昆虫抗冻耐寒能力的测定与分析方法

昆虫抗冻耐寒能力因其理论意义和实践价值成为当前生物学和生态学的重要研究内容。尤其昆虫抗冻耐寒能力的测定与分析是昆虫低温生物学的热点问题。本文从昆虫生态,及生理生化层面阐述了昆虫抗冻策略和耐寒机制类型。进一步介绍了昆虫抗冻耐寒能力的测定与分析方法:一方面,以昆虫种群为对象,分析低温对种群存活的胁迫作用,如低温实验中种群的存活率,致死中温度或致死中时间,冷伤害上限温度,冷害低温总和,以及低温冷伤害的死亡速率等。另一方面,以昆虫个体为对象,测定个体为适应低温环境而采取响应机制,如昆虫个体过冷却点、含水量、能量物质、抗冻小分子物质和抗冻蛋白含量等。在未来,从微观上看随着低温生物学拓展到基因组、转录组、蛋白质组及代谢组层次的研究,从宏观上看随着越冬代昆虫种群数量动态及其迁飞转移行为规律与栖息地微环境气候和区域性景观格局特征等的关系研究,有利于更全面地和深入地了解昆虫类群的抗冻策略或耐寒机制,从而为更系统地建立昆虫抗冻耐寒能力的测定与分析方法体系提供可靠指标。     

转Bt基因水稻对白符跳虫适应低温环境与排泄的影响

【目的】为探讨转基因Bt水稻种植对土壤重要分解者跳虫的潜在生态风险性。【方法】将同一非转基因亲本插入3种不同的Bt基因(cry1C、cry2A、cry1Ab/Ac)的转Bt基因水稻叶片残体饲养白符跳虫Folsomia candida,通过放入不同低温环境下观察其存活率和粪便排泄速率以分析白符跳虫取食Bt水稻叶片后的适应低温行为。【结果】结果表明,3种转Bt基因水稻相对于非转基因亲本水稻品种而言,不会影响白符跳虫的适应低温环境;而不同Bt基因插入后导致的水稻成分的变化可能影响了白符跳虫对水稻残体的偏好性,进而影响其在低温环境下的适应行为。【结论】结果可为评估转Bt水稻对土壤生态系统影响提供参考价值,为转Bt水稻安全性评价提供科学的依据。     

长春净月潭不同林型土壤跳虫组成的研究

<正> 跳虫是土壤动物主要类群之一,与螨类一起约占土壤动物的80％,在1m~2土壤内跳虫多达上百万。跳虫具有分解生物残体,促进土壤形成,传播细菌的作用。在卫生昆虫上占有一     

雪地生活跳虫研究进展

雪地生活跳虫主要是指能在雪地环境中(雪面上,雪层下和雪层中)活动的跳虫,它们的共性是能够在寒冷的环境中进行跳跃、取食等活动,对低温和干旱具有很强的耐受性。对雪地生活跳虫的研究有助于人们了解积雪和冰雪覆盖地区跳虫类群的野外生存行为和生理特征,以及跳虫在恶劣气候环境的生活方式。世界上对雪地生活跳虫的研究大致可分为分类学,生理学,生物气候学三个部分。雪地跳虫主要分布在三个地区:环北极地区,高山地区和南极地区。部分跳虫种类在冬季低温的环境下活动能力很强,目前已报道的能在雪地中生活的跳虫达70余种(不包括南极地区)。与在其他季节活跃的跳虫相比,有些冬季活跃的跳虫具备特殊的形态结构,而且有些冬季活动的跳虫具有夏眠特性。冬季活跃跳虫通常具有适应冬季低温生存环境的能力,其耐寒和耐干旱的生理机制已被阐明,但其分子生物学机理尚未完全揭示清楚。雪面上活动的跳虫能够利用太阳光做向导进行连续的定向迁徙,以此穿越大的地理障碍,选择更加合适的生活栖息地以及进行基因交流。冬季活动的跳虫受环境因素的影响很大,其在雪面上的个体数量与风、温度和气压相关,而且受季节影响较大,多出现在冬末气候温和的时候。总结了雪地生活跳虫的研究历史,研究方法,列出了已报道种类和分布,介绍了迁徙和取食等行为以及耐寒冷和耐干旱等生理研究等,以增加对跳虫类群生物生态特性的认识。     

