群学习为动物的一种可塑性表型行为,能使动物获得适应于栖息地的行为模式.本文在实验室条件下,通过自助餐式食物选择实验,测定栖息于青藏高原高寒草甸生态系统的根田鼠断乳幼体间食物选择的社群学习模式.结果表明,同伴对其学习个体的食物选择具有显著的作用(P<0.001).学习个体对同伴已觅食食物的摄入量占其总摄入量的71%以上.在多同伴及单同伴与学习个体相互作用4 h后,同伴对学习个体的食物选择的学习具有显著的作用(P<0.01),而在24 h后,同伴对学习个体食物选择的作用则消失.多同伴与单同伴对学习个体的食物选择作用的差异不显著(P>0.05).熟悉同伴对学习个体的食物选择具有显著的效应(P<0.01),而陌生同伴对学习个体的食物选择则无显著作用(P >0.05).     

饥饿胁迫对中华绒螯蟹(Eriocheir sinensis)仔蟹的影响

在26.2 ～28.4℃水温条件下,研究了饥饿对中华绒螯蟹(Eriocheir sinensis)仔蟹的形态、行为、存活及体重损失的影响,同时确定了仔Ⅱ的营养饱和储存点(PRS)和不可恢复点(PNR).结果表明:饥饿胁迫下中华绒螯蟹仔Ⅰ、仔Ⅱ、仔Ⅲ的初次死亡时间(T1)分别为8.0、14.0和20.3 d,50％死亡时间(Ts0)分别为11.4、16.0和25.5 d,100％死亡时间(T100)分别为15.0、22.0和32.3 d,耐饥饿能力为仔Ⅲ＞仔Ⅱ＞仔Ⅰ;饥饿期间中华绒螯蟹体内水分含量持续升高,干重量降低显著,干重损失速率也随时间延长逐渐减小;先饱食后饥饿的给饵模式中仔Ⅱ蜕皮率随初始饱食时间延长而升高,50％个体完成蜕皮所需饱食时间(PRS50)为2.10d,各处理组仔Ⅱ的蜕皮周期与持续饱食组均无显著差异(P＞0.05),但只有饱食3d以上才能达到持续饱食饲养蟹的增重率;先饥饿后饱食的给饵模式中,仔Ⅱ的蜕皮率随着初始饥饿时间的延长而下降,其中仔Ⅱ50％不能蜕皮的初始饥饿时间(PNR50)和100％不能蜕皮的初始饥饿时间(PNR100)分别为10 d和14 d,并且蜕皮周期相对延长,延长时间约等于初始饥饿时间,不存在额外的摄食时间来弥补饥饿期间损失的能量,各处理组蜕皮后仔蟹与对照组体重无显著差异(P＞0.05).     

单宁酸对棕色田鼠和小鼠食物选择、日食量和蛋白质消化率的影响

目的用不同浓度单宁酸（tannic acid,TA）处理后的花生喂养棕色田鼠（Lasiopodomys mandarinus）和小鼠（Mus musculus）,研究单宁酸对两种鼠食物选择倾向、食物摄入量、蛋白质消化率的影响。方法本研究的设计如下：1）选择一批棕色田鼠和小鼠,单笼饲养,自由饮水。用正常花生饲喂二周实验用棕色田鼠和小鼠,使其适应这种食物;2）随机选出棕色田鼠和小鼠各10只（雌雄各半）,单笼饲养。用经0%、5%、10%TA处理的花生饲喂供试鼠一周,观察和记录两种鼠对TA处理后花生的选择和取食特征;3）随机选出18只棕色田鼠和18只小鼠,单笼饲养,并各分为3组（每组均为6只）,按两种鼠分别命名为对照组、低单宁酸组、高单宁酸组,并分别用经0%、5%和10%TA处理的花生饲喂一周,测定两种鼠的食物摄入量;同时收集粪便,用凯氏定氮仪测定粗蛋白含量,计算蛋白质消化率。结果1）棕色田鼠和小鼠均优先选择无TA食物（P〈0.001）,二者间差异达显著性水平（P〈0.001）;2）食物中的TA降低棕色田鼠和小鼠的相对日食量（P〈0.001）和食物中蛋白质的消化率,随TA含量的升高,棕色田鼠和小鼠的相对日食量和蛋白质消化率均显著下降。结论TA降低棕色田鼠和小鼠的食物摄入量和食物中蛋白质的消化率。TA对鼠类的食物摄入量和蛋白质消化率的影响有种间差异性,小鼠对TA的适应性更强。     

