学习进化论 改造生物界——评介《生物进化论》

生物进化论是生物科学的一门基本理论,它所研究的主要课题是:地球上的生命是如何发生的?形形色色的生物又是怎样进化而来的?人类能否通过实践和怎样通过实践控制生物的发展和进化?人民教育出版社出版的《生物进化论》(河北师范大学生物系遗传育种教研组编,1975年1月第一版)一书,对上述问题作了比较系统而简要的说明,是学习生     

协同物种形成及其生物学意义

自达尔文与华莱士以来的每位生物学家都承认种间生态学作用对进化的意义。1964年,埃利希和雷文提出了协同进化理论。它反映了生态学相关的不同物种之间的相互作用引起的相互进化。这一理论引起了研究者的广泛重视。近年来,随着进化生态研究的深入发展,学者们对进化过程的生态机制以及生态特性与生态关系进化规律、种间生态学作用引起的物种形成有了进一步的认识。本文仅从协同物种形成的概念出发,对协同物种形成的生态机制以及生物学意义作一简要概述。协同物种形成的概念进化在本质上是一种生态过程,是生物与环境、生物与生物之间相互作用的结果。种群分化的生态机制和物种形成的本质在于对生存条件的逐步适应。按照协同进化理论,物种间的相互作用引起的协同适应     

浅谈“进化生态学”

进化生态学是一门新兴学科。关于生态学、进化论以及进化生物学的著作汗牛充栋,而关于进化生态学的著作却如凤毛麟角,难以寻觅。为什么？因为进化生态学是结合进化生物学和生态学的边缘学科,前者是研究物种起源、演化的科学,后者是研究生物与环境之间关系的科学;一门...     

生态进化论

生态是生物与其物理环境的对立统一体,它和生物一样也存在着由低级到高级、由简单到复杂的进化历程,即生态进化(Ecological Evolution)。研究生态进化的理论称为生态进化论。生态进化的根本是生态系统的进化,即系统内部生物类别、营养结构、能量循环和物质循环的进化。生态演替(Ecological Succession)是生态进化的基础,它是一短时限的过程,主要有三个方面的内容:(1)它是群落发展有顺序的过程,包括物种组成和群落随时间的改变,有规律地向一定方向发展。(2)它是由群落引起物理环境改变的结果。也就是说,虽然物理环境决定演替类型、变化速度和延续时限,但演替是受群落     

试论达尔文进化论与协同进化论

进化在本质上是一种生态过程,达尔文进化论是人类对生物界进化认识的巨大成就,但它不恰当地把生存斗争当作进化的主要动力和普遍的原则,当代基于生态多样性的协同进化论认为生物进化包括相互受益的相互制约机制,优胜劣汰的生存斗争只是制机制中的一种机制,人类必须维护生物多样性和生物圈的协同进化,同自然界和谐、协同发展。     

植物对环境的生物化学适应——兼介绍哈鲍恩的《生态生物化学导论》

自1895年E.Warming的《植物生态学》一书的出版,标志着植物生态学萌芽时期的结束。随着20世纪生产的发展和科学新时期的来临,植物生态学在全世界范围内迅速地发展起来,特别是近代,由于数学、物理学和化学纷纷浸透到生态学领域中来,相继形成了数学生态学、生态物理学和化学生态学等等分支学科。我们要讨论的是生态生物化学的一个重要部分,即植物对环境的生物化学适应。生态学与生物化学似乎是截然不同的两个学科,但二者的结合在近年已得到了惊人的成果。为此,本文同时简要介绍1977年英国出版的啥鲍恩(J.B.Harborne)所著的《生态生物化学导论》,因为生态生物化学是近十多年才迅速发展起来的。     

