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Ernesto Gianoli 《Plant Ecology》2003,165(1):21-26
Vines depend on external support to prevent shading by neighbouringplants. Hence, it is important to determine whether shading enhances thephenotypic responses of vines to support availability. I evaluated theconsequences of support availability (a vertical stake) on shoot and leaftraitsof the morning glory Ipomoea purpurea (Convolvulaceae)under full sunlight and extreme shade. It was hypothesised that phenotypicresponses of vines to support availability should be greater in the shade. Inaddition, to investigate possible constraints to such phenotypic responses, thecorrelations among phenotypic traits and the plasticity of such correlationswere evaluated. The phenotypic variation of the main stem length and of thenumber of branches was consistent with the hypothesis, i.e. greater responsestosupport availability in the shade. In contrast, both internode length and leafarea (two traits that showed a significant and positive correlation) decreasedin the sun and increased in the shade with support availability. Petiole lengthdecreased with support in the sun but had no response in the shade. On theotherhand, the number of significant trait correlations found in plants in the sunand supported plants was higher than those of shade and non-supported plants,respectively. Several of the correlations were significantly sensitive to theenvironment. Flowering only occurred in the sun treatment. Whereas no shoot orleaf trait was significantly correlated with flower number in supported plants,both petiole length and shoot biomass showed a significant correlation withsuchestimate of plant fitness in non-supported plants. 相似文献
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Maternal effects are widespread and influence a variety of traits, for example, life history strategies, mate choice, and
capacity to avoid predation. Therefore, maternal effects may also influence phenotypic plasticity of offspring, but few studies
have addressed the relationship between maternal effects and phenotypic plasticity of offspring. We examined the relationship
between a maternally influenced trait (egg size) and the phenotypic plasticity of the induction rate of the broad-headed morph
in the salamander Hynobius retardatus. The relationship between egg size and the induction of the broad-headed morph was tested across experimental crowding conditions
(densities of low conspecifics, high conspecifics, and high heterospecific anuran), using eggs and larvae from eight natural
populations with different larval densities of conspecifics and heterospecifics. The broad-headed morph has a large mouth
that enables it to consume either conspecifics or heterospecifics, and this ability gives survival advantages over the normal
morph. We have determined that there is phenotypic plasticity in development, as shown by an increase in the frequency of
broad-headed morph in response to an increase in the density of conspecifics and heterospecifics. This reaction norm differed
between populations. We also determined that the frequency of the broad-headed morph is affected by egg size in which larger
egg size resulted in expression of the broad-headed morph. Furthermore, we determined that selection acting on the propensity
to develop the broad-headed morph has produced a change in egg size. Lastly, we found that an increase in egg size alters
the reaction norm to favor development of the broad-headed morph. For example, an equal change in experimental density produces
a greater change in the frequency of the broad-headed morph in larvae developing from large eggs than it does in larvae developing
from small eggs. Population differences in plasticity might be the results of differences in egg size between populations,
which is caused by the adaptive integration of the plasticity and egg size. Phenotypic plasticity can not evolve independently
of maternal effects. 相似文献
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Serena Santolamazza-Carbone Montserrat Pestaña Nieto Rosa Pérez Otero Pedro Mansilla Vázquez Adolfo Cordero Rivera 《BioControl》2009,54(2):195-209
We investigated the effects of temperature, photoperiod, food and host availability, and body size on the overwintering abilities
of the egg parasitoid Anaphes nitens Girault (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae) under natural conditions. Seven groups of eighty females received one of four treatments
(n = 20): (i) honey and hosts, (ii) water and hosts, (iii) honey, or (iv) water. Seven groups of forty males received only honey
or water (n = 20). To test if short day-length is the main cue for larval dormancy, the experiment was replicated inside a climate chamber
at 20°C and under a winter photoperiod. A. nitens overwinters because of quiescence or oligopause inside the hosts and increased adult longevity. Mean pre-emergence mortality
was up to 26% indoors and 15.2% outdoors, males being more affected. Development time had a significant and positive effect
on body size. Honey-fed females without hosts had the highest longevity (53 days). Mother’s diet and size affected development
time, body size, longevity, and fecundity of the progeny. The results confirm the good adaptation of the parasitoid to the
environmental conditions of NW Spain and its ability to synchronize its life cycle with the phenology of the host.
