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Several axes of the coenopterid fern Stauropteris are described from permineralized peat associated with Lower-Middle Pennsylvanian coal deposits of southeastern Kentucky. This represents the first documented report of the genus in North America. The specimens are regarded as representatives of a new species—S. biseriata—based on the distinctive branching habit. Three branch orders are described, and in each case, branches are singular and distichous, arranged in a two-ranked pattern. This is in contrast to other species of Stauropteris in which the branches are paired and form a quadriseriate pattern. A pair of vascularized aphlebiae subtend each branch through all branching orders. Aphlebiae associated with first- and second-order branches are three-parted at the point of insertion; those that subtend third-order branches are singular. Stauropteris and a number of Devonian fern-like plants are compared on the basis of certain morphological similarities. 相似文献
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Ecological Aspects of Some Coral-Boring Gastropods and Bivalves of the Northwestern Red Sea 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
More than 17 molluscan species were obtained from burrows incoral substrata at Al-Ghardaga (Hurghada on maps) on the RedSea coast, six of which in particular bore into livingcolonies.The species reported in this paper belong to the families Mytilidae,Coralliophilidae, and Gastrochaenidae. The direction of boringin living corals is to the outside, the borers keeping pacewith the growing coral layer to maintain their burrows open.Coral growth is generally of a higher rate than that of borers,and burrows are accordingly mostly much larger than their inhabitants.There is evidence in such cases that burrows form initiallyby growth of coral around the settling young. Boring of Lithophagaspecies is mostly due to the abrasive action of the shell whichmoves straight and posteroventrally without any rotation. Incoralliophilids,boring is also executed mechanically by the turning movementsof the shell. Boring in dead coral is directed inwards, andburrows are nearly as large as the borers. The latter avoidthe blocking of their burrows (e.g., by a living coral incrustation)either by great siphonal extension (Rocellaria) or the freeends of the shell may be strengthened to maintain the capabilityof boring in the opposite direction (Lithophaga laevigata).Both L. luevigata and Modiola chmamomeus bore mainly mechanicallyby the rocking movements of the shell. Chemical boring is stilla possibility,particularly in the posterior narrow region ofburrows of Modiola lodging the extended pallial siphons whichare deprived of any effective mechanical devices for boring.Therole of boring algae in rarefying bored coral material hasalso to be included as an indirect chemical factor. 相似文献
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NADH-cytochrome o reductase is associated with purified preparationsof cytochrome o, and these preparations can be separated into"reductase-enriched" and "reductase-poor" fractions by columnchromatography. Direct evidence for the presence of flavin inthese preparations was obtained from fluorescence spectra, andthe intensity of the fluorescence maxima was greater in reductase-enrichedpreparations of cytochrome o than in reductase-poor ones. Exogenouslyadded flavin stimulated the rate of NADH oxidation by molecularoxygen that is catalyzed by preparations of cytochrome o, morestimulation being observed with "reductase-poor" than with "reductase-enriched"preparations. Since reduction of cytochrome o in an aerobicsolution was also stimulated by added flavin, the primary effectof the latter is on the NADH-cytochrome o reductase side ofthe cytochrome. Possible explanations for the observed stimulationof the reduction of cytochrome o in aerobic solutions in thepresence of exogenous flavin are 1) reconstitution of flavin-deficientreductase, 2) flavin acting as a mobile electron carrier betweenthe reductase and the cytochrome, 3) cytochrome o being reducedby superoxide anion generated as an intermediate in the reactionof reduced flavin with oxygen. More direct evidence for theparticipation of a flavor-protein in the reduction of cytochromeo was the observed photochemical reduction of cytochrome o inan anaerobic CO atmosphere without added flavin using EDTA asan electron donor. (Received July 18, 1977; ) 相似文献
