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Rolf Sivertsgård Eva B. Thorstad Finn Økland Bengt Finstad Pål Arne Bjørn Niels Jepsen Trude Nordal R. Scott McKinley 《Hydrobiologia》2007,582(1):35-42
Effects of artificial salmon lice infection and pharmaceutical salmon lice prophylaxis on survival and rate of progression
of Atlantic salmon (n = 72) and brown trout post-smolts (n = 72) during their fjord migration, were studied by telemetry. The infected groups were artificially exposed to infective
salmon lice larvae in the laboratory immediately before release in the inner part of the fjord to simulate a naturally high
infection pressure. Groups of infected Atlantic salmon (n = 20) and brown trout (n = 12) were also retained in the hatchery to control the infection intensity and lice development during the study period.
Neither salmon lice infection nor pharmaceutical prophylaxis had any effects on survival and rate of progression of fjord
migrating Atlantic salmon post-smolts compared to control fish. Atlantic salmon spent on average only 151.2 h (maximum 207.3
h) in passing the 80 km fjord system and had, thus, entered the ocean when the more pathogenic pre-adult and adult lice stages
developed. The brown trout, in comparison to Atlantic salmon, remained to a larger extent than Atlantic salmon in the inner
part of the fjord system. No effect of salmon lice infection, or protection, was found in brown trout during the first weeks
of their fjord migration. Brown trout will, to a larger extent than Atlantic salmon, stay in the fjord areas when salmon lice
infections reach the more pathogenic pre-adult and adult stages. In contrast to Atlantic salmon, they will thereby possess
the practical capability of returning to freshwater when encountering severe salmon lice attacks. 相似文献
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In a study of 4 sheep herds, 1 apparently healthy and 3 having respiratory problems, lesions typical of subacute or chronic pneumonia were found in 3–36 % of slaughtered lambs. Occurrence appeared to be related to certain environmental factors such as pasture, whereas moderate lungworm invasion was not found to contribute to subacute or chronic pneumonia. Relation between pneumonia and low carcass weight was established only in 1 herd. Lungs were subjected to microbiological examination. Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae was isolated from both normal and pneumonic lungs from all 4 herds. The prevalence was far higher in pneumonic (98 %) than in normal ones (28 %). Bacteria, mostly Pasteurella haemolytica, were also found in both pneumonic (49 %) and normal (18 %) lungs from all 4 herds. These results confirm the conclusions of a previous study that M. ovipneumoniae is of etiological significance in subacute or chronic pneumonia, whereas bacteria mainly occur as secondary invaders. M. ovipneumoniae appears, however, only to be a potential pathogen. Examinations for Mycoplasma arginini and virus were negative and these agents are considered to be of less significance in subacute or chronic pneumonia under Norwegian conditions. 相似文献
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Kristin Andersland Guro F. Jølle Olav Sand Trude M. Haug 《The Journal of membrane biology》2010,235(2):121-129
Certain antimicrobial peptides from multicellular animals kill a variety of tumor cells at concentrations not affecting normal
eukaryotic cells. Recently, it was reported that also plantaricin A (PlnA), which is a peptide pheromone with strain-specific
antibacterial activity produced by Lactobacillus plantarum, permeabilizes cancerous rat pituitary cells (GH4 cells), whereas normal rat anterior pituitary cells are resistant to the peptide. To examine whether the preferential permeabilization
of cancerous cells is a general feature of PlnA, we studied its effect on primary cultures of cells from rat liver (hepatocytes,
endothelial, and Kupffer cells) and rat kidney cortex, as well as two epithelial cell lines of primate kidney origin (Vero
cells from green monkey and human Caki-2 cells). The Vero cell line is derived from normal cells, whereas the Caki-2 cell
line is derived from a cancerous tumor. The membrane effects were studied by patch clamp recordings and microfluorometric
(fura-2) monitoring of the cytosolic concentrations of Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) and fluorophore. In all the tested cell types except Kupffer cells, exposure to 10–100 μM PlnA induced a nearly instant
permeabilization of the membrane, indicated by the following criteria: increased membrane conductance, membrane depolarization,
increased [Ca2+]i, and diffusional loss of fluorophore from the cytosol. At a concentration of 5 μM, PlnA had no effect on any of the cell
types. The Kupffer cells were permeabilized by 500 μM PlnA. We conclude that the permeabilizing effect of PlnA is not restricted
to cancerous cells. 相似文献
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Trude M. Haug Sverre L. Sand Olav Sand Danh Phung Per E. Granum Simon P. Hardy 《The Journal of membrane biology》2010,237(1):1-11
Mutation E71A in the bacterial K+-channel KcsA has been shown to abolish the activation-coupled inactivation of KcsA via significant alterations of the peptide
backbone in the vicinity of the selectivity filter. In the present study, we examined channel-blocking behavior of KcsA-E71A
by tetraethylammonium (TEA) from both the extra- and the intracellular sides. First, we found that E71A is inserted either
in cis or trans orientation in a planar lipid bilayer; however, it exhibits only one orientation in proteoliposomes as determined by extravesicular
partial chymotrypsin digestion. Second, E71A exhibits a lower extracellular TEA affinity and is more sensitive to intracellular
TEA compared to wild-type KcsA, which apparently has >50-fold higher affinity for extracellular TEA and ~2.5-fold lower affinity
for intracellular TEA compared to E71A. In additional experiments, we investigated the influence of negatively charged phosphatidylglycerol
