贝类免疫生物学研究概况

贝类,即软体动物,是无脊椎动物中的一大类。贝类的免疫生物学研究,作为无脊椎 动物免疫学研究的一部分,在探索物种的起源与进化,以及免疫系统的发生等方面有着重 要的意义。另一方面,贝类在生产上也有很高的经济价值1。贝类免疫学是贝类病虫害 研究的基础课题。尤其重要的是,人工珍珠养殖技术要求育珠蚌接受由另一只蚌移植来 的外套膜组织小片,这一独特的异体移植过程涉及到免疫学的一些基本问题。比如石安静等2,3证实插片手术中普遍存在着细胞识别和排斥现象。但除此之外,国内几乎再没有 其它关于贝类免疫学研究的报道。本文主要从瓣鳃纲(双壳纲)的角度,就已有的成果作 一综述,为国内研究提供资料。       

基于双壳贝类指示的海洋微塑料污染监测与毒理学研究进展

微塑料(尺寸5 mm的塑料)是海洋环境中一种新型污染物,可被海洋生物误食并对其产生毒性效应。随着海洋微塑料污染化学与生态毒理学研究的深入,利用指示生物开展海洋微塑料污染监测及毒理学研究逐渐成为热点。海洋双壳贝类可通过滤食方式摄食环境中的微塑料,是海洋微塑料污染监测与毒理学研究理想的指示物种。本文综述了海洋双壳贝类体内微塑料的分析方法、不同海域双壳贝类体内微塑料的累积分布以及受控实验条件下微塑料对双壳贝类的生态毒理效应3个方面的研究进展。未来研究方向将主要包括:建立以双壳贝类为指示的海洋微塑料污染生物监测标准方法以及研究环境浓度微塑料对海洋双壳贝类的亚慢性毒性效应等。     

半索动物门

在我国,唯一享有国家一级保护荣誉的蠕虫,就是青岛产的半索动物黄岛长吻虫Saccoglossus kwangtauensis. 半索动物Hemichordata(Gr., hemi, half; chorda, cord),是由吻、领、躯干三部分组成的蠕虫状动物。具口索、体腔,并常具鳃裂。半索动物又称隐索动物(Adelochorda)通常包括肠鳃纲和羽鳃纲,其中肠鳃纲Enteropneusta蠕虫通称舌形虫(Tongue worm)或柱头虫、橡果虫(Acron worm).     

浮游被囊动物的分类及其生态学研究进展

被囊动物(Tunicata)是一类低等脊索动物,包括3个纲:有尾纲、海樽纲和海鞘纲;全部生活在海洋里,其中有尾纲和海樽纲营浮游生活。综述了国内外浮游被囊动物分类和生态研究的现状和进展,综述介绍了有尾纲和海樽纲的分类依据、研究现状、趋势和在海洋生态系统中的作用。浮游被囊动物是热带和亚热带海域重要的浮游动物类群,种类和数量的分布变化受物理和生物环境因素的影响;它一方面大量摄食浮游细菌和微小浮游植物,另一方面被一些经济动物摄食,因此在海洋食物链的传递和生态系统的物质循环中占有重要位置。     

生物演化与地质时间——从系统地质学时空观看地层学的发展

前言百余年来,虽然人们对栗蛤类(Nuculids,双壳纲)代表的构造特征及分类位置多有研究和报道,但正如L. R. Cox(1959)在“原鳃类的地质历史及栉齿类瓣鳃纲的双重起源”一文中所说:“Nuculacea超科和Nuculanacea超科的早期化石代表是相当难以区分的,如某些侏罗纪的Nuculana按分类位置属Nuculanacea超科,但未见均质结构。     

钱塘江流域的淡水贝类

报告了对钱塘江流域进行淡水贝类调查的结果。标本经鉴定计有67种,隶属于腹足纲有9科18属42种,瓣鳃纲有4科11属25种,内有29种属浙江省新记录。分析了该流域淡水贝类与栖息环境的关系及该流域的常见种和偶见种,并探讨了该流域淡水贝类的分布区划。     

一个具文石矿物介壳的三叠纪栗蛤类——Palaeoneilo

前言百余年来,虽然人们对栗蛤类(Nuculids,双壳纲)代表的构造特征及分类位置多有研究和报道,但正如L. R. Cox(1959)在“原鳃类的地质历史及栉齿类瓣鳃纲的双重起源”一文中所说:“Nuculacea超科和Nuculanacea超科的早期化石代表是相当难以区分的,如某些侏罗纪的Nuculana按分类位置属Nuculanacea超科,但未见均质结构,却见到了Nucula     