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The genetic basis of phenotypic convergence in beach mice: similar pigment patterns but different genes 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Steiner CC Römpler H Boettger LM Schöneberg T Hoekstra HE 《Molecular biology and evolution》2009,26(1):35-45
Convergent evolution is a widespread phenomenon seen in diverseorganisms inhabiting similar selective environments. However,it is unclear if similar phenotypes are produced by the sameor different genes and mutations. Here we analyze the molecularmechanisms underlying convergent pigment pattern among subspeciesof the beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus) inhabiting the Gulfand Atlantic coasts of Florida. In these two geographic regions,separated by more than 300 km, "beach mice" have lighter coloredcoats than do their mainland counterparts, produced by naturalselection for camouflage against the pale coastal sand dunes.We measured color pattern in eight beach mouse subspecies andshowed that three of the Gulf Coast subspecies are more phenotypicallysimilar to an Atlantic coast subspecies than to their Gulf Coastneighbors. However, light-colored beach mice do not form a monophyleticgroup. Previous results implicated a single derived amino acidchange in the melanocortin-1 receptor (Mc1r) as a major contributorto pigment pattern in the Gulf Coast beach mice; despite phenotypicsimilarities, the derived Mc1r allele was not found in the Atlanticcoast beach mouse populations. Here we show that Atlantic coastbeach mice have high levels of Mc1r polymorphism but they lackunique alleles. Functional assays revealed that single aminoacid mutations segregating in Atlantic coast beach mice do notcause any change in Mc1r activity compared with the activityof Mc1r from dark-colored mice. These joint results show thatconvergent pigment patterns in recently diverged beach mousesubspecies—whose developmental constraints are presumablysimilar—have evolved through a diversity of genetic mechanisms. 相似文献
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LINKO PEKKA; HOLM-HANSEN O.; BASSHAM J. A.; CALVIN M. 《Journal of experimental botany》1957,8(1):147-156
Citrulline has been isolated and identified from extracts ofNostoc muscorum. All members of the Cyanophyceae hitherto investigatedshow a relatively large amount of the CO2 fixed during photosynthesisin citrulline (ranging as high as 20 per cent. in Nostoc) whencompared to the trace amounts found in the Chlorophyceae. Nostocalso has the ability to fix C14 in citrulline during dark fixation,but at a rate slower than in light. As no free urea or arginine was found in Nostoc, it is likelythat citrulline is functioning in reactions other than thoseleading to arginine and urea synthesis. Other possible functions for citrulline are briefly discussed. 相似文献
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Growth of Ophiobohu gramimt and of O. gramims var. avenae isinhibited by concentrations of 3·3-4·0µg./ml.,and respiration by concentrations of 55µg./nil. of a partiallypurified substance from oat-leaf sap. The two varieties appearto be equally sensitive. The filtrate of boiled sap is inhibitorybut here dilution of the sap permits better growth of isolatesof var. avenae. Sap from oat roots is inhibitory to O.graminisonly, and fractionation of the sap shows that the inhibitorcan be masked by a growth stimulant. Inhibition of growth andrespiration can be reduced by glutathione and ascorbic acid,particularly if the inhibitor and reducing agent are previouslyincubated together for a few hours, suggesting that the inhibitoris inactivated on reduction. The capacity of var. avenae toovercome inhibition in the favourable medium provided by thecrude sap more readily than can the type variety is suggestedas the cause of the slight differential activity of the filtrateof leaf sap and the full differential activity of the root sap.Susceptibility of oats to var. avenae would thus be due to conditionsenabling the fungus to overcome toxicity rather than to an absenceof toxicity. Activity of the inhibitor against growth and respiration ofa number of fungi and a few other organisms has been tested.Bacteria and oat and barley roots are not affected but abouthalf of the fungi tested are inhibited although none is as sensitiveas O. gramims. No members of the fungi imperfecti tested aresensitive. 相似文献
