MULTIPLE MODES OF SPECIATION INVOLVED IN THE PARALLEL EVOLUTION OF SYMPATRIC MORPHOTYPES OF LAKE WHITEFISH (COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS,SALMONIDAE)

We performed a phylogenetic analysis of mtDNA variation among seven sympatric pairs of dwarf and normal morphotypes of whitefish from northern Québec and the St. John River drainage to address three questions relevant to understanding their radiation. Are all sympatric pairs reproductively isolated? Do phylogenetic analyses confirm that sympatric whitefish morphotypes found in eastern North America represent the outcome of polyphyletic evolutionary events? If so, did all sympatric pairs from the St. John River drainage originate from the same scenario of allopatric divergence and secondary contact? The hypothesis of genetic differentiation was supported for all sympatric pairs from the St. John River drainage, whereas lack of mtDNA diversity precluded any test of reproductive isolation for northern Québec populations. Patterns of mtDNA variation confirmed that dwarf and normal morphotypes evolved in parallel among independent, yet closely related, lineages, thus providing indirect evidence for the role of natural selection in promoting phenotypic radiation in whitefish. Patterns of mtDNA diversity among sympatric pairs of the St. John River indicated a complex picture of whitefish evolution that implied sympatric divergence and multiple allopatric divergence/secondary contact events on a small geographic scale. These results suggests that ecological opportunities, namely trophic niche availability, may promote population divergence in whitefish.     

PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE IN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA OF THE LAKE WHITEFISH (COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS) AND ITS RELATION TO PLEISTOCENE GLACIATIONS

Restriction-fragment length polymorphisms were employed to evaluate the phylogenetic relationships, the genetic diversity and the geographic structure in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages of the lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis. Thirteen restriction enzymes that produced 148 restriction fragments were used to assay mtDNAs of 525 specimens collected among 41 populations. The sampling covered the entire range of the species, from Alaska to Labrador. Four distinct phylogeographic assemblages were identified. The Beringian assemblage, confined to Yukon and Alaska, was phylogenetically distinct from other assemblages and exhibited the highest level of nucleotide diversity. The Acadian assemblage was confined to southeastern North America and composed of a unique mtDNA clade. The Atlantic assemblage was confined to southern Québec and the northeastern United States and was also observed among anadromous populations of northern Hudson Bay. This group was highly polymorphic and responsible for most of the mtDNA diversity observed outside Beringia. The Mississippian assemblage occupied most of the actual range of lake whitefish, from the Mackenzie delta to Labrador. Ninety-two percent of all whitefish of this proposed origin belonged to a single mtDNA haplotype. Overall, the diversity, the geographic structure and the times of divergence of mtDNA phylogenetic assemblages correlate with the Pleistocene glaciations classically assumed to have dramatically altered the genetic diversity of northern fishes in recent evolutionary times. Our results emphasize the dominant role of these catastrophic events in shaping the population genetic structure of lake whitefish.     

ALLOPATRIC ORIGIN OF SYMPATRIC POPULATIONS OF LAKE WHITEFISH (COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS) AS REVEALED BY MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA RESTRICTION ANALYSIS

In the paper, restriction-fragment length polymorphisms in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) were studied to test the hypothesis that sympatric populations of lake whitefish in the Allegash basin have recently diverged through sympatric speciation. Thirteen restriction enzymes were used to analyze mtDNA of 156 specimens representing 13 populations from eastern Canada and northern Maine where normal and dwarf phenotypes of whitefish exist in sympatry and allopatry. Two monophyletic assemblages of populations that exhibit different geographic distributions were identified. One showed an eastern distribution that expands from Cape Breton to the Allegash basin and the other exhibits a more western distribution. The Allegash basin was the only area of overlap. The western assemblage exhibited the normal size phenotype in all cases, whereas the eastern assemblage exhibited the normal size phenotype in allopatric conditions and the dwarf size phenotype in sympatry. The existence of sympatric pairs in the Allegash basin result from the secondary contact of two monophyletic groups of whitefish that evolved allopatrically in separate refugia during the last glaciation events. The weak mtDNA difference of sympatric pairs suggests that speciation of lake whitefish in eastern North America was accompanied by only minor alterations of the ancestral gene pool.     