Handling editor: Drik Babendreier. 相似文献
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Juan A. Delgado José M. Serrano Francisco López Francisco J. Acosta 《Plant Ecology》2008,197(2):269-276
The germination response of different sized seeds from individuals of a Mediterranean fire-prone shrub (Cistus ladanifer) was investigated in relation to pre-germination heating. A control (no heating), a low temperature during a short exposure
time (50°C during 5 min), a high temperature during a short exposure time (100°C during 5 min) and a high temperature during
a long exposure time (100°C during 15 min) were applied to seeds from different individual plants with different mean seed
weight. These pre-germination treatments resemble natural germination scenarios for the studied species, absence of fire,
low intensity pasture fire, typical Mediterranean shrub fire, and severe fire with high fuel load. Mean seed weight only showed
a marginally significant positive correlation with the proportion of germinated seeds whatever the pre-germination treatment.
These results suggest that seed dormancy is unrelated to seed size and that under the experimental conditions used in this
study, the effect of seed size on seed germination is low. Nevertheless, larger seeds could be favoured in natural conditions,
especially under the high competition scenario which arise after wildfires. Control seeds showed a negative correlation between
seed size and germination velocity suggesting that lighter seeds could take advantage from early germination in recruitment
events in the absence of wildfires. Nevertheless, even the lower pre-germination heating treatment turns this correlation
in not significant, suggesting a strong selection pressure (unrelated to seed size) for early germination after fire events.
In our study, different sized seeds of C. ladanifer seem to perform better under different germination scenarios suggesting that seed size variation could be maintained by the
alternation of recruitments without wildfires and recruitments after wildfire events. 相似文献
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Konstantin V. Kiselev Anna V. Turlenko Yuri N. Zhuravlev 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》2009,99(2):141-149
A somatic embryogenesis protocol for plant regeneration of northern red oak (Quercus rubra) was established from immature cotyledon explants. Embryogenic callus cultures were induced on Murashige and Skoog medium
(MS) containing 3% sucrose, 0.24% Phytagel™, and various concentrations of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-d) after 4 weeks of culture in darkness. A higher response (66%) of embryogenic callus was induced on 0.45 μM 2,4-d. Higher numbers of globular- (31), heart- (17), torpedo- (12), and cotyledon-stage (8) embryos per explant were obtained
by culturing embryogenic callus on MS with 3% sucrose, 0.24% Phytagel™, and devoid of growth regulators after 8 weeks culture
in darkness. Continuous sub-culturing of embryogenic callus on medium containing 2,4-d yielded only compact callus. Desiccation of embryos for 3 days in darkness at 25 ± 2°C followed by cold storage at 4°C in
darkness for 8 weeks favored embryo germination and development of plantlets. Cotyledon-stage embryos subjected to desiccation
and chilling treatment cultured on MS with 3% sucrose, 0.24 Phytagel™, 0.44 μM 6-benzylaminopurine (BA), and 0.29 μM gibberellic
acid germinated at a higher frequency (61%) than with 0.44 μM BA alone and control cultures. Germinated plantlets developed
a shoot and root, were acclimatized successfully, and maintained in a growth room for plantlet development. 相似文献
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Schnitzler CE Keenan RJ McCord R Matysik A Christianson LM Haddock SH 《Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.)》2008,10(3):328-342
Color morphs of the temperate, nonsymbiotic corallimorpharian Corynactis californica show variation in pigment pattern and coloring. We collected seven distinct color morphs of C. californica from subtidal locations in Monterey Bay, California, and found that tissue– and color–morph-specific expression of at least
six different genes is responsible for this variation. Each morph contains at least three to four distinct genetic loci that
code for these colors, and one morph contains at least five loci. These genes encode a subfamily of new GFP-like proteins,
which fluoresce across the visible spectrum from green to red, while sharing between 75% to 89% pairwise amino-acid identity.
Biophysical characterization reveals interesting spectral properties, including a bright yellow protein, an orange protein,
and a red protein exhibiting a “fluorescent timer” phenotype. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the FP genes from this
species evolved together but that diversification of anthozoan fluorescent proteins has taken place outside of phylogenetic
constraints, especially within the Corallimorpharia. The discovery of more examples of fluorescent proteins in a non-bioluminescent,
nonsymbiotic anthozoan highlights possibilities of adaptive ecological significance unrelated to light regulation for algal
symbionts. The patterns and colors of fluorescent proteins in C. californica and similar species may hold meaning for organisms that possess the visual pigments to distinguish them.
Christine E. Schnitzler and Robert J. Keenan contributed equally to this work.
