Gametogenesis of intergroup hybrids of hemiclonal frogs

European water frog hybrids Rana esculenta (R. ridibundaxR. lessonae) reproduce hemiclonally, by hybridogenesis: in the germ line they exclude the genome of one parental species and produce haploid gametes with an unrecombined genome of the other parental species. In the widespread L-E population system, both sexes of hybrids (E) coexist with R. lessonae (L). They exclude the lessonae genome and produce ridibunda gametes. In the R-E system, hybrid males coexist with R. ridibunda (R); they exclude either their ridibunda or their lessonae genome and produce sperm with a lessonae or with a ridibunda genome or a mixture of both kinds of sperm. We examined 13 male offspring, 12 of which were from crosses between L-E system and R-E system frogs. All were somatically hybrid. With one exception, they excluded the lessonae genome in the germ line and subsequently endoreduplicated the ridibunda genome. Spermatogonial metaphases contained a haploid or a diploid number of ridibunda chromosomes, identified through in situ hybridization to a satellite DNA marker, and by spermatocyte I metaphases containing a haploid number of ridibunda bivalents. The exception, an F1 hybrid between L-E system R. lessonae and R-E system R. ridibunda, was not hybridogenetic, showed no genome exclusion, and evidenced a disturbed gametogenesis resulting from the combination of two heterospecific genomes. None of the hybridogenetic hybrids showed any cell lines excluding the ridibunda genome, the pattern most frequent in hybrids of the R-E system, unique to that system, and essential for its persistence. A particular combination of R-E system lessonae and R-E system ridibunda genomes seems necessary to induce the R-E system type of hemiclonal gametogenesis.     

Evaluation of Radiometric System for Detecting Bacteremia

An automated radiometric system (BACTEC, Johnston Laboratories) for detection of bacteremia was evaluated in parallel with a standard blood culture system in use in our laboratory. Of 1,445 blood cultures from 484 patients with possible bacteremia, 106 sets of cultures (excluding 39 presumed contaminated), representing 56 patients, were positive by both methods. The conventional system yielded 85 positive cultures from 48 patients, whereas the BACTEC system yielded 84 positive cultures from 43 patients. The BACTEC system failed to detect 22 cultures that were positive in the conventional system, and the conventional system failed to detect 21 cultures that were positive in the BACTEC system. The detection efficiency was generally equivalent in the two systems except for the lower detection rates of anaerobes and Enterobacter aerogenes by the BACTEC system and the lower detection rates of Torulopsis glabrata and, possibly, Pseudomonas sp. (group IVD) in the conventional system. The BACTEC system had a slight advantage over the conventional system in the time interval to detection of positivity. Approximately 20% of the positive cultures detected by the BACTEC system were detected on the first day of incubation compared with 7% by the conventional system. The recovery rates and detection times of anaerobes were less efficient by the BACTEC system than by the conventional system. It does not appear that the radiometric method has much advantage over available conventional methods.     

山水林田湖草生态保护修复的系统性认知

系统治理是山水林田湖草生态保护修复的核心,然而在工程实施和评估中如何有效落实和考核山水林田湖草生态保护修复的系统性仍是目前一大难题。通过厘清系统性与整体性的逻辑关系,从山水林田湖草生态保护修复的对象、主体及其耦合联系入手,明晰系统治理是山水林田湖草生态保护修复的必然选择,进而提出关键要素控制与全要素耦合相结合的治理思路,并以云南抚仙湖项目区为例阐明系统治理在山水林田湖草生态保护修复中的实践路径。最后,依据结构-功能复杂度、要素关联紧密度及其认知,将山水林田湖草治理系统分为形态系统、级联系统、过程-响应系统、控制系统等四级递进系统,从流域内和流域外的空间视角出发,提出基于“目标-约束-成本”的山水林田湖草生态保护修复系统性评估方法,为山水林田湖草系统治理的实施与考核提供核心科学支撑。     

Comparative assessment of the resistance of the unstirred water layer to solute transport between two different intestinal perfusion systems

