布氏田鼠肝毛细线虫感染率与其体重的关系

2005年5月和8月,在内蒙古锡林郭勒北部典型草原调查了肝毛细线虫对布氏田鼠种群的感染特征,分析肝毛细线虫对布氏田鼠的感染率与其性别、年龄、体重及种群密度的关系。结果表明:肝毛细线虫对布氏田鼠感染率没有性别差异,雄鼠与雌鼠的感染率相当;但是与布氏田鼠体重/年龄密切相关:幼鼠的感染率较低,成鼠感染率较高,感染率和平均感染度均随着个体年龄的增长而增高。布氏田鼠达到一定的年龄(或体重)后才可感染肝毛细线虫病,其最低感染体重为24.3 g。布氏田鼠的种群密度对肝毛细线虫的感染率和平均感染度没有明显的影响,但同一样地不同季节感染率不同,本次调查显示,2005年5月份感染率高于8月份群体感染率,同一样地的春季感染率与秋季感染率之间呈现出显著的正相关。     

锡林郭勒地区肝毛细线虫病自然疫源地与鼠类分布的关系

2000~2005年,在内蒙古锡林郭勒地区开展了肝毛细线虫病自然疫源地的调查工作。采用夹线法捕获鼠类样本,解剖检视各个采样点鼠类肝毛细线虫病的感染情况。结果表明,锡林郭勒地区存在肝毛细线虫病自然疫源地。疫源地分布在锡林郭勒的北部和东北部地区,包括东乌珠穆沁旗、阿巴嘎旗、锡林浩特市、苏尼特左旗和西乌珠穆沁旗,2004年自然疫源地总面积为32932km2。肝毛细线虫病可感染疫源地的多种鼠类,其自然疫源地分布区与布氏田鼠分布区重叠程度很高,重叠度指数为1.37,而与其他鼠类的分布重叠度不高,这表明布氏田鼠可能是肝毛细线虫的主要宿主。     

高体重布氏田鼠产仔数较多但繁殖输出及氧化损伤不受影响

体重可影响动物几乎所有的生物学变量。高体重双亲通常产生较大胎仔数。繁殖过程代价很高,可能伴随着氧化损伤。为比较双亲体重对繁殖期能量学特征、繁殖输出和氧化损伤的影响,检测了高体重组(雌性:51. 5 g ± 1. 6 g;雄性:60. 4 g ±2. 5 g)和低体重组(雌性:35. 5 g ± 1. 2 g;雄性:49. 6 g ± 2. 8 g)布氏田鼠繁殖过程中母体的体重和摄食量,分娩时的胎仔数和胎仔总重,及后代断乳时母体的身体成分、激素含量(血清瘦素和催乳素)和氧化损伤(血清丙二醛、蛋白质羰基和肝脏丙二醛含量)。结果显示:(1)高体重组妊娠末期的母体体重增量显著高于低体重组;(2)高体重组母体的出生胎仔数显著高于低体重组,但出生及断乳时的平均胎仔重、胎仔总重和母体繁殖期间的能量摄入无显著差异; (3)血清激素含量、身体成分、身体脂肪重量及氧化损伤指标均无组间差异。结果表明,高体重布氏田鼠可产生较多的出生胎仔数,但母体并不通过摄入更多的能量来保证其繁殖输出,对氧化损伤也没有影响。这些结果对于理解不同体重的动物在繁殖期间的能量策略以及繁殖与生存之间的权衡等生活史理论具有重要意义。     

山东部分地区鼠类肝毛细线虫感染调查

本文对山东部分地区鼠类肝毛细线虫感染率进行了调查。山东地区鼠类肝毛细线虫总感染率为２７．３６％。不同地区感染率不同。各地均以褐家鼠为主。通过重点对褐家感染情况分析,结果肝毛细线虫感染率及感染强度与鼠龄呈正相关;肝毛细线虫感染以整个肝脏为主,右肝感染占第二位。本文还针对农田鼠类明显缺乏肝毛线虫感染的特点,提出肝毛细线虫用于控制农田鼠类种群密度的可能性。     

