广西十万大山蕨类植物区系特征及垂直分布的数量研究

十万大山植物区系位于北回归线以南,蕨类植物非常丰富,现已发现５２仲、１１３属、２６４种。区系地理成分复杂多样,属可以划分１１种类型（变型）,可种可以划分为１４种类型（变型）。本区系具有明显的热带亲缘,热带分布属占８１．４２％,热带分布种占６６．７７％。亚洲热带分布及其变型占有较大的比例,表明本区系与亚洲热带植物区系特别是中南半岛区系有密切的亲缘关系。区系地理成分有明显的垂直分布规律,聚类分析的结果     

西双版纳龙脑香林与热带亚洲和中国热带北缘地区动植物区系的关系

西双版纳龙脑香林具有与热带亚洲的龙脑香林完全一致的植物科的组成,绝大多数的属也与后者共有,特别是在乔木层的区系组成和数量特征上,二者很类似,表明西双版纳龙脑香林在植物区系性质上归属于热带亚洲龙脑香林,但为后者的一种北缘类型。与中国热带边缘地区的其中的种数,按占科的世界区系百分比,还是按重要值指数,西双版纳龙脑香林中热带科均占有显著地位,并且包含有较高比例的热带亚洲分布属和种,故认为它是中国热带北缘     

中国小煤炱目生态及区系成分分析

对中国小煤炱目的的种类组成、生态分布及寄主和区系地理成分进行了研究。中国小煤炱目有7属,341种和变种,占世界的15％;优势属是小煤炱属（239种和变种,占70．1％）,小光壳炱属（54种和变种,占15．8％）和附丝壳属（22种和变种,6．4％）。中国小煤炱目主要分布在热带亚热带地区,76．8％的寄主植物属属于热带成分。种的分布型可分广布成分（0．3％）、泛热带成分（7．3％）、热带亚洲－热带美洲成分（9．1％）、旧世界热带成分（0．3％）、热带亚洲－热带大洋洲成分（2．1％）、热带亚洲－热带非洲成分（16．1％）、热带亚洲成分（34％）、北温带成分（0．6％）、东亚－北美洲成分（0．3％）、东亚成分（1．7％）、中国特有成分（28．2％）等11种类型;表现出明显的热带成分（68．9％）和中国特有成分;在分布上,与东亚、北温带区系相距较远。     

楝科（Meliaceae）的地理分布

楝科为泛热带分布科,全世界有５１属,约５５０—６００种,分布于旧世界热带地区有４６属,热带美洲有８属．热带亚洲和热带非洲为楝科两大现代分布中心．中国楝科共１５属,６１种,占世界属总数的２９％,种总数的１０％。中国楝科的分布是在全球楝科分布区的边缘,主要分布于中国西南部及南部诸省,种类由西南向东南递减。中国楝科属的分布区类型可归为５类：１．热带亚洲、非洲和中南美洲间断分布（１属）;２．旧世界热带分布（３属）;３,热带亚洲至热带大洋洲分布（２属）;４．热带亚洲至热带非洲分布（１属）;５．热带亚洲分布（８属）。中国楝科种的分布区类型仅有２类：１．热带亚洲分布（３１种）;２．中国特有分布（３０种）。楝科植物的起源推断在早白垩纪。中国楝科植物由印度—马来西亚成分及特有成分组成。热带亚洲的楝科植物主要是通过中南半岛和中国云南。广西和海南等地发生联系,而菲律宾和台湾之间可有直接的联系。     

