渤海真刺唇角水蚤摄食的初步研究

1992年 8月至 1 993年 5～ 6月在渤海调查过程中取得了大量海洋浮游生物样品 ,从中获得 80 0个消化道内含有食物的真刺唇角水蚤标本 ,经分析得出 :真刺唇角水蚤营小型浮游生物食性 ,主要摄食小型桡足类 (占其食物组成的 76.4% ) ,其中小拟哲水蚤是它的主要摄食对象 ( 74.7% ) .此外 ,它也摄食少量硅藻类 ( 2 3.0 % )、甲藻类 ( 1 .1 % )、金藻类 ( <0 .1 % )和纤毛虫类 ( 1 .5% ) ;其食物组成有明显的季节变化 ;其类群更替率各季平均达 30 .7% ,其种类更替率达 40 .3% ,并显示出硅藻类自春至冬逐渐增高而桡足类逐渐降低的规律性 .其摄食强度以春季为最高 ,秋季居第二位 ,夏季居第三位 ,冬季最低 .     

Recycling of food byDaphnia magna Straus (Cladocera): A possible role in swarming

Daphnia magna is a filter feeder able to recycle part of its food. The fraction of the ingestion that consists of recycled food increases with the filtering impact, without leading to a decrease in growth efficiency. Swarming creates locally a high filtering impact and recycling of food might be one of its benefits.     

基因工程技术在食品工业中的研究进展

综述基因工程技术在改善食品原料品质、改良食品工业用菌种和食品加工性能、生产酶制剂和保健食品方面的应用,同时对转基因食品及其安全性问题进行了总结归纳,最后对基因工程技术在食品中的发展前景进行展望。     

The functions and mechanisms of the protrusible upper jaws of two species of cyprinid fish

Photographs have been taken of Idus and Gobio feeding. Idus , a primitive cyprinid, protrudes its premaxillae very little when it opens its mouth to take in food, but closes the mouth by further protrusion of the premaxillae. This enables it to close its mouth while keeping its buccal cavity fully expanded. Gobio , a more advanced cyprinid, protrudes its premaxillae strongly as it opens its mouth and is thereby able to apply the mouth closely to a surface from which it is taking food. The mechanisms of the movements are described.     

The diet of white-spotted greenling <Emphasis Type="Italic">Hexagrammos stelleri</Emphasis> (Hexagrammidae) on the West Kamchatka shelf

On the basis of two trawl surveys made in the summer of 2005 and 2008 the diet of white-spotted greenling Hexagrammos stelleri, a widely distributed near-bottom sublittoral species, is investigated. The qualitative and quantitative characteristic of its food spectrum is given, depending on its linear size. The principal food consists of crustaceans and fish, and secondary food items are mollusks, polyhaetes, and echiurids. With growth, the composition of crustaceans in the food changes: gammarids and mysids are replaced by shrimps, crabs, and hermit crabs. With growth, the significance of fish in the food of white-spotted greenling increases. In the food of the largest specimens, over 30 cm long, fish are dominant.     

Specializations and limitations in the utilization of food resources by the carp,Cyprinus carpio: a study of oral food processing