The resistance of the unstirred water layer to solute transport was estimated in two different intestinal single-pass perfusion systems for a comparative study, using D-glucose as a model compound. One is a well established perfusion system in anesthetized rats as a standard (system A). The other is the one in unanesthetized rats for comparison (system B). It was demonstrated that in system B as well as in system A the resistance of the unstirred water layer to D-glucose transport should be taken into account and this resistance, accordingly, the effective thickness of the unstirred water layer (delta) which is assumed to be in proportion to its resistance, could be described as a function of the perfusion rate by using a film model. The delta decreased with increasing perfusion rate and was larger in system A than in system B at each perfusion rate; 785 microns in system A versus 319 microns in system B at the perfusion rate of 0.16 ml/min and 337 microns versus 184 micron at that of 2.95 ml/min. Thus in system B the effective thickness, accordingly, the resistance, of the unstirred water layer was reduced to about 50% of that in system A, but the resistance of the unstirred water layer could still account for 85% of the total resistance at the maximum as far as D-glucose absorption was concerned, while 93% in system A. These results suggest that, compared with perfusion experiments in anesthetized rats (system A), the resistance of the unstirred water layer is reduced but cannot be left out of consideration even if perfusion experiments are performed in unanesthetized rats (system B). And the lower resistance of the unstirred water layer in system B was attributed to a turbulent flow in contrary to a laminar flow in system A.     

生物体微弱磁场检测技术在某部特殊作业人员健康评估中的应用研究

目的:研究某部特殊作业人员的健康状况,为有针对性地提出防护措施提供参考依据。方法:随机抽取某部不同工作岗位的特殊作业人员145名,进行生物体微弱磁场检测分析,以获取包括疲劳、免疫、睡眠、脑机能、血压、心脏、消化、肝胆、泌尿生殖、呼吸、运动、钙代谢、糖代谢、脂代谢、嘌呤代谢等15个系统在内的108项健康评估检测指标。对于每一项指标,仪器自带有其正常值范围,凡低于下限或高于上限的指标被视为异常。结果:所测特殊作业人员总体在钙代谢系统、消化系统、心脏系统、血压系统、呼吸系统、运动系统、免疫系统等七个系统存在不适症状的较为突出,其中钙代谢失衡的占比83.45%,脾胃不和的占比78.62%,心脏功能欠佳的占比72.41%,血压不稳的占比64.14%,咽喉不适的占比59.31%,骨关节不适的占比58.62%,免疫功能下降的占比51.72%。出现运动系统"颈椎疾患"症状的人数占比,实验组明显高于对照组(P0.05)。结论:特殊作业环境可能会影响作业人员的身体健康,应采取有效的安全防护措施,以减弱或消除有毒有害化学物质污染、强噪声、电磁辐射等对人体健康的影响。     

Optimal control mode of a biochemical feedback system

An optimal feedback system for constant-value control of biochemical reaction system was investigated by computer simulations. A feedback system containing a cyclic enzyme system where two enzyme types share a substrate in a cyclic manner, was found to be the most reliable one. This feedback system has a capability to keep the stationary value of the end product at a desired level against not only exogenous substrate supply but also endogenous parametric disturbances. The cyclic enzyme system installed as a control element of this feedback system played the role of comparator in this feedback system. The control mode of this feedback system was in good agreement with that of a system established by means of optimization technique based on the maximum principle. Also bang - bang control could be performed in this biochemical feedback system as well as in electrical one.     

Fine structure of the body wall,nervous system,and digestive tract in the Lobatocerebridae Rieger and the organization of the gliointerstitial system in Annelida

The new family Lobatocerebridae, Rieger, contains a group of turbellariomorph worms in the annelid line of evolution. The fine structural organization of the body wall, the digestive tract, and parts of the central and peripheral nervous system are described and the findings are discussed in light of general invertebrate cytology. The epidermis and gastrodermis contain a basal granule cell system which is structurally very similar to the neuroglia cell system of the nervous system. The continuity of the neuroglia cell system, and the epidermal basal granule cell system and the basal granule cell system in the digestive epithelia suggests the existence of a single glial-basal granule cell system, similar to the gliointerstitial cell system first recognized in the Mollusca (see Nicaise, '73). The Annelida may show a dual (ectodermal and mesodermal) origin of such a gliointerstitial cell system as suggested by similarities in the epidermal basal cell system in the Oligochaeta and of certain epidermal and gastrodermal cells in polychaete regeneration with neuroglia in the Annelida. The structural similarity of neuroglia and basal granule cells in Lobatocerebridae may be the result of similarity in the formation, maintenance, or regulation of the extracellular matrix.     

Rcs双组分调节系统对细菌环境应答的分子调控研究进展

荚膜异多糖酸合成调节(Regulator of Capsule Synthesis,Rcs)系统是存在于许多肠杆菌科细菌中非典型的双组分调节系统,由3种核心蛋白(跨膜感应激酶RcsC、跨膜蛋白RcsD和响应调节剂RcsB)及多种辅助蛋白共同构成.Rcs系统能整合环境信号、调节基因表达并改变细菌的生理行为.近年来,对细菌...     

