EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES IN PONDEROSA PINE. I. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VARIATION IN PROTEINS AND MORPHOLOGY

Ponderosa pine from California (Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa) were crossed to one another and also to individuals from the Rocky Mountains (P. p. var. scopulorum). All crosses involved a single mother and a single pollen donor. Patterns of inheritance of electrophoretically-detectable loci followed Mendelian expectations with one exception. Shikimate dehydrogenase showed unpredictable banding patterns in intervarietal crosses. Variability at these biochemical loci was compared to variability at 14 morphometric characters. The relationship between these two levels of variation is complex and permits only one generalization: variability at one level is not a good predictor of variability at the other level.     

A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF VARIATION IN THE CHENOPODIUM ATROVIRENS-DESICCATUM-PRATERICOLA COMPLEX

Multivariate analyses were applied to 96 populations (OTUs) of plants, traditionally referred to Chenopodium atrovirens, C. desiccatum, and C. pratericola, in an attempt to evaluate the numerous and often contradictory taxonomic treatments of plants in this complex. The study consisted of two major parts. The first involved the use of cluster and principal components analyses using 14 morphological characters on the entire set of 96 OTUs to search for phenetically distinct groupings; these analyses were conducted without knowledge of traditional taxonomic designations of individual OTUs. Three reasonably well-defined groups emerged from these preliminary analyses. When traditional taxonomic designations were applied to member OTUs of each group, one group was composed primarily of C. atrovirens, another of C. pratericola and the third of C. desiccatum. The second part of the study utilized canonical analysis to: 1) confirm the integrity of the phenetic groups, 2) to classify OTUs difficult to identify to species using traditional methods, and 3) to provide an evaluation of characters important in the separation of these groups. This analysis confirmed the integrity of the groups and provided a classification to species of nearly all of the otherwise difficult OTUs. In addition, canonical analysis demonstrated that a combination of characters was important in the separation of the phenetic groups.     

耻骨联合面形态学特征与年龄关系的再研究

本文用14岁以后(男180人,女140人)的耻骨,对男女耻骨联合面形态特征差异,影响判断年龄的因素,判断男女年龄的各自指标进行了研究。结果表明:男女耻骨形态特征有差异,应分别使用各自指标。经统计方法比较检验,提出了男女各自指标。某些疾病、下肢外伤、严重营养不良、生育等,可产生耻骨形态变异,影响判断年龄。并对59例盲测结果与Snow(1983)法作了讨论。     

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIMATE AND ANNUAL CYCLES IN THE COTINGIDAE

This survey is based primarily or the state of moult of over 4000 specimens of cotingas from all parts of the neotropical region. The seasonality of moult thus revealed is combined with existing knowledge of breeding seasons and seasonal environmental changes in an attempt to work out the broad pattern of annual cycles and their relation to climate. Within any local population the date of onset of moult may vary according to sex and age. In genera in which both sexes participate in nesting, males and females begin to moult at about the same time, or the males slightly in advance of the females. In genera with marked sexual dimorphism, in which only the female attends the nest, males may begin to moult well before females, at about the time that the latter begin egg-laying. The former group includes the genera Pachyramphus and Tityra, comprising species that are largely insectivorous, and the latter group includes the more specialized frugivorous genera. In all areas with well-marked seasonality, the ‘frugivorous group’ moults on average before the ‘Pachyramphus group’. It appears to be a general rule for first-year birds to moult earlier than older birds. A regional survey embracing all parts of the neotropical region shows that the peak of onset of moult occurs towards the end of the dry season (frugivorous group) or early in the wet season (Pachyramphus group). The changing moult seasons, strikingly in conformity with the geographical changes in the period of heaviest rainfall, are traced along a number of transects from Mexico in the north to Paraguay and Bolivia in the south. Such evidence as there is suggests that the main period of onset of moult in the frugivorous and Pachyramphus groups coincides with the period when their food is approaching or at its seasonal peak of abundance. It seems that both breeding and moult, which are almost entirely mutually exclusive, are as far as possible timed to coincide with this most favourable period; but whereas the moult takes a more or less fixed length of time the period when breeding is possible varies greatly in different species. Widely different patterns of annual cycle may result from the interaction of the two processes. Examples are given both from the cotingas and from species of other families with similar ecology. The proximate factors controlling the timing of the moult are briefly considered. It is suggested that increasing food availability is the main environmental controlling factor, and that an endogenous circannual cycle of moult must also be involved.     