肺结核患者食物摄入水平对抗结核治疗效果的影响

目的：探讨肺结核患者的食物摄入水平对抗结核治疗效果的影响,为抗结核治疗患者的营养指导提供科学依据。方法：选取2009—2013年山东省某市县区确诊的肺结核患者作为研究对象,通过问卷调查收集其基本信息,测量患者的身高和体重,计算体质指数（BMI）。应用半定量食物频率表收集调查对象1 w 9类食物的消费情况,采用食物多样化评分（DDS）-9分类法评估膳食多样性,1～3分为膳食多样性不足、4～6分为适中、7～9分为充足。根据中国膳食宝塔将9类食物合并为5类,计算5类食物每日的平均摄入量。追踪随访研究对象的停药原因,使用多因素Logistic回归模型,分析食物摄入水平对抗结核治疗效果的影响。结果：本研究共纳入肺结核患者2 711名,其中未治愈的患者共有147名,占总人数的5.4%。膳食调查结果显示,治愈和未治愈患者的DDS、动物性食物摄入量和蔬菜水果类食物摄入量均呈现显著差异（P均＜0.05）。膳食多样性为不足、适中和充足者的未治愈率分别为11.4%、6.3%和4.3%。与食物多样性不足相比,食物多样性充足可显著降低结核治疗失败的风险,校正混杂因素影响后OR值为0.42（95%CI：0.21~0.81）。采用五分位法计算获得结核病患者平均每日摄入动物性食物量分别为0～250 g、250～300 g、300～400 g、400～550 g、≥550 g,其未治愈率分别为9.7%、3.4%、5.5%、4.6%、3.2%。随着动物性食物摄入增加,结核未治愈率下降（P＜0.01）。与动物性食物摄入量≤250 g/d相比,动物性食物摄入量＞250 g/d可降低抗结核治疗失败的风险。平均每天摄入蔬菜水果类食物量为0～200 g、200～300 g、300～350 g、350～400 g、≥400 g的患者,其未治愈率分别为9.1%、7.2%、4.9%、3.6%、4.4%。随着蔬菜水果类食物摄入增加,结核未治愈率下降（P=0.002）。与蔬菜水果类食物摄入量≤200 g/d相比,蔬菜水果类食物摄入量＞350 g/d可降低抗结核治疗失败的风险。结论：抗结核治疗患者的食物摄入水平可影响抗结核治疗效果,食物多样性、动物性食物和蔬菜水果类食物摄入量的增加,可有效降低抗结核治疗未治愈的风险。     

Eating Motives and the Controversy over Dieting: Eating Less Than Needed versus Less Than Wanted

Anti‐dieting sentiment has grown in recent years. Critics of restrained eating suggest that it evokes counter‐regulatory responses that render it ineffective or even iatrogenic. However, restrained eaters are not in negative energy balance and overweight individuals show reduced eating problems when losing weight by dieting. A distinction is often drawn between physiological and psychological hunger, and neuroscience research has shown that there is a neurophysiological reality underlying this distinction. The brain has a homeostatic system (activated by energy deficits) and a hedonic system (activated by the presence of palatable food). The omnipresence of highly palatable food in the environment may chronically activate the hedonic appetite system, producing a need to actively restrain eating not just to lose weight but to avoid gaining it. Just as restricting energy intake below homeostatic needs produces physiological deprivation, restricting intake of palatable foods may produce “perceived deprivation” despite a state of energy balance. In summary, the motivation to eat more than one needs appears to be every bit as real, and perhaps every bit as powerful, as the motivation to eat when energy deprived.     