《生态学》简介

现代生态学的中心就是探讨生物有机体在地球上的分布和数量规律,它既具有环境科学的特征,同时又具备进化生物学的特征。近二十年来,生态学中最重要的进展之一当推进化生态学的掘起。因为生物有机体的最基本特征之一就是在同环境的生存斗争中竭尽全力保持种的生存和繁衍,因此生物的适应、进化是生态学研究的核心问题之一。美国著名动物生态学家Paul Colinuaux教授编著的《生态学,(《Ecology》)一书就是以进化生态学为主线的一本优秀的普通生态学教科书,该书内容极为丰富,几乎涉及了现代生态学的所有领域,书中阐述的一些内容,如:生物能量学与生物适应性、生态系统与社会系统,生态系统能量学、     

植物微生态学的定义

微生态学(microecology)这一术语,是德国学者沃尔克·鲁斯(Volker Rusch)博士于1977年首次提出,并于1985年给“微生态学”下定义为“微生态学是细胞水平或分子水平的生态学”。中国康白教授于1988年在《微生态学》一书中为“微生态学”下定义为“研究正常微生物群与其宿主相互关系的生命科学分支。”微生物与植物的关系,在微生态学中是最典型、最原始和最明显的微生态学关系。     

《行为生态学分析》简介

《行为生态学分析》(Analysis in Behavioral Ecology)一书,由美国乔治·梅森大学的Luther Brown和俄亥俄州大学的Jerry F.Downhower教授共同编著,于1988年由马萨诸塞州Sinauer联合出版公司出版,它是为从事动物生态学实验和野外工作者编著的一本实用性很强的指导手册。行为生态学的研究途径很多,从畜牧业的实践方法到心理学的比较方法,直到生物学的进化途径。每种途径都有各自所要解决的问题体系,有各自不同的分析和解释方法。本书所涉及的是进化途径,这是一种从生态学、特性论、进化理论、种群生物学、遗传学以及从不同意义上同生物生存和     

浅谈"协同进化"

“协同进化”(Coevolution)一词是 196 4年 Ehrhich和 Raven在《Evolution》(进化 )杂志上正式首次提出 ,用以阐述昆虫与植物 (蝴蝶及其采食植物之间 )进化历程中的相互关系。现已广泛用于描述自然界中相互之间有密切关系的物种 (甚至器官 )的进化模式 ,是进化生物学、系统学、生态学乃至发育生物学等学科的一个研究热点。援引《Biology》(Starr主编 ,1994 ,第 2版 )中的定义 ,协同进化是指自然生境中两个或多个物种 ,由于生态上的密切联系 ,其进化历程相互依赖 ,当一个物种进化时 ,物种间的选择压力发生改变 ,其他物种将发生与之相适应…     

FACTORY, FAMILY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INFORMAL LABOUR IN SHEFFIELD

This article explores the experience of formal and informal steel labour in the contexts of the factory, the family, and the neighbourhood in 'Endcliffe', an ex-industrial district of Sheffield, UK. The article reiterates Claude Meillassoux's claim, in his book Maidens , meal and money , that the informal economy is an ideological space for the cheap reproduction of labour in the interests of capital. Nevertheless, it also examines subjective and ethnographic understandings of the meanings of 'capital' and 'labour' and of the political nature of their shifting boundaries. In Endcliffe, capitalist subcontracting, state welfare, and economic policies of local regeneration have increased the informalization and casualization of steel labour and blurred the social spaces of the factory, the family, and the neighbourhood. The increased permeability between formal and informal economic processes and the re-embeddedness of production in the social and political texture of the neighbourhood tangles idioms of kinship and capitalist ideologies of production and turns the structural conflict between 'capital' and 'labour' into a generational and gender conflict within the working class. The article shows that the 'New Labour' government's attempt to transform Britain into a post-industrial and classless society has paradoxically fostered the re-emergence of ancient modes of production and forms of bonded labour.     