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The niche variation hypothesis is an adaptive explanation forvariation within populations and for, the differences in variationbetween populations in morphological, physiological or behavioraltraits. It has received only partial support from empiricaltests and has been criticized on theoretical grounds. Recentquantitative genetic models have made an advance by exploringthe effects of mutation, migration, mating pattern and selectionon phenotypic variance. These models are reviewed and theirmost important features are integrated in a new model. In thismodel population variation is in a state of balance betweenthe opposing forces of mutation and immigration, which tendto elevate variation, and selection and possibly genetic drifttending to decrease it. Populations exhibiting different levelsof variation are interpereted as having different equilibriumpoints, and it is the task of empirical studies to determinethe relative magnitudes of the opposing factors. An exampleis given from studies of Darwin's finches. Geospiza fortis variesmore than G. scandens on Isla Daphne Major, Galápagos,in several morphological traits including beak and body size.This is explained, assuming equal mutation rates in the twospecies, as the result of more frequent genetic input to theG. fortis population, through occasional hybridization withimmigrant G. fuliginosa, and relaxed stabilizing selection.Stabilizing selection is less intense on G.fortis than on G.scandens because the G. fortis population has a broader niche;there is both a within-phenotype and betweenphenotype componentto the broad niche of G. fortis. The success of theory in explainingpopulation variation is discussed, and it is concluded thatempirical studies lag far behind theory. 相似文献
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Two mussels, Choromytilus meridionalis (Krauss) and Aulacomyaater, (Molina) were used as indicators of biotic factors thatapparently result in radically different sublittoral communitiesat two closely situated islands on the South African west coast.Specimens of both species were attached to submerged plates,which were either unprotected or protected from predation bycages. C. meridionalis grew faster and tolerated silting andsmothering better than A. ater. At Malgas Island adults of C.meridionalis are completely absent and those of A. ater scarcedue to intense predation by rock-lobsters. When protected againstpredation, growth of both species was significantly faster andsurvivership higher at Malgas than at Marcus Island, where C.meridionalis is abundant but A. ater absent. When the musselswere unprotected at Malgas, they were eaten in a few hours.At Marcus Island where rock-lobsters are virtually absent, cagedmussels grow faster than unprotected individuals and survivedlonger. Drilling whelks (mostly Nucella squamosa (Lamarck))were major predators at Marcus. Relative intensity of rock-lobsterpredation and competition between the mussels appear to controlthe structure and diversity of the sublittoral communities atthese sites, rather than physical factors. Growth rate, shellthickness and tolerance of smothering by other species determinewhich species of mussel predominates. (Received 5 April 1988; accepted 11 July 1988) 相似文献
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The majority of subulinid land snails are known only as shellsand generic groupings need to be revised on the basis of theirinternal anatomy. Paropeas achatinaceum (new combination) isa synanthropic subulinid that is widely distributed around theIndo-Pacific region. Features of the genital anatomy and radulademonstrate that Paropeas should be rejected as a subgenus ofProsopeas and be recognised as a distinct genus. The radulaof Paropeas is more typical of a subulinid than is that of Prosopeaswhich proves to be highly modified for a carnivorous diet. Thespermatophore of Paropeas is inserted directly into the oviductwhere it releases sperm through its porous tail before beingdigested in the bursa copulatrix. (Received 23 September 1992; accepted 11 November 1993) 相似文献
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MACDONALD I.R.; BACON J.S.D.; VAUGHAN D.; ELLIS R.J. 《Journal of experimental botany》1966,17(4):822-837