Data deposition footnote: The GenBank () accession numbers for the genes and gene products discussed in this paper are: ccalRFP1 (AY823226); ccalYFP1 (AY823227);
ccalRFP2 (DQ065851); ccalGFP1 (DQ065852); ccalOFP1 (DQ065853); ccalGFP3 (DQ899732) 相似文献
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The absence of essential biochemical nutrients, such as polyunsaturated fatty acids or sterols, has been considered as a mechanism
determining trophic interactions between the herbivore Daphnia and its phytoplankton food source. Here, we experimentally quantify the sensitivity of two Daphnia species to decreasing amounts of dietary sterols by measuring variations in life history traits. The two species Daphnia magna and D. galeata were fed different mixtures of the sterol-containing green alga Scenedesmus obliquus and the sterol-free cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus; a higher proportion of Synechococcus in the food is equivalent to a decrease in dietary sterols. To address the significance of sterol limitation, the Daphnia species were also fed Synechococcus supplemented with cholesterol. In both species, somatic and population growth rates, maternal dry mass, the number of viable
offspring, and the probability of survival were significantly reduced with the lower availability of sterols. A high correlation
between the sterol content of the mixed diet and the somatic and population growth rates was found, and growth on cholesterol-supplemented
Synechococcus fitted well into this correlation. Somatic growth of first-clutch neonates grown on 100% Synechococcus exhibited a pattern similar to that of somatic growth of their mothers grown on the different food regimes, which demonstrated
the significance of maternal effects for sterol-limited population growth. Daphnia galeata had a twofold higher incipient limiting sterol level than D. magna, which indicated interspecific differences in sterol requirements between the two Daphnia species. The results suggest a strong impact of dietary sterols on life history traits and therefore, population dynamics
of the keystone species Daphnia. 相似文献
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Hirofumi Michimae 《Journal of Ethology》2007,25(2):153-158
Larvae of the salamander, Hynobius retardatus, are carnivorous, and even though there are two morphs, a typical morph and a broad-headed or “cannibal” morph, both are
cannibalistic. They also sometimes eat other large prey, for example larvae of the frog, Rana pirica. In natural habitats, use of both conspecific and R. pirica larvae as food may contribute more strongly to high survival and substantially to fitness when larval densities are higher,
because early-stage H. retardatus larvae sometimes experience scarcity of their typical prey. In cannibalistic oviparous amphibians, larger individuals that
developed from larger eggs can more efficiently catch and consume larger prey and thus their survival may be better than that
of smaller individuals developed from smaller eggs. Populations might therefore diverge in respect of egg size in response
to variation in the density of conspecific and R. pirica larvae in natural ponds, with eggs being larger when larval density is higher. I examined how variance in hatchling size
correlated with the incidence of cannibalism, and whether increasing larval density in natural ponds correlated with increasing
egg size. Variance in initial larval body size facilitated cannibalism, and egg size increased as larval density in the ponds
increased. In ponds with high larval density, where cannibalism and large prey consumption is a critical factor in offspring
fitness, the production of fewer clutches with larger eggs, and thus of fewer and larger offspring, results in greater maternal
fitness. Variation among the mean egg size in populations is likely to represent a shift in optimum egg size across larval
density gradients. 相似文献
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Vonesh JR 《Oecologia》2005,143(2):280-290
While theoretical studies of the timing of key switch points in complex life cycles such as hatching and metamorphosis have stressed the importance of considering multiple stages, most empirical work has focused on a single life stage. However, the relationship between the fitness components of different life stages may be complex. Ontogenetic switch points such as hatching and metamorphosis do not represent new beginnings—carryover effects across stages can arise when environmental effects on the density and/or traits of early ontogenetic stages subsequently alter mortality or growth in later stages. In this study, I examine the effects of egg- and larval-stage predators on larval performance, size at metamorphosis, and post-metamorphic predation in the African tree frog Hyperolius spinigularis. I monitored the density and survival of arboreal H. spinigularis clutches in the field to estimate how much egg-stage predation reduced the input of tadpoles into the pond. I then conducted experiments to determine: (1) how reductions in initial larval density due to egg predators affect larval survival and mass and age at metamorphosis in the presence and absence of aquatic larval predators, dragonfly larvae, and (2) how differences in mass or age at metamorphosis arising from predation in the embryonic and larval environments affect encounters with post-metamorphic predators, fishing spiders. Reduction in larval densities due to egg predation tended to increase per capita larval survival, decrease larval duration and increase mass at metamorphosis. Larval predators decreased larval survival and had density-dependent effects on larval duration and mass at metamorphosis. The combined effects of embryonic and larval-stage predators increased mass at metamorphosis of survivors by 91%. Larger mass at metamorphosis may have immediate fitness benefits, as larger metamorphs had higher survival in encounters with fishing spiders. Thus, the effects of predators early in ontogeny can alter predation risk even two life stages later. 相似文献