云南蕨类植物的物种多样性和区系组成

在一定实地调查和分类的基础上,采用统计分析及区系地理分析法,对云南地区蕨类植物进行研究。结果表明:云南地区共有蕨类植物60科193属1 530种(包括变种和变型),科、属、种分别占中国蕨类植物科总数的58.8%,属的83.9%和种的95.2%;在这60个科中含30种以上的有13个,含5个属以上的有11个,分别占该蕨类植物区系属、种数的56.5%和79.2%,特别是鳞毛蕨科、蹄盖蕨科、水龙骨科和金星蕨科,这4个科共拥有70属761种,分别占总属数、总种数的36.3%、49.7%;193属中含30种以上的有11个,分别占总属、总种数的5.7%和41.7%,最具优势的是鳞毛蕨属和耳蕨属、蹄盖蕨属、铁角蕨属、卷柏属,这5个属共有403种,占总种数的26.3%;该区系中无云南特有科,但具有4个亚洲特有科:雨蕨科、稀子蕨科、柄盖蕨科和骨碎补科;该区系以热带、亚热带性质为主,科的区系成分中热带亚热带分布的科占66.6%,热带成分的属有112个,占68.7%(除世界分布类型);该区系是东亚地区蕨类植物区系的重要组成部分,东亚分布31属和中国特有分布6属,分别占总属数(除世界分布属外)的19.0%和3.7%;该地区蕨类植物区系与西藏、台湾具有共同的区系起源和物种分化形成的背景,属的相似性系数约为70%,种的相似性系数约为30%,均起源于热带亚热带地区;属的热带区系成分与温带区系成分所占比例分别为68.7%和27.6%,存在一定的区系过渡性;该区系科的分化强度为3.2,属的分化强度为7.9,在科、属水平上均表现出较强的区系分化特征。     

江西井冈山自然保护区药用种子植物区系研究

江西省井冈山自然保护区共分布有药用种子植物 1 67科 ,含 5 2 9属 1 1 2 5种 (包括变种、变型 )。 1 67科可划分为 9个分布区类型 ,其中热带性科为 81科 ,占总科数的 63 .78% (除世界分布 ) ,温带性科为 46科 ,占总科数的 3 6.2 2 % ,热带性科占优势。 5 2 9属可划分为 1 4个分布区类型和变型。热带分布及其变型共 2 2 8属 ,占47.80 % (除世界分布型 ) ,其中泛热带分布及其变型共 1 0 8属 ,占总属数的 2 2 .85 % ,占热带分布属的 5 3 .5 1 % ,是本区中占主导地位的区系成分。温带分布及其变型共 2 3 8属 ,占 49.89%。中国特有属含 1 1属 ,占总属数的2 .3 1 %。该区系具有各种区系成分并存、区系中古老性成分与新特有成分并存、与世界各地联系广泛而复杂的特征。在植物区系的分区上 ,井冈山处于从亚热带至温带间的过渡地带     

金佛山自然保护区蕨类植物资源与区系初步研究

金佛山自然保护区共计有野生蕨类植物46科107属458种(含亚种和变种)。在科的区系成分中单种科14个,少型科(2~5种)16个,多种科(包含6~19种)12个,大科(20~49种)1个,特大科(50种以上)3个,分别占金佛山蕨类植物总科数的30.43%、34.78%、26.09%、2.17%和6.53%;其中热带分布占总科数的54.35%;在属的区系成分中,具12个分布区类型,单种属和少种属数量多;热带成分丰富,包含55属,占总属数的51.40%;特有现象明显,地方特有种十分丰富;属的区系与武陵山和大巴山关系最为密切,与九华山、化龙山、齐云山和云山关系疏远;东亚分布、世界广布、热带亚洲至热带非洲间断分布及北温带分布型对该区系性质的影响最大,热带亚洲分布型和东亚北美间断分布型的影响最小;该区系具有古老、孑遗和原始性等特点,验证了金佛山地区处于我国三大特有现象中心之一的鄂西—川东特有现象中心的观点。     

福建省肖叶甲科属种分布类型与动物地理格局(鞘翅目)

研究福建省肖叶甲科属与种的分布类型,动物地理成分以及该省与其他地区的区系关系,发现该省的肖叶甲科属级单元以南方成分为主,兼有南北广布成分,无典型的北方属;种的分布以亚洲季风区分布型（包括五种亚型）为主。兼有热带亚洲分布型以及少量的亚洲广布和北方型种。     

云南热带森林的区系组成特点与分布

本文试图通过对滇南森林的区系分析,论证主要森林植物属亚洲热带森林的组成部分,但由于纬度和海拔都达到了极限范围,又具有明显的地区性特点。 文章从植被分布的一般规律出发,以森林的区系组成为重点,应用习见的50种植物和某些纯热带分布科属的具体分析,得到了滇南热带森林的分布北介,并将全部植物归并为四种分布区类型,即滇南泛热区型、滇东南热区型、滇西南热区型、滇南热区型。并以此为依据,将滇南植被区分为滇东南、滇西南和滇南三个植被小区。     

