抗风桐(Pisonia grandis)的生态生物学特征

对收集于广西桂林的17份野生毛葡萄种质和24份栽培葡萄种质,分别使用12条ISSR和12条SCoT引物进行了遗传多样性和亲缘关系检测。结果表明：两种分子标记均能产生较丰富的多态性片段,可有效应用于葡萄的遗传多样性检测,但在聚类分析结果上表现出一定的差异性,SCoT分子标记能更好地区分野生种质和栽培品种,说明SCoT分子标记在葡萄遗传多样性检测和系统进化研究上可能更有优势。从SCoT聚类结果上看,广西植物研究所收集的3个野生毛葡萄种质zws1、zws2和zws3相对其它野生种质而言,更偏向于与栽培种质聚为一类,说明这一类野生毛葡萄可能是这些栽培品种的原始亲本来源之一。不同的野生种质聚为多个类群,并表现出明显的地域特性,但遗传距离相对较远,说明桂林野生毛葡萄资源具有丰富的遗传变异。栽培品种没有明显的聚类特点,可能因为所选用的栽培品种的地域代表性并不是很强,也可能是因为栽培品种在不断的人工杂交选育过程中,遗传背景趋向一致,遗传多样性降低。该研究证明SCoT分子标记在葡萄遗传多样性研究上具有一定的优势。该研究结果为桂林毛葡萄资源的保护、利用和品种选育提供了理论依据,也为葡萄的系统进化研究提供了参考。     

41份葡萄种质遗传多样性的ISSR和SCoT对比分析

对收集于广西桂林的17份野生毛葡萄种质和24份栽培葡萄种质,分别使用12条ISSR和12条SCoT引物进行了遗传多样性和亲缘关系检测。结果表明:两种分子标记均能产生较丰富的多态性片段,可有效应用于葡萄的遗传多样性检测,但在聚类分析结果上表现出一定的差异性,SCoT分子标记能更好地区分野生种质和栽培品种,说明SCoT分子标记在葡萄遗传多样性检测和系统进化研究上可能更有优势。从SCoT聚类结果上看,广西植物研究所收集的3个野生毛葡萄种质zws1、zws2和zws3相对其它野生种质而言,更偏向于与栽培种质聚为一类,说明这一类野生毛葡萄可能是这些栽培品种的原始亲本来源之一。不同的野生种质聚为多个类群,并表现出明显的地域特性,但遗传距离相对较远,说明桂林野生毛葡萄资源具有丰富的遗传变异。栽培品种没有明显的聚类特点,可能因为所选用的栽培品种的地域代表性并不是很强,也可能是因为栽培品种在不断的人工杂交选育过程中,遗传背景趋向一致,遗传多样性降低。该研究证明SCoT分子标记在葡萄遗传多样性研究上具有一定的优势。该研究结果为桂林毛葡萄资源的保护、利用和品种选育提供了理论依据,也为葡萄的系统进化研究提供了参考。     

罗汉松遗传多样性的SCoT分析

采用SCoT分子标记技术对8份罗汉松种质材料进行遗传多样性研究。结果表明,从80条引物中筛选出10条重复性好、条带清晰的引物进行PCR扩增,共产生136条带,其中多态性带122条(占88.97%),8个罗汉松种质间的遗传相似系数范围在0.39～0.80说明罗汉松的遗传多样性丰富。利用UPGMA进行系统的聚类分析显示,将8份罗汉松材料分为2大类;主成分分析结果与聚类分析结果相一致。可见,利用SCoT分子标记可有效的分析罗汉松种质资源的遗传多样性,为罗汉松种质亲缘关系的鉴别和分类提供理论依据。     