常绿阔叶林土壤动物群落对白符虫兆(Folsomia candida)添加的响应

以湖南会同地区杉木人工林采伐迹地自然恢复后形成的14年生次生常绿阔叶林为研究对象,调查了常绿阔叶林土壤跳虫的种类组成,并探讨了常绿阔叶林添加白符虫兆后土壤动物的变化特征。结果表明:调查过程中共捕获跳虫391只,分别隶属20属,优势类群为符虫兆属、裸长角虫兆属和鳞虫兆属,3属共占跳虫总多度的47.8%;添加白符虫兆(Folsomia candida)处理促进了土壤动物群落多度的迅速增加,这些增加主要归因于除白符虫兆以外的跳虫和蜱螨目多度的增加,分别贡献了增加量的43.3%和34.9%,其中跳虫群落多度的增加主要表现在等节虫兆属、裸长角虫兆属和棘虫兆属的增加,分别贡献了增加量的34.0%、23.7%和16.1%;从垂直分布来看,土壤动物多度的增加主要体现在凋落层的增加;土壤动物群落Simpson优势度指数及跳虫群落Simpson优势度指数和丰富度均有显著提高,表明添加白符虫兆对提高土壤动物群落及土壤跳虫群落多样性具有积极的作用;此外,土壤动物群落多度及Simpson优势度指数与凋落物损失率和土壤微生物生物量碳均存在显著的正相关性。由于跳虫添加后土壤动物群落多度和多样性出现增加趋势,因此可将跳虫添加处理作为土壤生态系统恢复与重建的一种控制手段。     

植物的补偿性生长

植物有多种适应方式来保护自身生存和与外界环境协调共存.综述了植物适应动物采食伤害的一种策略--补偿性生长.主要介绍了植物的补偿性生长现象、补偿性生长过程中植物的形态与生理响应、补偿性生长产生的机理和条件以及目前对植物补偿性生长现象认识存在的争议等.植物的补偿性生长特性研究是建立在达尔文进化论基础之上的,对于进一步明确植物对环境的适应机理具有重要的意义.     

不同垦复方式油茶林土壤节肢动物多样性特征

【目的】油茶新造林特别是纯林不断骤增导致油茶林害虫发生日趋严重,食用茶油安全倍受威胁。为探索有效控制油茶林害虫发生的途径,保护分解者跳虫等土壤节肢动物多样性。【方法】基于Tullgren干漏斗法和巴氏罐法,对半垦复油茶幼林、全垦复油茶幼林、全垦复油茶成林和未垦复油茶成林4种不同油茶林的20个土样和15个凋落物样中的土壤跳虫和土壤其他节肢动物多样性特征进行了研究。【结果】共分离出跳虫315头,隶属6科8属;其他土壤节肢动物11科17种295头。多样性分析结果表明,油茶成林地比幼林地土壤动物的多样性指数高,多样化的地被物有利于提高土壤动物的多样性,垦复和施肥等人为干扰显著地降低土壤跳虫的多样性,却有利于增加罐诱土壤动物的多样性,水源是土壤动物生存的关键因子,对林地跳虫和罐诱动物的多样性提高有显著促进作用。【结论】探明了不同垦复类型油茶林土壤跳虫和土壤其他罐诱节肢动物多样性特征,对合理开展油茶林垦复,发挥油茶林土壤跳虫和土壤节肢动物分解功能提供了科学依据。     

昆虫低温生物学:Ⅰ.昆虫耐冻的生理生化适应机制

昆虫采用两种完全不同策略越冬：①耐冻对策：通过提高过冷却点来诱导胞外结冰,使胞内亚细胞结构免受伤害;②避冻对策：通过降低过冷却点来增加抗寒力,即降低结冰概率来提高存活率。两种对策的越冬昆虫体内都积累了高浓度低分子量多元醇和糖类。近年来在一些越冬昆虫体内发现了各种高分子蛋白类如冰核蛋白（INP）,脂蛋白（LPS）,耐冻蛋白（AppS）或称热滞蛋白rtllPs）,关于这些物质对昆虫所具有的耐寒本领和作用机理的研究越来越受到重视．本文主要阐述低温条件下耐冻昆虫越冬的生理生化适应机制。1生理适应机制在耐冻昆虫体内,…     

