广东省动物(昆虫)生态学三十年

本文论述了近30年来广东省昆虫生态学的发展状况及不同分支学科的研究进展,主要包括30年来的代表性事件、昆虫种群生态学、昆虫群落生态学、昆虫行为生态学、昆虫生理生态学、昆虫化学生态学和昆虫分子生态学的研究。     

中国中生代昆虫化石研究新进展

回顾了1990年以来中国中生代昆虫化石研究的新进展,简述了我国学者在古昆虫分类学、昆虫内部形态学、昆虫系统学、古生态学、昆虫生物地层学、昆虫区系的历史演变、生物古地理学、昆虫与植物的关系等8个方面取得的突出贡献,并给出了我国发现的世界最低层位昆虫科级类群表。     

中国昆虫区系的多元相似性聚类分析和地理区划

为了总结分析中国昆虫的分布规律, 为昆虫地理区划提出依据, 作者2008年创建了新的多元相似性聚类分析方法, 它与传统的聚类分析方法的主要不同是直接计算任意多个地区之间的相似性系数, 从而摈弃原来的合并环节。我们应用这种方法对中国823科17 018属93 662种昆虫的分布进行了定量分析。当种级水平相似性系数分别为0.19和0.14时, 全国64个基础地理单元聚类为20个小单元群和9个大单元群。根据聚类分析结果, 提出我国第一个由定量分析产生的9个昆虫区20个昆虫亚区的中国昆虫地理区划的初步方案。西北昆虫区、 东北昆虫区、 华北昆虫区、 青藏昆虫区稳定地组成中国北方昆虫大区, 江淮昆虫区、 华中昆虫区、 西南昆虫区、 华东昆虫区、 华南昆虫区稳定地组成中国南方昆虫大区。江淮昆虫区的设立是因为这里多平原和丘陵, 为重要农业区, 昆虫区系简单, 种类显著少于华东、 华中、 华南昆虫区, 而和华北昆虫区相当; 包括台湾在内的华东昆虫区是昆虫多样性最丰富地区之一, 显著高于邻近的华北、 江淮、 华南昆虫区。最后, 对昆虫地理定量分析中的重要环节进行讨论, 还对今后昆虫区系调查的薄弱地区提出建议。这项研究证明多元相似性聚类分析方法是简便、 快捷、 实用的, 能够在更广泛的范围应用, 这预示着生物地理学研究将会由定性研究进入到定量研究阶段。     

昆虫资源利用及其产业化进展

主要从食用昆虫、饲用昆虫、药用昆虫、工业原料昆虫、传粉昆虫、观赏娱乐昆虫、天敌昆虫、环保昆虫以及昆虫生物反应器和昆虫在仿生学上的应用等方面全面综述了昆虫资源的利用及其产业化进展.     

为何海洋中的昆虫种类如此稀少?

昆虫种类丰富,占所有动物总数的23。已知的水生昆虫约30000种,而在海洋生活的昆虫仅为250～300种。根据在海洋中的栖息地不同,海洋昆虫一般可分为远洋昆虫、潮池昆虫和海滨昆虫。该文介绍了目前科学界对于海洋昆虫种类为何如此稀少的主流观点与假说,包括海水高渗管压、低氧、营养物质缺乏、昆虫与显花植物间的协同进化以及与甲壳类动物的生态位竞争等。     

昆虫细胞系的培养和建立技术

迄今已经报道的昆虫细胞系有800株以上。昆虫细胞系在昆虫病理学、寄生虫学、内分泌学、遗传学和分子生物学等基础和应用研究中得到越来越广泛的应用。本文结合我们研究的结果和实践经验,概括了国内外昆虫细胞系建立技术的研究进展,包括昆虫细胞培养的发展、昆虫细胞系建立技术、不同昆虫组织来源细胞系的建立方法和过程,以及对昆虫细胞系特征的鉴定等方面。     

抗寒类蛋白与冷驯化诱发昆虫耐寒性研究进展

昆虫是变温动物,温度对其生长发育、基本行为及进化途径都会产生很大的影响,种群的繁衍面临如何安全度过漫长而寒冷的冬季的挑战。通过长时间的进化,昆虫获得一系列完整的耐寒策略。绝大多数的昆虫都是耐寒昆虫,在陆地寒冷温度刺激下,昆虫受抗寒基因的调控,体内产生大量抗寒物质,如海藻糖、甘油、山梨醇、抗冻蛋白、热激蛋白等,提高昆虫的耐寒能力,使其得以在低温寒冷的条件下成功越冬。同样,经过冷驯化后的昆虫能显著提高昆虫的耐寒力。近年来,关于昆虫耐寒性、抗寒类蛋白的研究不断开展,研究内容涉及昆虫的耐寒性、抗寒基因HSPs和AFPs的调控、冷驯化诱导抗寒等方面。本文综述了昆虫耐寒性、主要耐寒策略及冷驯化诱发昆虫耐寒性增强等研究内容。有助于全面认识昆虫耐寒性及其作用机制,为天敌昆虫低温储存和提高生物防治等应用打下坚实的基础。     

