古生物在下古生界烃源岩有机质成熟度研究中的重要作用

对江苏下古生界动物化石有机碎屑（笔石、胞石和虫牙）反射率进行系统研究的结果表明,它们与镜质组反射率有着极为相似的光性特征和变化规律,即随埋深的增加而增高,因而它们均可和为有机质成熟度指标;并进而以牙形刺色变指标（ＣＡＩ）为纽带,分别建立它们与镜质组反射率之间的良好对应关系,提出它们的成熟度划分标准,为它们的实际应用奠定基础。     

EVALUATIONS OF THE AVAILABILITY OF SOURCES OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS FOR ALGAE1

Techniques are compared for the evaluation of nutrient sources in which the potential nutrients are in contact with algae over their entire culture period versus relatively short-term exposure tests. Different nitrogen and phosphorus compounds were shown to be utilized in darkness as well as in light and were equally available at pH 7 and 9. The availability of relatively insoluble nutrients–iron-phosphorus compounds and teeth for phosphorus, hair for nitrogen iron pyrites for iron, and marble for carbon–indicates that in many cases the equilibrium between soluble and insoluble forms allows algae to compete successfully with insoluble forms for nutrients. Apparently, factors other than mere insolubility prevent algae from obtaining available nitrogen or phosphorus from phosphate rock or lake muds. Live algae or aquatic weeds with adequate or surplus nitrogen or phosphorus were shown to not share their nutrients with nitrogen- or phosphorus-limited algae, whereas the nutrients of killed algae or aquatic weeds were readily used by nutrient-limited algae. The facts–(1) that live algae and aquatic weeds do not share their adequate or surplus nutrients with nutrient-limited algae and (2) that lake muds do not provide readily available nitrogen or phosphorus–indicate that once lake waters are stripped of available nutrients by plant production, further plant production will depend upon nutrients from continuous sources of nutrients, such as wastewater effluents.     

ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE GAMETE OF PEDIASTRUM DUPLEX (CHLOROPHYCEAE)1

Gametes of Pediastrum duplex Meyen were investigated ultrastructurally, with emphasis on the flagellar apparatus. The cells are naked, biflagellate, and measure approximately 2.5 × 8 μm. Distinguishing them from zoospores is their possession of an eyespot and mating structure (the apical cap), and their lack of the peripheral band of cytoplasmic microtubules involved in colony formation. Four featurs of the flagellar apparatus are especially noteworthy: (1) the basal bodies are directly opposed and (2) are interconnected via their cores, (3) the central portion of the distal fiber is elaborated into an unusual ribbed structure which overlies the striated microtubule-associated component (SMAC) of the two-membered rootlets, and (4) the X-rootlets are dissimilar in microtubular number. The smaller X-rootlet consists of four microtubules in a three over one (3/1) configuration, whereas the larger has been found to be either 5 / 1, 6 / 1 or 7 / 1. The former rootlet extends past the nucleus whereas the latter extends down the opposite side of the cell, passing near the eyespot. The first two of these flagellar apparatus features have been previously noted in other motile cells of the Hydrodictyaceae. Although not specifically mentioned, published micrographs suggest the presence of the latter two as well, which may indicate that all four flagellar apparatus features are characteristics of all motile cells in the Hydrodictyaceae.     

抗寒性不同的油橄榄品种和单株叶片扫描电镜观察

抗寒性强的油橄榄——克里302、尼基特371的叶片,扫描电镜下的特征是:(1) 近轴表皮角质膜厚,蜡质结晶致密。(2) 远轴表皮内陷气孔,密被鳞毛。(3) 叶两面栅栏组织发达,为旱生形态阳叶结构。     

杂交水稻幼芽呼吸和抗氰呼吸强度的研究

本文研究了13个水稻杂交组合幼芽总呼吸强度和抗氰呼吸强度,发现杂交水稻幼芽总呼吸和抗氰呼吸强度多表现为负优势。杂种幼芽总呼吸强度及抗氰呼吸强度与其亲本均值均呈极显著正相关,回归关系亦极显著。杂种幼芽抗氰呼吸和其中亲值的差值与其父母本之差值呈显著正相关,而杂种幼芽呼吸强度其中亲值的差值与其父母本之差值呈不显著负相关。认为杂种幼芽的抗氰呼吸强度和总呼吸强度均可由其双亲均值预测,抗氰呼吸强度作为杂种优势预测生理指标的潜力更大一些。     