黑线毛足鼠年龄和种群密度与肝毛细线虫感染率的关系

2004—2005年,在内蒙古锡林郭勒盟阿巴嘎旗和东乌珠穆沁旗研究了肝毛细线虫病对黑线毛足鼠种群感染情况,分析肝毛细线虫对黑线毛足鼠的感染率与鼠体年龄以及种群密度的关系。结果表明,黑线毛足鼠达到一定的年龄(或体质量)才可感染肝毛细线虫病,最低感染个体体质量为14.6g。肝毛细线虫对低龄鼠的感染检出率比较低,而对成体鼠感染检出率较高,其感染率和感染度均随着个体年龄的增长而增高(感染率与年龄:r=0.97,P<0.05;感染度与年龄:r=0.93,P<0.05)。此外,黑线毛足鼠体质量与肝毛细线虫感染率和感染度也存在显著的相关关系(感染率与体质量:r=0.99,P<0.05;感染度与体质量:r=0.95,P<0.05),黑线毛足鼠的种群密度则对肝毛细线虫的感染率(r=0.27,P>0.05)和平均感染度(r=0.41,P>0.05)没有明显的影响,其感染率可能与地区不同有关。     

雷公藤甲素对雄性布氏田鼠繁殖力的抑制效果

为评价植物源鼠类不育剂雷公藤甲素对雄性布氏田鼠的不育效果,本研究采用每千克体重0 mg、0.1 mg、0.2 mg、0.4 mg的雷公藤甲素溶液对雄鼠进行连续7 d灌胃处理,并在停药2周和4周后检测其体重、性腺重、精子密度及配对雌鼠怀孕率与胎仔数。结果表明,雷公藤甲素处理未显著降低雄性布氏田鼠的体重、性腺相对重量、附睾尾精子密度,以及停药4周组配对雌鼠的怀孕率与胚胎数;但停药2周低剂量（0.1 mg）处理组配对雌鼠的怀孕率和胎仔数出现显著降低,怀孕率与对照组（100%）相比下降66.7%,胎仔数与对照组（8.3）相比下降了72.3%。这说明,雷公藤甲素对雄性布氏田鼠繁殖力的抑制作用主要表现在受孕阶段,但其不育效果未呈现剂量效应,反而在低浓度表现出更好效果。雷公藤甲素对附睾功能和精子动力学参数的影响可能是其不育效果的主要原因,但是仍需深入研究不同剂量的作用机制,为其合理施用提供理论依据。     

长爪沙鼠的肝毛细线虫感染率与鼠类及猛禽密度的关系

为研究鼠类密度和猛禽密度对鼠类肝毛细线虫(Capillaria hepatica)感染率的影响,作者于2004年7月在内蒙古锡林郭勒盟阿巴嘎旗北部和东乌珠穆沁旗西南部典型草原草场选取了14个实验样地,采用洞口计数法(四分之一圆面积法)调查估计各实验样地内长爪沙鼠(Meriones unguiculatus)密度,同时采用夹线调查法捕获鼠类样本,进行常规解剖获取肝毛细线虫的感染数据。采用目测计数法统计猛禽的出现频次,并以其出现频次作为猛禽的相对密度指标。实验样地共捕获长爪沙鼠1 058只,观察到鹰隼类活动69只次。数据分析结果表明,长爪沙鼠肝毛细线虫感染率与鼠类密度之间存在极显著的正相关关系(P0.01,R~2=0.926),长爪沙鼠肝毛细线虫感染率与猛禽密度之间亦存在极显著的正相关关系(P0.01,R~2=0.853)。该结果说明,长爪沙鼠是肝毛细线虫的主要宿主,鼠类密度和猛禽密度的升高均会增加长爪沙鼠肝毛细线虫感染率,猛禽密度和鼠类密度之间还存在叠加效应,猛禽的捕食作用会加快肝毛细线虫病的传播周期,加重肝毛细线虫病疫情。     

胎仔数与父本缺失对棕色田鼠幼仔体重发育的影响

室内饲养条件下,测量了出生后不同发育阶段棕色田鼠Microtus mandarinus的体重,并探讨了胎仔数(分别为1只、2只、3只和4只)及父本缺失(母鼠单独抚育)对幼仔体重发育的影响.结果表明,棕色田鼠出生后第一周体重的瞬时生长率最高,此后逐步下降;出生后28～35 d,体重增益最大(P<0.05).出生后7 d,不同胎仔数的体重没有明显差异,但至断乳时(出生后21 d),胎仔数为2只的幼仔平均体重明显高于其它胎仔数的平均体重(P<0.05).与双亲抚育相比,母鼠单独抚育的幼仔在断乳时的体重明显下降(P<0.05).这些结果说明,哺乳期内棕色田鼠幼仔的体重发育与胎仔数有关.由于棕色田鼠是单配制,双亲育幼,父本雄鼠的缺失减少了亲本投资,影响了幼仔的身体发育.     

