雄蚤生殖节的扫描电镜观察

本文利用扫描电镜对雄蚤生殖节表面细微结构进行了观察,发现了一些光镜下不易看到的纹理状结构和小棘及一些感器.这些微小的纹理状结构和小棘在不同蚤种之间有差异,这种差异具有相对的稳定性,可望用于蚤的亚显微水平的分类.通过对感器的观察,发现生殖节上具有大量的毛形感器,另外还观察到有锥形感器、短锥形感器、钟形感器、栓锥感器、腔锥感器及刺形感器等.这些感器的数量分布及有无因种而异.这些感器的存在与交配行为密切相关,作者对此也进行了讨论.     

谈谈中学生物教学中的能力培养问题

《全日制中学生物学教学大纲》明确指出:“培养学生自学生物学知识的能力,观察动植物的生活习性、形态结构、生殖发育的能力,分析和解释一些生物现象的初步能力。”是中学生物学教学的一项重要任务。笔者认为,在上述三项能力中,自学生物学知识的能力(即自学能力)层次较高,它包含着后面的两种能力。而分析和解释一些生物现象的初步能力,观察动植物的生活习性、形态结构、生殖发育的能力,则是思维能力与观察能力在中学生物教学领域的具体要求。从思维能力和观察能力的关系看,应该说观察能力是思维能力的基础,因为思维往     

鸟类原生殖细胞的研究 Ⅰ.鸡胚生殖新月区原生殖细胞超微结构的观察

作者观察了鸡胚生殖新月区的原生殖细胞(PGC)的超微结构。PGC为圆形或椭圆形,13—16μm,有丰富的伪足和微绒毛,尚可见到相邻PGC存在桥粒样结构。细胞核为圆形、椭圆形及分叶状,并呈多处凹陷。与同期胚的其它细胞相比,胞质内细胞器相当丰富且较成熟。观察到有大量微丝。上述PGC的形态,除了细胞桥粒样结构及微丝很少见到报道外,其它特征与鸟类PGC的超微记载相一致。 作者首次观察到PGC中有一种特殊颗粒(即电子致密小体),它自核内产生,进入核周池,并借核膜破裂的方式进入胞质。这种颗粒可能就是生殖颗粒,而由该颗粒在胞质中聚集所构成的特殊高电子致密区可能就是生殖质。从而从形态学上提供了鸟类具有生殖质的证据。     

日本三角涡虫生殖系统组织结构的观察

涡虫在动物系统演化史上占有十分重要的地位,雌雄同体,具有很强的再生能力,因此,对其生殖系统组织结构进行深入研究具有重要的意义.本文用3种染色方法(H.E染色、Masson染色、Van Gieson染色)显示了日本三角涡虫(Dugesiajaponica)生殖系统的组织结构并对其进行了光镜观察.结果表明.该类涡虫生殖系统为雌雄同体.雌、雄性生殖系均由生殖腺和生殖管道构成,雌性生殖腺包括卵巢、卵黄腺和交配囊,生殖管道包括输卵管、交配囊柄;雄性生殖腺主要是精巢,生殖管道包括输精囊、输精管、球腔、射精管4部分.交配囊由单层柱状上皮构成,胞质强嗜碱性,胞核位于上皮基底面,游离面胞质呈现很多泡状结构;卵黄腺为单细胞腺,灯泡状,其核较小,位于柄部.因此,可以确定交配囊具有外分泌的功能;卵黄腺的数目存在周期性.     

"真菌"一节教学

1教学目标1)知识①了解酵母菌、霉菌和蘑菇等真菌生物体的形态结构、营养和生殖方式;②认识真菌在生物圈中的作用,以及真菌与人类生活和健康的关系。2)能力①解剖观察食用蘑菇的形态结构,用放大镜或显微镜观察孢子,从而增强实验技能。②用比     

曲霉的培养及发育过程的观察

用显微镜观察真菌孢子和菌丝的装片,可以直观地看到它们的形态、结构,但不能直接地联系到真菌的营养和生殖方式,了解真菌发育的全过程。下面介绍一种可以直接观察曲霉生长发育过程的实验方法。     

西瓜不同发育时期的助细胞超微结构的变化

被子植物胚囊的“雌性生殖单位”,已在多种植物上进行了超微结构的观察,但大多都以卵细胞受精前后的结构变化为主要研究内容。对于“雌性生殖单位”中的另一重要成员——助细胞,在不同发育状态下其结构变化的详细资料不多,尤其是助细胞退化后的物质去向,少见报道。本研究主要观察了西瓜不同发育时期(受精前后)、不同发育状态(柱头授粉和未授粉)的助细胞超微结构,以期为研究助细胞在双受精中所起作用提供新的资     