Disks of red beet storage tissue were incubated under asepticconditions permitting the development of various metabolic processescommonly associated with aged disks, and the effects of chloramphenicoland puromycin on protein synthesis, on the development of invertaseactivity and ion absorption capacity, and on ion absorptionper se were determined. Low concentrations of chloramphenicoland puromycin inhibit the development of ion absorption capacitybut stimulate invertase development and protein synthesis, whilehigher concentrations inhibit all three processes. In contrastion absorption itself is unaffected by puromycin, but is sensitiveto quite low concentrations of chloramphenicol The D-threo andL-threo isomers of chloramphenicol have sharply contrasted effectson the development, as distinct from the utilization, of ionabsorption capacity. The D isomer inhibits the development ofion absorption capacity more effectively than the L isomer whichin turn inhibits absorption more effectively than the D isomer. A reappraisal is made of the hypothesis that ion absorptionis directly linked with protein turnover and to account forthe results a model is proposed in which D-threo-chloramphenicolis active both as an uncoupler of oxidative phosphoryalationand as an inhibitor of protein synthesis, while L-threo-chloramphenicolacts only in the former capacity and puromycin only in the latter.It is concluded that the inhibition of ion uptake by chloramphenicolcannot be attributed to a contemporaneous effect on proteinsynthesis. However, the results are consistent with the involvementof ATPase proteins in ion uptake. 相似文献
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Tazawa Masashi; Kurosawa Sachiko; Amino Shin-ichi; Tominaga Yoshito; Sakano Katsuhiro; Matsumoto Tomotaka 《Plant & cell physiology》1991,32(2):253-260
Rotational cytoplasmic streaming in leaves of Egeria densa wasinduced by light as well as by L-histidine (L-His). During bothtreatement with light and with L-His chloroplasts on the periclinalface were dislodged and moved to the anticlinal face where rotationalcytoplasmic streaming occurred. The effective concentrationof L-His was about 0.01 mM and the effect was almost saturatedat 0.1 mM. A derivative of L-His, 3-methyl-L-histidine, wasslightly less effective than L-His. By contrast, 1-methyl-L-histidinewas almost ineffective for induction of streaming, not onlyin Egeria but also in Vallisneria. Our resutlts are in markedcontrast to Fitting's result (1936) that 1-M-L-His is more effectivethan L-His. In Egeria, 1-methyl-L-His counteracted the stimulativeeffect of L-His. 1-Methyl-L-His penetrated into leaf cells ofEgeria to the same extent as 3-methyl-L-His and to a greaterextent than L-His. This observation excludes the possibilitythat the impermeability of leaves to 1-M-L-His might be responsiblefor its ineffectiveness. 1-M-L-His did not interfere with photodinesis.Differences in the mechanism of induction of rotational streamingby L-His and by light are discussed.
4 Present address: Fukui Institute of Technology, Gakuen, Fukui,910 Japan (Received July 16, 1990; Accepted December 20, 1990) 相似文献
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MILLS EDWARD L.; ROSENBERG GARY; SPIDLE ADRIAN P.; LUDYANSKIY MICHAEL; PLIGIN YURI; MAY BERNIE 《Integrative and comparative biology》1996,36(3):271-286
SYNOPSIS. North America's Great Lakes have recently been invadedby two genetically and morphologically distinct species of Dreissena.The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) became established inLake St. Clair of the Laurentian Great Lakes in 1986 and spreadthroughout eastern North America. The second dreissenid, termedthe quagga mussel, has been identified as Dreissena bugensisAndrusov, 1897. The quagga occurs in the Dnieper River drainageof Ukraine and now in the lower Great Lakes of North America.In the Dnieper River, populations of D. polymorpha have beenlargely replaced by D. bugensis; anecdotal evidence indicatesthat similar trends may be occurring in the lower LaurentianGreat Lakes. Dreissena bugensis occurs as deep as 130 m in theGreat Lakes, but in Ukraine is known from only 028 m.Dreissena bugensis is more abundant than D. polymorpha in deeperwaters in Dneiper River reservoirs. The conclusion that NorthAmerican quagga mussels have a lower thermal maximum than zebramussels is not supported by observations made of populationsin Ukraine. In the Dnieper River drainage, quagga mussels areless tolerant of salinity than zebra mussels, yet both dreissenidshave acclimated to salinities higher than North American populations;eventual colonization into estuarine and coastal areas of NorthAmerica cannot be ignored. 相似文献