Food sources and foraging tactics in tropical rain pools

Pools on exposed rocks are common over much of Africa. Based on dimensions and position, those examined are of three types. Each type is inhabited by larvae of virtually a single dipteran species at high densities (over two million larvae m^-2).
Location of the pools suggests that food might be a limiting factor. However, events, including defecation in pools by civets and genets, fruit fall and wind-borne pollen, apparently ensure that this is not the case. In this environment of superabundance animals are presumably free to choose favoured items of food.
Each animal species does, indeed, take a characteristic assemblage of food items. However, each species is shown to eat whatever it can swallow, differences in gut contents being due to differences in the characteristic food items available in each type of pool. Most algae are excluded because they are too large or inaccessible, which means that the pool food chains are based largely on allochthonous detritus. There is no reason to believe that food type, perse , has any influence in determining which of the three dipteran species is present.     

SEGMENTATION APPROACHES THAT DIFFERENTIATE CONSUMPTION FREQUENCY FROM SENSORY PREFERENCE1

People can eat a food without having a strong preference for it, and people can prefer a food without eating it. Given this seeming disconnect between attitude and behavior, which type of measure or segment can best be used to profile or identify loyal consumer segments of a food, such as soy? This research compares a usage‐based method (heavy‐light‐nonusers) with a new attitude‐based method (seeker‐neutral‐avoider), and finds that the attitude‐based method differentiates purchase‐related intentions better than the usage‐based method. Implications for profiling consumer taste patterns and consumer segments are provided.     

Foraging success of adult and juvenile Starlings Sturnus vulgaris: a tentative explanation for the preference of juveniles for cherries

Analysis of foraging success of adult and juvenile Starlings in June, July and August indicates that juveniles are less successful than adults at catching their animal food, especially leatherjackets. I suggest that this low success in gathering animal food effectively causes a shortage that drives young Starlings to eat easily accessible cherries.     

Deactivation of dietary wariness through experience of novel food

When a forager encounters an unfamiliar type of food, it mustdecide whether to eat it and risk being poisoned or avoid eatingit and risk forfeiting a potentially valuable resource. Birdstypically respond to such situations with "dietary wariness";they show a transient aversion to approaching new food (neophobia),and many individuals also show a much longer lasting reluctanceto consume the new food (dietary conservatism), even once neophobiahas waned. Very little is known about how these processes, togethertermed "wariness," are controlled. We therefore present a seriesof experiments investigating how wariness of novel foods indomestic chicks, Gallus gallus domesticus, can be deactivatedand reactivated by different experiences of colored foods, varyingin their degree of novelty and palatability. We found that priorexperience of a single novel color of palatable chick crumbswas sufficient to deactivate both neophobia and dietary conservatismof any other novel color of crumbs tested. Relatively littleprior experience of a novel training food was needed to deactivateneophobia, after which the birds would peck at any other novelfood. In contrast, much more extensive experience of eatinga novel training food was needed before the birds would incorporateother novel foods into their diet. Chicks needed direct physicalcontact with the training food before they overcame their warinessto eat another novel food. However, observational learning wassufficient to encourage them to peck at the food (overcomingtheir neophobia). Reinstating wariness was much more easilyachieved than its deactivation. We discuss these surprisingresults in relation to the foraging behavior of wild and domesticbirds.     

A mathematical framework for optimal foraging of herbivores

The aim of this paper is to study a model of optimal foraging of herbivores (with special reference to ungulates) assuming that food distribution is arbitrary. Usually the analysis of foraging of herbivores in the framework of optimal foraging theory is based on the assumption of a patchy food distribution. We relax this assumption and we construct more realistic models. The main constraint of our model is the total amount of food which the animal may eat and the currency is the total foraging time. We represent total foraging time as a variational expression depending on food eaten and the length of the path. We prove that there exists a threshold for food acquisition. More explicitly, it exists a positive real number such that, at any point x of the path, the animal either eats till the density of food is decreased to the value or, if the density of food at x is less than , there it does not eat. We discuss the results and emphasize some biologically important relationships among model parameters and variables. Finally, we try to give a sound biological interpretation of our results.     