CORRELATED TROPHIC SPECIALIZATION AND GENETIC DIVERGENCE IN SYMPATRIC LAKE WHITEFISH ECOTYPES (COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS): SUPPORT FOR THE ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION HYPOTHESIS

There is ample empirical evidence that phenotypic diversification in an adaptive radiation is the outcome of divergent natural selection related to differential resource use. In contrast, the role of ecological forces in favoring and maintaining reproductive isolation in nature remains poorly understood. If the same forces driving phenotypic divergence are also responsible for speciation, one would predict a correlation between the extent of trophic specialization (reflecting variable intensity of divergent natural selection) and that of reproductive isolation being reached in a given environment. We tested this hypothesis by comparing the extent of morphological and genetic differentiation between sympatric dwarf and normal whitefish ecotypes (Coregonus sp.) from six lakes of the St. John River basin (eastern Canada and northern Maine). Eight meristic variables, 19 morphometric variables, and six microsatellite loci were used to quantify morphological and genetic differentiation, respectively. Dwarf and normal ecotypes in each lake differed primarily by traits related to trophic specialization, but the extent of differentiation varied among lakes. Significant but variable genetic divergence between ecotypes within lakes was also observed. A negative correlation was observed between the extent of gene flow between ecotypes within a lake and that of their morphological differentiation in trophic-related traits. The extent of reproductive isolation reached between dwarf and normal whitefish ecotypes appears to be driven by the potential for occupying distinct trophic niches and, thus, by the same selective forces driving tropic specialization in each lake. These results therefore support the hypothesis of ecological speciation.     

GENETIC EVIDENCE FOR REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION AND MULTIPLE ORIGINS OF SYMPATRIC TROPHIC ECOTYPES OF WHITEFISH (COREGONUS)

We assessed variation in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis and in nuclear genes by allozyme analysis among sympatric pairs of limnetic and benthic ecotypes of whitefish (Coregonus) coexisting in three lakes of southern Yukon to address three evolutionary questions regarding their origins. Are sympatric low and high gill-raker count ecotypes genetically differentiated? Are they issued from monophyletic or polyphyletic evolutionary events? If they are polyphyletic in origins, did they originate from multiple allopatric speciation events or intralacustrine radiation? Our results corroborated previous genetic and ecological studies of these ecotypes, indicating that they represent genetically distinct reproductive units, and therefore refuting the hypothesis of phenotypic polymorphism within a single population. However, the amount of gene flow between ecotypes varied among lakes, correlating with the extent of morphological differentiation and the potential for premating reproductive isolation. The results indicated a polyphyletic origin of ecotypes whereby each of them have been expressed independently more than once. In the two lakes of Squanga Creek drainage, the existence of sympatric pairs was best explained by the secondary contact of two monophyletic whitefish groups that evolved in allopatry during the last glaciation events. In Dezadeash L. of Alsek R. drainage, our results could not verify either sympatric or allopatric (or microallopatric) origin of ecotypes. Regardless of the mode of speciation involved in their origins, these sympatric whitefish populations provided further evidence that Pleistocene glaciation events created conditions favoring rapid divergence and phenotypic differentiation among northern freshwater fishes.     

中华鳖卵孵化过程中物质和能量的动态

在温,温度分别为30℃,－220kPa条件下孵化中华鳖（Pelodiscus sinensis)卵,以检测孵化过程中胚胎生长及对物质和能量的利用,孵化过程中,每隔7天测定卵重,孵化第10天始,每隔5天解剖15枚卵,分离为胚胎,卵黄和卵壳,初生幼体称重后冰冻处死,随后解剖分离为躯干,剩余卵黄和脂肪体,所有样品65℃恒温干燥,用索氏抽提仪测定脂肪含量,氧弹式热量计测定能量含量,马福炉测定无机物含量,本研究中华鳖卵的平均孵化期为45．5天,卵重量在孵化过程中基本维持恒定,表明中华鳖镦与环境的水分交换不明显,孵化第0－20天,20－30,30－40天和40－45天,胚胎分别利用新生孵内总能量的6％,24％,59％和4％,0－30天,胎生长缓慢,30－40天,胚胎生长最迅速,孵化末期胚胎生长减缓,胎发育所需的无机物来自卵黄和卵壳,卵壳提供的无机物约占初生幼体无机物总量的13．5％,孵化过程中,干物质,脂肪和能量的转化率分别为79．6％,58．7％和66．5％,初生幼体的能组成为：躯干占71．8％,脂肪体占19．4％,剩余卵黄占8．8％。     