不同龙眼资源遗传多样性的SCoT和ISSR 比较分析

应用SCoT和ISSR标记对36份龙眼资源和1份近缘种龙荔的遗传多样性进行分析。结果表明:12对SCoT引物共扩增出127条带,平均每条引物扩增10.58条带;15条ISSR引物共扩增出117个条带,平均扩增7.8条带。UPGMA聚类结果表明:SCoT标记和ISSR标记分别在相似系数0.672和0.685水平上,均可将37份材料分成6大类群,SCoT和ISSR标记均适用于龙眼材料的遗传多样性分析,如果将两种标记的数据进行综合分析,可以缩小单一标记的误差。研究结果为龙眼种质资源的保存和利用提供了重要的依据。     

新疆枸杞种质资源遗传多样性分析及DNA指纹图谱构建

利用SCoT分子标记对新疆枸杞种质资源进行遗传多样性分析和DNA指纹图谱构建,为杂交育种和种质鉴定提供理论依据。结果显示:9条SCoT引物扩增出条带256条,其中219条为多态性条带,多态性比率达85.62%,多态性信息含量(PIC)值变化范围在0.77~0.91之间,平均值为0.85,观测等位基因数(Na)、有效等位基因数(Ne)、Nei's基因多样性指数(H)和Shannon信息指数(I)的平均值分别为1.8562、1.4350、0.2611、0.3989,聚类分析表明,遗传相似系数变化范围在0.5938~0.8398之间,在遗传相似系数为0.66和0.71处,可将30份材料分别分为2大类和4个亚类,主坐标分析结果和聚类结果基本一致,同时利用5条多态性SCoT引物构建了30份材料的DNA指纹图谱。新疆枸杞种质资源遗传多样性水平较高,且SCoT分子标记适于新疆枸杞种质资源遗传多样性分析和DNA指纹图谱构建,该研究结果为新疆枸杞种质资源评价、鉴定和新品种选育奠定了基础。     

利用SCoT分析柳枝稷遗传资源的多样性

本研究利用SCoT标记对96份柳枝稷种质的亲缘关系和遗传变异进行了研究。筛选出20条引物对96份供试材料进行PCR扩增,共获得445条带,其中多态性条带402条,平均多态性条带比率(PPB)达90.31%,多态性信息含量(PIC)为0.166~0.410,平均值为0.332,标记指数(MI)为10.20。遗传相似系数(GS)为0.498~0.912,平均值为0.688。表明SCoT标记能够揭示柳枝稷种质间的遗传变异。通过UPGMA分析表明,96份种质资源聚为高地型和低地型两大类。经POPGENE1.32软件分析结果显示:96份柳枝稷基因多样性指数(H)为0.285,Shannon指数(I)为0.431,表明供试的种质间遗传多样性丰富,遗传多样性水平高。经AMOVA 1.55方差分析揭示:96份柳枝稷生态型内的遗传变异占总变异的72.85%,生态型间遗传变异占总变异的27.15%,结果表明ScoT可用于柳枝稷遗传多样性研究,该研究结果可为柳枝稷种质资源的进一步开发利用提供重要信息。     

地黄SCoT分子标记体系的建立和指纹图谱的构建

该研究采用L_(25)(5~6)正交设计和单因素两种方法,对影响地黄SCoT-PCR反应的5个因素(模板DNA浓度,引物浓度,ddH_2O和Mix的用量以及退火温度)进行了优化。结果表明:优化后的反应体系总体积为25μL,含有8μL ddH_2O,1μL模板DNA(80 ng·μL~(-1)),1μL引物(8μmol·L~(-1))和15μL Mix,退火温度为45℃。运用30份地黄种质材料,对优化的SCoT-PCR正交体系进行多次重复验证,获得了多态性丰富、条带清晰的扩增图谱,证明该反应体系稳定可靠。利用该体系对32条SCoT引物进行两次筛选,得到14个扩增产物清晰、重复性好且多态性条带相对较高的引物。利用SCoT_4等5条引物构建了上述地黄2个种共30份种质的SCoT指纹图谱。利用这5个SCoT引物指纹图谱可将7个地黄常用栽培品种区分开。这表明SCoT分子标记体系适用于地黄主要品种亲缘关系及遗传多样性的研究,所构建的指纹图谱也为地黄常见的7个栽培品种的区分提供参考依据。     