Synopsis The wide variety of aquatic food is considered to be instrumental for the diversification in fish species. Yet their abilities and inabilities of handling food are poorly known. For these reasons the food processing and feeding repertoire of the adult carp, Cyprinus carpio, fed on a variety of food types, were analyzed by light and X-ray cinematography of the head parts and by electromyography of the head and body muscles during feeding. Nine stereotyped movement patterns (particulate intake, gulping, rinsing, spitting, selective retention of food, transport, crushing, grinding and deglutition) compose the feeding process, their sequence and frequency were adjusted to the type of food. Following quantitative morphological analysis at macroscopic, light- and electronmicroscopical level, the relations between the functioning and architecture of the feeding apparatus were established. The structure and dimensions of the mouth opening, the protrusible upper jaw, the slit-shaped pharyngeal cavity, the palatal and postlingual organ, the branchial sieve, the pharyngeal masticatory apparatus and the distribution of taste buds, mucous cells and muscle fibers along the oropharyngeal surface were the directive structural characters used for estimating the abilities in food processing. The specializations for utilizing food items and its limitations, derived from structural and functional data, are compared with diet data found in the literature in order to evaluate the relative position of the carp in competition for food in the aquatic environment. It is established that the ‘omnivorous’ carp is specialized in effective handling of several categories of aquatic food, even when these are mixed with non-food (bottom invertebrates <4% SL in diameter) since the palatal organ enables the carp to separate food from non-food. This includes very hard-skinned food items, processed with the powerful pharyngeal jaws of the fish, and to a lesser extent zooplankton (>250 μm). The carp is at the same time very limited in processing long and struggling prey (e.g. fish) as well as vegetable matter, due to the lack of oral teeth and the specialized morphology of its pharyngeal chewing apparatus. These feeding abilities agree with diet data from literature. The reported herbivorism of carp illustrates its opportunism in feeding behaviour. Specialization in feeding is discussed and the necessity to take into account the total series of post-capture feeding actions for a more complete view on trophic specialization. Food intake and the intra-oral food processing of carp are bound to the structures of its sensory, central processing and effector apparatus and to the plasticity in their functioning. These together determine its feeding efficiency in exploiting the available aquatic food resources. Next to ethological and ecological studies functional morphology is another important tool to explain the trophic interactions of fish.     

Overcrowding,food and phosphorus limitation effects on ephipphia production and population dynamics in the invasive species <Emphasis Type="Italic">Daphnia lumholtzi</Emphasis>

Daphnia lumholtzi has been very successful in colonizing North America since its appearance in Texas in 1990. Although previous studies have sought to link its success as an invasive species with various aspects of its population biology, there is little experimental data linking the invasion success of D. lumholtzi with its autecology, specifically its reproduction strategy. In this study we sought to link food quality and quantity to diapause in D. lumholtzi through a variation in phosphorus (P) content of algae, food quantity, and light level. We also assessed the effect of Daphnia peak population densities on reproductive rates and production of resting eggs. We found that when food is abundant, per capita ephippia production may be limited by P, but under food limitation conditions, there is no significant effect of food quality on ephippia production. Our results suggest that a combination of food quality/quantity and population density may work together to induce the production of resting eggs in this invasive species. Handling editor: S. Declerk     

Stability of complex food webs: resilience, resistance and the average interaction strength

In the face of stochastic climatic perturbations, the overall stability of an ecosystem will be determined by the balance between its resilience and its resistance, but their relative importance is still unknown. Using aquatic food web models we study ecosystem stability as a function of food web complexity. We measured three dynamical stability properties: resilience, resistance, and variability. Specifically, we evaluate how a decrease in the strength of predator-prey interactions with food web complexity, reflecting a decrease in predation efficiency with the number of prey per predator, affects the overall stability of the ecosystem. We find that in mass conservative ecosystems, a lower interaction strength slows down the mass cycling rate in the system and this increases its resistance to perturbations of the growth rate of primary producers. Furthermore, we show that the overall stability of the food webs is mostly given by their resistance, and not by their resilience. Resilience and resistance display opposite trends, although they are shown not to be simply opposite concepts but rather independent properties. The ecological implication is that weaker predator-prey interactions in closed ecosystems can stabilize food web dynamics by increasing its resistance to climatic perturbations.     

Satiety: the roles of peptides from the stomach and the intestine

Rats were surgically prepared to allow perfusions of anatomically limited portions of the gastrointestinal (GI) surface during test meals. The results demonstrated that at least one potent satiety signal was generated when ingested food accumulated in the stomach and did not enter the small intestine. This gastric satiety signal did not require the vagus nerve for its operation. In addition, at least one other potent satiety signal was generated when food perfused the small intestine. This intestinal satiety signal did not require gastric distension for its operation. We tested a variety of GI peptides to determine whether any met the criteria imposed by this evidence for regionally specific satiety signals. Bombesin (BBS), a peptide present in high concentration in the stomach, was a potent and behaviorally specific inhibitor of food intake. Its satiating effect was not altered by subdiaphragmatic vagotomy. Cholecystokinin (CCK), a peptide hormone that is released from the small intestine by food, was also a potent and behaviorally specific inhibitor of food intake; its satiating effect did not require gastric distension for its expression, but its satiating effect was markedly reduced or abolished by subdiaphragmatic vagotomy. Thus, BBS and CCK may mediate at least part of the satiating effect of food acting in the stomach and in the small intestine, respectively.     

