ENZYMIC ACTIVITIES IN DISSOCIATED NEURONS DIFFERENTIATED IN CULTURES IN VITRO

Abstract— The appearance of the enzymes succinate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase, acid phosphatase, monoamine oxidase and acetylcholinesterase in cultures of dissociated spinal cord, dorsal root ganglia and cerebellum removed at different stages of development have been studied. The neurons differentiated in vitro have morphological and cytochemical characteristics similar to those of the normally developing neurons. On the basis of the results obtained, it is argued that in this experimental model the histogenetic determination of the neuroblasts at the time of the explant may start and bring to an end the morphological and biochemical differentiation of the various types of neurons even under conditions extremely different from those of normal development.     

被子植物多胚苗的研究进展

本文综述了被子植物多胚苗的研究进展。在被子植物中多胚苗材料的种类很多,而只有特定起源的多胚苗材料在作物杂种优势固定中才具有比较大的实用价值。关于被子植物多胚苗的发生机理目前还没形成统一的定论。单倍性、二倍性和多倍性多胚苗在作物育种上具有各自不同的意义。     

TILLING在水稻育种中的应用前景

TILLING(Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes)是功能基因组研究中应用的一种反向遗传学技术。它能高通量低成本地在EMS诱变群体中鉴定出发生在特定基因上的点突变。在其基础上发展出的EcoTILLING技术则可发现种质资源中的SNP位点及小插入或缺失多态性位点。水稻是非常重要的粮食作物, 也是已经完成了全基因组序列测定,有丰富的生物信息学资源可以利用的基因组研究模式植物。水稻的分子标记辅助育种将在育种中扮演越来越重要的角色。在这样的背景下,本文从基于特定基因的种质资源鉴定、EMS诱变育种、及水稻功能标记开发等方面论述了其在水稻育种中的应用前景。     

VARIATION IN DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINTS IN SIGMODON

Developmental constraints can be interpreted as factors of developmental origin responsible for covariation among measured variables. Several hypotheses have been proposed to link the possession of such constraints to subsequent evolution. Using confirmatory factor analysis, we compare developmental factors across selected taxa of cotton rats, genus Sigmodon. Three factors explain well the covariation among orofacial measurements: (1) responses to body size variation, (1) coordinated growth of traits of the occluding-tooth complex, and (3) responses to musculoskeletal interactions. Sigmodon taxa share these factors, but differ in the variance-covariance matrix of factors, and the unique variances of individual traits. Patterns of covariation among measurements of the neurocranial complex reflect responses to body size variation, and perhaps also responses to fetal brain growth. While there are no significant differences across taxa in factorpattern, variance-covariance matrix of factors, or unique variance of measured neurocranial variables, the neurocranium is only weakly constrained. We doubt that even the relatively stronger developmental constraints on the orofacial complex would prevent evolutionary divergence because differences in the variances and covariances of factors, and in levels of unique variance of individual traits can provide different opportunities for selection to act in different Sigmodon taxa.     

中国兽类生态学的进展

对近代的兽类学来说,我国虽然从本世纪二十年代即已开始分类研究,三十年代也有了生态学的论文,但是经过抗日战争的破坏,新中国建立之始,实际上处于空白状态。在建立兽类学开始之时,就比较注意兽类生态学的研究。初期的工作自不免朴素粗放一些,但对生态学的发展起到一定的作用。代表的著作可举出纪树立等(1951)的黄鼠研究和杨新史(1951)的《家鼠及其防治》,二者都是从防治医学角度进行工作的,以后此二人也都未再作此类工作。从五十年代中期大量的工作就开始了。涉及到农、林、医、牧以及基础理论的诸多方面,今就以下各方面分述于后。     

中国鲸类动物的人工饲养

我国从1965 年由青岛海产博物馆首次开始饲养江豚和宽吻海豚。以后中国科学院水生生物研究所等单位先后饲养白鳍豚和长江江豚成功, 1995 年以后, 由于外国资本和技术的介入, 使我国鲸类动物的人工饲养水平很快赶上世界先进水平, 但由于发展速度太快,布局也不尽合理, 因此, 必须认真研究和探讨, 使我国鲸类动物的人工饲养得到健康有序的发展。
     

LATITUDINAL VARIATION IN SPECIATION MECHANISMS IN FROGS

Speciation often has a strong geographical and environmental component, but the ecological factors that potentially underlie allopatric and parapatric speciation remain understudied. Two ecological mechanisms by which speciation may occur on geographic scales are allopatric speciation through niche conservatism and parapatric or allopatric speciation through niche divergence. A previous study on salamanders found a strong latitudinal pattern in the prevalence of these mechanisms, with niche conservatism dominating in temperate regions and niche divergence dominating in the tropics, and related this pattern to Janzen's hypothesis of greater climatic zonation between different elevations in the tropics. Here, we test for latitudinal patterns in speciation in a related but more diverse group of amphibians, the anurans. Using data from up to 79 sister-species pairs, we test for latitudinal variation in elevational and climatic overlap between sister species, and evaluate the frequency of speciation via niche conservatism versus niche divergence in relation to latitude. In contrast to salamanders, we find no tendency for greater niche divergence in the tropics or for greater niche conservatism in temperate regions. Although our results support the idea of greater climatic zonation in tropical regions, they show that this climatic pattern does not lead to straightforward relationships between speciation, latitude, and niche evolution.     