河岸带生态系统植被与土壤对水文变化的响应研究进展

河岸带的植被与土壤是生态系统重要组成部分,对于维持河岸带的生态健康、生态系统服务与可持续性具有至关重要的作用。水文变化是河岸带生态系统的首要干扰因子,系统总结了水文变化对河岸带植被的特征以及植被形态、群落分布、繁殖、生存策略的影响,并阐述了河岸带水文和植被对土壤氮磷迁移转化的影响机制。根系作为土壤与植物地上部分之间物质、能量流动与信号传导的关键纽带,目前对根系的研究还较欠缺,需要加强水文变化对河岸带湿地植物根系形态、结构、功能特征的影响机理研究,以及湿地植物对水文变化的适应机制和耐受阈值方面的探究。在微观方面,应加强水文变化与植被等多因素耦合对土壤氮磷迁移转化过程的机理研究。河流形态和土壤的多样性决定着河岸带水文作用特征的复杂性,今后需注重河岸带个性特征与水文响应的关系研究。河岸带是横向的水陆生态过渡带和河流上下游的纵向生态廊道,亟需综合考虑和模拟流域土壤、植被与水文、人类活动之间的耦合关系,预测未来气候与社会经济情境下的河岸带生态系统演变规律,为河岸带生态系统的生态调节、生物多样性保护与生态恢复等提供理论依据与技术支撑。     

Structure of the tail fin in teleosts

The influence of adrenalectomy and administration of hypertonic saline on the amount of vasopressin, oxytocin, and neurophysin contained in the median eminence and the neural lobe of rats was studied by means of the following methods: (i) morphometric and microphotometric analyses of aldehyde fuchsin-stained histological sections of the neurohypophysis; (ii) immunohistochemical demonstration of vasopressin, oxytocin, and neurophysin in the neurohypophysis, and (iii) radioimmunological measurement of vasopressin and oxytocin in extracts of the median eminence and the neural lobe. Adrenalectomy increases the amount of vasopressin and neurophysin in the external layer of the median eminence but does not change the content of oxytocin. It has no influence on the amount of vasopressin, oxytocin, and neurophysin demonstrable in the inner layer of the median eminence and in the neural lobe two weeks after the operation. Hypertonic saline markedly diminishes the vasopressin, oxytocin, and neurophysin content of the inner layer of the median eminence and the neural lobe but reduces only slightly, if at all, the amount of vasopressin and neurophysin in the outer layer of the median eminence. The findings support the concept that osmotic stress reduces only the vasopressin and oxytocin content of the hypothalamus-neural lobe system and has no or only little influence on the vasopressin content of the outer layer of the median eminence.     

增温背景下克氏针茅枯黄期物候对降水响应的光合生理机制

基于红外线辐射增温与控水相结合的原位模拟试验资料,分析了克氏针茅(Stipa krylovii)枯黄期对水热变化响应的光合生理机制。结果表明: 增温背景下降水是枯黄期的主要影响因子,增水(减水)导致枯黄始期和枯黄盛期的发生时间均延迟(提前),枯黄期持续时间均延长,减水处理对枯黄期持续时间的延长作用更显著。增温背景下,降水变化显著影响枯黄期的生理生态特性,且在枯黄始期最为显著,净光合速率、气孔导度、蒸腾速率、核酮糖-1,5-二磷酸(RuBP)羧化的最大速率(V_{c max})、RuBP再生能力的最大速率(J_max)均与降水量呈显著正相关。通径分析表明,克氏针茅枯黄期的光合生理机制因水热变化的不同而异。当前环境条件下,枯黄期物候变化的主要影响因子是J_max,主要限制因子是V_{c max}。未来暖干和暖湿气候下枯黄期物候变化的主要影响因子均是V_{c max};但在暖干气候下主要限制因子为J_max,而在暖湿气候下则无限制因子。这表明克氏针茅枯黄期物候的变化取决于气候环境条件变化对其光合能力的影响。     

NMR spectroscopy for studying structure and intramolecular dynamics of modified analogs of steroid hormones