台山川山群岛沿岸软体动物名录Ⅱ．瓣鳃纲（Lamellibranchia）

近几年来,在广东台山市川山群岛进行教学实习和科研活动,采集到一定数量的贝类标本,其中瓣鳃纲标本６２种,分隶属于３目,１８科,１５属。为开发利用川山群岛动物资源及教学实习提供参考。     

大连沿海二十六种螺类厣的形态

软体动物门腹足纲前鳃亚纲,大多数种类具有厣。它象一个盖子,当动物缩入壳内后,即用厣把壳口盖住(图1) 海产螺类的厣一般小于壳口,或和壳口一致,为角质或石灰质,有的种类厣的外面为石灰质,内面为角质。厣的颜色因种而异、花纹各有特色。本文描述大连沿海26种习见螺类的厣。     

三门湾大型底栖动物时空分布及其与环境因子的关系

2006年11月、2007年1月、4月和8月在三门湾18个采样点对大型底栖动物进行调查,分析了其时空分布及其与环境因子的关系.结果表明:调查共采集到大型底栖动物124种,其中多毛类44种、软体动物34种、甲壳动物22种、棘皮动物11种、其他类动物13种;多毛类和软体动物种数占总种数的62.9％,二者构成了三门湾大型底栖动物的主要类群.双鳃内卷齿蚕、小头虫和不倒翁虫是春季三门湾大型底栖动物的优势种;不倒翁虫、双鳃内卷齿蚕和海稚虫为夏季的优势种;不倒翁虫、小头虫、双鳃内卷齿蚕和白沙箸为秋季的优势种;双鳃内卷齿蚕、不倒翁虫、小头虫和海稚虫为冬季的优势种.三门湾大型底栖动物年均生物量为17.36 g·m-2,年均栖息密度为72 ind·m-2.不同季节大型底栖动物的平均生物量和平均栖息密度存在显著性差异.大型底栖动物群落平均Shannon多样性指数在1.53 ～ 1.89,平均Margalef物种丰富度指数在2.25 ～2.96,平均均匀度指数在0.83 ～0.94,3个指数在不同季节间均存在显著性差异.经典范对应分析,影响三门湾大型底栖动物群落的主要环境因子包括海水的温度、盐度、溶解性无机氮以及表层沉积物中的有机质、总氮和总磷等,环境变量可以较好地解释主要类群的变化.     

A comparison of pharmacokinetic methods for in vivo studies of nonmediated glucose absorption

Two pharmacokinetic methods are used primarily to assess systematic bioavailability of orally dosed water-soluble compounds in vivo, but there have been no direct comparisons of the estimates obtained. The "area under the curve" (AUC) method employs a single oral dose of probe compound(s) followed by multiple blood sampling to obtain plasma concentration time curves. Separate injection of probe(s) followed by multiple blood sampling is used to calculate fractional elimination rate (K(el)) and distribution pool space (S). The "steady state feeding" method relies on ad lib. feeding of a marked diet, with a single blood sample taken to measure steady state feeding concentration of probe(s); K(el) is estimated from the decline in probe concentration in excreta after injection, with a single blood sample taken to estimate S. We compared these methods directly in the Australian red wattlebird (Anthochaera carnunculata), measuring absorption of (3)H-L-glucose. The K(el) values estimated using the steady state feeding protocol were significantly higher, and estimates of S and bioavailability consequently lower, compared with the AUC protocol. The AUC method relies on fewer assumptions and allows simultaneous comparisons of absorption by mediated and nonmediated (i.e., paracellular) mechanisms but cannot be easily applied to freely feeding animals. The steady state feeding method allows work with smaller species and exploration of the effects of feeding on nutrient uptake but requires careful attention to the validity of assumptions that increase error in the calculations.     

Feeding rhythms of the green-lipped mussel, Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) during spring and neap tidal cycles