棉花遗传多样性SCoT和SRAP标记的研究及比较分析

利用SCoT和SRAP两种分子标记技术对30份彩色棉与白色棉种质资源,进行遗传多样性研究。用29对SRAP引物组合和26个SCoT引物分别对供试棉花的基因组DNA进行扩增。SCoT引物共扩增出163条带,多态性比率为61.96%,遗传相似系数GS值变化范围为0.5405～0.9972。SRAP引物组合共扩增条带1067条,多态性比率仅为14.1%,遗传相似系数GS值变化范围为0.5415～0.9109。两种标记系统得到了相似但并不完全相同的聚类图,2种标记方法间存在显著相关性(r=0.5518,P<0.05)。结果表明,SRAP与SCoT标记均适用于棉花种质的遗传多样性分析,且SCoT的标记指数MI高于SRAP标记,为SCoT这种新兴的标记技术在棉花育种中的应用提供了重要的依据。     

皂荚种质资源SCoT遗传多样性分析及指纹图谱的构建

采用SCoT标记分析了18个皂荚种质的遗传多样性,并采用UPGMA法对18个皂荚种质进行了聚类分析。在此基础上,通过筛选出的多态性条带构建了18个皂荚种质的SCoT指纹图谱。扩增结果表明:从51个SCoT引物中筛选了15个引物进行PCR扩增,共扩增出226条带,其中多态性条带216条,多态性比率为96.61%。各引物多态性信息含量(PIC)、观测等位基因数(Na)、有效等位基因数(Ne)、Nei’s基因多样性指数(H)和Shannon’s信息指数(I)的平均值分别为0.875 9、1.964 9、1.440 1、0.272 6、0.426 1。18个皂荚种质的遗传相似系数在0.491 4~0.938 1之间,表明供试材料之间具有较丰富的遗传多样性。聚类分析结果表明:在遗传相似系数为0.60处可将18个皂荚种质分为3组,其中野皂荚单独为一组,山皂荚和皂荚-T聚为一组,其它皂荚材料聚为一组。利用3个引物扩增的8个多态性位点构建了18份皂荚种质资源的DNA指纹图谱,可以将其区分并精准鉴定。该研究结果为皂荚种质的鉴定和新品种选育提供了一定的理论依据。     

SRAP结合SCoT标记分析番木瓜种质的遗传多样性

利用SRAP和SCoT两种分子标记相结合对中国22个番木瓜主要栽培品种(系)进行遗传多样性研究。SCoT标记检测获得的遗传多样性参数值和遗传相似系数范围均高于SRAP标记检测的结果,表明SCoT标记检测多态性的能力高于SRAP标记。基于两种标记数据合并后的UPGMA聚类结果显示,番木瓜种质间的遗传相似系数为0.65~0.90,种质间遗传多样性水平较低;在遗传相似系数为0.82时,将所有参试材料划分为3个类群。应用Mantel检测对SRAP和SCoT及两种标记合并进行相关性分析,表明三者之间具有显著的相关性,且相关性很高。聚类结果从分子水平反映出中国番木瓜主要栽培品种(系)的遗传基础狭窄。     

Systematic significance of mature embryo of bamboos

The mature embryo of seven species belonging to five genera of Indian bamboos is described. In all these the basic pattern of embryo organisation is same: the scutellar and coleoptilar bundles are not separated by an internode, the epiblast is absent, the lower portion of the scutellum and the coleorhiza are separated by a cleft and the margins of embryonic leaves overlap. The features unique to fleshy fruited bamboos are: presence of a massive scutellum, the juxtaposition of plumule and radicle and the occurrence of a bud in the axil of the coleoptile. The fleshy fruit bearing bamboos should be classified into one group, the tribeMelocanneae. Evidence is provided to recognise additional groups in the subfamilyBambusoideae.     