EFFECTS OF PROTECTION OF BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE ON REGENERATION OF GANGLIONIC ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE

The regeneration of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) was followed in the superior cervical (SCG), stellate (StG), and ciliary (CG) ganglia and inferior oblique (IO) muscle of cats for the 3-day period following their inactivation by isopropylmethylphosphonofluoridate (sarin; 2.0 μmol/kg intravenously), with and without preservation of over half the butyrylcholinesterase activity by the prior intravenous infusion of 10-(α-diethylaminopropionyl) phenothiazine HCl (Astra 1397; 100 or 200 μmol/kg). Rates of regeneration of AChE in the three ganglia exhibited the same sequence as their relative proportions of AChE-containing cholinergic ganglion cells (SCG < StG < CG); no such difference was found in the rates of butyrylcholinesterase regeneration. The mean AChE levels in all three ganglia were higher at 48 h in the cats that had received Astra 1397 (100 μmol/kg) prior to sarin. This finding is interpreted as evidence that BuChE may function as a precursor in the synthesis of AChE.     

EFFECTS OF DARKNESS AND OF STREPTOMYCIN ON THE FINE STRUCTURE OF EUGLENA GRACILIS

Siegesmund , Kenneth A., Walter G. Rosen , and Stanley R. Gawlik . (Marquette (J., Milwaukee, Wis.) Effects of darkness and of streptomycin on the fine structure of Euglena gracilis. Amer. Jour. Bot. 49 (2) : 137–145. Illus. 1962.—Dark-grown Euglena gracilis cells, transferred from streptomycin (SM)-containing medium to SM-free medium 5 days before transfer to light, turn green normally, indicating that proplastids are unaffected by SM. SM-bleached cells, grown in light, contain numerous bodies composed of concentric lamellae (CL bodies). These differ from chloroplasts in that their lamellae lack electron-dense dots, are not coalesced, and they lack a 3-layered limiting membrane and pyrenoids. CL bodies are absent from dark-grown normal and dark-grown SM-bleached cells, as well as from light-grown normal cells. It is suggested that CL bodies result from a derangement of chloroplast synthesis caused by SM blockage of chlorophyll synthesis.     

试论中国种子植物特有属的分布区类型

中国种子植物特有属是局限分布于中国行政区域范围内的植物成分,就其分布特点看,集中分布于中国南部亚热带广阔区域。由于中国地域广袤,虽然大多数特有属分布在东亚自然地域范围内,但南部特有属的分布范围已进入古热带植物区的马来亚森林植物亚区的北部,而西部的特有属的分布范围已进入青藏高原地区。局限于不同地域分布的特有属,各自的起源发生、所经历的地质历史过程存在一定差别。本文以自然地理区划作为研究中国种子植物特有属分布区类型的依据,将中国特有属分布区类型划分为中国东部和中部特有分布变型、中国南部特有分布变型、中国西部特有分布变型和中国北部特有分布变型4类。其中中国南部特有分布变型所含特有属为热带区系成分,其它3个特有分布变型所含特有属为温带区系成分。这样能较客观地反映中国特有属的自然地理特征,有利于研究局部地区植物区系的地质历史演变过程。     

仙茅属三个国产种的核型研究

本文报道了中国产三种仙茅植物的核型。1.绒叶仙茅Curculigo crassifolia (Baker) Hook. f., 2n=2x=18=10m(4SAT) 8 sm;2.大叶仙茅C.capitulata(Lour.)O. Kuntze,2n=2x=18=10(2SAT) 8sm;3.中华仙茅C.sinensis S.C.Chen,2n=2x=18=8m(3SAT) 10sm(2SAT)。其中中华仙茅的核型为首次报道。虽然三种仙茅的核型都是“2B”型,但中华仙茅的核型不对称性比绒叶仙茅和大叶仙茅强。     