Food availability and feeding responses of the green mussel Perna viridis were investigated for two complete tidal cycles during both spring and neap tides. Temporal changes in total particulate matter (TPM), particulate inorganic matter (PIM) and particulate organic matter (POM), were smaller during neap than spring tides. Seston characteristics at different times of a tidal cycle were compared for both spring and neap tides. Only during spring tides were TPM and PIM significantly higher at high tides while POM remained relatively constant (P>0.05). The clearance rate of the mussels underwent temporal variations with tides, and was a negative power function of TPM and a positive linear function of f (organic content), during both spring and neap tides. f was the key factor influencing filtration rate, organic ingestion rate, absorption rate and absorption efficiency. All feeding rates increased linearly with increases in organic content. Pseudofaeces were produced only during spring but not neap tides. Feeding rates and absorption efficiency were highest at low and lowest at high tides (P<0.01). There was no significant temporal change in the wet weight and protein content of the crystalline style with the tidal regime. For the digestive gland, alpha-amylase activity was higher at spring than at neap tides, and higher during high tides in a tidal cycle. The digestive gland cellulase activity did not change significantly with the tides. For the crystalline style, both the activity of cellulase and alpha-amylase were not significantly different (P>0.05) between spring and neap tides. Tidal rhythms in feeding and digestion in this species were likely controlled by temporal variations in food availability in the seawater. By adjusting feeding rates and enzymatic activities, absorption in Perna viridis remained constant, irrespective of the changes in food availability.     

阿特拉津和林丹对紫贻贝生长与繁殖净能的影响

本研究评估了亚致死浓度的林丹(1/2的60dLC50,0.935mg/L)和阿特拉津(1/2的60dLC50,3.585mg/L)对海洋性贝类影响的生理学反应。林丹和阿特拉津是已被公认的环境污染物质。56d的实验表明,这两种农药在贝类体内具有积累作用,而且在体内各器官的积累程度与其作用的靶器官相一致。林丹在体内的积累浓度(每克干重372μg)比阿特拉津(每克干重137μg)更高。该贝类在林丹中暴露56d,其氧的消耗比对照组降低10%,而在阿特拉津中则比对照组提高了29%。经林丹和阿特拉津暴露后,增加了氨排泄物。但是,两种农药均使贝类的取食率和吸收率下降。林丹会降低贝类的取食率、氧消耗、氨排泄、食物吸收率以及生长范围。在形式上,阿特拉津对贝类的影响与林丹的影响有不同之处,它会降低贝类的取食率和食物吸收率,但与林丹不同的是,它会提高贝类的氧消耗和氨排泄。总之,阿特拉津会明显地减小贝类繁殖净能。因此,阿特拉津暴露与林丹暴露的毒性症状是一致的。结合组织化学分析,贝类的生理学反应可作为一种理想的环境监测工具。研究结果表明,在二分之一的半致死浓度下暴露两个月,不仅能有效地证明林丹和阿特拉津在贝类组织内具有积累作用,而且对这些积累能产生生理反应。     

Longer guts and higher food quality increase energy intake in migratory swans

1. Within the broad field of optimal foraging, it is increasingly acknowledged that animals often face digestive constraints rather than constraints on rates of food collection. This therefore calls for a formalization of how animals could optimize food absorption rates. 2. Here we generate predictions from a simple graphical optimal digestion model for foragers that aim to maximize their (true) metabolizable food intake over total time (i.e. including nonforaging bouts) under a digestive constraint. 3. The model predicts that such foragers should maintain a constant food retention time, even if gut length or food quality changes. For phenotypically flexible foragers, which are able to change the size of their digestive machinery, this means that an increase in gut length should go hand in hand with an increase in gross intake rate. It also means that better quality food should be digested more efficiently. 4. These latter two predictions are tested in a large avian long-distance migrant, the Bewick's swan (Cygnus columbianus bewickii), feeding on grasslands in its Dutch wintering quarters. 5. Throughout winter, free-ranging Bewick's swans, growing a longer gut and experiencing improved food quality, increased their gross intake rate (i.e. bite rate) and showed a higher digestive efficiency. These responses were in accordance with the model and suggest maintenance of a constant food retention time. 6. These changes doubled the birds' absorption rate. Had only food quality changed (and not gut length), then absorption rate would have increased by only 67%; absorption rate would have increased by only 17% had only gut length changed (and not food quality). 7. The prediction that gross intake rate should go up with gut length parallels the mechanism included in some proximate models of foraging that feeding motivation scales inversely to gut fullness. We plea for a tighter integration between ultimate and proximate foraging models.     