异形水绵接合生殖的诱导与制片观察

就异形水绵(Spirogyra varians Küzing)接合生殖的诱导方法做了研究。采集室外自然水体中的异形水绵,采用饥饿诱导、冷藏诱导、冷冻诱导、化学诱导法培养,并对诱导培养的最佳观察时间进行了探索,旨在提供一个诱导水绵接合生殖的好办法。结果表明4种诱导处理5～14d能观察到接合生殖现象。饥饿诱导、NaHCO3诱导的水绵接合生殖明显,效果好,观察周期长;冷藏诱导、冷冻诱导满足快速、短期的实验准备。     

黑脊倒刺鲃卵子发生中生殖质的产生

采用光学和电子显微镜对黑脊倒刺的卵原细胞和各期卵母细胞中生殖质的形成过程进行观察。仅在卵原细胞和Ⅱ时相卵中观察到了生殖质的产生过程 ,在Ⅲ、Ⅳ时相卵中未观察到生殖质的产生过程。生殖质来源于核仁。它从细胞核中释放出来 ,进入细胞质。卵原细胞和卵母细胞产生生殖质的方式不同。在卵原细胞的生殖质形成过程中 ,生殖质的前体物质先移到核膜内侧 ,核膜解体 ,形成囊泡 ,随后 ,在生殖质前体物质所在处的内侧重新形成核膜 ,这样 ,细胞核表面就形成一个凹陷 ,生殖质前体物质位于核表面的凹陷之中 ,就这样被隔离于细胞核之外而进入细胞质中 ,成为生殖质。生殖质形成后 ,在细胞质中与线粒体相结合。生殖质的这种形成方式与精原细胞中拟染色体的形成方式相似。而在卵母细胞的生殖质形成过程中 ,生殖质的前体物质移到核膜内侧之后 ,核膜并无囊泡化 ,核孔明显 ,生殖质的前体物质通过核孔离开细胞核 ,位于细胞核表面 ,形成生殖质。生殖质产生之后也与线粒体结合。以后 ,生殖质连同线粒体离开细胞核。生殖质最终与线粒体分离 ,分散于细胞质中。在Ⅲ时相卵中 ,生殖质细小 ;在Ⅳ时相卵中 ,几乎见不到生殖质     

三十年来的中国动物组织学(1934—1964)

组织学是动物学的一门重要基础学科。中国动物学会成立以来,有许多会员从事这方面的研究,尤其是在全国解放以后,这门学科有了较前更为迅速的发展。现将三十年来我国动物组织学的研究进展综述于后。在比较组织学方面,我国学者研究过多种动物的表皮组织,发现了金鱼鼻腔表皮的浆腺细胞,报导了大蟾蜍皮肤在冬眠期、生殖期与生殖后期的结构变化,白鼠皮肤各层肥大细胞的形态,以及中国人皮肤的结构、毛与立毛肌的分布,对二十二种哺乳动物腮腺的结构及猪、羊与人胚消化上皮结构的比较也有了专题报告。在骨组织方面,观察到动物骨(两栖类、鸟类与哺乳类)的哈佛氏管的直径及排列情况与人骨迥异。在生殖排泄系统方面,研究了钉螺生殖腺的周期变化,东亚飞蝗排泄器官的组织结构,水獭的肾叶结构,白鼠尿道球腺的两种腺泡等。关于两栖害、食虫类、啮齿类和哺乳类动物血液的有形成分,也开展了一些工作,观察到青蛙     

虎纹捕鸟蛛体表扫描电镜观察

对虎纹捕岛蛛(Ornithoctonus husoena)的眼、生殖球、颚叶、听毛、触毛、琴形器、跗节器、发音器、幼蛛及成蛛的纺绩器和螯肢等结构进行了扫描电镜观察。     

Central projections of cheliceral mechanoreceptors in the spider Cupiennius salei (Arachnida,Araneae)

Central projections of lyriform organs and tactile hairs on the chelicerae of the wandering spider Cupiennius salei were traced using anterograde cobalt fills. Different fibers arising from both mechanoreceptor types arborize in the cheliceral ganglia, which are part of the tritocerebrum, and in sensory longitudinal tracts in the center of the suboesophageal nerve mass together with afferent fibers arising from mechanoreceptors on the walking legs and the pedipalps. This convergence of sensory projections in the sensory longitudinal tracts might provide the anatomical basis for the coordination of the movements of different extremities during prey capture and feeding. The findings also support the hypothesis that the tritocerebrum originally was a preoral ganglion in spiders. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

