桑蚕几项数量性状的遗传力和选择的研究

用杂交群体对亲本回交法估计桑蚕几项性状的狭义遗传力表明,遗传力的大小因性状而异,茧层率、茧丝量及茧丝长有较高的遗传力,而全茧量及茧层量的遗传力较低。 选择试验表明,桑蚕各性状之间有高度的相关性,对某一性状的直接选择亦等于对另一些性状的间接选择。选育夏秋用蚕品种,应将茧层率控制在一定的范围内,向经过短、全茧量偏小的方向选择比较妥当;春用蚕品种的选育应控制全茧量,在提高茧层率的同时,大力向经过短的方向选择为宜。     

家蚕对马尾松毛虫质型多角体病毒的敏感性

用虫体克隆技术,对马尾松毛虫质型多角体病毒湖南株（DpCPV-HN）进行了分离纯化,鉴定为质型多角体病毒1型。以家蚕春蕾×镇珠杂种F₁代及自交的F₂代4或5日龄幼虫进行毒力测定,以纯化的家蚕质型多角体病毒对F₁代幼虫的毒力测定为对照。结果表明：家蚕品种春蕾×镇珠对家蚕质型多角体病毒敏感,马尾松毛虫质型多角体病毒湖南株能引起其感染发病;马尾松毛虫质型多角体病毒湖南株感染家蚕品种春蕾×镇珠F₁代幼虫和F₂代幼虫28天后的半致死剂量（LD₅₀）分别为885个和18个CPB(质多角体),前者为后者的49倍。马尾松毛虫质型多角体病毒湖南株感染后的家蚕,其结茧率、化蛹率、羽化率、全茧量、茧层量和单蛾产卵数均有所下降,全茧量、茧层量、茧层率和单蛾产卵数与病毒感染剂量之间无显著关联。     

广西桑蚕茧丝质量与性能指标的测定分析

本研究对广西桑蚕茧的茧丝质量与性能指标进行了测定分析.结果表明,广西桑蚕茧外形略小,茧层丝胶含量、茧层易溶丝胶含量、丝胶溶解性以及茧丝纤度等主要指标均与江浙夏秋用桑蚕茧有明显差异.桑蚕茧的茧层丝胶含量、易溶丝胶含量随庄口、季节不同而有显著差异;春季桂南地区的蚕茧茧层丝胶含量高于桂西北地区,秋季刚好相反.茧层易溶丝胶含量在11.6%～14.4%之间,约占丝胶总含量的41%～45%,茧层易溶丝胶含量和解舒率呈显著的正相关关系,即茧层易溶丝胶含量越多,蚕茧解舒越好.庄口和季节是影响桑蚕茧层易溶丝胶含量高低与蚕茧解舒优劣的重要因素.广西桑蚕茧层丝胶对煮茧温度更敏感,茧丝纤度粗细变化开差大.因此,我们认为目前困扰广西桑蚕茧加工技术突破的原因之一是缫丝工艺技术,采用传统缫丝工艺技术难以正常发挥广西桑蚕茧的茧丝优势与特性.     

大豆不同亲本类型F2主要性状遗传参数分析

对大豆3个不同亲本类型的杂交组合F2群体主要性状遗传变异系数、遗传力和遗传进度进行了估算分析,结果表明这些遗传参数因性状或亲本类型的不同而有明显差异.含有野生亲缘关系的组合,类型间、性状间F2遗传力有较大差异,性状变异幅度增大,相对遗传进度也较大,从而有较广泛的选择基础.     

大豆不同亲本类型F2主要性状遗传参数分析

对大豆3个不同亲本类型的杂交组合F2群体主要性状遗传变异系数、遗传力和遗传进度进行了估算分析,结果表明：这些遗传参数因性状或亲本类型的不同而有明显差异。含有野生亲缘关系的组合,类型间、性状间F2遗传力有较大差异,性状变异幅度增大,相对遗传进度也较大,从而有较广泛的选择基础。     

家蚕茧质性状的性别效应预测

研究采用混合线性模型,对家蚕全茧量、茧层量、茧层率和蛹体重等性状的性别效应进行理论估算：全茧量、茧层量、茧层率和蛹体重等4性状的性别随机效应的方差的概率和性别随机效应的预测值概率都达到极显著水平,证明全茧量、茧层量、茧层率和蛹体重等四性状的性别效应极显著,这完全符合实际情况。全茧量、茧层量、茧层率和蛹体重等4性状的性别效应预测值雌（雄）分别为0.248g（-0.247g）、2.423cg(-2.394)cg、-1.976%(1.992%)和0.224g(-0.223g)。性别效应调整后各性状均呈单峰正态分布,符合QTL分析对数量性状连续正态分布的要求。     