Feeding rates and absorption efficiencies of four species of sea urchins (genus Echinometra) fed a prepared diet

Four closely related species of sea urchins belonging to the genus Echinometra, Echinometra sp. A (Ea), E. mathaei (Em), E. sp. C (Ec), and E. oblonga (Eo), occur sympatrically but in different microhabitats on Okinawan coral reefs. Feeding rates and absorption efficiencies of the four species were investigated in the laboratory by feeding sea urchins ad libitum a diet prepared from turf algae and agar over a 7-day period. Feeding rates differed significantly among the four species of Echinometra (Ea > Em approximately = Ec > Eo). Absorption efficiencies of protein and lipid did not differ significantly among the four species. Carbohydrate, a major nutrient component in the diet, was absorbed by the four species at significantly different efficiencies (Eo > Ec approximately = Em > Ea), which resulted in similar interspecific differences in absorption efficiencies of dry matter, total organic matter, and energy. The amount of nutrients absorbed from the diet was directly related to the feeding rate, indicating that the increase in absorption efficiency was not sufficient to completely compensate for low feeding rate. The interspecific difference in physiological performance in relation to feeding and absorption is consistent with taxonomic differentiation among the four species.     

First feeding and subsequent growth performances in piscivorous larvae of Chinese perch Siniperca chuatsi (Perciforms: Sinipercidae)

The success of first feeding is influenced by many factors, such as prey availability, and is critical to subsequent larval growth performances. To test the advantages of prey exposure before complete yolk absorption in piscivorous larvae, feeding incidence and specific growth rate were longitudinally measured in Chinese perch Siniperca chuatsi larvae first fed at different ages. The results showed that Chinese perch larvae were able to capture live piscine prey at 4 DAH (days after hatching), 1 day before complete yolk absorption. The feeding incidence and specific growth rate were higher in larvae first fed at 4 DAH than in larvae first fed at 5 or 6 DAH. These results indicate that prey exposure experience can facilitate the onset of first feeding, and that successful exogenous feeding, even before complete yolk absorption, is important for growth performances of piscivorous fish larvae.     

Stimulation of small intestinal burst activity in the postprandial state differentially affects lipid and glucose absorption in healthy adult humans

Small intestinal motor activity is important for the optimal digestion and absorption of nutrients. These motor responses to feeding are frequently abnormal during critical illness, with the persistence of migrating bursts of contractions during enteral feeding. Whether this disturbance influences nutrient absorption is not known. In this study, the effects of small intestinal burst activity on lipid and glucose absorption were evaluated in 10 healthy human adults (6 males, 4 females, 19-47 yr). Upper gastrointestinal manometry was recorded for 6 h during and shortly after a 20-min intravenous infusion of either erythromycin (1 mg/kg), to stimulate burst activity, or saline (0.9%) in a double-blind randomized fashion. Simultaneously with the start of the intravenous infusion, 60 ml liquid feed mixed with 200 microl 13C-triolein and 2 g 3-O-methylglucose (3-OMG) was infused intraduodenally for 30 min. Absorption of lipid and glucose was assessed using the [13C]triolein breath test and plasma concentrations of 3-OMG, respectively. Infusion of erythromycin was followed by a more rapid onset of burst activity following commencement of the duodenal infusion compared with saline (30 +/- 6.1 vs. 58 +/- 10.7 min; P < 0.05). Erythromycin was associated with a slower recovery of 13CO2 (P < 0.01). A positive correlation existed between the time to onset of burst activity and 13CO2 recovery (P < 0.001). Erythromycin had no effect on 3-OMG absorption. In conclusion, stimulation of small intestinal burst activity reduces the rate of lipid absorption but not glucose absorption in healthy human adults.     

Resource allocation in yolk-feeding fish

An insight is made into the main processes that occur in fish during endogenous feeding period. The ways in which yolk absorption rate can be measured are evaluated. Essential amino acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids are preferentially retained for incorporation into body tissue. Profound physiological and anatomical changes in yolk and a sequence of slow, fast, and a second period of slow absorption occur during the endogenous feeding period. Attempts to quantify the ontogenetic sequence are reviewed. Various methods of body size assessment are compared, and sources of bias in individual and population growth estimates are discussed. Several calorimetric methods are compared of which direct calorimetry using an oxygen bomb is the reference method. An advanced elemental analysis (CHNS) is a reliable technique that is adequate for early stages. Indices of growth potential are reviewed including a comparison of different measures, models and approaches used to estimate growth. Changes in body hydration, caloric value, content of lipids, protein, free amino acids (FAA) and minerals, and in content of RNA and DNA occur in early ontogeny. Ways to quantify metabolic rate are identified. Mean relative respiration rate of initial egg before activation is very low, about 20 mm³ g⁻¹ h⁻¹. Ontogenetic sequence in absolute metabolic rate of fish embryos and yolk-feeding larvae involves an increase through hatching to a peak at the time of first feeding ability, and a decrease under starvation. Models predicting the relationship between oxygen consumption and age in yolk-feeding fish are reviewed. Sequence of metabolic fuels begins with use of small molecules as carbohydrates, soon switched to FAA. Later lipids are progressively used, they provide energy for swimming activity. After yolk depletion body protein-bound amino acids are mobilised. In this review I focused on the major environmental variables as temperature, oxygen, salinity, pH, toxic xenobiotics, light, UV radiation, magnetic field and substrate, along with intrinsic factors as egg or body size, sex and genetic factors. A question was posed on how the extrinsic and intrinsic factors determine yolk absorption, growth and metabolic rates in yolk-feeding fish. Special attention is devoted to fish body size attained exclusively on yolk. A considerable variety of body size responses to temperature was found, for which several explanations are forwarded. Methodological progress made recently is characterised and the most conspicious advances in understanding of fish early life history are highlighted. Information derived from these studies can be used in management of fish populations in the field and to optimise activities in aquaculture.     