长春净月潭地区土壤跳虫的生态分布

土壤动物直接参与土壤形成,它与土壤微生物的相互配合,对植物凋落物的分解起着十分重要的作用。土壤跳虫是土壤动物中最重要的类群之一。关于它的生态分布,目前国内报道不多。东北师范大学和日本九州大学合作,对长春净月潭地区的土壤跳虫进行了初步调查。     

昆虫多样性的保护现状与趋势

昆虫是自然界中种类最多的动物,在生态系统中具有重要的作用,但是昆虫在生物多样性保护中没有受到应有的重视.多个实例证明,很多昆虫种类处在数量下降甚至绝灭的状态.究其原因,人类的认识不足是导致昆虫多样性保护未受重视的主要原因,栖息地破坏是昆虫濒危的主要原因.由于昆虫生活史的特殊性,其保护策略与大型动物的保护有很大不同.昆虫多样性的保护可以与人类活动共存.     

Desiccation tolerance and drought acclimation in the Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus

The availability of water is recognized as the most important determinant of the distribution and activity of terrestrial organisms within the maritime Antarctic. Within this environment, arthropods may be challenged by drought stress during both the austral summer, due to increased temperature, wind, insolation, and extended periods of reduced precipitation, and the winter, as a result of vapor pressure gradients between the surrounding icy environment and the body fluids. The purpose of the present study was to assess the desiccation tolerance of the Antarctic springtail, Cryptopygus antarcticus, under ecologically-relevant conditions characteristic of both summer and winter along the Antarctic Peninsula. In addition, this study examined the physiological changes and effects of mild drought acclimation on the subsequent desiccation tolerance of C. antarcticus. The collembolans possessed little resistance to water loss under dry air, as the rate of water loss was >20% h(-1) at 0% relative humidity (RH) and 4 degrees C. Even under ecologically-relevant desiccating conditions, the springtails lost water at all relative humidities below saturation (100% RH). However, slow dehydration at high RH dramatically increased the desiccation tolerance of C. antarcticus, as the springtails tolerated a greater loss of body water. Relative to animals maintained at 100% RH, a mild drought acclimation at 98.2% RH significantly increased subsequent desiccation tolerance. Drought acclimation was accompanied by the synthesis and accumulation of several sugars and polyols that could function to stabilize membranes and proteins during dehydration. Drought acclimation may permit C. antarcticus to maintain activity and thereby allow sufficient time to utilize behavioral strategies to reduce water loss during periods of reduced moisture availability. The springtails were also susceptible to desiccation at subzero temperatures in equilibrium with the vapor pressure of ice; they lost approximately 40% of their total body water over 28 d when cooled to -3.0 degrees C. The concentration of solutes in the remaining body fluids as a result of dehydration, together with the synthesis of several osmolytes, dramatically increased the body fluid osmotic pressure. This increase corresponded to a depression of the melting point to approximately -2.2 degrees C, and may therefore allow C. antarcticus to survive much of the Antarctic winter in a cryoprotectively dehydrated state.     

Geotaxis in the springtail Folsomia candida

Laboratory assays demonstrated the presence of a small positive geotaxis response to a 15° incline by Folsomia candida Willem (Collembola: Isotomidae). Negative phototaxis played an additive role to positive geotaxis when the experimental apparatus were exposed to light. The geotactic response was negatively affected by cold acclimation and decreasing surrounding temperature, but unaffected by food deprivation. The reduced mobility of springtails at low temperature did not seem to play a role in the corresponding decreased geotaxis. The low level of geotaxis and its further decrease with exposure to low temperature support an earlier suggestion that F. candida do not respond to cooling temperatures of fall by relocation to warmer deeper soil layers, but remain in the upper soil layers and increase their cold tolerance to continue foraging in the food‐rich upper soil layers.     