鲜食番茄果实中番茄红素含量的主基因－多基因混合遗传分析

选择2个番茄红素含量显著不同的鲜食番茄品系,通过P₁、P₂、F₁、F₂、B₁和B₂6世代联合分析法,研究分析了番茄红素的遗传规律。结果表明：番茄红素的遗传符合一个主基因和加性－显性－上位性多基因模型,主基因遗传力在B₁、B₂和F₂分别为6.85%、34.78％和58.33％,多基因遗传力在B₁、B₂和F₂分别为58.48％、30.69％和0。      

大麦主要农艺性状的遗传相关剖析

提高产量是大麦育种的最终目标之一。由于产量性状是复杂的数量性状,受多种因素的影响和制约,同时诸因素间又存在着不同程度的相关,某一性状的变化必然导致其它性状的相关改变,这给正确而又有效的选择带来了一定的困难。笔者曾用两个多棱大麦杂交组合和3个二棱大麦杂交组合研究了大麦主要农艺性状的遗传力和遗传进度,对大麦杂种后代的直接选择和处理提出了一些指标^[3], 但未能涉及到各性状间的遗传相关变化。本研究着重分析长江下游大面积推广使用的一些高产二棱大麦新品种主要农艺性状间的遗传相关,进行各性状的通径分析,剖析产生这些相关的原因及估测各性状的相对重要性,为利用这些高产品种作为原始群体,从中选择出更高产品种或某些性状有所改良的新品种提供参考依据。     

两种饲料植物对天蚕饲育的效果(英文)

通过五个处理的一系列比较,白栎Quercus fabri叶片作为珍贵绢丝昆虫——天蚕Antheraea yamamai的饲料,无论幼虫存活率、化蛹率、二至四眠蚕体重、五龄幼虫体重增长曲线及理论极限体重K值、取食量、相对摄食速率、消化量、结茧率、全茧量、蛹重、茧层量等均明显高于过去普遍采用并认为理想的麻栎Q. acutissima的饲育结果,从而证实白栎是饲育天蚕的最佳饲料植物。     

埃玛菌素对小菜蛾幼虫的毒力及其对子代种群增长的影响

研究了不同温度下埃玛菌素（emamectin）对小菜蛾Plutella xylostella幼虫的毒力,并用生命表法研究了25℃下埃玛菌素亚致死剂量LC₃₀）处理小菜蛾3龄初期幼虫后对其子代的影响。结果表明,埃玛菌素为典型的正温度系数药剂,对小菜蛾幼虫的触杀毒力在温度16～31℃间提高了10倍左右,口服毒力在相同温度范围内提高1 000倍左右,显示了埃玛菌素对该虫极高的口服毒力。25℃下埃玛菌素亚致死剂量处理当代幼虫后,对其子代的存活和繁殖均有明显影响,处理组和对照组子代的世代存活率分别为3.7%和35.5%,平均产卵量分别为92.4和148.3,种群趋势指数分别为1.8和27.4,净增殖率（R₀）分别为3.66和33.81,内禀增长力（r_m）分别为0.0665和0.0978。     

Egg shell quality in Japanese quail: characteristics,heritabilities and genetic and phenotypic relationships

The objective of the present study was to estimate heritabilities as well as genetic and phenotypic correlations for egg weight, specific gravity, shape index, shell ratio, egg shell strength, egg length, egg width and shell weight in Japanese quail eggs. External egg quality traits were measured on 5864 eggs of 934 female quails from a dam line selected for two generations. Within the Bayesian framework, using Gibbs Sampling algorithm, a multivariate animal model was applied to estimate heritabilities and genetic correlations for external egg quality traits. The heritability estimates for external egg quality traits were moderate to high and ranged from 0.29 to 0.81. The heritability estimates for egg and shell weight of 0.81 and 0.76 were fairly high. The genetic and phenotypic correlations between egg shell strength with specific gravity, shell ratio and shell weight ranging from 0.55 to 0.79 were relatively high. It can be concluded that it is possible to determine egg shell quality using the egg specific gravity values utilizing its high heritability and fairly high positive correlation with most of the egg shell quality traits. As a result, egg specific gravity may be the choice of selection criterion rather than other external egg traits for genetic improvement of egg shell quality in Japanese quails.     

