ON WEIGHTING AND CONGRUENCE

Abstract — A priori differential weighting of molecular characters is a common methodological practice in molecular phylogenetics and evolution. This has been a largely subjective exercise with few criteria for deciding which characters to down-weight and how much to do so. A priori differential weighting is conducted to remove heterogeneity from the data sets and to improve the congruence among the informative, and usually more conservative characters. Herein, we test whether congruence is improved with a priori differential weighting by using the incongruence length difference test on a linked genetic data set consisting of 14 mammalian taxa and the 13 protein coding genes of the mitochondrial genome. Weighting by omitting the third codon position did not improve congruence with respect to the equally weighted data, while weighting transversions did improve the congruence between the 13 protein coding genes. Nonetheless, the most parsimonious tree found from transversion weighting did not differ from one using all of the data equally weighted.     

再生稻褐飞虱为害损失测定和防治指标的研究

在福建,褐飞虱是再生稻的重要害虫,中进行了再生稻褐飞虱为害损失的测定,并对褐飞虱为害再生稻造成的产量损失结构进行了通径分析。根据虫量和产量损失的关系,结合现行稻谷价格,产量水平,防治费用等因素。确定允许为害损失率,同时建立了再生稻褐飞虱防治指标模型,按照防治指标模型,制定出不同产量水平的防治指标。     

STUDIES ON THE SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE AND ISOBUTYLUNDECYLENEAMIDE ON PYRETHRINS AND ALLETHRIN

Experiments are described to compare the toxicity of natural pyrethrins and allethrin, the completely synthetic homologue of cinerin I, and to show the effect of the two synergists, piperonyl butoxide and iaobutyl undecyleneamide (IN 930) on both these active ingredients, using a measured-drop technique with Mucca domestiur L. the housefly, and a residual-film technique with Cimex lectularius L. the bed bug. In the conditions of the experiment, pyrethrins were shown to be twice as toxic as allethrin to flies, and 5.5 times as toxic as allethrin to bugs. The two synergists were tested at several ratios to the two insecticides, ranging from 1 : 1 to 20 : 1. The results were plotted as series of log. concentration/probit regression linea. These were parallel for the bug tests; but in the fly tests, the slope of the line increased with a rise in the proportion of Synergist to insecticide. The estimated median lethal concentrations indicated, in all cases, that the toxicity increased with a rise in the ratio of synergist to insecticide, at least up to 20 : 1. However, the enhancement of toxicity was greatest for the smaller ratios and fell off as the ratio increased. Piperonyl butoxide was the more powerful synergist, increasing the potency of pyrethrins 5 times and allethrin 4 times to flies, and pyrethrins twice and allethrin 3 times to bugs, whereas IN 930 did not increase the potency of either ingredient more than twice to either test insect.
The addition of piperonyl butoxide to residual films of pyrethrins greatly prolonged their effectiveness; but an experiment designed to investigate the effect of the synergist on the stability of this insecticide showed that this action, if it exists, must be slight.     

蛇岛蝮种群动态与蛇岛生态环境变化的研究

蛇岛以其近海岛屿的奇特生态环境著称于世,被称为世界奇岛。面积仅073ｋｍ2的小岛上,生长着数以万计单一种类的蛇岛蝮蛇〔Ｇｌｏｙｄｉｕｓｓｈｅｄａｏｅｎｓｉｓ(Ｚｈａｏ)〕是研究海岛生态系统的最好基地,同时也是宝贵的药物资源。保护区成立十多年来,杜绝了人为捕杀现象,使蛇岛蝮蛇的种群数量出现了逐年递增的喜人景象。但近几年来观察发现,蛇岛干旱现象趋向严重,候鸟数量逐年减少,植被演替不尽合理,不利于蛇岛蝮蛇的栖息和捕食,造成蛇岛蝮蛇种群分布极不均匀,而候鸟在蛇岛停留期间的分布是比较均匀的,因此使蛇岛蝮蛇的食源严重不足,直…     

COMMENTS ON SCRIVEN AND MAK

In their article Scriven and Mak (1991) claim to have used Generalized Procrustes Analysis (GPA) to analyze their data. However, the Consensus program they used does not perform a GPA. Since 1989 there is a very fast GPA program that runs on microprocessors.