川西高山森林不同时期土壤转化酶和脲酶活性对模拟气候变暖的响应

为了解气候变化对不同时期川西高山森林土壤生态过程的影响,于2010年5月—2011年4月期间,通过原状土柱移位实验,模拟理论增温1.78℃和3.52℃对岷江冷杉原始林(3582 m)土壤转化酶和脲酶活性的影响。结果表明,海拔下降284 m和559 m分别使全年平均气温实际增高1.39℃和2.64℃,但由于季节性雪被的影响,海拔降低559 m后土柱的土壤有机层和矿质土壤层的全年平均温度分别增加了0.84℃和0.82℃,而海拔降低284 m后土柱的土壤有机层和矿质土壤层的全年平均温度分别降低了0.55℃和0.56℃。随着海拔降低,土壤有机层和矿质土壤层的转化酶和脲酶活性均表现出明显的变化,且土壤有机层的变化幅度大于矿质土壤层。海拔降低284 m显著提高了两个土层生长季初期和冻结阶段(冻结初期和深冻期)的转化酶活性,而海拔降低559 m则显著提高了两个土层冻结阶段的脲酶活性。采样时期均温也在一定程度上影响了土壤转化酶和脲酶的活性,土壤有机层和矿质土壤层转化酶活性表现为从生长季初期到生长季末期显著下降,随后在冻结阶段和融化期显著升高并分别在深冻期和融化期达到全年最高;土壤脲酶活性表现为从生长季初期到深冻期显著增加,随后在融化期显著下降的过程。可见,受季节性雪被影响,不同关键时期的高山森林土壤转化酶和脲酶活性对模拟增温的响应不同。     

核桃园行内地面覆盖的土壤微域生态效应

为了探明核桃园行内地面覆盖的土壤微域生态环境效应、确立核桃园科学省力的土壤管理措施,以盛果期早实薄皮核桃‘绿岭’为试材,通过连续4 a的行内地面覆盖,研究了园地土壤的水分、通气、矿质营养及三大微生物区系等微域生态环境的状况,结果表明:通过连续四年覆盖,0—20 cm土层,覆盖牛粪、碎木屑、苜蓿处理及CK 2014年核桃生长期的土壤平均质量含水量的变异系数分别为9.27%、10.27%、12.15%和13.96%,最大变幅分别为1.86%、1.95%、2.17%和2.63%;20—40 cm土层,覆盖牛粪、碎木屑、苜蓿处理及CK的土壤平均质量含水量分别为13.23%、12.46%、11.77%和11.43%。覆盖牛粪、碎木屑、苜蓿及CK的0—60 cm土层的平均土壤容重为1.34、1.38、1.43 g/cm~3和1.48 g/cm~3,3类微生物总量分别为430.94×10~4、208.87×10~4、183.42×10~4个/g和160.46×10~4个/g。通过主成分分析对覆盖牛粪、碎木屑、苜蓿处理及CK的土壤肥力进行综合评价,得分分别为0.61、0.26、0.09和-0.96,各因子对土壤肥力水平的综合效应排序为:土壤有机质含量全氮含量全钾含量全磷含量土壤质量含水量孔隙度细菌数量真菌数量放线菌数量土壤容重。     

社会性注意的特异性认知神经机制

社会性注意对人类的社会交往甚至是生存发展都有至关重要的作用.近年来,研究者利用心理物理学实验范式(中央线索范式的变式)结合脑功能成像技术(ERP、f MRI、MEG等)以及神经心理学方法(脑损伤病人),系统探究了社会性注意在认知神经机制方面的特异性.社会线索(眼睛注视、头部朝向、生物运动行走方向)均能诱发独特的反射性注意定向效应,并且该注意效应在行为和神经层面上区别于非社会线索(箭头)诱发的注意效应.然而也有研究者对此提出质疑,因此有关社会性注意是否特异于非社会性注意仍然存在争议,有待进一步研究.社会性注意特异性认知神经机制的相关研究一方面能够为人类大脑中是否存在一个专门的"社会性注意探测器"提供证据,另一方面也为社会性注意在自闭症的早期诊断与干预中的应用提供实验依据,具有重要的理论意义和社会应用价值.     