Comparison of phenotypic and genetic performance of local silkworm groups and two commercial lines

Five Iranian native silkworm groups: Baghdad, Khorasan Orange, Guilan Orange, Khorasan Pink, Khorasan Lemon, and 107 and 110 commercial lines (12 families from each breed) were randomly selected and reared during 2003-2005 (five generations in spring and autumn). In each family, 30 male and 30 female cocoons were individually recorded for weight, shell weight and shell ratio. From among the native groups, the highest average in all three traits belonged to Baghdad and Khorasan Pink, and the lowest to Khorasan Orange and Khorasan Lemon. From among the commercial lines, the highest average in all three traits belonged to 107. In comparing heritability for cocoon weight in native groups, the highest heritability belonged to Guilan Orange (0.5147) and Khorasan Orange (0.5036) and the lowest heritability belonged to Khorasan Pink (0.0967). In the two other traits, the highest heritability belonged to Khorasan Orange and Baghdad and the lowest to Khorasan Pink. In the commercial lines, line110 had higher heritability than line107 for cocoon weight and cocoon shell weight. In all the groups, genetic correlations between cocoon weight and cocoon shell weight were high, expect for the Baghdad group. There was medium or low genetic correlation among cocoon weight, cocoon shell weight and cocoon shell ratio.     

Predicting efficiency of selection on reproductive traits in the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis L

A set of selection measures for increasing reproduction efficiency in Hirudo medicinalis has been developed. The optimal values of reproductive traits corresponding to the highest progeny number were determined and recommended. The probability of correlated selection response in traits "number of threads in a cocoon" and "weight of threads" was estimated. Based on earlier results on phenotypic variation and heritability of reproductive traits in medicinal leech, efficiency of different selection modes was predicted.     

不同水分含量桑叶对二化性家蚕的营养效应

研究了取食不同水分含量桑叶对二化性家蚕(CSR3×CSR6)5龄幼虫的影响。实验设嫩叶(水分含量80%～85%)、半成熟叶(水分含量65%～70%)和成熟叶(水分含量55%～60%)3个不同处理。采用标准重量分析法分析和计算各种生长、营养和营养效率指数。结果表明,在取食较高水分含量桑叶的处理中,营养指数(包括取食量、消化量和近似消化率等)和营养效率指数(包括食物利用率和转化率等)均显著较高,但不同处理中消化食物向茧壳的转化率及产生每克茧壳所需食物消化量差异不明显。结论是取食水分含量高的桑树嫩叶有助于提高家蚕的取食和营养。     

Inheritance of reproductive traits of medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis L.)

The phenotype variability and inheritance of reproductive traits were investigated in the medicinal leech. Distribution parameters were determined for the following traits: batch size (X = 4.3 +/- 0.2, sigma = 1.7, CV = 40%, As = 0.23 +/- 0.25, Ex = 0.19 +/- 0.51), number of juveniles in a cocoon (X = 10.9 +/- 0.3, sigma = 4.6, CV = 42%, As = 0.31 +/- 0.15, Ex = 0.23 +/- 0.30), and juvenile weight (X = 32.0 +/- 0.3, sigma = 14.9, CV = 47%, As = 1.38 +/- 0.05, Ex = 3.32 +/- 0.11. A nonlinear negative correlation between the number of juveniles in a cocoon and their weight was found (correlation ratio R = 0.86). It was shown that the environmental variance dominated over the genotypic one in the structure of phenotypic variance of the traits studied. The genetic variability is determined mainly by additive gene interactions and, to a small extent, intralocus dominance. The narrow-sense heritability, h2, for batch size was 0.35-0.40; for the number of juveniles in a cocoon, 0.35; for juvenile weight, 0.42.     

Variability and covariability for plant height,heading date,and seed weight in wheat crosses

Summary Variability, covariability, heritability, and expected genetic gains from selection for heading date, plant height, and kernel weight were estimated in progenies derived from six wheat crosses. The crosses differed in the magnitude of the genetic variabilities of their progenies, but all crosses had significant variabilities for all traits. Heritability estimates were calculated by the variance components method. The estimates of heritability were relatively high for all three traits and averaged 86% for heading date, 77% for plant height, and 70% for kernel weight. The presence of significant genetic variabilities and high heritability estimates indicated that selection would be effective for the three traits.The segregates derived from crosses between medium tall parents showed transgressive segregation that would permit isolation of short-statured types. Transgressive segregation also occurred for heading date and kernel weight.Heading date and plant height were positively and highly significantly correlated in four crosses out of six. But both plant height and heading date had, in general, low negative correlations with kernel weight which would not preclude the development of short wheats with high kernel weight from these crosses. The association between characters was mostly genetic in cause.     