A Spider's Vibration Receptor: Its Anatomy and Physiology

The common house spider, Achaearanea tepidariorum, has a sensitivevibration receptor on each of its eight legs. This receptoris the tarso-metatarsal lyriform organ, and while it may notbe the only vibration receptor the spider has, it appears tobe the most sensitive. The 10 receptor units of which the senseorgan is composed are all sharply tuned to specific frequenciesbetween 60 and 1400 cps, but the sensitivity of each receptorunit depends upon the tension of the slits of the lyriform organ.Physiological experiments have shown that the tuning of thereceptors occurs only in response to air-borne sound; no discriminationis made of frequencies of web-borne vibration. One can speculatethat the high sensitivity to air-borne sound is a consequenceof the relatively poor transmission of vibration through Achaearanea'sweb.     

Agonistic signals received by an arthropod filiform hair allude to the prevalence of near-field sound communication

Arthropod filiform hairs respond to air particle movements and are among the most sensitive animal sensory organs. In many species, they are tuned to detect predators or prey and trigger escape or prey capture behaviours. Here we show for the first time that these hairs also receive intraspecific near-field sound signals in an arachnid. During agonistic encounters, whip spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi) perform antenniform leg vibration (ALV) displays that have significantly longer duration in contest winners than losers. During an ALV display: (i) the vibrating antenniform leg of the displaying whip spider is positioned close to the trichobothria (filiform hairs) on its opponent's walking legs, (ii) the vibrating antenniform leg can excite these trichobothria via air movements and without direct contact, (iii) the antenniform leg of the displaying whip spider vibrates at a frequency that causes particularly strong, sustained excitation and little adaptation in the trichobothria, and (iv) the duration of an ALV display can be extracted from the response of a trichobothrium. Since filiform hairs are widespread among arthropods, communication via such hairs could be extremely prevalent.     

Central nervous projection patterns of trichobothria and other cuticular sensilla in the wandering spider Cupiennius salei (Arachnida,Araneae)

Summary Central projections of mechano-and chemoreceptors on the legs and pedipalps of the wandering spider Cupiennius salei were traced by anterograde cobalt fills. The primary afferent fibres from trichobothria, tactile hairs, lyriform organs and contact chemoreceptive hairs enter the leg ganglia and pedipalpal ganglia ventrally. On their way through these ganglia there is very little arborization. The main areas of arborization are in the sensory longitudinal tracts in the suboesophageal nervous mass. The central projections of all mechano-and chemoreceptors examined show somatotopic organization. Sensilla located proximally on the legs are represented in dorsally located sensory longitudinal tracts, whereas those located on distal leg segments enter more ventral tracts. The afferent fibres of receptors of identifical modality on a specific segment of all legs and of the pedipalps overlap in the same tracts. No indication for a tonotopic arrangement of the trichobothrial afferences was found, which might have been associated with the mechanical frequency tuning of the trichobothria known from other experiments. The convergence of the projections of different types of receptors in the sensory longitudinal tracts is considered to be an anatomical basis for their functional interaction in behaviour. Both the convergence of the projections of receptors from the same segment of different legs and the somatotopy are connectivity patterns possibly associated with the orientation of the spiders towards mechanical or chemical cues.     

Central nervous projections of mechanoreceptors in the spider Cupiennius salei Keys.

Summary The basic organization of sensory projections in the suboesophageal central nervous system of a spider (Cupiennius salei Keys.) was analyzed with anterograde cobalt fills and a modified Golgi rapid method. The projections of three lyriform slit sense organs and of tactile hairs located proximally on the legs are described and related to central nerve tracts. There are five main longitudinal sensory tracts in the central region of the suboesophageal nervous mass arranged one above the other. Whereas the three dorsal ones contain fibers from the lyriform organs, the two ventral ones contain axons from the hair receptors. Axons from all three lyriform organs have typical shapes and widely arborizing ipsilateral intersegmental branches and a few contralateral ones. The terminal branches of the afferent projections from identical lyriform organs on each leg form characteristic longitudinal pathways, typical of each organ: U-shaped, O-shaped, or two parallel bundles. The terminations of the hair sensilla are ipsilateral and intersegmental. Two large bilaterally arranged longitudinal sensory association tracts receive inputs from all legs including the dense arborizations from tactile hairs, lyriform organs, and other sense organs. These tracts may serve as important integrating neuropils of the suboesophageal central nervous system.     

