狭蚤属( Stenoponia J. et R. , 1911)一新种记述(Siphonaptera: Hystrichopsyllidae)

狭蚤属(Stenoponia J.et R.,1911)为大型色深的跳蚤,全身有浓密的鬃,多分布于旧北界,少数在新北界。1959年7月廖灏溶同志从青海Myospalax fontanierii体上采到本属跳蚤,其形态与已知各种均有区别,故订为新种,命名为多棘狭蚤新种S.polyspina sp.nov。     

R. A. Fisher, Lancelot Hogben, and the Origin(s) of Genotype–Environment Interaction

This essay examines the origin(s) of genotype–environment interaction, or G × E. “Origin(s)” and not “the origin” because the thesis is that there were actually two distinct concepts of G × E at this beginning: a biometric concept, or G × E_B, and a developmental concept, or G × E_D. R. A. Fisher, one of the founders of population genetics and the creator of the statistical analysis of variance, introduced the biometric concept as he attempted to resolve one of the main problems in the biometric tradition of biology – partitioning the relative contributions of nature and nurture responsible for variation in a population. Lancelot Hogben, an experimental embryologist and also a statistician, introduced the developmental concept as he attempted to resolve one of the main problems in the developmental tradition of biology – determining the role that developmental relationships between genotype and environment played in the generation of variation. To argue for this thesis, I outline Fisher and Hogben’s separate routes to their respective concepts of G × E; then these separate interpretations of G × E are drawn on to explicate a debate between Fisher and Hogben over the importance of G × E, the first installment of a persistent controversy. Finally, Fisher’s G × E_B and Hogben’s G × E_D are traced beyond their own work into mid-20th century population and developmental genetics, and then into the infamous IQ Controversy of the 1970s.     

Karyological and serological studies in Rana lessonae,R. ridibunda and in their hybrid R. ‘esculenta’ (Amphibia,Anura)

The karyotypes of the three water frog forms: Rana lessonae, R. ridibunda and R. esculenta were analysed from bone marrow cell preparations of animals captured in several localities of the GDR. In the three forms chromosome morphology was similar (5 large and 8 small pairs), although differences in the relative length of most elements were found; R. esculenta chromosomes were always intermediate.One of the small pairs (Chr. 12) was found to be metacentric in R. lessonae and submetacentric in R. ridibunda. Most R. esculenta individuals examined had one meta-and one submetacentric 12th element, indicating the hybrid nature of this form. However 16.6% esculenta proved to be homozygous for either the metacentric or the submetacentric chromosome 12, while 13% lessonae individuals and 7.7% ridibunda were heterozygous for this element.By starch gel electrophoresis an analysis was undertaken of serum proteins from water frogs coming from regions in which the forms occur together (sympatric populations) and from zones in which only one of them lives (allopatric populations).In Rana lessonae, where only one allele had been previously described, two different alleles were found in animals coming from the GDR.If genetic polymorphism is excluded, between 6.1% and 9.1% individuals from sympatric lessonae and ridibunda populations showed introgression of an albumin allele. No gene introgression was found in allopatric lessonae populations from the Leningrad region or in ridibunda from Alma Ata and southern Bulgaria.     

M. R. Irwin (1897–1987) Pioneer in Immunogenetics

In Memoriam

M. R. Irwin (1897–1987) Pioneer in Immunogenetics     

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