Performance of polyvoltine silkworm Bombyx mori L. on different mulberry plant varieties

Five cultivated mulberry plant varieties, BSRM‐34, BSRM‐56, BSRM‐57, BSRM‐58 and BSRM‐59, were used to evaluate the effects of plant variety on larval and cocoon characteristics of mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori L. Silkworm larvae undergo their entire larval periods on leaves of mulberry varieties. Different larval characteristics of larval weight, larval length and larval breadth were measured in different growth stages. After rearing, the fifth instar larvae were transferred into a mountage (Chandraki) structure for cocoon rearing for spinning and cocoon production. The cocoons were then harvested and different cocoon characteristics like cocoon weight, shell weight and shell percentage; and other characters like pupal weight and effective rate of rearing were measured. The results showed statistically significant differences among different varieties on larval and cocoon characteristics. The highest performance was observed by feeding the variety BSRM‐34 in respect of the average weight of 10 mature larvae (40.5 g), single mature larval length (7.6 cm) and breadth (1.0 cm), single cocoon weight (1.4 g), shell weight (0.2 g) and pupal weight (1.2 g) while the average performance was recorded by feeding varieties BSRM‐57 and BSRM‐59. The poorest performance was showed by feeding the variety BSRM‐56 (in case of larval characters) and BSRM‐58 (in case of cocoon characteristics). These two varieties also showed the poorest performance for silk yield. Through comparing all the above parameters it was concluded that BSRM‐34 is the best mulberry variety and it is recommended that Bangladeshi farmers adopt that variety for better yield of silk.     

GENETIC AND SOCIAL INHERITANCE OF BODY AND EGG SIZE IN THE BARNACLE GOOSE (BRANTA LEUCOPSIS)

We present heritability estimates for final size of body traits and egg size as well as phenotypic and genetic correlations between body and egg traits in a recently established population of the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) in the Baltic area. Body traits as well as egg size were heritable and, hence, could respond evolutionarily to phenotypic selection. Genetic correlations between body size traits were significantly positive and of similar magnitude or higher than the corresponding phenotypic correlations. Heritability estimates for tarsus length obtained from full-sib analyses were higher than those obtained from midoffspring-midparent regressions, and this indicates common environment effects on siblings. Heritabilities for tarsus length obtained from midoffspring-mother regressions were significantly higher than estimates from midoffspring-father regressions. The results suggest that this discrepancy is not caused by maternal effects through egg size, nor by extra-pair fertilizations, but by a socially inherited foraging site fidelity in females.     

Bias in the prediction of genetic gain due to mass and half-sib selection in random mating populations

The prediction of gains from selection allows the comparison of breeding methods and selection strategies, although these estimates may be biased. The objective of this study was to investigate the extent of such bias in predicting genetic gain. For this, we simulated 10 cycles of a hypothetical breeding program that involved seven traits, three population classes, three experimental conditions and two breeding methods (mass and half-sib selection). Each combination of trait, population, heritability, method and cycle was repeated 10 times. The predicted gains were biased, even when the genetic parameters were estimated without error. Gain from selection in both genders is twice the gain from selection in a single gender only in the absence of dominance. The use of genotypic variance or broad sense heritability in the predictions represented an additional source of bias. Predictions based on additive variance and narrow sense heritability were equivalent, as were predictions based on genotypic variance and broad sense heritability. The predictions based on mass and family selection were suitable for comparing selection strategies, whereas those based on selection within progenies showed the largest bias and lower association with the realized gain.     

Derivation of economic values for productive and reproductive traits of Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) from profit equation

Using a deterministic model of profit equation compatible to cocoon production system in Iran, equations for estimating economic values of cocoon weight, shell weight, shell percentage, fecundity, fertility, and hatchability of three commercial varieties of silkworm Bombyx mori (L.) were derived. Economic values of these traits as well as their relative economic importance (REI) compared with cocoon weight were estimated. Estimates of economic value of a given trait differed among the varieties. Cocoon weight, shell weight, and shell percentage had the highest economic value in variety 107. The highest economic value for fecundity, fertility, and hatchability was estimated in variety 110. Shell weight and shell percentage were the most important production traits, and fecundity was the most important reproduction trait. The REI values of shell weight and shell percentage were higher than that of cocoon weight. The sensitivity of estimated economic values to principal factors of production system was studied by altering cocoon weight, shell percentage, fecundity, variable costs, and cocoon price by +/- 10%. The traits varied in the rate of sensitivity of their economic values to changes in production factors. Economic values of cocoon weight, fecundity, fertility, and hatchability had the most sensitivity to the changes in shell percentage. The most important factor affecting economic values of shell weight and shell percentage was the grade 1 cocoon price. Economic value equations provided in this study can help silkworm breeders to concentrate on the most important factors in predicting the future. Furthermore, when these factors change, silkworm breeders will be able to determine to what extent breeding goals have to change.