布氏田鼠双亲低体重导致雄性后代生长和繁殖间的权衡

动物出生前后阶段是发育可塑性的关键时期,众多生理或环境因素可长期改变个体的生长发育和代谢表型。双亲效应是造成后代表型差异的重要原因。为研究双亲体重对后代断乳后的生长发育及成年期体重和能量代谢的影响,选取了体重差异显著的布氏田鼠,分别雌雄配对,形成高体重双亲组后代(雌性,51.5 g±1.6 g;雄性,60.4 g±2.5 g;Parental high body mass,HBM)和低体重双亲组后代(雌性,35.5 g±1.2 g;雄性,49.6 g±2.8 g;Parental low body mass,LBM)。检测了后代(胎仔数为6-8)4-13周龄的体重、能量摄入(摄入能、消化能和消化率);12周龄时静止代谢率、非颤抖性产热、葡萄糖耐受;13周龄的血清瘦素水平及身体组织器官重等。发现:(1)低体重双亲组后代发育过程中的摄入能和消化能均显著高于高体重双亲组,雄性后代睾丸湿重和干重显著降低。(2)在雄性后代,双亲低体重导致静止代谢率显著升高,但雌性后代组间差异不显著。(3)成年(12周龄后)时的体重、非颤抖性产热、血清瘦素和葡萄糖耐受在高、低体重双亲组间无显著差异。结果表明:双亲低体重导致后代发育过程中将更多的能量用于生长,雄性后代繁殖器官的发育明显受到抑制,表现出生长和繁殖间的权衡。     

布氏田鼠种群繁殖的研究

布氏田鼠(Microtus brandti Radde)是一种数量变化幅度大的小型鼠类。研究布氏田鼠种群繁殖及年度变化的特征,对于探索其种群数量变动规律、进而实行有效的预报是很必要的。国内外有关布氏田鼠生态学的研究报道,如内蒙锡盟卫生防疫站(1975)、呼伦贝尔草原鼠害调查组(1975)、罗泽珣等(1975)、黑龙江省革命委员会草原灭鼠办公室(1976)、Reichstein(1962)、(1949,1952A,1952B)、(1948)、(1954)等,涉及上述工作的甚少。近年来,中国科学院动物研究所动物生态室一组(1978,1979)研究了布氏田鼠的种群年龄、性周期、活动领域以及种群密度和肾上腺、生殖腺重量之间的相互关系,对研究布氏田鼠的种群数量变动规律,积累了一些资料。本文着重讨论种群繁殖特征,并在上述研究的基础上,探讨呼伦贝尔草原布氏田鼠的种群周期及其主要支配因素。     

内蒙古草原布氏田鼠与绵羊的营养生态位研究

放牧活动对小型啮齿动物种群数量的影响是草原生态系统研究中的热点问题,确定绵羊和小型啮齿动物的营养生态位关系对于草原生态系统的管理具有重要的作用。运用粪便显微分析法分析了内蒙古草原动物生态研究站大型野外围栏内布氏田鼠和绵羊在6-9月份的食谱组成,确定两种草食动物食性选择和营养生态位的变化,从食物利用途径揭示放牧活动对布氏田鼠种群数量的影响方式及二者之间的竞争与共存关系。研究结果表明：围栏中共有23种植物,其中糙隐子草、克氏针茅、羊草和刺藜是围栏中的优势植物;布氏田鼠共取食10种植物,绵羊共取食8种植物,禾本植物为两种动物的主要采食植物。布氏田鼠和绵羊的喜食植物种类都存在季节性变化;除7月外,两种动物的食物多样性与围栏植物多样性有显著的正相关关系,表明动物的食性选择受植物资源变化的影响。布氏田鼠和绵羊具有很高的营养生态位重叠度,除8月（0.691）外,6、7、9月份的营养生态位重叠度均高于0.9,表明二者之间存在激烈的食物竞争;放牧活动极显著地降低了禾本科植物的地上生物量,导致布氏田鼠的食物数量减少;放牧处理下布氏田鼠的喜食植物的物种数和营养生态位宽度（除9月）增加,导致布氏田鼠的食物质量下降。以上研究结果说明,较高的营养生态位重叠度引起动物间激烈的食物竞争;放牧会影响围栏中植物资源的变化,进而影响布氏田鼠的食性选择,放牧活动可能通过降低布氏田鼠的食物数量和质量对其种群数量产生负面效应;这也说明适度的放牧活动在增加人类对草场利用的同时,又可降低小型啮齿动物的数量及危害。     