A relative shortage of nitrogenous food in the ecology of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

The disparity between the distribution and abundance of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) and its major food trees (Eucalyptus spp.) is examined in terms of the essential oil content of the leaves, the influence of weather, social behaviour, and the level of available nitrogenous food. The essential oils are considered to be relatively unimportant since the koala has the ability to detoxify them. It is proposed that the level of available nitrogenous food is the major limiting influence on the abundance of the koala. Social behaviour enables a few koalas to acquire sufficient food while the majority of the population is subject to a relative shortage of food. The weather varies the local availability of adequate nitrogenous food by its influence on leaf growth in the eucalypts. Unusually favourable weather or inappropriate management which lead to a local increase in the availability of young growing leaves (flush growth) may result in outbreaks in koala numbers.     

Cold acclimation in food-restricted rats

Food intake, body weight and brown adipose tissue (BAT) mass and composition of rats exposed at 6 degrees C either with food ad libitum or food-restricted were compared with those of rats in the thermoneutral zone, with food ad libitum. Cold acclimation with food ad libitum increases food intake and prevents body weight gains. IBAT (interscapular BAT) increases its mass and changes its composition after 3 weeks of cold exposure. Cold acclimation with food restriction produces a progressive decrease in body weight. IBAT mass increases after 3 weeks but changes in composition occur sooner. It is concluded that the overfeeding that accompanies cold acclimation is not necessary for non-shivering thermogenesis in BAT.     

蛋白质交联用酶的作用机制及研究进展北大核心CSCD

蛋白质交联在食品、化工和医药等领域发挥重要的作用。利用酶催化蛋白质交联是一种可替代物理和化学交联的高效经济的方法。然而,目前仍缺乏详细的酶促蛋白质交联分子层面的解析。本文综述了酶催化的蛋白质交联反应机制及其对蛋白质结构的影响,以及在食品、化工和医药领域的应用,并展望了酶促交联的发展。     

Analysis of Food Pairing in Regional Cuisines of India

Any national cuisine is a sum total of its variety of regional cuisines, which are the cultural and historical identifiers of their respective regions. India is home to a number of regional cuisines that showcase its culinary diversity. Here, we study recipes from eight different regional cuisines of India spanning various geographies and climates. We investigate the phenomenon of food pairing which examines compatibility of two ingredients in a recipe in terms of their shared flavor compounds. Food pairing was enumerated at the level of cuisine, recipes as well as ingredient pairs by quantifying flavor sharing between pairs of ingredients. Our results indicate that each regional cuisine follows negative food pairing pattern; more the extent of flavor sharing between two ingredients, lesser their co-occurrence in that cuisine. We find that frequency of ingredient usage is central in rendering the characteristic food pairing in each of these cuisines. Spice and dairy emerged as the most significant ingredient classes responsible for the biased pattern of food pairing. Interestingly while individual spices contribute to negative food pairing, dairy products on the other hand tend to deviate food pairing towards positive side. Our data analytical study highlighting statistical properties of the regional cuisines, brings out their culinary fingerprints that could be used to design algorithms for generating novel recipes and recipe recommender systems. It forms a basis for exploring possible causal connection between diet and health as well as prospection of therapeutic molecules from food ingredients. Our study also provides insights as to how big data can change the way we look at food.     

生物工程技术在食品工业领域中的应用

据当今生物工程技术发展情况,综述了它在食品工业领域中的食用资源开发、食品加工及食品安全检测中的应用.     

功能性甜味剂L-阿拉伯糖的研究进展

L-阿拉伯糖是一种有甜味的戊糖,其口服后在人体内不被吸收,并可以选择性抑制肠道内蔗糖酶的活性,减少人体对蔗糖的吸收和利用,从而达到降血糖和减肥的功效。而且它作为一种天然存在的单糖,长期以来作为食品被服用,安全性早已得到证实,因而在功能食品应用领域有广阔的市场前景。然而受限于其生产方法,目前国内外市场上阿拉伯糖价格昂贵,因此,本文拟对L-阿拉伯糖制备方法的研究进展作一综述,以期促进国内同行加强对一些稀有糖的研究开发,造福于公众健康。     

Foraging and mobility in three species of Aciculata (Annelida: Polychaeta).

