The impact of altered precipitation on spatial stratification and activity-densities of springtails (Collembola) and spiders (Araneae)

Abstract.  1. A field experiment was conducted to determine how short-term changes in moisture can alter activity-densities of spiders and springtails.
2. In a Kentucky forest 10 unfenced 4-m² plots were divided into two rainfall treatments. A clear roof over five plots excluded rainfall to simulate severe drought conditions ( drought treatment). Water was sprayed on the five uncovered plots at a rate equal to two times the long-term mean in order to establish the high-rainfall treatment. Activity-densities of Collembola and spiders were measured using pitfall traps designed to sample the top, middle, and bottom layers of leaf litter. The experiment ran from 20 July to 23 September 2001.
3. Overall (i.e. litter layers pooled) activity-density (mean number trapped each sampling date) of Collembola was ≈ 60% lower in drought plots than in plots receiving increased precipitation. Surprisingly, overall spider activity-density was ≈ 1.6 times greater in the drought plots.
4. Differences in rainfall affected the spatial stratification of Collembola and spiders in strikingly different ways. Activity-densities of neither group differed between drought and high-rainfall treatments in the bottom litter layer. Collembola activity-density was three times greater in the top and middle litter layers in high-rainfall plots than in drought plots. In contrast, spider activity-density did not differ between treatments in the top layer, but activity-density was decreased by 50% in the middle layer of high-rainfall plots compared with drought plots.
5. Three Collembola families (Sminthuridae, Tomoceridae, and Entomobryidae) accounted for most of the Collembola pattern. The spider response was due to altered activity-density of one family of wandering spider, the Gnaphosidae.     

猪瘟病毒感染性cDNA克隆的构建及其致病性

为了建立研究猪瘟病毒的技术平台,利用RT-PCR技术构建了猪瘟病毒中国石门株(Shimen)的全长有感染性cDNA克隆pT7SM。通过体外转录线性化的pT7SM并将转录的RNA转染至PK-15细胞中,获得了猪瘟病毒粒子。再用间接免疫荧光法测定了其生长曲线,通过电镜观察到重组病毒呈球形,具有囊膜结构。进一步把获得的猪瘟病毒粒子感染非免疫实验猪,结果子代病毒与石门株类似,对非免疫实验猪有强烈的致病性,证明该全长cDNA克隆可靠稳定,忠实地保留了石门株病毒的感染性和致病特征。由此为进一步探讨猪瘟病毒的致弱机制及病毒与机体相互作用的机制打下了良好的基础。     

用生物信息学方法寻找肝癌特异性表达基因转录调控模式

为了对肝癌(hepatocellularcarcinoma,HCC)的分子发病机理进行研究,首先对肝癌基因表达谱数据用t-检验算法进行了分析,找到了肝癌中特异性表达基因(characteristicgenes).然后把这些基因结合已知的肝HNF家族转录因子染色质免疫共沉淀结合DNA启动子芯片(ChIP-chip)实验数据用SAEM算法进行分析,得到了肝癌特异性表达基因的转录调控关系,并寻找到了多个HNF家族转录因子调控单基因的转录调控模式.结果表明HNF家族转录因子对大量具有重要功能的肝癌特异性表达基因进行了转录调控,并且多个HNF家族转录因子调控单基因可以形成前馈环和多输入调控等模式.     

吸附法纯化苦荞麦总黄酮的工艺研究

本文采用正交实验设计,对影响苦养麦总黄酮纯化工艺的因素进行了系统研究。结果发现,影响吸附法纯化苦养麦总黄酮的主次因素为吸附剂的种类〉洗脱液（乙醇）浓度〉静置吸附时间〉上样量,其中吸附剂的种类、洗脱液（乙醇）浓度以及静置吸附时间均对苦养麦总黄酮的纯化有显著性影响;吸附法纯化苦养麦总黄酮的最佳工艺条件为：AB-8树脂为苦养麦总黄酮最佳纯化吸附剂、95％乙醇洗脱、静置吸附时间30min、上样量1mL。     

番石榴叶中总黄酮最佳提取条件的探讨及其抑菌作用的研究

设计正交实验,采用超声波法从番石榴叶中提取总黄酮,综合各因素确定最佳提取条件为乙醇浓度40％,固料比（番石榴干叶：浸提剂）=1g：60mL,浸泡25h超声波处理时间50min,获得提取液总黄酮含量为9．9167％。采用牛津杯法做抑菌实验,结果表明番石榴叶和果实的水提、醇提粗提液对大肠杆菌、金黄色葡萄球菌、枯草芽孢杆菌、阴沟肠杆菌、溶血葡萄球菌等均有很好的抑菌效果。叶和果实的总黄酮提取液的抑菌作用也很明显。番石榴有望作为药食同源产品和天然食品防腐剂进行开发利用。     