毕赤酵母蛋白表达系统研究进展

选择合适的蛋白表达系统是外源基因能否成功表达的关键.毕赤酵母(Pichia pastoris)蛋白表达系统是近些年来发展起来的一种真核表达系统,与其他表达系统相比,该系统所具有的诸多优势使其研究价值和应用价值越来越广泛,已经成功表达了多种蛋白质.简要综述其特点、表达宿主菌、表达载体以及其元件、外源蛋白的表达及其影响因素等方面的基础研究和最新进展.     

Development and characterization of a xylose-dependent system for expression of cloned genes in Bacillus subtilis: conditional complementation of a teichoic acid mutant

We have developed a xylose-dependent expression system for tight and modulated expression of cloned genes in Bacillus subtilis. The expression system is contained on plasmid pSWEET for integration at the amyE locus of B. subtilis and incorporates components of the well-characterized, divergently transcribed xylose utilization operon. The system contains the xylose repressor encoded by xylR, the promoter and 5' portion of xylA containing an optimized catabolite-responsive element, and intergenic xyl operator sequences. We have rigorously compared this expression system to the isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside-induced spac system using a thermostable beta-galactosidase reporter (BgaB) and found the xyl promoter-operator to have a greater capacity for modulated expression, a higher induction/repression ratio (279-fold for the xyl system versus 24-fold with the spac promoter), and lower levels of expression in the absence of an inducer. We have used this system to probe an essential function in wall teichoic acid biosynthesis in B. subtilis. Expression of the teichoic acid biosynthesis gene tagD, encoding glycerol-3-phosphate cytidylyltransferase, from the xylose-based expression system integrated at amyE exhibited xylose-dependent complementation of the temperature-sensitive mutant tag-12 when grown at the nonpermissive temperature. Plasmid pSWEET thus provides a robust new expression system for conditional complementation in B. subtilis.     

Development of a fully integrated microdistillation flow injection system for the determination of trace level ammonia

An in-housed designed computerised flow injection system comprised a fully integrated microdistillation flow injection (MDFI) system for low level ammonia analysis was reported. In this system, the microdistillation separation step was incorporated into the flow injection manifold and the ammonia gas sensing probe sensing element was replaced by a flow-through micro-pH electrode which sensed the change in pH of a flowing collector solution caused by the dissolution of distilled ammonia gas, in a process analogous to that occurring in the internal solution of the gas sensing probe. A computerised control and data acquisition system was constructed for this system using a commercially available data acquisition card which offered many advantages such as improved data acquisition rates and control over the system components, as well as good graphics display and data processing options. The system was optimised using a multi-variable simplex optimisation technique.     

Immobilization of glycolysis system of yeasts and production of cytidine diphosphate choline

Summary Glycolysis system of yeast was successfully immobilized into a derivative of polyethylene glycol hydroxyethylacrylate. The immobilized system could produce ATP and then phosphorylate nucleotides (CMP). The CTP thus formed was effectively converted to CDP-choline in the same system (Fig.2).This system is a kind of bioreactor, consisting of energy (ATP) generating and transformation systems of various substances.     

基于景观格局和网络分析法的崇明绿地系统现状和规划的评价

以崇明2005年卫星影像图、土地利用现状图为基础资料,结合崇明绿地系统规划,在地理信息系统支持下,选择崇明本岛面积大于10hm²的绿地作为节点,依照网络分析法,构建了不同的生态网络方案,通过α指数、β指数、γ指数以及成本比等网络结构指数进行不同网络方案的比较,从中选出最优的规划方案。然后在景观分析软件Fragstats支持下,运用景观格局分析方法,选用多种景观分析指数,在斑块类型层次上和景观层次上对崇明绿地系统现状、绿地系统规划以及优化后的生态网络规划方案从景观生态学角度进行了定量分析与评价,并针对现有的绿地系统规划提出了进一步完善的建议。研究结果表明崇明绿地系统规划有效地改善了绿地景观破碎化的问题,绿地斑块形状的复杂性程度增大,景观连接度得到提高,景观多样性和均匀性指数均得到较大幅度提升。而在现有绿地系统规划基础上做出的优化生态网络方案可进一步改善崇明本岛现有绿地系统的数量和质量。同时表明,生态网络分析结合景观格局分析是评价和改善绿地系统规划有效的途径。     