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Three mite species are frequently found on vegetable crops in Italy: the pest Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), the predator Neoseiulus californicus (McGregor) (Acari: Phytoseiidae) and the unspecialised feeder Tydeus californicus (Banks) (Acari: Tydeidae). In laboratory trials, the direct and residual effects of six insecticides recommended for the control of aphids, whiteflies and thrips in vegetable crops, (Biopiren® plus (pyrethrins), Confidor® (imidacloprid), Oikos® (azadirachtin), Plenum® (pymetrozine), Naturalis® (Beauveria bassiana) and Rotena® (rotenone)), were evaluated for the three mite species. All the products affected the mites and their effect was often favourable towards T. urticae and unfavourable towards N. californicus and T. californicus. Rotenone was more toxic to eggs than females of T. urticae. It was highly toxic to N. californicus and caused the death of all treated females of T. californicus. Pyrethrins and imidacloprid increased T. urticae fecundity, but decreased fecundity of N. californicus. Imidacloprid decreased T. californicus fecundity more than pyrethrins. Beauveria bassiana was not toxic to T. urticae and T. californicus, but induced high mortality in the progeny of treated females of N. californicus. Azadirachtin and pymetrozine were the least toxic to T. urticae and N. californicus, but decreased production of larvae in T. californicus. Implications for integrated pest management on vegetables are discussed. 相似文献
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Christopher B. Lee Lawrence E. Page Bruce A. McClure Timothy P. Holtsford 《Sexual plant reproduction》2008,21(3):183-195
Nicotiana section Alatae contains eight species with variable flower sizes and morphologies. Section members readily hybridize in the glasshouse,
but no hybrids have been observed in natural sympatric and parapatric populations. To investigate interspecific crossing relationships
with respect to mechanisms preventing hybridization, all members of section Alatae were intercrossed in a complete diallel. We found positive correlation between the pistil length of the pollen donor and
interspecific seed set relative to the conspecific cross. Pollen tube growth rate and pollen donor pistil length were positively
correlated as well. Furthermore, pollen from short-pistil members of section Alatae could only grow a maximum distance proportional to, but greater than, their own pistil lengths. Our results show that pollen
tube growth capacity (i.e., rate and distance), provides a hybridization barrier in long-pistil species × short-pistil species
crosses. We also found another hybridization barrier not specifically related to pollen tube growth capacity in short-pistil
species × long-pistil species. Taken together, these barriers can generally be described by a ‘pistil-length mismatch’ rule;
in section Alatae, pollen has the most success fertilizing ovules from species with pistil lengths similar to their own. This rule could contribute
to hybridization barriers in Section Alatae because the species display dramatically different pistil lengths.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Two repeated DNA sequences isolated from a partial genomic DNA library of Helianthus annuus, p HaS13 and p HaS211, were shown to represent portions of the int gene of a Ty3 /gypsy retroelement and of the RNase-Hgene of a Ty1 /copia retroelement, respectively. Southern blotting patterns obtained by hybridizing the two probes to BglII- or DraI-digested genomic DNA from different Helianthus species showed p HaS13 and p HaS211 were parts of dispersed repeats at least 8 and 7 kb in length, respectively, that were conserved in all species studied. Comparable hybridization patterns were obtained in all species with p HaS13. By contrast, the patterns obtained by hybridizing p HaS211 clearly differentiated annual species from perennials. The frequencies of p HaS13- and p HaS211-related sequences in different species were 4.3x10(4)-1.3x10(5) copies and 9.9x10(2)-8.1x10(3) copies per picogram of DNA, respectively. The frequency of p HaS13-related sequences varied widely within annual species, while no significant difference was observed among perennial species. Conversely, the frequency variation of p HaS211-related sequences was as large within annual species as within perennials. Sequences of both families were found to be dispersed along the length of all chromosomes in all species studied. However, Ty3 /gypsy-like sequences were localized preferentially at the centromeric regions, whereas Ty1/ copia-like sequences were less represented or absent around the centromeres and plentiful at the chromosome ends. These findings suggest that the two sequence families played a role in Helianthusgenome evolution and species divergence, evolved independently in the same genomic backgrounds and in annual or perennial species, and acquired different possible functions in the host genomes. 相似文献
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Noel H. Holmgren 《Brittonia》2018,70(1):115-139
A revision of Penstemon sect. Saccanthera subsect. Serrulati includes a new species (P. salmonensis), a new variety (P. triphyllus var. infernalis), and the elevation of a subspecies to species (P. curtiflorus), bringing the total number of species to eight, which are keyed and described, complete with nomenclature and type citations. 相似文献
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Studying Pneumocystis has proven to be a challenge from the perspective of propagating a significant amount of the pathogen in a facile manner.