醉马草毒性成分的提取研究

目的:为研究醉马草有毒成分的种类、特性及提取方法,达到最终纯化出有毒成分的目的。方法:结合系统预试验、全紫外波段扫描、多种方法对比提取效率、毒理实验等各种实验方法系统的对醉马草进行了研究。结果:醉马草含有生物碱、黄酮等多种成分,其中毒性成分主要是亲水部位的生物碱,中毒小白鼠表现为心跳呼吸加速、流泪、四肢无力嗜睡等症状,在醉马草整个生长期中,苗期所含总生物碱量最大,总生物碱在紫外波长为196nm、274nm和340nm有吸收峰,三种提取方法中乙醇煎煮法比较实用,正交实验法确定最佳提取工艺为80℃、50%的乙醇30倍体积下温育3h。     

航天搭载与非搭载舟形藻(Navicula tenera)培养基的优化

通过单因子和正交实验探讨了培养液中不同浓度KNO3、Na2HPO4、FeC l3和Na2S iO3对通过“神舟5号”飞船搭载与非搭载舟形藻(Navicula tenera)生长的影响,确立了适合搭载与非搭载舟形藻生长的最佳培养基组合。结果表明,经搭载后舟形藻生长所需的营养盐组合发生了变化。通过正交实验筛选出适合搭载舟形藻生长的最佳培养基为含300 mg.L-1KNO3、60 mg.L-1Na2HPO4.12H2O、24 mg.L-1FeC l3和700 mg.L-1Na2S iO3.9H2O的F/2培养基;适合非搭载舟形藻生长的最佳培养基为含600 mg.L-1KNO3、60 mg.L-1Na2HPO4.12H2O、12mg.L-1FeC l3和700 mg.L-1Na2S iO3.9H2O的F/2培养基。     

The Case of Paul Kammerer: Evolution and Experimentation in the Early 20th Century

To some, a misguided Lamarckian and a fraud, to others a martyr in the fight against Darwinism, the Viennese zoologist Paul Kammerer (1880–1926) remains one of the most controversial scientists of the early 20th century. Here his work is reconsidered in light of turn-of-the-century problems in evolutionary theory and experimental methodology, as seen from Kammerer’s perspective in Vienna. Kammerer emerges not as an opponent of Darwinism, but as one would-be modernizer of the 19th-century theory, which had included a role for the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Kammerer attempted a synthesis of Darwinism with genetics and the chromosome theory, while retaining the modifying effects of the environment as the main source of favorable variation, and he developed his program of experimentation to support it. Kammerer never had a regular university position, but worked at a private experimental laboratory, with sidelines as a teacher and a popular writer and lecturer. On the lecture circuit he held forth on the significance of his science for understanding and furthering cultural evolution and he satisfied his passion for the arts and performance. In his dual career as researcher and popularizer, he did not always follow academic convention. In the contentious and rapidly changing fields of heredity and evolution, some of his stances and practices, as well as his outsider status and part-Jewish background, aroused suspicion and set the stage for the scandal that ended his career and prompted his suicide.     

羊胎免疫调节因子制造工艺研究

目的:优选出羊胎免疫调节因子提取的最佳工艺。方法:采用正交实验设计L8(27),以淋巴细胞转化实验为考察指标进行实验,对提取过程中的6个指标进行了优化,确定了最佳提取工艺。结果:羊胎免疫调节因子最佳提取工艺为A1B2C2D1E2F2,即2月龄内羊胎粉碎10 m in,加1:4双蒸水常温下8000 r.m in-1离心后10K超滤膜超滤即得。     

高中生物探究式实验教学设计研究及案例分析

“探究式学习”促使学生的学习方式和教师的教学方式发生深刻的变革.阐述了探究式学习、实验操作技能和探究式实验教学模式这三个概念的内涵.同时,对高中生物一个重要的验证性实验“叶绿体中色素的提取和分离”进行了改进,实施了探究式实验教学设计并进行了教学实践以及分析,旨在探讨如何培养学生的实验操作技能.由此可得出结论:开展探究式实验教学,既能通过规范的实验操作,培养学生的实验操作技能,又能培养学生的综合探究能力并树立实事求是的科学态度;利用随堂式的实验教学评价,能很好发挥探究式学习的成效.