BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS OF FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS (L.). VI. GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION IN THE GENE FREQUENCIES OF 15 LOCI

Geographic variation in the gene frequencies corresponding to 15 polymorphic enzymes were studied in the common killifish Fundulus heteroclitus. Aat-A, Est-B, Fum-A, H6pdh-A, Mpi-A and Pgm-B showed clinal variation in allelic frequencies along the Atlantic coast of North America, while Aat-B, Ap-A, and the EST-C phenotypes did not. The clinal allelic variation of six previously examined loci (Ldh-B, Mdh-A, Gpi-B, Idh-A, Pgm-A, and 6-Pgdh-A) was extended to locations farther north. Gene diversity was lowest in the cold waters of northern latitudes and highest in the warmer waters of southern latitudes. The variety of clinal shapes and widths suggests that selection has affected the allelic distributions for at least some of these loci. This hypothesis is discussed with regard to the range contractions and extensions caused by the glacial advances and retreats during the Pleistocene.     

草甸昆虫群落及其空间与时间结构

自然生态系统包含若干生物群落,它们既是历史和进化的产物,又是现实世界空间和时间的函数。很早以前,我国劳动人民就已懂得利用生物群落之间的空间和时间关系来提高产量和避免虫害;目前国内外大力开展的生物防治,其实质也是应用种群之间的食物链索关系以达到调节数量平衡的目的;因此,群落与生态系统的研究,既具有深远的理论意义,又具有巨大的实践价值。     

IMPROVING MANAGEMENT OF OVERLAPPING BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN ECOTYPES THROUGH SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND GENETICS

In the Northwest Atlantic the distribution of coastal bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus ) overlaps with that of the offshore ecotype. We hypothesized that the distribution of the two ecotypes could be delineated by depth and/or distance from shore, facilitating their identification during surveys. We obtained 304 skin biopsy samples and identified each as either coastal or offshore using analysis of mitochondrial DNA. We then interpreted the spatial distribution of coastal and offshore forms using spatial analysis. Using a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis, we found a statistically significant break in ecotype distribution at 34 km from shore. In waters beyond 34 km from shore and deeper than 34 m, all bottlenose dolphins were of the offshore ecotype. Within 7.5 km of shore, all 65 samples were of the coastal ecotype. Between these two areas only nine samples were collected, so the genetic composition of bottlenose dolphins in this area remains poorly known. To enhance our understanding of the spatial distribution of the two ecotypes, future research should obtain more biopsy samples in this zone. Nevertheless, our results indicate that a conservative abundance estimate for the coastal ecotype could be generated from surveys of bottlenose dolphins within 7.5 km of shore.     

NUCLEOLAR AND BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES DURING UNBALANCED GROWTH OF TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS

Numerous nucleoli can be observed in the macronucleus of the logarithmically growing ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis; at late log phase the nucleoli aggregate and fuse. In stationary phase this fusion process continues, leaving a very few large vacuolated nuclear fusion bodies in the nucleus. When these stationary phase cells are placed into fresh enriched proteose peptone medium, the large fusion bodies begin to disaggregate during the 2.5-hour lag phase before cell division is initiated. By 3 to 6 hours after inoculation the appearance of the nucleoli in many cells returns to what it was in logarithmic cells. In view of the possible role of nucleoli in ribosome synthesis, attempts were made to correlate the morphological changes to changes in RNA and protein metabolism. The beginning of an increased RNA synthesis was concomitant with the beginning of disaggregation of the large fusion bodies into nucleoli, which was noticed in some cells by 1 hour after the return to fresh enriched proteose peptone medium. Increased protein synthesis then followed the increased RNA synthesis by 1 hour. The supply of RNA precursors (essential pyrimidines) were removed from cultures which were grown on a chemically defined synthetic medium, in order to study the relation between nucleolar fusion and synthesis of RNA and protein. Pyrimidine deprivation drastically curtailed RNA and protein synthesis, but did not cause fusion of nucleoli. When pyrimidines were added back to this culture medium, RNA synthesis was immediately stimulated and again preceded an increased protein synthesis by 1 hour. These studies suggest the involvement of unfused nucleoli in RNA and protein synthesis and demonstrate the extreme plasticity of nucleoli with respect to changes in their environment.     

