人与食物关系的演变与食育研究

食育是以营养健康知识为载体，进行道德、文化、可持续发展意识的引导与培养良好的饮食习惯。对于行为和习惯养成的儿童群体，食育行动需以传播食育知识为基础目标、以掌握食育技能为具体目标、以养成正确观念为最高目标。     

《自然-医学》：罗格列酮可增加食物摄取量

罗格列酮是一种治疗Ⅱ型糖尿病的药物，但最近因对心脏的副作用而在临床应用中被限制。研究人员如今发现，通过在大脑中的作用，这种药物能增加食物的摄取量并提高肝脏的新陈代谢功能。研究论文发表在《自然-医学》上。     

水生生态系统食物网复杂性与多样性的关系

探索食物网的复杂结构是生态学的中心问题之一。基于构建的黄河口海草床食物网并耦合实际食物网的数据集，整理了包含河口、湖泊、海洋和河流四种水生生态系统类型的48个实际食物网案例。以食物网的节点数反映食物网多样性，物种之间的营养链接数、链接密度和连通度来表示食物网的复杂性，采用营养缩尺模型描述水生生态系统食物网的复杂性特征与节点数的普适性规律。结果表明：所涉及的48个水生生态系统食物网的多样性和复杂性跨度较大，其中，节点数的分布范围为4-124，链接数为3-1830，链接密度为0.75-15.71，连通度为0.06-0.25。不同类型水生生态系统间的连通度存在显著性差异（P=0.01），节点数、链接数、链接密度不存在显著性差异。各类型生态系统的食物网链接数、链接密度均随节点数的增加而增加（R²=0.92，P<0.001和R²=0.82，P<0.001）。湖泊生态系统的连通度随节点数的变化不明显，围绕在0.20附近；而其他3种类型生态系统的食物网连通度随节点数的增加而降低（R²=0.06-0.41，P<0.001）。对全球尺度的水生食物网多样性和复杂性的定量化研究对于提升对食物网的复杂结构的科学认识，从系统尺度探究多样性和复杂性的关系提供数据支撑。     

建立以TK基因为标记将外源基因导入臭曲霉（Asper—gillus...

A new system for selection of transformed Aspergillus foetidus was reported. In this system, TK- A. foetidus which were constructed by homologous recombination of mutated TK gene of vaccinia virus with TK gene of A. foetidus were screened by adding BUdR in agar plates. Conditions for screen of TK+ A. foetidus strain, transformation of A. foetidus and selection of transformed TK- A. foetidus have been studied. By using this system, several transformed A. foetidus which contained HBsAg gene derived bf a promoter H8 cloned from genomic DNA of A. foetidus were isolated. It was demonstrated that HBsAg gene was integrated into the chromosome DNA of A. foetidus by Southern blot after many passages of spores. ELISA showed that HBsAg was positive in the growth medium (p/n = 20). The 22 nm particles which were very similar to the HBsAg particles in human serum were found in the growth medium by immunoelectromicroscope. Western blot also gave the specific bands. All these data showed that HBsAg gene was expressed in A. foetidus and the products were secreted into the growth medium. The selection system using TK gene as marker could generally be used to study the expression of foreign gene in A. foetidus.     

追溯山茱萸科植物的性状进化和生物地理学历史——方法选择的影响?

This study compares results on reconstructing the ancestral state of characters and ancestral areas of distribution in Cornaceae to gain insights into the impact of using different analytical methods. Ancestral character state reconstructions were compared among three methods (parsimony, maximum likelihood, and stochastic character mapping) using MESQUITE and a full Bayesian method in BAYESTRAITS and inferences of ancestral area distribution were compared between the parsimony-based dispersal-vicariance analysis (DIVA) and a newly developed maximum likelihood (ML) method. Results indicated that among the six inflorescence and fruit characters examined, "perfect" binary characters (no homoplasy, no polymorphism within terminals, and no missing data) are little affected by choice of method, while homoplasious characters and missing data are sensitive to methods used. Ancestral areas at deep nodes of the phylogeny are substantially different between DIVA and ML and strikingly different between analyses including and excluding fossils at three deepest nodes. These results, while raising caution in making conclusions on trait evolution and historical biogeography using conventional methods, demonstrate a limitation in our current understanding of character evolution and biogeography. The biogeographic history favored by the ML analyses including fossils suggested the origin and early radiation of Cornus likely occurred in the late Cretaceous and earliest Tertiary in Europe and intercontinental disjunctions in three lineages involved movements across the North Atlantic Land Bridge (BLB) in the early and mid Tertiary. This result is congruent with the role of NALB for post-Eocene migration and in connecting tropical floras in North America and Africa, and in eastern Asia and South America. However, alternative hypotheses with an origin in eastern Asia and early Trans-Beringia migrations of the genus cannot be ruled out.     

美国发明检测细菌的生物纳米颗粒

美国佛罗里达大学化学系和生物纳米中心华人科学家谭蔚泓教授和同事们研制出一种生物纳米颗粒，不仅能够迅速探测出食物中的单个大肠杆菌，也能够针对生物恐怖攻击的细菌发出警报，或疾病的早期诊断。     

燕麦分子育种研究进展

燕麦是一种主要生长在温带冷凉地区的粮饲兼用作物,近年来燕麦的营养价值和降低胆固醇特性的发现使人们认识到燕麦及其制品是一种健康食品,促进了燕麦产业发展,对燕麦品种培育提出了更高要求。在此背景下,现代生物技术与常规育种技术结合是满足这一需求的重要途经。本文综述了国内外燕麦分子育种方面的研究进展:(1)我国燕麦种质资源的收集与遗传多样性研究。我国的燕麦种质资源收集工作起始于20世纪50年代,迄今收集并保存了5282份燕麦种质资源。对这些资源的遗传多样性分析研究表明,国内的燕麦种质资源中内蒙古和山西的资源多样性最高;(2)利用各种分子标记构建燕麦遗传连锁图谱研究;(3)一些重要农艺性状的QTL定位研究以及全基因组关联分析研究。包括产量、含油量、β-葡聚糖含量、蛋白质含量、抽穗期、抗病基因、抗冻性等重要农艺性状;(4)标记辅助基因组选择技术在燕麦中的应用;(5)燕麦遗传工程育种研究进展。同时,本文将国内的主要研究进展与国外相关的最新研究成果进行了比较,并对当前分子育种中存在的问题及今后的研究方向进行了探讨,希望能为今后通过生物技术手段培育燕麦新品种提供一定的参考。     

脊椎动物FoxO基因亚族的进化

本研究以脊椎动物FoxO作为研究对象,选取NCBI上公布的多个FoxO基因编码蛋白的核苷酸序列,重点分析Fox O蛋白质结构和功能的相似性与差异性,重建FoxO基因的系统发育树并进行选择压力分析,对FoxO基因亚族的起源和进化进行研究分析。结果显示:脊椎动物FoxO蛋白间Forhead结构域十分保守但核定位信号区结构差异较明显,尤其是FoxO6蛋白,并且多个磷酸化位点在哺乳动物FoxO6中缺失,削弱核输出信号,但在斑马鱼和原鸡的FoxO6中未缺失这些位点,推测其胞质定位调控作用仍十分重要。FoxO3中多个磷酸化位点可能与寿命延长作用相关。系统发育树表明FoxO1是FoxO基因的祖先基因,不同FoxO基因进化速率不同。选择压力分析结果显示FoxO基因过程每个位点经历不同的选择压,并且获得25个正选择位点,这些正选择位点可能对FoxO不同基因的形成和新功能的产生中具有十分重要的作用。