STUDIES OF HEMATOPOIESIS IN MURINE SPLEENS: SIGNIFICANCE OF HEMATOPOIETIC COLONIES FORMED ON THE SURFACE OF SPLEENS

Conies of hematopoietic tissue are formed in spleens of lethally irradiated mice by the injection of small numbers of hematopoietic cells. Some of these colonies appear as surface colonies, others can be identified only in serial sections of the spleen. The present studies have related the number and cellular composition of total hematopoietic colonies in the murine spleen to their visual recognition on the splenic surface. These studies demonstrate that only 50% of the total colonies in a spleen are recognized as surface colonies and that of those colonies on the surface, approximately 80% contain erythroid elements. At least four factors play important roles in the recognition of hematopoietic colonies as splenic surface colonies: (1) dose of repopulating cells or hematopoietic stem cells injected into the irradiated animal; (2) location of colonies within the spleen; (3) size of colonies; and (4) cellular content of the colonies. These studies demonstrate that surface colony formation reflects primarily erythropoiesis and not total hematopoiesis.     

THE DYNAMICS OF WOUND CLOSURE AND ITS ROLE IN THE PROGRAMMING OF PLANARIAN REGENERATION. II — DISTALIZATION

When the dorsal and ventral epidermal layers join by first intention during the closure of the wound, the cells of their borders (M-cells) do not meet in the same manner in all sections. In anterior sections the dorsal M-cells attach themselves to the ventral basement membrane, so that only the dorsal epidermis is stretched. In posterior sections the dorsal and the ventral M-cells join by their apical edges without being closely apposed to the wound surface. Only the ventral cells are stretched because of their specific motility. In longitudinal sections the dorsal and the ventral M-cells also join by their apical edges, but since they are closely apposed to the wound surface both epidermal layers are stretched. The stretching is a process equivalent to distalization. The junction between the dorsal and the ventral epidermis is shifted ventrally in the anterior wounds (as in the intact heads) and dorsally in the posterior wounds (as in the intact tails). Some abnormalities of wound closure have been observed at levels where heteromorphic regeneration frequently occurs. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis previously advanced (3) that the modalities of wound closure establish the programme for regeneration.     

ADAPTIVE LIMITATION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE RATE OF BIRDS

Some biologists have held that the rate of reproduction in birds tends to be adjusted to the average annual mortality; others, that it is limited only by the parents' ability to raise sturdy young. The latter theory, that of maximum reproduction, is likely to be true only if three related propositions are true:(1) that an increase of clutch size is more likely to occur than some other mutation affecting the rate of reproduction; (2) that a genotype with a wastefully high rate of reproduction can supplant a genotype with a more conservative but adequate rate; and (3) that an excessive rate of reproduction is not harmful to the species. None of these assumptions has been proved. In a population not obliged to employ its full reproductive potential to maintain itself at a favourable level, mutations which limit this potential may arise and persist. They may effect this limitation by means of:(i) reduction in clutch size; (ii) reduction in the number of broods; (iii) failure of the male to attend the nest, often followed by failure to form pairs; (iv) deferment of reproductive maturity; (v) developments in territorialism that limit the number of nesting birds or the number of progeny they can rear; (vi) restriction of nesting to traditional sites; and (vii) the time-consuming construction of elaborate nests. These limitations of the rate of reproduction must be regarded as adaptive because, like other adaptations, they adjust the birds more perfectly to the conditions in which they live and reduce the stress to which they are subjected. In both tropical and temperate regions, species in which only the female feeds the nestlings have broods as large as species in which both parents feed them. It follows that the two parents are not rearing as many young as they could nourish. The view that hole-nesting birds can rear larger broods than open-nesters because their young develop more slowly, and require less food per capita per day, is untenable. Nestlings raised in holes and burrows gain weight about as rapidly as those in more exposed nests, but for safety they remain longer in their protected abodes. The larger broods of hole-nesters evidently compensate for the difficulty of obtaining nest sites, which delays the breeding of some pairs and prevents that of others. Clutch size is by no means closely adjusted to the number of young the parents can raise. If given additional nestlings, some birds attend them adequately. In other species, young are rarely fledged from all the eggs. In many cases, asynchronous hatching is not, as has been claimed, an arrangement which permits the parents to adjust to a varying food supply the number of young that they rear. In many raptors, fratricide and cannibalism reduce the size of the brood, sometimes to a single nestling, regardless of the abundance of food. The more stable the environment, the more closely the reproductive rate tends to be adjusted to the mortality; the more a population is subject to catastrophic reductions, the more the rate will approach the maximum. Primarily, the reproductive rate is controlled by heritable characters, which can adjust the rate to a stable environment but rarely respond to short-term fluctuations in external conditions or population density. The last fine adjustment of a population to its habitat is effected by processes that are density-dependent:either density-dependent regulation of the reproductive effort, or density-dependent mortality of adults or young, or a combination of the two. The general evolutionary trend in the Metazoa is toward producing fewer offspring and taking better care of them. This would hardly be possible if the more prolific genotype always prevails over those which raise smaller families and in consequence can attend their young somewhat better. The regulation of the rate of reproduction is a unique evolutionary problem, because a mutation conferring greater fertility, although often detrimental to the species, tends to diffuse through it as no other harmful mutation can. Yet it is counteracted by many factors, chiefly ecological, which operate subtly and are more difficult to appreciate than the force of numbers.     