杂交水稻和不育系种子的劣变与生理生化变化

杂交水稻和不育系种子在人工加速老化处理后,其发芽率、发芽指数和活力指数均比常规水稻种子下降迅速。在人工老化过程中,前者种子浸泡液的外渗氨基酸和钾离子含量均比后者高,游离的有机酸、氨基酸和脂肪酸含量增加的速度相似,均大于常规水稻种子。蛋白酶活性和可溶性蛋白质含量的增减,在易发生劣变种子与常规水稻种子之间均有显著差异。     

MACROEVOLUTION AND MACROECOLOGY THROUGH DEEP TIME

Abstract:  The fossil record documents two mutually exclusive macroevolutionary modes separated by the transitional Ediacaran Period. Despite the early appearance of crown eukaryotes and an at least partially oxygenated atmosphere, the pre-Ediacaran biosphere was populated almost exclusively by microscopic organisms exhibiting low diversity, no biogeographical partitioning and profound morphological/evolutionary stasis. By contrast, the post-Ediacaran biosphere is characterized by large diverse organisms, bioprovinciality and conspicuously dynamic macroevolution. The difference can be understood in terms of the unique escalatory coevolution accompanying the early Ediacaran introduction of eumetazoans, followed by their early Cambrian (Tommotian) expansion into the pelagic realm. Eumetazoans reinvented the rules of macroecology through their invention of multitrophic food webs, large body size, life-history trade-offs, ecological succession, biogeography, major increases in standing biomass, eukaryote-dominated phytoplankton and the potential for mass extinction. Both the pre-Ediacaran and the post-Ediacaran biospheres were inherently stable, but the former derived from the simplicity of superabundant microbes exposed to essentially static, physical environments, whereas the latter is based on eumetazoan-induced diversity and dynamic, biological environments. The c . 100-myr Ediacaran transition (extending to the base of the Tommotian) can be defined on evolutionary criteria, and might usefully be incorporated into the Phanerozoic.     

TIME COURSE OF BIOCHEMICAL AND IMMUNOHISTOLOGICAL ALTERATIONS DURING EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS

A comprehensive biochemical, immunological and histological study was undertaken during different stages of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). Wistar rats with EAE induced by sensitization with bovine myelin showed a maximum decrease of body weight 14–16 days post-inoculation (dpi), coincident with the appearance of the paralysis symptom (acute period). Quantitation of some brain components indicated a temporal dissociation among the alterations observed. The higher diminution of myelin basic protein (MBP) occurred at 6 dpi and then increased to reach 21 dpi, a normal value. Also, the activity of 2′,3′-cyclic nucleotide 3′-phosphohydrolase was reduced by 40% with respect to control animals only at 6 dpi. The total lipid content was normal; however, among the individual lipids, sulfatides were principally degraded during the acute stage but the amount of cerebrosides was decreased during the recovery period (29–40 dpi). Free cholesterol was similar in both groups of animals, whereas cholesterol esters were detected in EAE animals from 14 to 40 dpi. Central nervous system meningeal and parenchymal infiltration with mononuclear cells was recognized principally at 14 dpi, but some of cells were still present at 40 dpi. Deposits of immunoglobulins in the infiltrated regions as well as in spinal cord motor neurons were observed among 14–29 dpi. Total circulating antibodies to MBP began to increase at 14 dpi, reaching a plateau at 21 dpi and then maintaining this value until 40 dpi. However, the population of anti-MBP antibodies that also recognizes the neuronal protein synapsin was only present at 14 dpi. The present results suggest that the neurological symptoms can be related to some early changes in the myelin membrane followed by alterations involving neuronal structures. The existence of immunological factors against some epitopes in MBP that also recognize a synaptosomal protein might account, at least in part, for the axonal damage and disruption of the normal interneuronal activity in EAE and lead together with the alterations in some specific myelin constituents and the concomitant CNS inflammatory process to the observed hindlimb paralysis. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd     

昆虫种群的空间、数量、时间结构及其动态

本文讨论了昆虫种群动态的内容,把种群动态概括地分为空简、数量与时间三个方面。生态学上的空简系具有实质结构的场所,种群空间动态主要包括扩散、分布及生态特性的地方分化。作者根据种群的特性保存及特性成长与变动环境的关系,提出了变境成长的概念。 数量结构除了种群年龄、性比、滞育体等指标外,并注意到与生殖力及化性(Voltinism)相联系的种群遗传结构。某些昆虫种群通过作用于繁殖及死亡的反馈机制,在一定程度上可以调节其数量,影响到种群的数量变动形式。 时间连贯性及时间序列系本文在种群时间动态中所讨论的两个主要问题,时间是作用种群动态的一个因素,具有一定的形态外貌,种群的时间外貌与结构反映了种群时间动态的现实性,时间的连贯及序列共同形成了种群动态在时间上的必然途径及其与环境因素相互之间的顺序关系。 空、数、时变化各沿着一定的序列进行,这些序列所以被看成是预测害虫动态的基础,系由于种群任一动态都是在一定的种群结构基础上,以及空间因素与时间因素特定联系的形式下发生的,不同的联系产生不同的生理生态学后果,因而使得此复杂的种群动态问题,有可能借助于生物数量方法,作出种群的数量及分布预测。     