《资源昆虫》

<正> 由张传溪、许文华编著,1990年1月上海科学技术出版社出版,共168页。 该书共分6章:一、概论;二、工业原料资源昆虫;三、药用昆虫;四、食用昆虫和饲料昆虫;五、观赏昆虫;六、其它资源昆虫。该书介绍了我国资源昆虫开发利用概况及主要资源昆虫的经济意义、生物学特性、养殖方法等。该书是一本较为系统的介绍资源昆虫的书籍,可供从事昆虫专业、     

昆虫标本馆建设与昆虫系统学的未来

昆虫标本馆是昆虫标本的保藏、研究和科学教育的实体,代表国家或者区域水平,致力于研究昆虫多样性、揭示昆虫进化规律,为国民经济建设持续发展服务。昆虫系统学研究是昆虫标本馆研究人员的主要任务,它的发展与昆虫标本馆的建设唇齿相依。本文阐述了昆虫标本馆的功能与作用,建设昆虫标本馆的重要性和迫切性;展望了昆虫系统学的未来以及昆虫系统学发展的机遇。     

昆虫基因组及数据库研究进展

基因组序列为昆虫分子生物学研究提供丰富的数据资源,推动系统生物学在古老的昆虫学中蓬勃发展。昆虫基因组学研究已经成为当前的研究热点,目前在NCBI登录注册的昆虫基因组测序计划有494项,其中已提交原始测序数据的昆虫有225种,完成基因组拼接的有215种,具有基因注释的有65种,公开发表的昆虫基因组有43篇。本文综述了测序技术发展的历史及其对昆虫基因组研究的推动作用、昆虫基因组的组装和注释及其存在的问题、昆虫基因组测序进展、昆虫基因组数据库的发展及基因数据挖掘利用的基本思路和对策,以及昆虫基因大数据在害虫防治和资源昆虫利用中的应用前景。     

Myzostomida: A review of the phylogeny and ultrastructure

Myzostomids are minute, soft-bodied, marine worms associated with echinoderms since the Carboniferous. Due to their long history as host-specific symbionts, they have acquired a highly derived body plan that obscures their phylogenetic affinities to other metazoans. Because certain organs are serially arranged a closer relationship between polychaetes and myzostomids has repeatedly been discussion. We presented here a review on the ultrastructure of myzostomids with the most recent analyses that concern their phylogenetic position. The ultrastructure of the integument, digestive system, excretory system and nervous system are summarized. Unpublished information on the gametogenesis and reproductive systems of myzostomids are also exposed with a view on their reproductive process.     

On the making of a system theory of life: Paul A Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's conceptual connection

In this article, we review how two eminent Viennese system thinkers, Paul A Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy, began to develop their own perspectives toward a system theory of life in the 1920s. Their work is especially rooted in experimental biology as performed at the Biologische Versuchsanstalt, as well as in philosophy, and they converge in basic concepts. We underline the conceptual connections of their thinking, among them the organism as an organized system, hierarchical organization, and primary activity. With their system thinking, both biologists shared a strong desire to overcome what they viewed as a "mechanistic" approach in biology. Their interpretations are relevant to the renaissance of system thinking in biology--"systems biology." Unless otherwise noted, all translations are our own.     

Metalloproteinases: mediators of pathology and regeneration in the CNS

The matrix metalloproteinases and related A disintegrin and metalloproteinase enzymes are implicated in various diseases of the nervous system. However, metalloproteinases are increasingly being recognized as having beneficial roles during nervous system development and following injury. This review discusses general principles that govern the expression of metalloproteinases in the nervous system and their detrimental outcomes. It then focuses on the roles of metalloproteinases and their mechanisms in regulating neurogenesis, myelin formation and axonal growth. It is clear that metalloproteinases are important determinants in enabling recovery from injury to the nervous system.     

抗补体活性多糖

补体系统在宿主免疫中具有重要的作用。近年来,由某些中药中纯化的多糖具有明显的抗补体作用。这些多糖大多数含有阿拉伯糖、半乳糖和半乳糖醛酸,分子量范围6.000到500.000。它们的结构很复杂,多为具聚鼠李半乳糖醛酸结构中心的酸性杂多糖和果胶类多糖。这些多糖的抗补体活性可能和整个大分子的结构有关。一旦发生降解活性就大为下降甚至消失。它们都可以经典的方式激活补体系统。大部分也可以改变的方式激活补体系统。     

Colicin biology.