Special features of the use of homo- and heteronuclear correlation methods of NMR in one and two dimensions for studying the spatial structure and intramolecular dynamics of modified analogues of steroid hormones (MASH) are considered. The application of these methods to the assignment of resonances in the high-field 1H NMR region and to the determination of the most stereospecifically important parameters, such as the vicinal constants of spin-spin coupling (3JH-H) and nuclear Overhauser effects (NOE), are discussed using the example of NMR studies of some estrogens and androgens at 300 MHz and on the basis of literature data. The most efficient combination of the methods and the necessary modification of each of them may be chosen considering the spectral and relaxation parameters of MASH in liquid medium, including the anisotropy of the overall diffusive motion. The characteristics of MASH are the wide use of correlations through long-range couplings (COSY-45 and DQF-COSY), the application of the 4,5JH-H constants for the determination of spatial structure, and the advantage of heteronuclear HSQC methods with and without 13C decoupling over the corresponding HMQC methods in both resolution and sensitivity. In the conformationally rigid MASH molecules, the anisotropy of the MASH diffusive motion in liquid adversely affects the determination of interproton distances by the calibrating processing method for the NOE difference and NOESY spectra: it results in both overestimated and underestimated distance values depending on the polar angle ratios of the reference and the determined distances. Under certain conditions, conformationally mobile MASH demonstrate the additional contribution of the scalar relaxation mechanism between the indirectly (scalarly) bound protons. This mechanism is responsible for the underestimated values of NOE and the corresponding errors in the distance determination.     

An Ecosystem View of the Restoration of the Kissimmee River

Restoration of the Kissimmee River and floodplain ultimately will involve restoring 70 km of river channel and riparian zone and 11,000 ha of wetland over a period of two decades. Restoring ecosystem integrity is a crucial goal of the project, and the evaluation program is designed to assess the success of this endeavor. Major components of the riverine and floodplain ecosystem will be evaluated, guided by conceptual models of their structure and function. These studies will be referenced to historic conditions of the past and to present-day conditions in the channelized system. Enhanced connectivity and interactions between the river and floodplain, the interplay of abiotic and biotic variables, and interactions between trophic levels will restructure the channelized river and the largely drained floodplain that now exist. The key to evaluating the success of this ambitious project will be selecting measurements of the structure and function of the river and floodplain ecosystems that are responsive to this large-scale manipulation. The timing and duration of floodplain inundation, improved dissolved oxygen conditions, germination and establishment of wetland vegetation, and enhancement and expansion of rheophilic benthic invertebrate populations are critical initial elements of restoration. Further expected outcomes are an increase in the primary productivity of the ecosystem, expansion of the fish community into the reopened channels and onto the reflooded floodplain, and improved visitation and use by waterbirds in the restored regions. We highlight predictions of some of these key linkages and primary structural and functional attributes of the restored river and floodplain that should be measured.     

芒果炭疽菌研究进展

芒果炭疽病是芒果生长期和采后贮藏期的主要病害之一,严重影响芒果的产量和品质。本文从芒果炭疽病的症状、病原菌分类鉴定、生物学特性、侵染特性及致病机理等方面进行综述;针对芒果炭疽病症状复杂、我国芒果炭疽病病原菌未获详细而系统的研究,指出全面了解我国芒果炭疽病的病原菌种类及优势种群,明确我国芒果炭疽菌的致病力强弱,有助于研究该病的发生流行规律,为抗病材料的选育和抗病品种在田间的合理布局提供参考。提出对我国芒果炭疽菌的抗药性进行系统监测分析,可防止或减缓芒果炭疽菌对杀菌剂抗药性的产生,从而有效减少化学农药的用量,为研究芒果炭疽病绿色防控新策略、新方法和新药剂奠定基础。     

Study of the process of interaction of the causative agent with the cells of the body and with a macrophage culture in experimental typhoid infection and carrier state]