荔枝胚珠中多胺含量变化与胚胎发育的关系

荔枝胚胎发育与胚珠中３种多胺（ＰＡｓ）含量及其比例变化关系密切。试验结果表明：正常发育的胚珠中腐胺（Ｐｕｔ）、亚精胺（Ｓｐｄ）和精胺（Ｓｐｍ）的含量在胚胎发育的各个阶段均高于败育胚珠,并在花后７ｄ即达到最高值,其中Ｐｕｔ的含量最高,随后都呈下降趋势。但正常胚珠中Ｓｐｍ含量在花后２２至３１ｄ（球形胚至心形胚发育阶段）均有所回升,而败育胚珠无此现象。败育胚珠中的Ｓｐｄ和Ｓｐｍ在胚胎败育期的下降速度显著     

云南栽培大麻的化学类型

本文报道了云南17个县的23个主要大麻品种的化学类型?发现药用型、中间型和纤维型的品种分别占43.5,26.1和30.4%;大麻的化学类型主要取决于遗传因素。作者讨论了以往大麻化学类型分类标准存在的缺点,提出单用四氢大麻酚(THC)含量来划分大麻化学类型的观点,并建议,大麻的发展对策应以“依法管理,兴利避害,因地制宜,区别对待”作为指导思想。     

中国蜱螨学研究进展概况

<正> 我国蜱螨学的研究起步较晚,解放前只有一些零星报道,比较系统的研究是从50年代开始。1963年在长春召开了第一届全国蜱螨学术讨论会,至今已有30年。近十几年来,蜱螨学的研究进展较快,中国经济昆虫志中有关蜱     

中国昆虫分类学研究进展

<正> 中国自然条件复杂,昆虫种类繁多,特别是横断山区、青藏高原和云南西双版纳等热带雨林地区昆虫区系丰富多彩,受到国内、外昆虫分类学家的青睐。根据保守估计,中国应有15万种昆虫。中华人民共和国成立前夕我国仅记载20069种昆虫,其中中国人命名的仅204种,绝大多数模式标本及文献资料均散落于国外;分     

UBIQUINONE REDOX STATUS IN BRAIN IN VITRO

—The redox status of ubiquinone (Q) as an index of mitochondrial respiratory chain activity in chopped telencephalon from the rat was investigated. With 12mm -glucose under aerobic conditions Q was 73% oxidized. Three mm -amytal and 2 μm -rotenone, inhibitors of mitochondrial NADH oxidation, resulted in Q being further oxidized by 14 and 16%, respectively. Thus, amytal and rotenone result in shifts in Q redox status of rat telencephalon slices in accord with the known site of action of these compounds in isolated mitochondria. However, under anaerobic conditions Q redox status shifted to 25% oxidized while incubation with 1 mm -NaCN resulted in a shift to only 58% oxidized. This discrepancy may result from concomitant inhibition in the supply of reducing equivalents to Q from substrate by NaCN or it may reflect a differential sensitivity of neuronal and glial mitochondria to NaCN. Evaluation of Q oxidation-reduction can be used to measure the effects of drugs and physiological perturbations on the redox status of the mitochondrial compartment of intact brain preparations.     

DNA IN GAMETOGENESIS AND EMBRYOGENY IN TRADESCANTIA

A microphotometric study of various Feulgen-stained gametophytic and sporophytic nuclei of Tradescantia paludosa was made to test the hypothesis that DNA is maintained in multiples of a basic unit within all cells of an organism. A multiple relationship was found in all tissues analyzed. The lowest amount of DNA was found in gametophytic nuclei, approximately twice and four times this amount in sporophytic nuclei, and approximately three and six times this amount in endosperm nuclei. Intermediate amounts of DNA were found only in tissues presumably undergoing an interphase synthesis of DNA preceding either cell division or endomitosis. It is concluded that within the limitations of present methods of measurement, DNA amounts show a quantitative behavior which supports the "constancy" hypothesis. Such quantitative stability of DNA gives support to the concept that DNA is associated with the stable elements of the gene.     