武夷山常绿阔叶林土壤微生物多样性的季节动态

为了解武夷山自然保护区常绿阔叶林土壤微生物群落特征和季节变化,采用Illumina Miseq高通量测序技术分析了土壤微生物多样性的季节响应。结果表明,武夷山常绿阔叶林土壤为典型的南方酸性土壤,有效钾、土壤温度四季内存在显著差异,其他理化指标均无显著差异。土壤中的微生物多样性比较丰富,已鉴定出23门206属细菌和2门17属的古菌。夏季反映细菌总数的Chao指数最高,但反映细菌多样性的Shannon指数比春季低0.21,夏季古菌的Chao指数和Shannon指数分别比冬季高21.7%和0.27%。4个季节共有的细菌和古菌分别占总数的83.1%和70.0%,说明武夷山常绿阔叶林土壤不同季节的核心微生物组成具有很好的稳定性。在门和属水平的聚类树分析表明,春季和冬季的细菌和古菌群落组成最为接近,而夏季与其他3个季节的差异最大。冗余分析和热图分析结果表明,土壤p H是决定和影响细菌和古菌多样性的主要环境因子,有效钾、有效碳和总氮对微生物群落组成均有很大的影响。因此,随季节变化武夷山常绿阔叶林土壤微生物多样性呈现出规律性变化。     

不同水稻品种种子固有细菌群落的多样性

种子固有细菌是植物内生细菌的重要来源, 对植物的健康以及接种细菌的定殖能产生重要影响。该文以杂交水稻(Oryza sativa)种子为研究对象, 比较研究了不同品种水稻种子中固有细菌群落的多样性。利用799f和1492r这对引物成功地从水稻种子中扩增出固有细菌16S rDNA片段; 通过构建16S rDNA文库和扩增核糖体RNA基因酶切分型(ARDRA)的方法, 对杂交水稻 ‘丰优611’ (‘丰源A’ × ‘远恢611’)、‘金优611’ (‘金23A’ × ‘远恢611’)和‘金23A/09H013’ ( ‘金23A’ × ‘09H013’) 3个组合的子代及其各自亲本的种子固有细菌群落结构的多样性进行了研究。构建的7个克隆文库中, 每个文库含有200-300个克隆, 30-40个操作分类单元(OTU), 对ARDRA分型得到的代表序列进行分析, 在16S rDNA文库中发现多种细菌类群, 包括α变形杆菌(α-Proteobacteria)、β变形杆菌、γ变形杆菌、放线菌(Actinobacteria)、厚壁菌(Firmicutes)和拟菌(Bacteroidetes), 优势菌属是泛菌属(Pantoea)和芽孢杆菌属(Bacillus)。不同品种的水稻种子固有细菌群落结构不同, 而杂交子代种子中的优势菌与亲本种子中的优势菌在种类和数量上都具有一定的相关性。此外, 子代种子中丰度5%以上的细菌也能在各自父本或母本中检测到。     

苔原鼩鼱(Sorex tundrensis)在中国分布的首次证实

2008 年8 月利用陷阱法在内蒙古额尔古纳国家级自然保护区获得了4 号鼩鼱类标本,个体皆小, 尾长小于32 mm,貌似姬鼩鼱,颅全长在16. 50 ～17.24 mm 之间,大于姬鼩鼱(15 mm)。为了确证该4 号标本的物种类型,本文测定了它们的线粒体细胞色素b (Cyt b)基因全序列,结合从GenBank 下载的鼩鼱类序列构建系统进化关系。发现测定序列和下载苔原鼩鼱序列很好地聚在一起并形成单系。标本间及与下载的苔原鼩鼱间遗传距离小。从分子角度确证了标本为苔原鼩鼱,证实了苔原鼩鼱在中国的分布。本文对标本进行了描述。     

转基因棉田棉蚜种群动态及相关影响因子分析

以3个转基因棉花品种和2个对照棉花品种为研究材料,在棉花苗期组建了棉蚜连续3个世代的自然种群生命表。结果表明：3个转基因棉花品种田棉蚜的种群趋势指数在第1代和第2代均高于对照,第3代则略低于对照;从连续3个世代的棉蚜种群累积增长趋势指数分析,转基因棉“国抗22”上的种群累积增长指数为5.40,比对照“泗棉3号”上的高1.21%,转基因棉“苏抗103”和“中抗310”上的种群累积增长指数较对照“苏棉12”上的也分别增加49.54%和65.79%。比较各作用因子的控制指数,发现3个转基因棉花品种田寄生性天敌的控制指数大多数小于各自的对照棉田,而天敌捕食等其他一些作用因子的控制指数在常规对照棉田与转基因棉花品种间差异不大。     