猕猴(Macaca mulatta)的齿序、年龄和个体发育的关系

猕猴(Macaca mulatta)齿序与年龄的关系,我们已作过简明报道(曾中兴,1965;曾中兴等,1980)。与人一样,猕猴有2套齿列,即20颗乳齿和32颗恒齿。约在5月龄时出齐全部乳齿,4.5岁时乳齿全被恒齿替换。通常,雄猴到6.5岁左右出齐恒齿,而雌猴要到7岁左右。此后,随同动物年龄的增长,各类牙齿的齿面会受到不同程度的磨损。因此,猴子的牙齿状况可用来估计其年龄。     

PUBLIC RELATIONS IN THE PRACTICE OF ALLERGY

Because allergists are in a fairly recently developed and not widely well understood specialty, they must give more than ordinary attention to good relations with the public and with other physicians.They can help put their specialty in the proper light by:1. Explaining rather than attempting to conceal, diagnosis and treatment of allergic disease to practitioners in other fields of medicine.2. Acknowledging the referral of patients and giving the referring physician reports on the progress of each patient.3. Explaining to patients the nature of allergic sensitivity, the procedures necessary for diagnosis, and the probability that cure will take a relatively long time and, hence, probably will be more costly than is treatment of simpler diseases.4. Avoiding confusing patients by giving advice, based on faddist notions, which may conflict with more conventionally grounded information given by another physician.5. Making certain that all members of the office staff have and exercise the ability to make patients feel good. Disruption of physician-patient and nurse-patient relationship by pecuniary considerations must be averted.     

THE INCUBATION PATCH OF BIRDS

1. The incubation patch of birds forms in the areas of the ventrum devoid of contour feathers (apteria) by processes involving defeathering of down, dermal and subdermal hypervascularization, oedema, and hyperplasia of the epidermis and dermal connective tissue. Its formation facilitates the transfer of heat to the eggs and hatched young. 2. In general, the sex that incubates develops a patch; this may be the female, both sexes, or the male, and the species within any one order tend to exhibit a common pattern. In some orders (e.g. Pelecaniformes) no patch develops. 3. The incubation patch begins to form before egg laying in passerine birds and during egg laying in Galliformes. Most of the patch responses in passerines are completed earlier in the reproductive cycle (late egg laying to middle incubation) than in Galliformes (middle incubation to early brooding). 4. In the passerines studied, in which usually only the female develops a patch, oestrogen and prolactin synergize to cause patch development; oestrogen given alone is effective because it synergizes with endogenous prolactin in intact birds. The role of progesterone is unclear, but it seems to mimic the effects of prolactin and also plays a role in the increase in skin sensitivity characteristic of patch development in the canary. 5. In the one galliform studied (California quail), in which both sexes develop a patch, either oestrogen or androgen synergizes with prolactin; oestrogen alone is ineffective in non-breeding quail because of insufficient endogenous prolactin levels. Prolactin alone causes epidermal hyperplasia and vascularization, and progesterone seems mainly to be involved in defeathering. In the starling also both sexes develop a patch, but testosterone plus prolactin is not effective as it is in the quail. 6. In the phalaropes, birds in which only the male develops a patch, androgen and prolactin are the effective synergists in patch development. Thus, there is a correlation between the sex which develops a patch in the wild and the steroid (oestrogen or androgen) which synergizes with prolactin. 7. In the brown-headed cowbird, a parasitic species which neither develops a patch nor incubates, there are no responses to exogenous hormones. The absence of patch development in one sex or in both can be due either to an absence of appropriate hormone levels or to a lack of sensitivity of the skin to hormones. 8. More study is needed of the transfer of heat from the patch area to the eggs or young, including the relationships between patch structure, surface area, surface temperature, type of nest, and the number and size of eggs. 9. Patch formation is affected by and influences behaviour. 10. More research is needed in regard to (I) the natural development and endocrine control of the incubation patch in various orders of birds: (2) the effects of patch formation on behaviour, and vice versa; (3) the mode of action of the hormones in patch formation, that is, whether it is direct or indirect, e.g. through the release of another hormone; (4) the specificity of the ventral skin to hormone administration; (5) the effects of stimulation of the patch by eggs in the nest on prolactin and gonado-trophin secretion; (6) the possible role of other, as yet untested, hormones on patch development; (7) the levels of endogenous hormones in relation to natural patch formation; and (8) possible correlations between the structure of the patch, the chronology of its formation, the clutch size and the condition of the young when hatched in various species.     