Characterization of an 80-kDa dehydrin-like protein in barley responsive to cold acclimation

Barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) exposed to low temperature increases its freezing tolerance. This increase has been associated with several metabolic changes caused by low temperature, including expression of dehydrins (DHN), a family of proteins induced by dehydration and cold acclimation. DHNs play an undetermined role in dehydration responses during freezing. We have studied the accumulation of an 80-kDa DHN-like protein (P-80) in barley under cold acclimation 6/4°C (day/night), postulating that it is localized in tissues where primary ice nucleation occurs. P-80 was absent in nonacclimated plants and was detectable after 48 h of cold acclimation, reaching a stable level after 6 days. P-80 decreased when plants were returned to 20–25°C. Drought, ABA and high temperature did not increase the levels of P-80, suggesting that its expression could be specifically regulated by cold. Immunolocalization by tissue printing and fresh cross sections of leaves showed the protein to be associated with vascular tissues and epidermis. The localization of P-80 is consistent with our hypothesis because vascular tissue and the epidermis are preferential ice nucleation zones during the onset of freezing. The differential accumulation of P-80 may have an adaptive value by participating in tolerance mechanisms during freeze-induced dehydration.     

Temporal cell wall changes during cold acclimation and deacclimation and their potential involvement in freezing tolerance and growth

Plants adapt to freezing stress through cold acclimation, which is induced by nonfreezing low temperatures and accompanied by growth arrest. A later increase in temperature after cold acclimation leads to rapid loss of freezing tolerance and growth resumption, a process called deacclimation. Appropriate regulation of the trade-off between freezing tolerance and growth is necessary for efficient plant development in a changing environment. The cell wall, which mainly consists of polysaccharide polymers, is involved in both freezing tolerance and growth. Still, it is unclear how the balance between freezing tolerance and growth is affected during cold acclimation and deacclimation by the changes in cell wall structure and what role is played by its monosaccharide composition. Therefore, to elucidate the regulatory mechanisms controlling freezing tolerance and growth during cold acclimation and deacclimation, we investigated cell wall changes in detail by sequential fractionation and monosaccharide composition analysis in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, for which a plethora of information and mutant lines are available. We found that arabinogalactan proteins and pectic galactan changed in close coordination with changes in freezing tolerance and growth during cold acclimation and deacclimation. On the other hand, arabinan and xyloglucan did not return to nonacclimation levels after deacclimation but stabilized at cold acclimation levels. This indicates that deacclimation does not completely restore cell wall composition to the nonacclimated state but rather changes it to a specific novel composition that is probably a consequence of the loss of freezing tolerance and provides conditions for growth resumption.     

植物抗寒及其基因表达研究进展

植物经过逐渐降低的温度从而提高抗寒能力 ,这个过程被人们称为低温驯化。植物低温驯化过程是一个复杂的生理、生化和能量代谢变化过程 ,这些变化主要包括膜系统的稳定性、可溶性蛋白的积累和小分子渗透物质 ,比如脯氨酸、糖等 ,这些变化中的一些是植物抗寒必需的 ,而另外一些变化不是必需的。主要对冷害和低温生理生化变化、低温诱导表达基因的功能和作用、低温驯化的调节机制及其信号转导方面进行了综述。通过差别筛选 c DNA文库的方法已经鉴定了许多低温诱导表达、进而提高植物抗寒能力的基因 ,其中有脱水素、COR基因和 CBF1转录因子等。低温信号的感受、转导和调节表达是低温驯化的关键环节 ,低温信号的转导过程与干旱胁迫之间具有一定的交叉 ,这为利用 ABA等来提高植物抗寒能力成为可能 ,相信不久的将来人们可以通过提高植物抗寒能力从而增加经济产量成为现实。     

Habitat temperature and the temporal scaling of cold hardening in the high Arctic collembolan, Hypogastrura tullbergi (Schäffer)

Abstract.  1. Cold tolerance is a fundamental adaptation of insects to high latitudes. Flexibility in the cold hardening process, in turn, provides a useful indicator of the extent to which polar insects can respond to spatial and temporal variability in habitat temperature.
2. A scaling approach was adopted to investigate flexibility in the cold tolerance of the high Arctic collembolan, Hypogastrura tullbergi , over different time-scales. The cold hardiness of animals was compared from diurnal warming and cooling phases in the field, and controlled acclimation and cooling treatments in the laboratory. Plasticity in acclimation responses was examined using three parameters: low temperature survival, cold shock survival, and supercooling points (SCPs).
3. Over time-scales of 24–48 h, both field animals from warm diurnal phases and laboratory cultures from a 'warm' acclimation regime (18 °C) consistently showed greater or equivalent cold hardiness to animals from cool diurnal phases and acclimation regimes (3 °C).
4. No significant evidence was found of low temperature acclimation after either hours or days of low temperature exposure. The cold hardiness of H. tullbergi remained 'seasonal' in character and mortality throughout was indicative of the summer state of acclimatization.
5. These data suggest that H. tullbergi employs an 'all or nothing' cryoprotective strategy, cold hardening at seasonal but not diel-temporal scales.
6. It is hypothesised that rapid cold hardening offers little advantage to these high Arctic arthropods because sub-zero habitat temperatures during the summer on West Spitsbergen are rare and behavioural migration into soil profiles offers sufficient buffering against low summer temperatures.     