云南鱼类三新纪录及驮娘江鱼类的区系存在度分析

2005年8月,对云南富宁县驮娘江流域的鱼类进行了考察,采集到鱼类标本38种,发现云南鱼类3新记录：胡鮈（Huigobio chenhsienensiss Fang）、宽头盘鮈 （Discogobio laticeps Chu, Cui ＆ Zhou）、圆体爬岩鳅 （Beaufortia cyclica Chen）。结合历史记录和中国科学院昆明动物研究所鱼类标本馆馆藏的驮娘江流域的鱼类标本,对驮娘江鱼类的目、科、属三个级别进行区系存在度分析。区系存在度分析显示：一些世界性分布的科和属,在驮娘江分布的种类并不很多,相反,一些具有地方性分布和小的科和属,其区系存在度相对较大。长臀鮠科（Cranoglanididae）为中国华南区－越南特有的科,其区系存在度为100%。结鱼属（Parator）和红鲌属（Erythroculter）为单种属,区系存在度为100%,结鱼属是中国特有属,主要分布在珠江水系,红鲌属鱼类主要分布在亚洲南部。这些地方性分布的小科属更能反映本地区的鱼类区系特征,即亚洲亚热带淡水鱼类区系。     

Ectogenesis and the case against the right to the death of the foetus

Ectogenesis, or the use of an artificial womb to allow a foetus to develop, will likely become a reality within a few decades, and could significantly affect the abortion debate. We first examine the implications for Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist analogy, which argues for a woman’s right to withdraw life support from the foetus and so terminate her pregnancy, even if the foetus is granted full moral status. We show that on Thomson’s reasoning, there is no right to the death of the foetus, and abortion is not permissible if ectogenesis is available, provided it is safe and inexpensive. This raises the question of whether there are persuasive reasons for the right to the death of the foetus that could be exercised in the context of ectogenesis. Eric Mathison and Jeremy Davis have examined several arguments for this right, doubting that it exists, while Joona Räsänen has recently criticized their reasoning. We respond to Räsänen’s analysis, concluding that his arguments are unsuccessful, and that there is no right to the death of the foetus in these circumstances.     

On the diversity of the Cladocera in the tropics

The mythical concept of an impoverished tropical cladoceran fauna is refuted. On a planetary scale, around half of the cladoceran species presently known occur exclusively in the tropics-subtropics, often with considerable restriction to particular geographical subzones. On a regional (political) scale, the situation is often unclear because of the continued fragmentary nature of studies, and because political units are not a good basis for biogeographical comparisons. At the finest level of resolution (lake-perlake comparisons), there appears to be an upper limit of c. 50 cladoceran species per individual lake. No significant difference between lakes in the temperate zone and in the tropics could be established here. Daphnia is largely absent from the tropics, but is replaced by more Sidids, Moinids, and Bosminids, such that the average cladoceran community in the limnetic zone of a tropical lake is not characterized by less species but rather by lower population densities. This, in turn, is considered a consequence of higher prevalent predation levels in the tropics.     

Tubular networks in the terminal endings of the visual receptor cells in the human,the monkey,the cat and the dog

Summary A tubular network was found in the terminal endings of the visual receptor cells in the human, the monkey (Macaca mulatta), the cat and the dog. These tubules are arranged in close groups in the vicinity of the synaptic lamellae and the invaginated dendrites. According to the form, diameter, density of the tubules and to the consistence of the network formed by them one can distinguish at these places an initial type (type I), a transitory (type II) and a vesicular one (type III). In the the type III branching, bizarre forms are frequent. The diameter of all the tubules reaches 500–600 Å, their density and walls being the same as in the synaptic vesicles.Similar networks also occur in the axons of the visual receptor cells of the monkey.