Taxonomic status of the species of the green algal genusNeochloris

Komárek has recently reviewed the various species assigned to the green algal genusNeochloris Starr (Chlorococcales, Chlorococcaceae) and removed those with uninucleate vegetative cells to a new genus,Ettlia. Watanabe & Floyd, unaware ofKomárek's work, also reviewed the species ofNeochloris and distributed them among three genera—Neochloris, Chlorococcopsis gen. nov., andParietochloris gen. nov.—on the basis of details of the covering of the zoospore and the arrangement of the basal bodies of the flagellar apparatus. This paper reconciles these two treatments and makes additional recommendations at the ranks of genus, family, order, and class.     

Phylogeny of cardinalfishes (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Apogonidae) and the evolution of visceral bioluminescence

The cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) are a diverse clade of small, mostly reef-dwelling fishes, for which a variety of morphological data have not yielded a consistent phylogeny. We use DNA sequence to hypothesize phylogenetic relationships within Apogonidae and among apogonids and other acanthomorph families, to examine patterns of evolution including the distribution of a visceral bioluminescence system. In conformance with previous studies, Apogonidae is placed in a clade with Pempheridae, Kurtidae, Leiognathidae, and Gobioidei. The apogonid genus Pseudamia is recovered outside the remainder of the family, not as sister to the superficially similar genus Gymnapogon. Species sampled from the Caribbean and Western Atlantic (Phaeoptyx, Astrapogon, and some Apogon species) form a clade, as do the larger-bodied Glossamia and Cheilodipterus. Incidence of visceral bioluminescence is found scattered throughout the phylogeny, independently for each group in which it is present. Examination of the fine structure of the visceral bioluminescence system through histology shows that light organs exhibit a range of morphologies, with some composed of complex masses of tubules (Siphamia, Pempheris, Parapriacanthus) and others lacking tubules but containing chambers formed by folds of the visceral epithelium (Acropoma, Archamia, Jaydia, and Rhabdamia). Light organs in Siphamia, Acropoma, Pempheris and Parapriacanthus are distinct from but connected to the gut; those in Archamia, Jaydia, and Rhabdamia are simply portions of the intestinal tract, and are little differentiated from the surrounding tissues. The presence or absence of symbiotic luminescent bacteria does not correlate with light organ structure; the tubular light organs of Siphamia and chambered tubes of Acropoma house bacteria, those in Pempheridae and the other Apogonidae do not.     

Host plants of someRhinanthoideae (Scrophulariaceae) of eastern North America

Twenty three species in 11 genera were examined in the field to determine hosts. OnlyStriga asiatica andSeymeria cassioides have a narrow host range being restricted to grasses and pines, respectively. These are the only species which cause pronounced and sometimes serious host damage. The other species attach to a great diversity of hosts.     

Apoptotic Regulation of Caspase Activity

Intracellular cysteine aspartate-specific proteases (caspases) play both signaling and effector roles in realizing the program of cell death. Caspases function as proteolytic cascades unique for each cell type and signal triggering apoptosis. All parts of the proteolytic cascades are duplicated and controlled by feedback signals. Amplification cycles between pairs of caspases (the third and the sixth, the ninth and the third, the twelfth and the sixth, and others) help multiply the initial apoptotic signal. The presence of physiological inhibitors of apoptosis that directly interact with caspases creates a multilevel regulatory network of apoptosis in cell. The caspase proteolytic cascades are also regulated by sphingolipid secondary messengers, among them ceramide, sphingosine, and their phosphates. Moreover, an association of the caspase signaling with ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis is shown in cells. In particular, the use of extracellular activators and inhibitors of caspases allows irreversible activation of apoptosis in tumor cells or the prevention of apoptosis in cortical neurons under neurodegenerative diseases.     