一些蜘蛛类群味觉毛的形态、数量和分布

化学通讯是蜘蛛最基础和最普遍的种内及种间通讯方式之一,蜘蛛体表的味觉毛能够接触性地或者近距离地感知环境中的化学物质,但味觉毛的相关研究仅在少数几种蜘蛛中有过报道。我们通过扫描电镜分别对幽灵蛛科(Pholcidae)、弱蛛科(Leptonetidae)、泰莱蛛科(Telemidae)、蟹蛛科(Thomisidae)和球蛛科(Theridiidae)共5科32种蜘蛛味觉毛的形态、数量及分布进行了观察。结果显示:蜘蛛味觉毛一般呈"S"形或弧形;毛根部与体表形成较大角度,末端开口。一般分布在步足的跗节和后跗节,一些种类在步足胫节亦有味觉毛分布。所观察的蜘蛛中绝大部分种类在触肢上未发现味觉毛,仅有2种蟹蛛即角红蟹蛛(Thomisus labefactus)和膨胀微蟹蛛(Lysiteles inflatus)以及1种球蛛即鼬形微姬蛛(Phycosomamustelinum)在触肢上有味觉毛。味觉毛的数量在不同蜘蛛种类中有较大差异,从十几根到上百根不等。蜘蛛味觉毛的形态、数量和分布等特征除了与遗传相关外,亦有可能与其生境和生活方式等有关。     

Slit sense organs and kinesthetic orientation

Summary In the hunting spider Cupiennius salei Keys, kinesthetic orientation towards a catching site from which it has previously been chased away is observed. This ability strongly depends on the lyriform slit sense organs found on femur and tibia of the walking legs. The animals miss the original catching site, if these organs are destroyed on all legs. The mean angular deviation of the starting angles of the returns increases significantly as compared with intact spiders (P<0.005). Also, the directions of the mean vectors of the starting angles change (P<0.05).Supported by a grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.     

Mimicry complex in two central European zodariid spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae): how Zodarion deceives ants

Ant-eating spiders, Zodarion germanicum and Z. rubidum , were found to resemble ants structurally (size, colour, setosity) and behaviourally (ant-like movement, antennal illusion). Zodarion germanicum mimics large dark ants, such as Formica cinerea , whereas Z. rubidum resembles red ants, e.g. Myrmica sabuleti . Thus, these spiders are generalized Batesian mimics. The two spiders use aggressive mimicry during prey capture. When a spider carries a captured ant it will try to pass by approaching ants using special deceiving behaviour, which is based on imitation of ants' nestmate recognition. The spider first taps the antennae of the curious ant with its front legs (transmitting a tactile cue), then exposes its prey (the ant corpse) which the ant antennates (thus the corpse transmits an olfactory cue). The distal part of the front legs of Zodarion are almost without macrosetae similar to the antennae of ants. Additionally, all the other legs are covered with flattened incised setae, which imitate the dense setosity of ants' limbs. These remarkable microstructural imitations are believed to improve imitation of tactile signals by spiders. Moreover, by tapping, zodariids can presumably recognize the approaching intruder and decide whether to undertake the risk of deception or to run away. © 2002 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2002, 75 , 517–532.     

Function of bright coloration in the wasp spider Argiope bruennichi (Araneae: Araneidae)

There are two major competing explanations for the counter-intuitive presence of bright coloration in certain orb-web spiders. Bright coloration could lure insect prey to the web vicinity, increasing the spider's foraging success. Alternatively, the markings could function as disruptive camouflage, making it difficult for the insect prey to distinguish spiders from background colour variation. We measured the prey capture rates of wasp spiders, Argiope bruennichi, that were blacked out, shielded from view using a leaf fragment, or left naturally coloured. Naturally coloured spiders caught over twice the number of prey as did either blacked-out or leaf-shielded spiders, and almost three times as many orthopteran prey. Spectrophotometer measurements suggest that the bright yellow bands on the spider's abdomen are visible to insect prey, but not the banding on the legs, which could disguise the spider's outline. Thus, our results provide strong support for the hypothesis that bright coloration in the wasp spider acts as a visual lure for insect prey and weak support for the hypothesis that the arrangement of the banding pattern across the spider's body disguises the presence of the spider on the web.