田螺科五种螺的核型研究

以早期胚胎细胞为材料,用火焰干燥法制片,对分布于我国湖北省武汉市近郊的常见田螺科(Viviparidae)五种螺的核型进行了分析。结果:两种圆田螺的染色体数和国外报道的同一属的种类的一致。而三种环棱螺的染色体数,则较国外报道的另两种的少得多。在铜锈环棱螺的核型中,其m组的第一对和sm组的第四对染色体上,具有明显的随体,出现频率甚高。     

基质盐度对木榄叶柄导管分子形态特征的影响

对温室中培养在不同盐度下一年生木榄[Bruginera gyninorrhiza(L.)Poil]植株上成熟叶的叶柄离析研究的结果表明:1)木榄叶柄导管分子以梯纹导管为主,其次为螺纹导管及它们之间的过渡类型;随着盐度的升高,螺纹导管及它们之间的过渡类型有增多的趋势;2)而叶柄长度,梯纹导管分子的直径、长度及两端梯状穿孔板的横隔条数都与盐度呈抛物线关系,而它们的最大位出现在20‰-30‰,范围内;3)培养于盐度10‰的海水中的木榄叶柄中导管分子一端有出现两个朝向不同的梯状穿孔板现象;4)在低盐条件下,随着基质盐度的提高,导管分子的形态朝着有利于加快水分运输的方向发展,而在高盐环境下,导管分子的形态朝着增加水分运输的安全性方向发展。讨论了叶柄导管分子解剖学特征的适应意义。     

A MORPHOMETRIC STUDY OF THE ULTRASTRUCTURE OF ECHINOCEREUS ENGELMANNII (CACTACEAE). IV. LEAF AND SPINE PRIMORDIA

A stereological morphometric study of leaf primordia (P1 and P2) of Echinocereus engelmannii indicated that primordia are significantly different ultrastructurally from the shoot apical meristem tissues (tunica and peripheral zone) that produce the primordia. Leaf initiation involves readjustments of rates of synthesis and growth of cytoplasm, vacuoles, mitochondria, chloroplasts, and dictyosomes, such that leaf initiation must be a complex process in which different cell components are affected individually. Furthermore, leaf primordia are ultrastructurally distinct from spine primordia. Leaf and spine primordia as young as these are not yet irrevocably determined, thus different types of primordia, from the time of their inception and before their determination, have distinctly unique metabolisms; primordia are not merely generalized, uncommitted outgrowths whose developmental fate is set at some time later than inception.     