The study of several fungal pathogens has been aided by the use of invertebrate model hosts. Our efforts to infect the invertebrate
larvae Galleria
mellonella with Pneumocystis proved futile since P. murina neither caused disease nor was able to proliferate within G. mellonella. It did, however, show that the pathogen could be rapidly cleared from the host. 相似文献
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A genetic transformation system has been developed for callus cells of Crataegus
aronia using Agrobacterium
tumefaciens. Callus culture was established from internodal stem segments incubated on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with
5 mg l−1 Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) and 0.5 mg l−1 6-benzyladenine (BA). In order to optimize the callus culture system with respect to callus growth and coloration, different
types and concentrations of plant growth regulators were tested. Results indicated that the best average fresh weight of red
colored callus was obtained on MS medium supplemented with 2 mg l−1 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 1.5 mg l−1 kinetin (Kin) (callus maintenance medium). Callus cells were co-cultivated with Agrobacterium harboring the binary plasmid pCAMBIA1302 carrying the mgfp5 and hygromycin phosphotransferase (hptII) genes conferring green fluorescent protein (GFP) activity and hygromycin resistance, respectively. Putative transgenic calli
were obtained 4 weeks after incubation of the co-cultivated explants onto maintenance medium supplemented with 50 mg l−1 hygromycin. Molecular analysis confirmed the integration of the transgenes in transformed callus. To our knowledge, this
is the first time to report an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system in Crataegus
aronia. 相似文献
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Recently, the prenyltransferase SirD was found to be responsible for the O-prenylation of tyrosine in the biosynthesis of sirodesmin PL in Leptosphaeria maculans. In this study, the behavior of SirD towards phenylalanine/tyrosine and tryptophan derivatives was investigated. Product
formation has been observed with 12 of 19 phenylalanine/tyrosine derivatives. It was shown that the alanine structure attached
to the benzene ring and an electron donor, e.g., OH or NH2, at its para-position are essential for the enzyme activity. Modifications were possible both at the side chain and the benzene ring.
Enzyme products from seven phenylalanine/tyrosine derivatives were isolated and characterized by MS and NMR analyses including
HSQC and HMBC and proven to be O- or N-prenylated derivatives at position C4 of the benzene rings. K
M
values of six selected derivatives were found in the range of 0.10–0.68 mM. Catalytic efficiencies (K
cat/K
M
) were determined in the range of 430–1,110 s−1·M−1 with l-tyrosine as the best substrate. In addition, 7 of 14 tested tryptophan analogs were also accepted by SirD and converted to
C7-prenylated derivatives, which was confirmed by comparison with products obtained from enzyme assays using a 7-dimethylallyltryptophan
synthase 7-DMATS from Aspergillus fumigatus. 相似文献
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Many species in Mediterranean-type ecosystems regenerate after fire by seed germination from soil seed banks. Seed bank dynamics
of two of those obligate seeders, Cistus monspeliensis and Rosmarinus officinalis, were investigated in relation to stand age since fire in southwestern Portugal. Soil seed density, annual seed input, annual
seed losses through germination and seed persistence were compared between species at stands differing in age since fire (5,
10 and 35 years).
Soil seed density and seed input increased over the first decade after fire and were lowest at 35-year-old stands for C. monspeliensis. In R. officinalis, few seeds were produced and found in the soil at early stages, and maximum seed input and soil seed density were attained
at 35-year-old stands. Soil seed density was mostly driven by seed production in both species, which is largely dependent
on plant traits and population dynamics related to fire. Overall, stand age since fire had a negligible effect on seed germination,
seed persistence and viability. Ten to 39% of buried seeds were not recovered after 1 year, and viability of seeds recovered
was 97–100% for C. monspeliensis and only 0–3% for R. officinalis.
Variation in plant traits within the seeder syndrome was evidenced by this study. R. officinalis evidenced lower seed persistence, lower proportion of viable seed produced and lower density of viable soil seed than C. monspeliensis at any stage after fire. R. officinalis is expected to depend largely on previous year seed production for population replacement after fire. 相似文献