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The shell morphology and population dynamics of the five BritishUnionidae are
compared within a sympatric population. Pseudanodontacomplanata is distinguished
from Anodonta anatina and A. cygneaby the hinge lengthshell length
relationship; this morphologicaldistinction may serve as a useful tool in the identificationof this
threatened species. The shell length at a given annuluswas remarkably similar for all five
species, although the asymptoticlength is reached most quickly in P. complanata and Unio pictorum.P. complanata is relatively short-lived and attains the lowest
maximumlength, while A. cygnea lives more than twice as long and attainsalmost
double the length of P. complanata. Unio spp. have ashort gravid season over
the summer, while Anodonta spp. havea long gravid period, lasting from Autumn
through to Spring.Unlike other members of the Anodontinae, P. complanata has ashort
breeding season, overlapping with that of the Unio spp. (Received 4 March 1998; accepted 23 April 1998) 相似文献
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Hannaert V Brinkmann H Nowitzki U Lee JA Albert MA Sensen CW Gaasterland T Müller M Michels P Martin W 《Molecular biology and evolution》2000,17(7):989-1000
Genomic or cDNA clones for the glycolytic enzyme enolase wereisolated from the amitochondriate pelobiont Mastigamoeba balamuthi,from the kinetoplastid Trypanosoma brucei, and from the euglenidEuglena gracilis. Clones for the cytosolic enzyme were foundin all three organisms, whereas Euglena was found to also expressmRNA for a second isoenzyme that possesses a putative N-terminalplastid-targeting peptide and is probably targeted to the chloroplast.Database searching revealed that Arabidopsis also possessesa second enolase gene that encodes an N-terminal extension andis likely targeted to the chloroplast. A phylogeny of enolaseamino acid sequences from 6 archaebacteria, 24 eubacteria, and32 eukaryotes showed that the Mastigamoeba enolase tended tobranch with its homologs from Trypanosoma and from the amitochondriateprotist Entamoeba histolytica. The compartment-specific isoenzymesin Euglena arose through a gene duplication independent of thatwhich gave rise to the compartment-specific isoenzymes in Arabidopsis,as evidenced by the finding that the Euglena enolases are moresimilar to the homolog from the eubacterium Treponema pallidumthan they are to homologs from any other organism sampled. Inmarked contrast to all other glycolytic enzymes studied to date,enolases from all eukaryotes surveyed here (except Euglena)are not markedly more similar to eubacterial than to archaebacterialhomologs. An intriguing indel shared by enolase from eukaryotes,from the archaebacterium Methanococcus jannaschii, and fromthe eubacterium Campylobacter jejuni maps to the surface ofthe three-dimensional structure of the enzyme and appears tohave occurred at the same position in parallel in independentlineages. 相似文献
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The postsynaptic actions of neurohumors on molluscan musclemay be exerted through control of force as well as by meansof excitation and inhibition. The control of force may appearas potentiation of the response to excitation, as increasedinotropism in spontaneous contractions, or as an increase intonus. We have directed our attention to the alterations offorce induced in aplysiid ventricles by applied postulated neurohumors.The results are interpreted in terms of the known effects ofneurohumors on resting potential and action potentials of molluscanhearts. We recorded compound membrane potentials of aplysiidventricles extracellularly, using a single sucrose gap apparatustogether with a force-displacement transducer to measureforcein contractions or contracture. Aplysia californica ventriclehas a membrane potential of 52.5 ± 9.4 mV. Ventriclesof Aplysia dactylomela or Aplysia californica are depolarizedby increased concentrations of external potassium ion, withan accompanying contracture. After incubation in calcium-freemedium, KCl contracture-force is directly dependent on calciumion concentration. A depolarization of 8.3 ±2.14 mV inpotassium-free medium is blocked by substitution of lithiumfor sodium in the