集群数量和采食距离对储草期布氏田鼠警戒频次的影响

警戒行为是动物对环境中潜在危险做出的反应。为探究影响警戒行为的因素,作者在内蒙古锡林郭勒典型草原区进行了集群数量和采食距离对储草期自由生活状态下布氏田鼠(Lasiopodomys brandtii)警戒频次影响的实验。通过标志重捕法和人工去除法设定3个集群数量梯度(11只、6只和3只),利用人工食物站设置4个采食距离梯度(5 m、10 m、20 m、30 m),共12个梯度组合,每个组合分别观察60次采食过程,共计观察720次,并记录采食过程中的警戒频次。对数据进行双因素方差分析,集群规模和采食距离对布氏田鼠警戒行为频次均有极显著影响(P0.01)。随着集群数量减小,布氏田鼠单次采食的警戒频次显著增加;采食距离越远,单次采食的警戒频次越高;集群数量和采食距离之间还存在极显著的交互作用(P0.01)。集群数量增大意味着采食距离的增加,为保证储草效率,布氏田鼠种群会在增加集群数量和减小采食距离之间权衡,最终集群数量维持在中等水平,支持了最优集群理论。     

Cold exposure does not decrease serum leptin concentration,but increases energy intake and thermogenic capacity in pregnant Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)

In most mammals, maternal body mass and fat mass increase during pregnancy due to hyperphagia. These physiological changes provide the fetus with energy and nutrients and prepare the mother for the high energetic demands of lactation. In the present study, metabolic changes in response to cold and pregnancy were examined in female Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). At 23±1 °C, the voles increased body mass and deposited body fat during pregnancy. However, at 5±1 °C pregnant voles did not deposit body fat even though energy intake increased above the level in the warm. Serum leptin concentration increased during pregnancy and was not influenced by cold exposure. Thermogenic capacity, as indicated by uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) content in brown adipose tissue (BAT), increased in cold-exposed pregnant voles. The number and mass of fetuses were not affected by cold exposure. Our data may indicate the importance of an increased serum leptin concentration for a successful outcome of the pregnancy and also the independence of leptin secretion from body fat in pregnant voles. It also implies the need to develop central leptin resistance with respect to control of energy balance for pregnant voles.     

Size at birth,maternal nutritional status in pregnancy,and blood pressure at age 17: population based analysis.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of size at birth, maternal nutrition, and body mass index on blood pressure in late adolescence. DESIGN: Population based analysis of birth weight corrected for gestational age, mother''s weight before pregnancy and weight gain in pregnancy, obtained from the Jerusalem perinatal study, and blood pressure and body mass index at age 17, available from military draft records. SETTING: Jerusalem, Israel. SUBJECTS: 10,883 subjects (6684 men and 4199 women) born in Jerusalem during 1974-6 and subsequently drafted to the army. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Systolic and diastolic blood pressures measured at age 17 and their correlation with birth weight, size at birth, mother''s body mass index and weight gain during pregnancy, and height and weight at age 17. RESULTS: Systolic and diastolic blood pressures were significantly and positively correlated with body weight, height, body mass index at age 17, and with mother''s body weight and body mass index before pregnancy, but not with birth weight or mother''s weight gain in pregnancy. CONCLUSION: Variables reflecting poor intrauterine nutrition, including low maternal body mass index before pregnancy, poor maternal weight gain in pregnancy, and being born small for gestational age, were not associated with a higher blood pressure in late adolescence.     

Delayed dispersal in the Zaisan mole vole (Ellobius tancrei): helping or extended parental investment?