Colicins are proteins produced by and toxic for some strains of Escherichia coli. They are produced by strains of E. coli carrying a colicinogenic plasmid that bears the genetic determinants for colicin synthesis, immunity, and release. Insights gained into each fundamental aspect of their biology are presented: their synthesis, which is under SOS regulation; their release into the extracellular medium, which involves the colicin lysis protein; and their uptake mechanisms and modes of action. Colicins are organized into three domains, each one involved in a different step of the process of killing sensitive bacteria. The structures of some colicins are known at the atomic level and are discussed. Colicins exert their lethal action by first binding to specific receptors, which are outer membrane proteins used for the entry of specific nutrients. They are then translocated through the outer membrane and transit through the periplasm by either the Tol or the TonB system. The components of each system are known, and their implication in the functioning of the system is described. Colicins then reach their lethal target and act either by forming a voltage-dependent channel into the inner membrane or by using their endonuclease activity on DNA, rRNA, or tRNA. The mechanisms of inhibition by specific and cognate immunity proteins are presented. Finally, the use of colicins as laboratory or biotechnological tools and their mode of evolution are discussed.     

Hierarchical evolutive systems: A mathematical model for complex systems

The notion of an evolutive hierarchical system proposed in this paper is a mathematical model for systems, like organisms, with more or less complex objects. This model, based on category theory, retains the following characteristics of natural systems: they have an internal organization consisting of components with interrelations; they maintain their organization in time though their components are changing; their components are divided into several levels corresponding to the increasing complexity of their own organization, and the system may be studied at any of these levels (e.g. molecular, cellular...). The state of the system at a given instant is modeled by a category whose objects are its components, the state transition by a functor, a complex object by the (direct) limit of a pattern of linked objects (which describes its internal organization). The properties of limits in a category make it possible to ‘measure’ the emergence of properties for a complex object with respect to its components, and to reduce the study of a hierarchical system to that of its components of the lowest degree and their links. Categorical constructions describe the formation of a hierarchical evolutive system stepwise, by means of the operations: absorption of external objects, destruction of some components, formation of new complex objects.     

Modulation of stomatogastric rhythms

Neuromodulation by peptides and amines is a primary source of plasticity in the nervous system as it adapts the animal to an ever-changing environment. The crustacean stomatogastric nervous system is one of the premier systems to study neuromodulation and its effects on motor pattern generation at the cellular level. It contains the extensively modulated central pattern generators that drive the gastric mill (chewing) and pyloric (food filtering) rhythms. Neuromodulators affect all stages of neuronal processing in this system, from membrane currents and synaptic transmission in network neurons to the properties of the effector muscles. The ease with which distinct neurons are identified and their activity is recorded in this system has provided considerable insight into the mechanisms by which neuromodulators affect their target cells and modulatory neuron function. Recent evidence suggests that neuromodulators are involved in homeostatic processes and that the modulatory system itself is under modulatory control, a fascinating topic whose surface has been barely scratched. Future challenges include exploring the behavioral conditions under which these systems are activated and how their effects are regulated.     

Abnormalities in the awareness and control of action

Much of the functioning of the motor system occurs without awareness. Nevertheless, we are aware of some aspects of the current state of the system and we can prepare and make movements in the imagination. These mental representations of the actual and possible states of the system are based on two sources: sensory signals from skin and muscles, and the stream of motor commands that have been issued to the system. Damage to the neural substrates of the motor system can lead to abnormalities in the awareness of action as well as defects in the control of action. We provide a framework for understanding how these various abnormalities of awareness can arise. Patients with phantom limbs or with anosognosia experience the illusion that they can move their limbs. We suggest that these representations of movement are based on streams of motor commands rather than sensory signals. Patients with utilization behaviour or with delusions of control can no longer properly link their intentions to their actions. In these cases the impairment lies in the representation of intended movements. The location of the neural damage associated with these disorders suggests that representations of the current and predicted state of the motor system are in parietal cortex, while representations of intended actions are found in prefrontal and premotor cortex.     

Colicin Biology

Colicins are proteins produced by and toxic for some strains of Escherichia coli. They are produced by strains of E. coli carrying a colicinogenic plasmid that bears the genetic determinants for colicin synthesis, immunity, and release. Insights gained into each fundamental aspect of their biology are presented: their synthesis, which is under SOS regulation; their release into the extracellular medium, which involves the colicin lysis protein; and their uptake mechanisms and modes of action. Colicins are organized into three domains, each one involved in a different step of the process of killing sensitive bacteria. The structures of some colicins are known at the atomic level and are discussed. Colicins exert their lethal action by first binding to specific receptors, which are outer membrane proteins used for the entry of specific nutrients. They are then translocated through the outer membrane and transit through the periplasm by either the Tol or the TonB system. The components of each system are known, and their implication in the functioning of the system is described. Colicins then reach their lethal target and act either by forming a voltage-dependent channel into the inner membrane or by using their endonuclease activity on DNA, rRNA, or tRNA. The mechanisms of inhibition by specific and cognate immunity proteins are presented. Finally, the use of colicins as laboratory or biotechnological tools and their mode of evolution are discussed.