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Zusammenfassung In den Endigungen der Photorezeptorzellen von Mensch, Affe (Macaca mulatta), Katze und Hund kommen aus Tubuli bestehende Komplexe vor. Organellenartig in geschlossenen Gruppen angeordnet, liegen sie in Nähe der synaptischen Lamellen und der invaginierten Dendriten. An diesen Stellen kann man nach Form, Durchmesser, Dichte und Konsistenz der von den Tubuli gebildeten Komplexe drei Typen unterscheiden: 1. einen initialen (Typus I), 2. einen Übergangstypus (Typus II) und 3. einen vesiculären Typus (Typus III). In letzterem kommen häufig verzweigte, bizarre Formen vor. Der Durchmesser sämtlicher Tubuli erreicht 500–600 Å. Ihre Dichte und ihre Wand gleicht denen der synaptischen Vesikel.Ähnliche Komplexe fanden wir auch in den Axonen der Photorezeptorzellen vom Affen.

     

Assessing the Physiological State of the Fucoids from the Barents Sea Littoral by the End of the Polar Night

Methods of amperometry and potentiometric titration were used to follow dark respiration (DR) and apparent photosynthesis (AP) in the fucoids Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jol, Fucus vesiculosus L., and F. serratus L. from the Barents Sea littoral by the end of the 40-day-long polar night. The macroalgae were shown to manifest species-specific low rates of photosynthesis and respiration. However, in spite of their low photosynthetic status due to the effects of subzero temperature and prolonged low or zero illumination, the macroalgae have been able to restore DR and AP to the initial level already by the day 9; the ability to restore AP depended on the level of illumination. The study of the changes in the carbonate–bicarbonate system in the light and darkness demonstrated that the macroalgae grown in darkness, in contrast to those grown in twilight, could absorb bicarbonate in darkness; however, they lost this capacity after two-day-long illumination at an irradiance of 7 mol/(m² s). Bicarbonate uptake in darkness and the capacity to restore the systems of photosynthesis and respiration in fucoid cells are discussed in the context of algal energy metabolism under the polar night conditions.     

Arranging the elements of the potassium channel: the T1 domain occludes the cytoplasmic face of the channel

The voltage-gated potassium channel is currently one of the few membrane proteins where functional roles have been mapped onto specific segments of sequence. Although high-resolution structures of the transmembrane portions of three bacterial potassium channels, the tetramerization domain and the cytoplasmic ball are available, their relative spatial arrangement in mammalian channels remains a matter of ongoing debate. Cryo-electron microscopic images of the six transmembrane voltage-gated Kv channel have been reconstructed at up to 18 Å resolution, revealing that the T1 domain tetramerizes and is suspended below the transmembrane segments. However, the resolution of these images is insufficient to reveal the location of the third piece of the puzzle, the inactivating ball domain. We have used the aberrant interactions observed in a series of chimæric channels to establish that an assembled T1 domain restricts access to the cytoplasmic face of the channel, suggesting that the N-terminal ball and chain may be confined in the space between the T1 domain and the transmembrane portion of the channel.     

Separation of the pineal vesicle from the wall of the third ventricle during the post-hatching development of the chicken

Summary According to light- and electron-microscopic observations the pineal organ of the 3-day-old chicken consists of a prominent end vesicle and a tapering parenchymal stalk. During this stage the pineal lumen is in open communication with the third ventricle. However, in the 40-day-old chicken, which still possesses a well-developed end vesicle, the proximal portion of the pineal stalk displays regressive changes leading to local fragmentation. At this stage the pineal stalk is reduced, and the pineal lumen is missing. In 1-year-old chickens the parenchyma of the proximal portion of the stalk is further diminished, and in 3-year-old domestic fowl is completely displaced by bundles of collagenous fibers, only some nerve fibers being present. This post-hatching pineal development may reflect the sequence of changes leading from pineal sense organs to pineal glands.This work was supported by a grant-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan     

On the Dependence of the Quadratic Risk of the Classical Predictor and the Prediction-Horizon

When constructing predictors on the basis of the linear model of time series of various indicators often the question arises on the dependence of forecasting accuracy and the changing prediction horizon. The dependency of the quadratic risk of the classical predictor and the time horizon is considered.