GENETICS OF SORDARIA FIMICOLA. IV. LINKAGE GROUP I

El -Ani , Arif S., L. S. Olive , and Y. Kitani . (Columbia U., New York City.) Genetics of Sordaria fimicola. IV. Linkage group I. Amer. Jour. Bot. 48(8): 716–723. Illus. 1961.—A general technique for isolating and testing various morphological mutants induced by X ray is described. Eleven mutants differing in ascospore color, fertility, and rate and type of growth were studied in different crosses. This has led to the construction of the first linkage group in S. fimicola. The chromosome on which the 11 mutant loci occur is marked by a single locus on one arm and 10 on the opposite arm. The ascospore color mutant gray is autonomous, maintaining the mutant spore color in both homozygous and heterozygous asci, whereas milky, the other color mutant studied. expresses its mutant effect only in asci homozygous for the factor. Certain crosses involving 2 sterility mutants controlled by 2 non-allelic loci are fertile, and the progeny give rise to parentals as well as double-mutant and fertile recombinants.     

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES OF CARROT ROOT CALLUS DURING SUCCESSIVE CULTURES

1. The longer the period of stock culture, the more remarkableis the growth inhibition by 8-azaguanine in callus.
2. Chloramphenicol,5-methyltryptophane and mitomycin C exert greaterinhibitionon growth in CCL than in CCS.
3. Bud formation is inhibited bysome concentrations of chloramphenicolwithout accompanyinginhibition of the growth.
4. Cell size and the contents of RNA,DNA, protein and lipid percell of CCL are greater than thoseof CCS, respectively. Thecontents per cell of RNA and lipidin "mitochondrial fraction"are higher in CCL than in CCS.
5. Incorporationof guanine-8-¹⁴C into RNA of CCS occurs rapidlyin the first12 hr and slows down thereafter, but that in CCL-RNAincreasessteadily for 16 hr. This difference in rate of theincorporationafter 12 hr between CCS and CCL is principallydue to the differencein rate of the incorporation into RNAof nuclear, mitochondrialand soluble fractions.

1. The rate of RNA breakdown in CCL wasnot so great as the rateof synthesis.
2. 8-azaguanine (10^–3and 10^–4M) inhibits incorporationof guanine-8.¹⁴C intoRNA of both CCS and CCL during 14 hr,but thereafter (up to25 hr) it inhibits the incorporation intoCCL-RNA alone leavingthat into CCS-RNA unaffected.

1. In CCL 510^–5M 8.azaguaninedoes not affect total radioactivityincorporated into bulk RNA,but inhibits incorporation intoRNA of "mitochondrial fraction".

(Received December 23, 1964; )     

江鲽在卵和卵黄囊期仔鱼发育阶段生化成分的变化

本文研究和测定了江鲽( Platichthys flesus L.)在卵和卵黄囊期仔鱼发育阶段水分、钠、钾、脂肪和蛋白质的含量变化。含水量在卵和仔鱼发育期基本保持在90—92%,在仔鱼进入初次摄食期时可降到89%左右。初孵仔鱼具一大卵黄囊,含水量高达93.3%,起“浮力器官”(buoyancy organ)的作用。钠、钾离子含量在卵受精和仔鱼出膜后波动剧烈,呈“上升—下降—再上升”式型。脂肪和蛋白质含量在卵和仔鱼早期发育和饥饿期均呈明显线性下降。同时,本文还就生化成分变化和海洋浮性鱼卵及其仔鱼的生态习性的关系作了初步探讨。     

采后大蒜鳞茎的生理生化变化及其贮藏技术

采后大蒜鳞茎的生理生化变化及其贮藏技术刘淑娴,李月标,陈芳,张东林,蒋跃明（中国科学院华南植物研究所,广州５１０６５０）摘要大蒜鳞茎在室温下贮藏２个月后,胚芽开始生长．随着胚芽生长,呼吸速率、蛋白质和维生素Ｃ含量逐渐增高;而可溶性糖和干物质含量下降。...