Experiments were conducted on 117 rabbits and cells of the macrophage cultures in vitro by the methods of clinico-laboratory, quantitative microbiological, immunological, electron microscopic and microcinematographic examination; a study was made of the interaction of the typhoid causative agent with the cells of the organism and the macrophage cultures and also of some aspects of the immune response during acute typhoid infection and carrier state. Infection was modelled by the enteral, subconjunctival and intrabonemarrow infection with 24-hour culture of the typhoid bacillus (strain Ty2 4446). Experiments demonstrated that structural reconstruction of both the causative agent and of the cells of the organism, of the culture macrophages and their organoids occurred in the course of the first hour after the infection. Homogenates of the lymphoid and myeloid tissues and also of the macrophages and polymorphonuclears possessed bactericidal activity against S. typhi. The degree of this activity largely depended on the pH of the medium. It was also shown that under conditions of the macrophage culture sodium aside inhibited the bactericidal activity of macrophages obtained from the intact and immune animals.     

红花玉兰MwAG基因在花发育不同时期的表达

MwAG基因是调控红花玉兰(Magnolia wufengensis)雌雄蕊发育的关键转录因子。采用半定量RT-PCR、Northern blot杂交和实时荧光定量PCR技术检测了MwAG基因在红花玉兰花芽形态分化几个关键时期表达的组织特异性和表达水平的变化。研究结果表明, MwAG基因仅在红花玉兰雌雄蕊中表达, 而在幼叶、外轮花被和内轮花被中不表达。在花器官形态分化过程中, MwAG基因在雌雄蕊原基分化期和雌雄蕊成熟期均维持在一个较高的水平, 且在雄蕊中的表达波峰早于雌蕊, 这与雌雄蕊形态分化的时间基本吻合; 在花芽分化早期, 相同大小的花芽, 瓣数越多, MwAG基因在雌雄蕊中的表达量越低, 其结果与不同瓣数雌雄蕊分化的时间一致, 即瓣数越多, 雌雄蕊分化越晚。     

Water and the cytoskeleton.

The diffusion of intracellular fluid and solutes is mainly limited by the density and the geometry of crossbridges between cytoskeletal polymers mediating the formation of an integrated cytoplasmic scaffold. Evidence for specific relationships between water and cytoskeletal polymers arises from the effect of heavy water on their polymerization process in vitro and on the cytoskeleton of living cells. The hydration of cytoskeletal subunits is modified through polymerization, a mechanism which may be involved in the direct contribution of the cytoskeleton to the osmotic properties of cells together with changes of hydration of polymers within networks. The dynamic properties of the hydration layer of cytoskeletal polymers may reflect the repetitive distribution of the surface charges of subunits within the polymer lattice, thus inducing a local and long range ordering of the diffusion flows of water and solutes inside polymer networks. The interactions between subunits in protofilaments and between protofilaments determine the specific viscoelastic properties of each type of polymer, regulated by associated proteins, and the mechanical properties of the cell through the formation of bundles and gels. Individual polymers are interconnected into dynamic networks through crossbridging by structural associated proteins and molecular motors, the activity of which involves cooperative interactions with the polymer lattice and likely the occurence of coordinated modifications of the hydration layer of the polymer surface. The cytoskeletal polymers are polyelectrolytes which constitute a large intracellular surface of condensed anionic charges and form a buffering structure for the sequestration of cations involved in the regulation of intracellular events. This property allows also the association of cytoplasmic enzymes and multimolecular complexes with the cytoskeleton, facilitating metabolic channelling and the localization of these complexes in specific subdomains of the cytoplasm. The consequences of interactions between membranes and the cytoskeleton in all cellular compartments range from the local immobilization and clustering of lipids and membrane proteins to the regulation of water and ion flows by the association of cytoskeletal subunits or polymers with transmembrane channels. The possibility that the polyelectrolyte properties of the cytoskeletal polymers contribute to the modulation of membrane potentials supports the hypothesis of a direct involvement of the cytoskeleton in intercellular communications.