湖北菱科植物的数量分类研究 Ⅲ.分类性状的定量评价

用R聚类分析和主分量分析,定量研究了湖北菱科5种8变种37个形态和生态性状的变异及分类学价值。结果表明,植物体大小变异是形态演化的主要方向之一。形态演化的同时,也发生生态分化。除少数性状例外,形态演化与生态分化在相当程度上是独立的。     

西藏南部放射虫微体古生物研究进展

西藏南部的雅鲁藏布蛇绿岩带以及该带之南的沉积地层带（特提期沉积区,北喜马拉雅亚区）中广泛发育着大量含放射虫地层,放射虫研究在确定该区蛇绿岩的形成时代,解释造山带复杂的地层层序以及揭示印度板块与欧亚板块在古近纪碰撞老祖宗前的古海洋盆地的演化历史等方面发挥了重要作用。根据已发表的文献以及我们正在进行中的初步成果显示,藏南地区的含放射虫地层的时代分布之中三叠世（安尼期）至晚白垩（土仑期）。这些地层的岩性包括硅质岩,硅质泥岩,凝灰质细碎屑岩和泥晶灰岩等,尽管藏南的放射虫研究已取得一些成果,但系统的放射虫研究与地层研究仍然有待于进一步深入开展。     

PHOTOPERIOD INDUCED CHANGE IN PHYLLOTAXIS IN XANTHIUM

Photoperiodic floral induction in Xanthium, achieved by subjecting the plants to two long nights, is accompanied by a transient change of the phyllotaxis from the (2, 3) contact parastichy pattern of vegetative plants, to a (3, 5) pattern during the transition. To specify the phyllotaxis, two parameters were estimated from transverse sections of apical buds of control and treated plants: the divergence angle, α, and the plastochron ratio, a. The plastochron ratio decreased progressively during transition from the vegetative to the reproductive state of growth, from a = 1.48 initially to a = 1.15 six days after the beginning of induction. The divergence angle was not altered during the transition. This change in phyllotaxis is interpreted as a change in the relative positioning of leaf primordia on the transitional apex. This transient change appears to be identical with the previously described long-term change of the phyllotaxis of Xanthium brought about by treatment of plants with gibberellic acid.     

ALANINE METABOLISM IN RAT CORTEX IN VITRO

Abstract— (1) The metabolism of [U-¹⁴C]alanine was followed in slices of rat cerebral cortex and its interaction with glucose, pyruvate and the metabolic inhibitors fluoracetate and malonate was studied.
(2) Alanine did not stimulate respiration above endogenous levels or affect the rate of oxygen uptake with glucose or pyruvate as cosubstrate. Radioactivity found in CO₂ from labelled alanine was only 6 per cent of that from labelled pyruvate. Lactate was not formed from alanine.
(3) After 2 h incubation with [U-¹⁴C]alanine the specific activities of glutamate, glutamine and GABA were 20–30 per cent that of alanine. All these specific activities except glutamate were lowered by addition of glucose, but with pyruvate as cosubstrate the specific activity of glutamate was increased by 87 per cent above the level with alanine alone.
(4) The effect of alanine as cosubstrate with [U-¹⁴C]pyruvate was to reduce the specific activity of GABA and of glutamine, but not glutamate or lactate; thus there was not an equal dilution of all the metabolites of pyruvate.
(5) Fluoracetate diminished respiration and the production of CO₂ from [U-¹⁴C]-alanine only slightly; the addition of malonate as well practically abolished both. Fluoracetate lowered incorporation from alanine into all the amino acids, and radioactivity could not be detected in glutamine at all; addition of malonate lowered the specific activity of glutamate to 25 per cent but increased that into aspartate, GABA and glutamine.
(6) The interpretation of these data in terms of known pathways of alanine metabolism is discussed.     

江苏苏州绰墩遗址孢粉记录与太湖地区的古环境

根据绰墩遗址考古资料和孢粉分析,认为古遗址中的孢粉组合受人类活动影响较大,太湖地区新石器文化的兴衰与该区地势、气候、海平面变化以及太湖碟形湖盆体系的发育有密切关系,绰墩遗址中之所以形成较为丰富的文化内涵,与其较高的地势有关。     

MYCORRHIZAE IN RECENT VOLCANIC SUBSTRATES IN HAWAII

Plants colonizing 8- and 14-year-old lava flows, a 28-year-old cinder fall, a 137-year-old volcanic soil, and a geothermic volcanic soil were sampled for mycorrhizae. Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae were present in all sites, and the frequency of occurrence and intensity of root colonization increased with increasing age of the site. In the youngest site, 57% of the sampled species were mycorrhizal, and this increased to 84% in the cinder fall and 100% in the old soil. Orchid and ericoid mycorrhizae also were present in some sites. Native Hawaiian species tended to more frequently form mycorrhizae and have more intense mycorrhizal infection than did alien species. Plant succession on the Hawaiian volcanic sites differed somewhat from a predictive model in the lack of dominance by nonmycotrophic species in the early seral stages. The difference apparently results from 1) the arrival of mycorrhizal fungi soon after the volcanic substrates cool and 2) the paucity of nonmycotrophic species available to invade very recent volcanic sites.     

中国医学昆虫研究的进展与成就

<正> 世界上一半以上的人体传染病是以医学昆虫作为媒介而传播的,加之因它们刺叮吸血等活动对人畜造成的骚扰和影响,严重威胁人类的健康,因此人们很早就对医学昆虫引起了注意。我国早在公元前100多年西汉刘安撰写的淮南子中就已提到“孑孓为蚊”。但是人类对医