Chili und der Capsaicinrezeptor TRPV1

Some like it hot – and spicy: Chili and the capsaicin receptor TRPV1 Since many hundred years, many people like to eat chili pepper containing the pungent ingredient capsaicin that is responsible for making the food hot and spicy. Capsaicin activates transient receptor potential TRPV1 channels that are predominantly expressed in sensory neurons involved in pain sensation. TRPV1 is a noxious heat sensor and can also be activated by protons and several animal toxins. Thus, TRPV1 is a polymodal sensor of multiple noxious stimuli that cause pain. TRPV1 functions as a nocisensor that detects chemical and thermal stimuli and transduces this stimulation into sensory nerve impulses which leads to the perception of pain. Inhibition of TRPV1 reduces or abolishes pain sensation. A strong activation of TRPV1 induces a long-lasting refractory period of the pain-detecting system (desensitization) and may even lead to an irreversible loss of TRPV1-expressing sensory neurons. It still remains unclear why many people love hot and spicy food, accompanied by a burning sensation in the mouth.     

Why is the world green? The interactions of top–down and bottom–up processes in terrestrial vegetation ecology

A classic question in plant ecology is “why is the world green?” That is, if plants are food for animals why do not animals eat all the available food – changing a ‘green world’ into a ‘brown world’. We first reviewed this question in 2009 and now revisit our arguments in the light of new data and new thinking. Here we argue that (1) the top–down bottom–up dichotomy is probably too simple for understanding a complex system – such as vegetation – rich in feedback processes. (2) Nevertheless it appears that bottom–up processes are generally more important for maintaining the presence of some sort of vegetation while top–down control process are generally more important in determining the type of vegetation at a site. (3) Although this review mainly takes a qualitative and experimental approach to the question, we also argue that simple well-known mathematical models from population ecology can be very informative in thinking about the types of explanations for the green world phenomenon, and demonstrating that it is rarely a simple choice between one form of control or another.     

The significance of unripe seeds and animal tissues in the protein nutrition of herbivores

Many herbivorous animals selectively eat flowers and unripe fruit or seeds. Some preferentially eat new tissues growing from germinating seeds. This behaviour enables access to otherwise limited or unavailable amino acids that are necessary to sustain successful production and growth of young. For the same reason the diet of breeding females and neonates of many presumed strictly herbivorous animals is supplemented with animal protein. However, because these foods are often only eaten for limited periods, and make up only a small proportion of the total diet, they are usually dismissed as unimportant to the animals' nutrition. It is suggested that actively looking for such feeding may well reveal it to be far more common and important to the successful breeding of herbivores than has been thought in the past.     

Food consumption and related water resources in Nordic cities

Many modern cities have strongly invested in the sustainability of their urban water management system. Nordic cities like Stockholm or Copenhagen are amongst pioneers in investments towards integrated urban water management. However, cities can never be fully self-sufficient due to their dependency on external (water) resources. In this paper, we quantify this water dependency with respect to food consumption in nine cities located in the five Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland), by means of the water footprint concept. Detailed urban water footprint assessments are scarce in the literature. By analysing national nutrition surveys, we find that urban food intake behaviour differs from national food intake behaviour. In large Nordic cities people eat generally less potatoes, milk products (without cheese), meat and animal fats and they drink less coffee than outside city borders. On the other hand, they generally eat more vegetables and vegetable oils and they drink more tea and alcoholic beverages. This leads consistently – for the six large Nordic cities Stockholm, Malmö, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Reykjavik – to slightly smaller food related urban water footprints (−2 to −6%) than national average values. We also analyse the water footprint for different diets based upon Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (NNR) for these cities. We assessed three healthy diet scenarios: 1) including meat (HEALTHY-MEAT), 2) pesco-vegetarian (HEALTHY-PESCO-VEG) and 3) vegetarian (HEALTHY-VEG). This shows that Nordic urban dwellers 1) eat too many animal products (red meat, milk and milk products) and sugar and drink too much alcohol and 2) they eat not enough vegetables, fruit and products from the group pulses, nuts and oilcrops. Their overall energy and protein intake is too high. A shift to a healthy diet with recommended energy and protein intake reduces the urban WF related to food consumption substantially. A shift to HEALTHY-MEAT results in a reduction of −9 to −24%, for HEALTHY-PESCO-VEG the reduction is −29 to −37%, for HEALTHY-VEG the reduction is −36 to −44%. In other words, Nordic urban dwellers can save a lot of water by shifting to a healthy diet.