Estimation of milk leakage into the rumen of milk-fed calves through an indirect and repeatable method

In milk-fed calves, quantification of the milk that enters the rumen (ruminal milk volume, RMV) because of malfunction of the esophageal groove reflex may explain part of the variability observed between animals in their growth performance. The RMV can directly be quantified by adding an indigestible marker to the diet and measuring its recovery in the rumen at slaughter, but this technique cannot be repeated in time in the same animal. The objective of the study was to evaluate three indirect methods for estimating RMV. The first method was based on the assumption that ruminal drinking delays and limits acetaminophen appearance in blood after ingestion of milk supplemented with acetaminophen. The second method was based on a negative linear relationship between RMV and urinary recovery of non-metabolizable monosaccharides (3-O-methylglucose, l-rhamnose and d-xylose) added to the milk, owing to rumen fermentation. In the third method, RMV was calculated as the difference between total milk intake and the increase in abomasal milk volume (AMV) at feeding, measured through ultrasonography shortly after feeding, or estimated from the mathematical extrapolation of AMV to feeding time, based on consecutive measurements. These methods were tested in three experiments where calves (n=22, 10 and 13) were bucket fed or partly tube fed (i.e. by inserting milk replacer into the rumen via a tube to mimic ruminal drinking). In addition, Co-EDTA and Cr-EDTA were used as an indigestible marker in one experiment to trace bucket-fed or tube-fed milk replacer, respectively, to measure RMV. The relationship between AMV measured by ultrasonography and AMV measured at slaughter improved when kinetics of AMV were extrapolated to the time of slaughter by mathematical modeling (error between predicted and measured AMV equaled 0.49 l). With this technique, RMV during feeding averaged 17% and 24% of intake in Experiments 2 and 3, respectively. Plasma acetaminophen kinetics and recovery of non-metabolizable monosaccharides in urine were partly associated with ruminal drinking, but these techniques are not considered quantitatively accurate without further information of rumen degradation and absorption. The recovery of indigestible marker measured at slaughter gave a quantitative estimate of RMV (2% in Experiment 3), but improper measurement of emptying rate of fluid from the rumen may lead to underestimation. In conclusion, measuring changes in AMV by ultrasonography, in response to milk feeding, was the most promising indirect method to quantify RMV in veal calves.     

农牧交错区不同植物群落土壤呼吸的日动态观测与测定方法比较

 采用动态密闭气室法（IRGA）对农牧交错区10种植物群落最大生物量时期的土壤呼吸日动态进行了测定,并将该方法得到的土壤日呼吸速率与碱液吸收法（AA）进行了比较。结果表明：1）10个群落土壤呼吸的昼夜变化比较明显,均为单峰型曲线,主要受土壤温度的驱动,但同时也受到当日降水情况和云量、风速等气象因子的较大影响。因此,这些群落土壤呼吸日动态的一致性较差,规律性并不明显。2）用碱液吸收法和动态密闭气室法测定的10个群落的土壤呼吸速率变化范围分别为394～894 mg C·m-2·d-1和313～2043 mg C·m-2·d-1,其中碱液吸收法测定结果平均为动态气室法的67.5%,明显低于动态密闭气室法。3）两种测定方法具有很好的相关性,R2为0.873 9。本研究中发现,在土壤呼吸速率低的情况下,两种方法的测定结果十分接近甚至碱液吸收法测定结果稍大于动态密闭气室法,而在土壤呼吸速率较高的情况下,动态密闭气室法测定结果则显著高于碱液吸收法。上述结果与国内外同类研究的结果高度一致,从而为校正以往采用碱液吸收法在该区域的测定结果提供了可靠依据。