medium, suggesting an electrogenic sodiumpump. There is a sustained depolarization in low chloride medium,which suggests a significant chloride contribution to the restingpotential. Ventricles of Dolabella auriculana or Aplysia dactylomelaare depolarized by acetylcholine (ACh). Threshold for depolarizationis lower than threshold for contracture-force. The ventricleof A. dactylomela is depolarized by 5- hydroxytryptamine (5HT)with threshold at 109 M and a maximum depolarizationof 30 mV at 104M. Depolarization by 5HT may induce beatingbut does not induce contracture. Ventricles of Aplysia californicaare not depolarized by ACh although beating ventricles are inhibited,and a depolarized ventricle in a tonic contracture may be hyperpolarizedand relaxed by low concentrations. The force of contractionof the ventricle of Dolabella auricularia is dependent on theduration of the plateau phase of the cardiac action potential.The plateau is lengthened by 5HT with an accompanying increasein force of beat, and shortened by ACh, with an accompanyingdecrease in force of beat. The action potential in the ventricleof Aplysia californica is not differentiated into spike andplateau phases, and neither ACh nor 5HT has any marked effecton the form of the action potential. Nevertheless, isolatedventricles of Dolabella auricularia, Aplysia dactylomela, andAplysia californica are all excited by 5-hydroxytryptamine,with a threshold at about 10M. Both spontaneous beatingand excitation induced in A. californica ventricles by 5HT areblocked by lack of the sodium ion, which may be responsiblefor pacemaker potentials in molluscan hearts. 相似文献
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The structure and development of stomata in 10 Amaryllidaceousmembers are described. The study is made on the leaves and floralorgans of Amaryllis belladona, Crinum asiaticum, C. bulbispermum,C. latifolium, C. pratense, Pancratium sp., Polianthes tuberosa,and Zephyranthes atamsco, and on leaves of Agave sp. and Curculigoorchioides. In most of the organs of the different plants studiedmore than one type of stoma occur, even on the same surface.However, the stomata are largely anomocytic in Amaryllis, Crinum,Pancratium, Polianthes, and Zephyranthes, but they are tetracyticin Agave and Curculigo. An increase in the number of subsidiarycells in teracytic, tricytic, paracytic, and stomata with onesubsidiary cell has been noted. It may be due to wall formationin the subsidiary cells or by the neighbouring perigenes assumingtheir form. The range of variation in different types of stomatain each organ has been studied. Abnormal features such as juxtaposedor superimposed contiguous stomata, connections between guardcells of nearby stomata, transformation of meristemoids intoepidermal cells are observed. The development of different typesof stomata in different organs of the same plant is perigenous.The systematic position of different genera is discussed inlight of the present findings. A method of preparing epidermalimprints by the use of Depex, a mounting medium, and white ofan egg is also described. 相似文献
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Metabolism of some sulfur-containing substances was studiedin a copper-resistant strain of yeast (R), its parent strain(P) and respiratory-deficient(RD) mutants from them. The resultsobtained are as follows:
- Using sulfate, sulfite and thiosulfate as sulfur sources, Rproducedmore H2S than P, and both of these had the activityhigher than their RD mutants. All of them produced a large amountof H2S from cysteine, but only little from methionine, cysteinesulfinic acid and S-sulfocysteine.
- From sulfite and thiosulfate,P and R produced more H2S inaerobicthan in anaerobic condition.With sulfate and cysteine, however,H2S production did not differunder those conditions.
- In both P and R, the sulfate-to-sulfiteand sulfite-to-sulfidereactions were remarkably lowered byiron and zinc deficiencies.But the cysteine-to-sulfide reactionwas not affected by themetal-deficiencies.
- H2S productionfrom sulfate was remarkably depressed by highconcentrationsof pantothenate.
- Rates of reaction steps on a plausible pathway from sulfatetosulfide and to organic sulfur compounds areestimated forthe strainsused. R is characterized by its largecapacity ofthe reaction step from sulfate to sulfite, and excessivesulfitethus formed is liberatedas sulfide not by the way ofcysteine.