(PG) on channel-gating properties in phosphatidylcholine lipid bilayers. It was found that high PG content decreases the single-channel
conductance and increases the channel open time and open probability. Taken together, our data suggest that the “flipped”
conformation of the selectivity filter present in E71A allows weaker extracellular and stronger intracellular TEA binding,
whereas higher PG content decreases channel conductivity and stabilizes the channel open “flipped” state via electrostatic
interaction in the proximity of the channel pore. 相似文献
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Noble crayfish Astacus astacus is threatened in Europe due to invasive crayfish carrying the crayfish plague agent Aphanomyces astaci. Norway is among the last countries in which the introduction of non-indigenous crayfish has been limited through strict legislation practices. However, North American signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus were recently discovered in a water-course that has been repeatedly hit by the plague. We mapped the distribution and relative density (catch per unit effort) of signal crayfish within this lake, and performed agent-specific real-time PCR to estimate the prevalence of A. astaci in the population. The resulting length frequencies and relative density estimates clearly demonstrate a well-established signal crayfish population, in which 86.4% of the analysed individuals were confirmed carriers. The success of detection was significantly higher (84.1%) in the crayfish tailfan (i.e. uropods) than in the soft abdominal cuticle (38.4%), which is commonly used in prevalence studies. We therefore propose tailfan (uropods and telson) as the preferred tissue for studying A. astaci prevalence in signal crayfish populations. The likelihood of detecting an A. astaci-positive signal crayfish increased significantly with increasing crayfish length. Further, large female crayfish expressed significantly higher PCR-forming units values than large males. In surveys primarily exploring the presence of A. astaci-positive individuals in a population, large females should be selected for molecular analyses. Our study demonstrates that a potent crayfish plague infection reservoir, evidently originating from the illegal human introduction of signal crayfish, has permanently been established in Norway. 相似文献
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Vrålstad T 《Molecular ecology》2011,20(14):2873-2875
Molecular species recognition of fungi emerged years before DNA barcoding ( Seifert 2009 ). While the ideal fungal DNA barcode seems Utopian, two research decades nevertheless highlight the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) as the best available choice ( Seifert 2009 ). Databases providing reliable ITS sequences of known fungi require enormous efforts, but are urgently needed ( Abarenkov et al. 2010a,b ; Begerow et al. 2010 ). Any criticism of such a commitment seems unjustified. However, exclusive focus on the development of ITS reference libraries will delay the progress towards a deeper ecological insight. It is widely acknowledged that ITS fails to recognize species, particularly in some ascomycete lineages ( Balajee et al. 2009 ; Seifert 2009 ). It also appears paradoxical to solely rely on ITS for ecological recognition of fungal species when modern fungal systematics rely on phylogenetic species recognition with concordance of multiple gene genealogies (see Blackwell 2011 ). Considering that at least 98% of the predicted ~5 million fungal species remain undescribed ( Blackwell 2011 ), how will reliance on ITS alone influence the biodiversity estimates and ecological understanding? In this issue, Gazis et al. (2011) elegantly demonstrate through multi‐locus sequence phylogeny analyses that ITS largely underestimates the species diversity of tropical fungal endophytes and even more importantly obscures fundamental ecological and biogeographical patterns. This thorough reflection on species delimitation criteria and their implications for ecological and biogeographical inferences underline that ITS, particularly in hyperdiverse habitats, provides no shortcut to deeper knowledge of fungal ecology. 相似文献
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A cereal centromeric sequence 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
Luis Aragón-Alcaide Terry Miller Trude Schwarzacher Steve Reader Graham Moore 《Chromosoma》1996,105(5):261-268
We report the identification of a family of sequences located by in situ hybridisation to the centromeres of all the Triticeae chromosomes studied, including the supernumerary and midget chromosomes, the centromeres of all maize chromosomes and the
heterochromatic regions of rice chromosomes. This family of sequences (CCS1), together with the cereal genome alignments,
will allow the evolution of the cereal centromeres and their sites to be studied. The family of sequences also shows homology
to the CENP-B box. The centromeres of the cereal species and the proteins that interact with them can now be characterised.
Received: 11 July 1996; in revised form: 19 September 1996 / Accepted: 24 September 1996 相似文献
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Stein I. Johnsen Trond Taugbøl Oddgeir Andersen Jon Museth Trude Vrålstad 《Biological invasions》2007,9(8):939-941
The non-indigenous signal crayfish Pasifastacus leniusculus was registered for the first time in Norway in October 2006. The location represents an isolated pond about 100 km in air
line from the nearest known signal crayfish population in the neighbouring country Sweden without any connecting watercourses.
The occurrence is therefore undoubtedly caused by human introduction. Molecular analyses confirmed that tested individuals
from the signal crayfish population were carriers of the crayfish plague agent Aphanomyces astaci. Disease carrying signal crayfish represents a severe threat to the indigenous and endangered noble crayfish Astacus astacus. Norwegian authorities are currently considering actions for the eradication of the signal crayfish population. 相似文献