Analysis of twin of eyeless regulation during early embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster

The Drosophila Pax6 homolog twin of eyeless (toy) is so far the first zygotically expressed gene involved in eye morphogenesis in Drosophila. The study of its expression during embryogenesis is therefore informative of the initial events of eye development in Drosophila. We have analyzed how the initial expression domain of toy at cellular blastoderm is regulated. We show that the three maternal patterning systems active in the cephalic region (the anterior, terminal and dorsal-ventral systems) cooperate with zygotically activated gap genes to shape the initial expression domain of toy. Whereas Bicoid, Dorsal and Torso signaling synergistically act as activators, Hunchback, Knirps and Decapentaplegic act as repressors.     

A molecular phylogeny of Hebeloma species from Europe

In order to widen the scope of existing phylogenies of the ectomycorrhizal agaric genus Hebeloma a total of 53 new rDNA ITS sequences from that genus was generated, augmented by sequences retrieved from GenBank, and analysed using Bayesian, strict consensus and neighbour joining methods. The lignicolous Hebelomina neerlandica, Gymnopilus penetrans, and two species of Galerina served as outgroup taxa. Anamika indica, as well as representatives of the genera Hymenogaster and Naucoria, were included to test the monophyly of Hebeloma, which is confirmed by the results. Hebeloma, Naucoria, Hymenogaster and Anamika indica cluster in a strongly supported monophyletic hebelomatoid clade. All trees largely reflect the current infrageneric classification within Hebeloma, and divide the genus into mostly well-supported monophyletic groups surrounding H. crustuliniforme, H. velutipes, H. sacchariolens, H. sinapizans, and H. radicosum, with H. sarcophyllum being shown at an independent position; however this is not well supported. The section Indusiata divides with strong support into three groups, the position of the pleurocystidiate Hebeloma cistophilum suggests the possible existence of a third subsection within sect. Indusiata. Subsection Sacchariolentia is raised to the rank of section.     

New species of Peruvian Orchidaceae III

Sixteen new species are proposed in the generaAckermania, Dressleria, Epidendrum, Maxillaria, Oncidium, Rodriguezia, Sigmatostalix, andTrigonidium. All new species are illustrated.Maxillaria vittariifolia L. O. Williams is newly recorded for Peru. A key is provided forTrigonidium of Peru.Trigonidium loretoense Schltr. andT. peruvianum Schltr. are lectotypified.     

Interaction of Synthetic Analogues of Natural Chalcones and Flavones with Guanidine

The reaction of chalcones and flavones with guanidine in ethanol results in 2-(2-aminopyrimidinyl-4)-phenols.     

Demographic characteristics of an intertidal bay goby (Lepidogobius lepidus)

Synopsis In a fourteen month study (May 1976 – June 1977) I examined the following characteristics of an intertidal bay goby (Lepidogobius lepidus) in Morro Bay, California, U.S.A.: annual and seasonal patterns of abundance, age composition and growth rates, survivorship and mortality patterns, and the reproductive cycle for female gobies. Fishes were collected with the aid of quinaldine and otoliths and ovaries removed. Age and growth rates were estimated from otolith annuli using a back calculation formula and a Brody-Bertalanffy growth curve. Mortality rates were derived using the methods of Heincke (1913), Robson & Chapman (1960), mean age, and a catch curve (Ricker 1975). A gonad index was used to describe the annual reproductive cycle. Results indicated that abundance fluctuated seasonally and that these fluctuations appeared to be caused by reproductive emigrations. Bay gobies reached an age of 7+ and a standard length of 87 mm. Growth was relatively constant (6 mm yr⁻¹) until age 5, at which point it began to decline. The mean rates of survivorship, mortality, and instantaneous mortality were 0.75, 0.25, and 0.29 respectively. Mortality rates for individual age classes ranged from 0.13 to 0.51 and increased with age. This stock appears to reproduce mainly during the winter.