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SYNOPSIS. Fate maps are totally lacking for hagfishes, rays,holocephals, dipnoi, holostei and mammals, and for all excepttwo of the thirty or so orders of the huge teleost assemblage.Important errors have been found in earlier studies of the movementsby closer control of marking techniques, but there are stillmajor elements in the literature that remain unconfirmed. Recentstudies on Salmo, Xenopus and chick suggest that a wider samplingof major vertebrate groups will uncover more unsuspected variationsin this phase of embryology. Experimental results on the chondrosteansturgeon Acipenser are here compared and contrasted with thoseon Salmo and Xenopus. Though chondrostei and teleosts had arelatively recent common ancestry, the morphogenetic movementsand fate map of Acipenser give no hint as to how the uniquelyteleostean behavior could have arisen. Instead the experimentshave shown in new elaborate detail how close the early developmentof Acipenser is to that of modern amphibia, closer to Xenopusthan to Rana, closer to anura than to urodeles. The search forunity in the field of comparative morphogenetic movements isplagued by lack of breadth in the sample of vertebrates hithertostudied but also by a vocabulary too much loaded with ancienthomological thinking. It is pointed out that when a group ofmovements, all called invaginationor all called epiboly,is studied closely it can be discovered that they may be doingquite different things, controlled by different environmentalfactors. General theory of this part of embryology requiresthe bringing together of the knowledge of cellular movementsfrom in vitro and non-embryonic systems with the knowledge ofthe full variety of normal patterns of morphogenetic movementsin the vertebrates. Before this can be accomplished, we willneed a precise knowledge of what the cells are actually doingin all the sectors of these patterned movements, and in allthe major patterns that the phylum has produced. 相似文献
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Some Effects of Temperature and Substrate Content upon Respiration and the Carbon Balance of Field Beans (Vicia faba L.) 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
The effects of substrate content and temperature upon the productionof carbon dioxide in the dark were investigated in Vicia fabaand Sorghum vulgare, using the time courses for carbon dioxiderelease. No endogenous rhythms were found. With V. faba at highsubstrate contents, a steady rate of respiration was measuredat low temperatures, suggesting that the rate of respirationis limited by a third factor such as enzyme activity. This steadyrate eventually decreased rapidly. There was a first order rateof decrease with time at higher temperatures. Low substratecontents gave a complex decay. The rate of decrease of the rateof respiration was affected by the initial state of the plantsover the same range of rates. Reasons for this are discussed.The temperature sensitivity of respiration was investigated.The respiration of plants with high substrate contents had alower temperature sensitivity than those with low substratecontents. This was further investigated by measuring the stoichiometryof carbon dioxide production in the dark from total solublecarbohydrate (as hexose equivalent). It is likely that incompletehexose respiration, which occurs at high substrate contents,is less temperature sensitive than complete hexose respirationor the respiration of some other substrate. Vicia faba, Sorghum oulgare, carbon dioxide, respiration, temperature, substrate content 相似文献
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The distribution of the sibling slug species Arion hortensiss.s. and
Arion distinctus in Northern Switzerland is described.In the sampled
area, both species were almost equally abundantand their
distributions overlapped. Most of the sampled sitescontained both
species. Arion hortensis s.s. is more commonin Switzerland than
previously known, and its range extendsmore towards the east of
Switzerland. Arion hortensis s.s. wasmore abundant in gardens than in
the other habitats sampled.At sites where only A. distinctus
occurred, the form with abipartite oviduct prevailed. At sites where
both species werepresent, the form of A. distinctus with a tripartite
oviductwas more common than the form with a bipartite oviduct. In
captivity,one specimen of A. distinctus mated with one A. hortensis
s.s.,as indicated by a spermatophore of A. distinctus that was found
withinthe atrium of one A. hortensis s.s. A majority of the specimens
couldby assigned to the correct species by their colouration, buta
safe distinction between A. hortensis s.s. and A. distinctusis only
possible using characters of the reproductive system. (Received 4 July 2000; accepted 19 September 2000) 相似文献