Environmental regulation and physiological basis of freezing tolerance in woody plants

Cold acclimation of plants is a complex process involving a number of biochemical and physiological changes. The ability to cold acclimate is under genetic control. The development of freezing tolerance in woody plants is generally triggered by non-freezing low temperatures but can also be induced by mild drought or exogenous abscisic acid, as well as by short photoperiod. In nature, the extreme freezing tolerance of woody plants is achieved during sequential stages of cold acclimation the first of which is initiated by short photoperiods and non-freezing low temperatures, and the second by freezing temperatures. Although recent breakthroughs have increased our knowledge on the physiological molecular basis of freezing tolerance in herbaceous species, which acclimate primarily in response to non-freezing low temperatures, very little is known about cold acclimation of woody plants. This article attempts to review our current understanding of the physiological aspects that underline cold acclimation in woody plants.     

Physiology of drought tolerance and cold hardiness of the Mediterranean tiger moth Cymbalophora pudica during summer diapause

Prepupae of the arctiid moth Cymbalophora pudica spend spring and summer months in a summer diapause (aestivation), the duration of which is photoperiodically controlled. Cold hardiness, drought tolerance and some physiological and biochemical parameters were measured in aestivating prepupae. Large amounts of metabolic reserves, in the form of lipids and glycogen, accumulated prior to aestivation. Glycogen served as the main metabolic fuel for aestivating prepupae. Metabolic rate decreased rapidly after the onset of the inactive prepupal stage and remained low (5-15% of the level in active larva) during aestivation. A spontaneous increase of the respiration rate occurred before pupation. Neither low mol. wt sugars or alcohols (polyols) accumulated nor the haemolymph osmotic pressure changed during aestivation. Drought tolerance of aestivating prepupae was high (no decrease in survival after exposure to r.h.<10% at a temperature of 23 degrees C for a substantial part of diapause) owing to their extensive capacity to stabilize the relative body water content irrespective of the r.h. of surrounding air. Cold hardiness was low (>90% decrease in survival after exposure to -7 degrees C for 24h). Cold and drought acclimations did not lead to significant changes in the measured physiological and biochemical parameters but cold (not drought) acclimation caused a significant increase in cold hardiness. Neither drought tolerance nor the increase in cold hardiness after cold acclimation appear to be related to presence/accumulation of polyols in aestivating C. pudica prepupae.     

Cryoprotective dehydration is widespread in Arctic springtails

Cryoprotective dehydration (CPD) is a cold tolerance strategy employed by small invertebrates that readily lose water by evaporation when subjected to sub-zero temperatures in the presence of ice. Until now, relatively few species have been investigated using methods by which CPD can be shown. In the present study we investigated the cold tolerance strategy of seven soil arthropod species from the high Arctic Spitzbergen, and compared water content and water loss, body fluid melting points (MP) and survival under cold and desiccating conditions. We tested the hypothesis that CPD is a commonly occurring cold hardiness strategy among soil arthropods. We found that four springtail species (Hypogastrura viatica, Folsomia quadrioculata, Oligaphorura groenlandica and Megaphorura arctica; Collembola) went through severe dehydration and MP equilibration with ambient temperature, and thus overwinter by employing CPD, whereas a beetle (Atheta graminicola) and one of the springtails (Isotoma anglicana) were typical freeze avoiding species over-wintering by supercooling. Desiccation tolerance of the red velvet mite (Neomolgus littoralis) was also investigated; very low water loss rates of this species indicated that it does not survive winter by use of CPD. All in all, the results of the present study confirm the hypothesis that CPD is an effective over-wintering strategy which is widespread within soil arthropods.