青蛙光敏感松果体神经节细胞自发放电的昼夜节律变化

为了研究青蛙松果体的昼夜节律,本实验采用细胞外连续记录,研究了松果体内对光产生抑制反应的光敏神经节细胞放电的昼夜节律变化.结果表明(1)所有表现自发放电的细胞,其放电频率介于1-6Hz之间,脉冲发放特征有规则、不规则(或波动)和阵发等方式;(2)无论在持续黑暗(DD)、持续光照(LL)或在模拟自然光照周期(L-D-L)任何一种条件下所进行的昼夜连续记录都显示:有些细胞在白天放电频率低,在夜间放电增强;而另一些细胞则在整个记录过程中,其脉冲频率基本上保持不变.当用与昼夜光照颠倒的周期(D-L-D)作实验时,所有被检测的细胞都反映出夜间的放电活性受到了不同程度的抑制.     

A PHYSIOLOGICAL TEST OF THE THEORY OF COMPLEMENTARY CHROMATIC ADAPTATION. I. COLOR MUTANTS OF A RED SEAWEED1

The physiological behavior of phycoerythrin-deficient mutants of the red seaweed Gracilaria tikvahiae (Mc-Lachlan 1979) is compared to that of their wild types. The mutants are phenotypically green while the wild types are red. Cloned scions were grown factorially at irradiances saturating and limiting to growth, and spectral distributions which were broadband (white) and narrowband (green). The green light field complements the absorptance spectrum of phycoerythrin. Experiments were performed in an outdoor continuous flow system. Physiological measurements included light-harvesting pigment composition, instantaneous photosynthesis-light relationships and growth. In all cases, the mutants performed as their wild type progenitors. Further, physiological responses occurring in no less than 8 days were dependent solely on irradiance (“intensity”), and were independent of spectral distribution (“color”). The data do not conform with the predictions of the theory of complementary chromatic adaptation for seaweeds.     

三种食肉目动物的核型分析

本文报道了产于我国华北地区的艾鼬、貉和果子狸的核型。其中艾鼬2n=36。组型由20条双臂染色体、14条单臂染色体和一对性染色体组成。貉2n=65,它与wuster等报道过的貉的2n=42的核型表现出同种动物核型间的多态现象。果子狸2n=44,其c带带型中具有一对带有较大异染色质的中部着丝点染色体。     

DEVELOPMENT AND CYTOLOGY OF THE ENDOBIOTIC PHASE OF PHYSODERMA PULPOSUM

Lingappa , Yamuna . (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor.) Development and cytology of the endobiotic phase of Physoderma pulposum. Amer. Jour. Bot. 46(4): 233–240. Illus. 1959.—The contents of the zygotes of Physoderma pulposum pass into the epidermal cells of the host and become incipient primary turbinate organs. The latter develop into resting sporangia in 3 different ways: (1) Occasionally, they may become thick walled as sporangia in their entirety. Such monocentric development of the endobiotic thalli is described for the first time in Physoderma; (2) usually, however, the contents of primary turbinate organs undergo centripetal cleavage; or (3) their contents may be cleaved tangentially. As a result, several uni- or multinucleate segments are formed which give rise to tenuous hyphae. The swollen distal end of each tenuous hypha develops into a secondary turbinate organ which in turn gives rise to hyphae and tertiary turbinate organs. Thus, the polycentric organization of the rhizomycelium is maintained. During this process, buds, which develop in the axils of the apical tufts of haustoria of turbinate organs, enlarge into resting sporangia. Nuclear divisions in turbinate organs and of resting sporangial initials are mitotic, and 4 chromosomes are evident on the equator of the intranuclear spindles. As the resting sporangia are inoperculate, the endosporangia protrude through irregular openings in the exospores.     

农作物的彩色红外影象分析

本文将实测地物波谱、彩色红外航片密度测量和地面同步调查结果相结合,分析了农作物的彩色红外航片影象标志及稳定性。结果表明:(1)由于物候节律和群落外貌的差异,各种农作物的光谱反射率在量值上有差异,使得其在彩色红外正片影象上(黄/青)密度比差异显著,可以识别;(2)受盐碱危害的作物品红层密度变化明显,受浸涝危害的作物青层密度变化明显;(3)小麦拔节前后,丰产型、一般型和低产型麦田可以运用负片的[(黄 品红)/青]密度值来识别。这是一个较早获取小麦长势信息的较好时段。