Salvage pathway for NAD biosynthesis in Brevibacterium ammoniagenes: regulatory properties of triphosphate-dependent nicotinate phosphoribosyltransferase

As the rate-limiting enzyme, catalyzing the first reaction in NAD salvage synthesis, nicotinate phosphoribosyltransferase (NAPRTase, EC 2.4.2.11) is of important interest for studies of intracellular pyridine nucleotide pool regulation. We have purified NAPRTase 520-fold from Brevibacterium ammoniagenes ATCC 6872 without using an over-expression system by applying acid treatment, salt fractionation, Ca-phosphate gel treatment, anion exchange column chromatography and size-exclusion gel filtration. Unlike this enzyme from other sources, B. ammoniagenes NAPRTase was found to be controlled by the feedback inhibition by the end product NAD with K(i)=0.7+/-0.1 mM. The reaction products, pyrophosphate and nicotinate mononucleotide, also decreased the enzyme activity, as did other intermediates of NAD synthesis, such as AMP, ADP and a NAD direct precursor, nicotinate adenine dinucleotide or deamido NAD. The enzyme was observed to require a nucleoside triphosphate for its activity and showed the maximum affinity for ATP. The specificity, however, turned out to be poor, and ATP could be substituted by other nucleoside triphosphates as well as by sodium triphosphate. The kinetic characteristics of the enzyme are reported. For the first time, our data have experimentally revealed such complicated stimulatory and inhibitory effects by the intermediates of NAD biosynthesis on one of its salvage enzymes, NAPRTase. On the basis of these data, the key role of NAPRTase is discussed in light of the regulation of NAD metabolism in B. ammoniagenes.     

Studies on the skeletal cell wall of the cystocarpic stage of the red seaweed Iridaea undulosa B. Part II. Fractionation of the cell wall and methylation analysis of the inner core-fibrillar polysaccharides

In order to determine the structure of the fibrillar cell wall, the material isolated from cystocarpic thalli of the red seaweed Iridaea undulosa was fractionated using different media. While classical methods produced a scarce solubilization of material, the use of lithium salts in polar aprotic solvents (dimethylsulfoxide or N, N-dimethylacetamide), had successfully extracted higher amounts of material. The final residue from the Li(+)/DMSO extraction contains cellulose and a mannan, while that from the Li(+)/DMAc extraction contains only cellulose and traces of a galactan. Methylation analyses of both residues confirm the presence of those polysaccharides, and shows that the mannan is (1-->4)-linked. Treatment with proteases suggests that the protein is efficiently shielded from digestion. All the extracts and residues contain major amounts of (glyco)proteins and/or proteins, in agreement with a previous suggestion that they are of major importance in the structure of the cell wall.     

Behaviour of 3-week weaned pigs in Straw-Flow(R), deep straw and flatdeck housing systems

The behaviour of 3-week weaned pigs in different housing systems was examined as part of an assessment of the suitability of the Straw-Flow(R) system for pigs of this age. Three replicate pens of 20 pigs were weaned at 6.4 kg liveweight into each of: (a) deep-straw; (b) Straw-Flow(R); (c) large flatdeck; (d) small flatdeck. A kenneled lying area was provided in (a) and (b). The floor in (c) and (d) was expanded metal. Stocking densities were 0.23 m(2)/pig in (a), (b) and (c), and 0.17 m(2)/pig in (d). After 4-5 weeks (at 19.6 kg liveweight), 16 pigs from each pen were moved into Straw-Flow(R) grower pens (0.68 m(2)/pig) and observed until slaughter at 90.6 kg. Pigs in systems incorporating straw showed behaviour patterns associated with increased welfare (greater straw-directed behaviour and less pig-directed and pen-directed behaviour) relative to those in barren pens. Behavioural differences between (a) and (b) related to differences in available straw; there were few differences between (c) and (d). Pigs from (c) and (d) showed increased rooting relative to those from (a) after transfer to the grower pens, but other behavioural differences between weaner treatments did not persist. It is concluded that the Straw-Flow(R) system can provide suitable accommodation for weaned pigs.