The highly social subterranean voles of genus Ellobius (mole vole) represent a unique model to compare with both social bathyergids and surface-dwelling voles. Unlike most arvicolines, mole voles display the prolonged obligatory delay of dispersal. In subterranean rodents, this delay may be associated with benefits of cooperation (weaned offspring help their parents), an extended parental investment (parents care for weaned offspring), or both. To identify the role offspring aged <3 months play in mole vole families, we estimated their contribution to important group activities. We found that juveniles contributed very little to daily living activities up to the age of approximately 2 months. The older offspring carried objects at least as frequently as breeders, but they engaged in gnawing obstacles less frequently than their fathers. Male breeders and non-breeders engaged in gnawing more than the respective categories of females. Although young mole voles clearly did not surpass their parents in performing the more energetically costly activities, they gained body mass by 26 g (130 %) between days 30 and 90, often surpassing their parents in weight. Based on our results, in E. tancrei an extremely prolonged infancy is followed by intensive building of body reserves. This ontogenetic trajectory appears to be distinct from the patterns described for social bathyergids and for most voles.     

Capillaria hepatica (Bancroft) in select rat populations of Hartford, Connecticut, with possible public health implications.

Capillaria hepatica was found in 82% of 86 Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) trapped in Hartford, Connecticut between February and November 1975. Adults were parasitized more frequently than juveniles and infection rate did not differ between sexes. Rats demonstrated a low intensity of infection, with 9% having extensive liver involvement. A seasonal variation in infection rate may have been a manifestation of environmental factors, cannibalism, and predation.     

Effects of fasting and refeeding on body mass,thermogenesis and serum leptin in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)

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To investigate the effect of fasting and refeeding on the body mass, thermogenesis and serum leptin in Brandt's voles, the changes in body and body fat mass, resting metabolic rate (RMR), mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (COX) activity in liver and brown adipose tissue (BAT), uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) content of BAT, serum leptin level and post-fasting food intake were monitored and measured.     

Effects of grandmothers' smoking in pregnancy on birth weight: intergenerational cohort study

Objective To investigate the influences on birth weight of maternal smoking during pregnancy across generations.Design Intergenerational cohort study.Participants Members of the 1958 birth cohort and their offspring and mothers.Setting England, Scotland, and Wales.Main outcome measure Birth weight.Results Information on grandmothers'' smoking during pregnancy was available for 9028 singleton offspring of 4302 female cohort members. Assuming heritable transmission through the intergenerational association, grandmothers'' smoking was predicted to result in a 34 g reduction (95% confidence interval -41 g to -28 g) in the birth weight of grandchildren. Random effects models showed a negative association between grandmothers'' smoking and birth weight of grandchildren (β regression coefficient -24 g, -50 g to 3 g), but this effect was eliminated after adjustment for maternal smoking (0 g, -26 g to 26 g).No association was evident among the offspring of non-smoking mothers (n = 6105; 14 g, -17 g to 46 g), and after adjustment for maternal birth weight, adult height and body mass index, grandmothers'' smoking was positively associated with the birth weight of grandchildren (45 g, 10 g to 80 g).Conclusion Deficits in mothers'' birth weight attributable to their mother smoking was not evident in the grandchildren.     

多代驯化对布氏田鼠非繁殖期性激素本底水平的影响

为阐明驯化过程对季节性繁殖的布氏田鼠Lasiopodomys brandtii性腺活性的影响,采用放射免疫技术从秋季（11月）至翌年春季（3月）对室内驯化1月、3年和10年的雌雄鼠粪便中的性激素水平进行监测。结果显示,在11—12月非繁殖季节,驯化10年组雄鼠睾酮水平分别达到3年组和1月组的3.5倍和13.3倍,驯化10年组雌鼠雌二醇水平分别达到3年组和1月组的2.0倍和3.7倍,且差异均达到显著水平;长期（3年和10年）驯化组雄鼠在繁殖初期（1—3月）的睾酮水平也较短期驯化组显示出更大幅度的提升。表明在经历长期驯化后布氏田鼠对稳定的室内环境逐渐适应,非繁殖期性腺活性抑制的程度逐渐减弱,呈现出随驯化时长增加而逐渐递增的趋势,从而导致鼠类繁殖表型发生了可塑性变化。