Co-expression of a prophage system and a plasmid system in Bacillus subtilis

A dual expression system for overexpressing two proteins by a single cell strain has been developed in Bacillus subtilis. This dual expression system combines the phi105MU331 prophage system and a plasmid system within a single cell. Protein expression by the prophage system is heat inducible, while that of the plasmid system is constitutive. Three candidate genes, BPN, BT, and amyE, all of Bacillus origin, were used as test models. Seven strains (BPN, BT, AMY, BS168K, MU331K, BPNK, and BTK) were constructed to investigate the influences of the prophage system and the plasmid system on each other, and to compare the efficiency of the individual expression systems with that of the dual expression system. Individually, the yield of the plasmid system is higher than that of the prophage system, which could be attributed to the constitutive nature of the expression of the plasmid system. Nonetheless, for the dual expression strains, the expression of two enzymes in a single fermentation run can reduce costs in facilities, manpower, and utilities. Fed-batch fermentation of BPNK strains confirmed the feasibility of applying this dual expression system in industrial-scale production.     

国家重点生态功能区生态-经济-社会系统耦合协调的动态演化——以新疆阿勒泰地区为例

探究国家重点生态功能区生态-经济-社会系统耦合协调的演化特征,对实现可持续发展目标、建设美丽中国有重要意义。运用耦合协调模型、剪刀差方法、耦合度模型以及VAR模型对2007—2019年阿勒泰地区EES系统耦合协调度的动态演化进行分析。结果表明：(1)2007—2019年阿勒泰地区整体耦合协调度呈现不断上升趋势,由2007年的中度失调(0.271)向2019年的轻度失调(0.371)演进,生态系统与经济系统、社会系统的发展水平呈现“X”型变动趋势,经济系统与社会系统持续上升,而生态系统略微下降。(2)经济系统与社会系统、生态系统与社会系统演化速率的剪刀差在2014年以后出现较大幅度的波动,而生态系统与经济系统演化速率的剪刀差趋于稳定态势,生态系统与经济系统、经济系统与社会系统的耦合度呈现出由无序到有序的初始过渡。(3)由脉冲响应函数及方差分解可得,阿勒泰地区EES系统耦合协调水平的提升是三系统共同作用的结果,前期主要由社会系统、经济系统驱动,后期主要依赖生态系统的改善。研究表明：国家重点生态功能区应着重减轻经济系统对社会系统和生态系统的胁迫强度,进而实现三者的协同发展。     

Long-term culturing of plants with aseptic roots Determination of rape root exudates

Abstract A plant culture system allowing growth of aseptic roots has been designed. One version of the system comprises vessels developed for plant root-microorganism interaction studies in series. A second version has been built for measurements of different physiological parameters of the shoot and root system during growth periods of at least 2 months. The system was tested by determining soluble organic carbon glucose and sucrose in the root exudates of rape plants (Brassica napus L.) grown for 3 weeks in the culture system. The plants were cultivated with a sterile or a non-sterile root system, or with a root system infected with Verticillium dahliae Kleb.     

The benefits of privatization.

The promise of a universal, comprehensive, publicly funded system of medical care that was the foundation of the Medical Care Act passed in 1966 is no longer possible. Massive government debt, increasing health care costs, a growing and aging population and advances in technology have challenged the system, which can no longer meet the expectations of the public or of the health care professions. A parallel, private system, funded by a not-for-profit, regulated system of insurance coverage affordable for all wage-earners, would relieve the overstressed public system without decreasing the quality of care in that system. Critics of a parallel, private system, who base their arguments on the politics of fear and envy, charge that such a private system would "Americanize" Canadian health care and that the wealthy would be able to buy better, faster care than the rest of the population. But this has not happened in the parallel public and private health care systems in other Western countries or in the public and private education system in Canada. Wealthy Canadians can already buy medical care in the United States, where they spend $1 billion each year, an amount that represents a loss to Canada of 10,000 health care jobs. Parallel-system schemes in other countries have proven that people are driven to a private system by dissatisfaction with the quality of service, which is already suffering in Canada. Denial of choice is unacceptable to many people, particularly since the terms and conditions under which Canadians originally decided to forgo choice in medical care no longer apply.     

Wave of chaos: new mechanism of pattern formation in spatio-temporal population dynamics

The dynamics of a simple prey-predator system is described by a system of two reaction- diffusion equations with biologically reasonable non-linearities (logistic growth of the prey, Holling type II functional response of the predator). We show that, when the local kinetics of the system is oscillatory, for a wide class of initial conditions the evolution of the system leads to the formation of a non-stationary irregular pattern corresponding to spatio-temporal chaos. The chaotic pattern first appears inside a sub-domain of the system. This sub-domain then steadily grows with time and, finally, the chaotic pattern invades the whole space, displacing the regular pattern.