Aspects of feeding, such as food capture and ingestion, as well as mobility of the polychaetes Eurythoe complanata, Marphysa formosa and Diopatra aciculata, from S?o Sebasti?o Channel (S?o Sebasti?o, state of S?o Paulo) were observed in laboratory conditions. Eurythoe complanata, a carnivorous species, fed exclusively on pieces of fish with the aid of strong muscular retractable lips, and detected the presence of food by chemical stimuli. Diopatra aciculata, an omnivorous species, captured and ingested different kinds of food with the aid of its jaws, generating a flow of water through its tube by which it detects the presence of food and oxygenates its gills. Marphysa formosa also used its jaws to bite and lacerate food. These species showed greater or lesser degrees of intolerance to light.     

Drosophila neuropeptide F mediates integration of chemosensory stimulation and conditioning of the nervous system by food

The conserved neuropeptide Y (NPY) signaling pathway has been strongly implicated in the stimulation of food uptake in vertebrates as well as in the regulation of food conditioned foraging behaviors of Caenorhabditis elegans. Using in situ RNA hybridization and immunocytochemistry, we report the neuronal network of Drosophila neuropeptide F (dNPF), a human NPY homologue, in the larval central nervous system and its food-dependent modifications. We provide indications that gustatory stimulation by sugar, but not its ingestion or metabolism, is sufficient to trigger long-term, dose-dependent alterations of the dNPF neuronal circuit through both dnpf activation and increased synaptic transmission. Our results strongly suggest that the dNPF neuronal circuit is an integral part of the sensory system that mediates food signaling, providing the neural basis for understanding how invertebrate NPY regulates food response.     

Bacteriocin: safest approach to preserve food products

Start of the 21st century with its universal call to feed the hungry is an appropriate time to refocus attention on food security and especially the impact of biopatenting on poor communities who are the primary victims of hunger in our world. Antibacterial metabolites of lactic acid bacteria and Bacillus spp have potential as natural preservatives to control the growth of spoilage and pathogenic bacteria in food. Among them, bacteriocin is used as a preservative in food due to its heat stability, wider pH tolerance and its proteolytic activity. Due to thermo stability and pH tolerance it can withstand heat and acidity/alkanity of food during storage condition. Bacteriocin are ribosomally synthesized peptides originally defined as proteinaceous compound affecting growth or viability of closely related organisms. Research is going on extensively to explore the nascent field of biopreservation. Scientists all over the world are showing their keen interest to isolate different types of bacteriocin producing strains and characterize bacteriocin produced by them for food preservation.     

Stochasticity in Natural Forage Production Affects Use of Urban Areas by Black Bears: Implications to Management of Human-Bear Conflicts

The rapid expansion of global urban development is increasing opportunities for wildlife to forage and become dependent on anthropogenic resources. Wildlife using urban areas are often perceived dichotomously as urban or not, with some individuals removed in the belief that dependency on anthropogenic resources is irreversible and can lead to increased human-wildlife conflict. For American black bears (Ursus americanus), little is known about the degree of bear urbanization and its ecological mechanisms to guide the management of human-bear conflicts. Using 6 years of GPS location and activity data from bears in Aspen, Colorado, USA, we evaluated the degree of bear urbanization and the factors that best explained its variations. We estimated space use, activity patterns, survival, and reproduction and modeled their relationship with ecological covariates related to bear characteristics and natural food availability. Space use and activity patterns were dependent on natural food availability (good or poor food years), where bears used higher human density areas and became more nocturnal in poor food years. Patterns were reversible, i.e., individuals using urban areas in poor food years used wildland areas in subsequent good food years. While reproductive output was similar across years, survival was lower in poor food years when bears used urban areas to a greater extent. Our findings suggest that bear use of urban areas is reversible and fluctuates with the availability of natural food resources, and that removal of urban individuals in times of food failures has the potential to negatively affect bear populations. Given that under current predictions urbanization is expected to increase by 11% across American black bear range, and that natural food failure years are expected to increase in frequency with global climate change, alternative methods of reducing urban human-bear conflict are required if the goal is to prevent urban areas from becoming population sinks.