高寒草原优势种叶片结构变化与生态因子的关系

 为了揭示青藏高原高寒草原优势物种青藏苔草（Carex moorcroftii）和紫花针茅（Stipa purpurea）对高原特殊环境的适应性,该文研究了 它们的叶片结构在自然环境梯度下的变化以及这些变化与生态因子之间的关系。结果表明：这两个物种叶片的大多数结构特征在各个样地间变 化显著,其结构特征与环境因子间存在显著的相关关系。紫花针茅叶肉细胞大小随土壤有效K含量的增高而减小,下表皮细胞厚度和韧皮部面积 随生长季云盖度的增高而增加,单一导管半径和导管平均面积随生长季月均湿度的增加而增大;青藏苔草上表皮细胞厚度随生长季月均最低温 的降低而增厚,泡状细胞厚度（径向直径）随大陆度的增强而增加,上表皮细胞大小随土壤pH值的增大而增大,导管总数和韧皮部面积随土壤 速效P含量的增高而增加。青藏苔草的保护组织、光合组织以及综合指标变异系数明显大于紫花针茅,仅维管组织指标变异系数小于紫花针茅。     

精液细菌L型感染与男性不育的关系

作者对２２例溶脲脲原体培养阴性的精液进行细菌及Ｌ型培养,其中６例分离出金黄色葡萄球菌及其Ｌ型,占２７．２７％。精液常规分析显示,分离出金葡萄菌及其Ｌ型的精液,白细胞计数５例超过正常达１０～１５个／高倍视野;２例精子的活动率与活动力分别是５０％以下和Ⅱ级（低于正常）。金葡菌及Ｌ型分离阳性的精子电镜扫描,可见有些精子的头尾部有巨形体、园球体或短杆状菌体吸附,并经免疫酶ＰＡＰ染色证实为金葡菌Ｌ型。实验结果表明：细菌Ｌ型感染吸附可能是部分男性不育的原因。     

云南西双版纳桑寄生植物传播与鸟的关系研究

在西双版纳地区桑寄生植物的种子是鸟类传播。传播的鸟类主要是啄花鸟科的纯色啄花鸟,红胸啄花鸟,朱背啄花鸟和黄肛啄花鸟等。桑寄生植物种子的传播方式,一是鸟类蚕食除去外果皮的种子或外果皮果肉相互连着的种子,经消化道消化吸收大部分果肉或外果皮后,将种子排出体外,其次是鸟在觅食中遗漏种子进行传播。     

医院空气中细菌与临床感染的关系研究

医院感染已列为国家质量管理的一个重要组成部分,感染菌的来源,主要分内源性菌,即患者自身带的菌又感染了自己。另一种是外源性菌,即外环境包括空气中的细菌、各种物品中的细菌、人员接触等。医院内感染;以呼吸道感染占首位(59％),空气传播是引起感染的重要方面,空气中病原性微生物的污染程度直接决定感染率的高低。为了弄清医院空气中菌群分布情况及从空气中和临床患者中分离出同一类菌的关系,进行了对比实验及耐药性分析,现将结果报告如下。     

两种泥鳅不同核质关系下LDH同工酶基因表达的研究

采用聚丙烯酰胺不连续系统凝胶电泳方法分析了泥鳅和大鳞副泥鳅不同杂交组合不同核质关系下胚发育阶段（0－145h）中乳酸脱氢酶（LDH）同工酶的分化表达谱式,ＬＤＨ同工酶的基因表达随细胞质、细胞核不同及胚胎发育各个时期具有不同的个体发育谱式,以泥鳅卵子为细胞质的Ⅰ、Ⅱ两组,杂交组（Ⅱ）ＬＤＨ同工酶基因在受精后３min至原肠中期雄核基因参与表达与调控,部分基因位点比本交组（Ⅰ）启动与表达的时间要早,两组的管家酶主要来自细胞质。以大鳞副泥鳅为细胞质的Ⅲ、Ⅳ两组,各酶均以细胞质调控为主,其管家酶与泥鳅有很大不同。并具体分析和讨论了不同核质关系ＬＤＨ同工酶基因的表达和调控的时空顺序。     

GENETIC VARIATION,DIFFERENTIATION, AND EVOLUTION IN A SPECIES COMPLEX OF TROPICAL SHRUBS BASED ON ISOZYMIC DATA

An isozyme investigation of the Lisianthius skinneri (Gentianaceae) species complex in central Panama assayed levels of genetic variation within and among isolated populations and was used to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships within the complex. The widespread and low elevation L. skinneri and one derived cloud forest endemic species, L. habuensis, are depauperate in genetic variation. Three other endemic cloud forest species exhibiting larger population sizes and apparently more outcrossed breeding systems have higher levels of heterozygosity but retain low levels of allelic diversity. More than 90% of the genetic variation in the species complex is confined to among-population differentiation rather than witnin-population variation. Isozyme-based relationships within the species complex using both genetic divergence values (Fitch and Margoliash algorithm) and shared allelic states (Nelson and Van Horn algorithm) are identical. This network is not entirely congruent with a previous DNA-based network. Geographical isolation, small population size, low allelic diversity, and high levels of among-population differentiation suggest that repeated instances of founder events and genetic drift have been important in the evolution of this tropical shrub complex.