SPECIES FLOCK IN THE NORTH AMERICAN GREAT LAKES: MOLECULAR ECOLOGY OF LAKE NIPIGON CISCOES (TELEOSTEI: COREGONIDAE: COREGONUS)

Studies on north temperate fish species indicate that new habitat availability following the last ice sheet retreat has promoted ecological speciation in postglacial lakes. Extensive ecophenotypic polymorphisms observed among the North American Great Lakes ciscoes suggest that this fish group has radiated through trophic adaptation and reproductive isolation. This study aims at relating the ecomorphological and genetic polymorphisms expressed by the Lake Nipigon ciscoes to evaluate the likelihood of an intralacustrine divergence driven by the exploitation of alternative resources. Morphological variation and trophic and spatial niches are characterized and contrasted among 203 individuals. Genetic variation at six microsatellite loci is also analyzed to appraise the extent of genetic differentiation among these morphotypes. Ecomorphological data confirm the existence of four distinct morphotypes displaying various levels of trophic and depth niche overlap and specialization. However, ecological and morphological variations were not coupled as expected, suggesting that trophic morphology is not always predictive of ecology. Although extensive genetic variability was observed, little genetic differentiation was found among morphotypes, with only one morph being slightly but significantly differentiated. Contrasting patterns of morphological, ecological, and genetic polymorphisms did not support the hypothesis of ecological speciation: the most ecologically different forms were morphologically most similar, while the only genetically differentiated morph was the least ecologically specialized. The low levels of genetic differentiation and the congruence between θ and φ estimates altogether suggest a recent (most likely postglacial) process of divergence and/or high gene flow among morphs A, C, and D, whereas higher φ estimates for comparison involving morph B suggest that this morph may be derived from another colonizing lineage exchanging little genes with the other morphs. Patterns of ecophenotypic and genetic diversity are also compatible with a more complex evolutionary history involving hybridization and introgression.     

孵化温度对中华鳖胚胎物质和能量利用的影响

用多重温度组合[7个恒温（23、24、27、28、30、33和34℃）和1个波动温度（22．3－32．8℃）]孵化中华鳖（Pellodiscus sinensis）卵,检测温度对胚胎利用卵内物质和能量的影响。卵在波动温度和温和温度下（27℃和28℃）孵化有较高的干物质、脂肪和能量转化率,卵出幼体因而含有较多的无机物,幼体躯干和脂肪体含有较高的能量。卵在极端高温（34℃和33℃）或极端低温（23℃）下孵化物质和能量转化率较低,使得孵出幼体中无机物较少,幼体射干和脂肪中含能量较低。孵化温度显著影响中华鳖孵出幼体内的能量分配;27℃和28℃孵出幼体含能量较高且相似,但27℃孵出幼体剩余卵黄能量小于28℃孵出幼体;34℃和23℃孵出幼体含能量较低且相似,但23℃孵出幼体剩余卵黄能量大于34℃孵出幼体。波动温度拓宽存活孵化温度范围。