意蜂工蜂、雄蜂和蜂王的LDH和EST同工酶比较

用聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳的方法,对意蜂工蜂、雄蜂和蜂王以及两种不同大小幼虫之间的乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)和酯酶(EST)同工酶分别作了比较。结果表明,工蜂、雄蜂和蜂王之间LDH同工酶数目无差异,但活性上存在差异;而酯酶同工酶在幼虫阶段与成虫阶段及工蜂、雄蜂和蜂王之间则有着不同的同工酶谱型。说明意蜂同工酶在种内的表达受到发育程度、进食质量、分化方向等因素的影响。     

意蜂（Apis mellifera）蜂王婚飞交尾机制的初探

通过氯气球悬挂意蜂（Apis mellifera）雌蜂及提取物等方法模拟蜂王婚飞交尾试验,比较不同生理状态的雌蜂及其提取物对雄蜂的性引诱力,结果表明：1．在工峰、处女王与产卵王及其提取物中,以产卵王及其提取物对雄峰性诱最大．平均分别为16只和14．3只雄蜂;2．不同数量的处女王提取物对雄蜂引诱力存在差异．以3只处女王提取物对雄蜂引诱力最大,平均引诱31.3只雄蜂;3．1000烛光以上的光照比400烛光以下的光照更有利于雄蜂的水分,且雄蜂集聚的个性体敏越多,相互激活力越强。     

5种樱桃属植物的POD、CAT和SOD同工酶分析

采用聚丙烯酰胺垂直平板凝胶电泳技术对5种樱桃属植物的过氧化物酶(POD)同工酶、过氧化氢酶(CAT)同工酶和超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)同工酶的酶谱特征进行分析,结果表明:5种樱桃属植物共电泳出12条POD同工酶酶带、4条CAT同工酶酶带和8条SOD同工酶酶带;其中,POD同工酶酶谱具有5条共同谱带,CAT同工酶4条,SOD同工酶5条。冬季休眠期的樱桃属植物,POD与SOD同工酶谱带的多样性比较丰富,不同植物之间的谱带差异较大;而CAT同工酶谱带差异不明显。     

意蜂工蜂酸性磷酸酶的纯化及其酶学特性

从意蜂Apis mellifera工蜂体内分离提纯酸性磷酸酶（ACPase, EC3.1.3.2）,并对其性质进行了研究。将工蜂酸性磷酸酶的初提物经分段盐析、DEAE-Sepharose FF离子交换层析及Sephadex G-200 凝胶过滤等纯化步骤,得到经聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳为单一蛋白区带的酶液。提纯倍数为77.24,酶液比活力为16.22 U/mg（对硝基苯磷酸二钠作底物）。利用凝胶过滤法测定酶的相对分子质量为135 kD,SDS-PAGE测定酶的亚基相对分子质量为63 .1 kD。酶的等电点为4.46和4.79。非还原/还原（NR/R）单向、双向SDS-PAGE显示酶分子含有链内二硫键。对二级结构圆二色谱分析显示,酶分子中α-螺旋占13.84%,β-折叠占25.68%,无规则卷曲占56.34%。氨基酸组成分析结果表明, 酸性磷酸酶约含有507个氨基酸残基,富含门冬氨酸残基。     

意蜂和中蜂四种同工酶的研究

用聚丙烯酰胺凝胶等电聚焦电泳分析了意蜂和中蜂的酯酶(Est)、异柠檬酸脱氢酶(Idh)、苹果酸酶(Me)和苹果酸脱氢酶(Mdh)同工酶.两个蜂种的四种同工酶谱有不同程度的差别、意蜂酯酶Ⅳ和苹果酸脱氢酶Ⅲ是多态性的;中蜂的四种同工酶没有多态现象.     

黄连木雌、雄株内源植物激素和POD同工酶的比较

为揭示黄连木（Pistacia chinensis Bunge）不同性别植株的生理差异,以雌株和雄株叶片为试材,对叶片赤霉素（GA3）、脱落酸（ABA）、吲哚-3-乙酸（IAA）、亚精胺（Spd）、精胺（Spm）和腐胺（Put）含量变化及过氧化物酶同工酶进行了测定。结果表明,黄连木雌、雄株叶片GA3含量在6至9月均达到极显著差异,含量均在10月8日达到最大值,分别为100.9μg/g FW和92.9μg/g FW;雄株叶片ABA含量均高于雌株,雌、雄株叶片ABA含量在5月21日和7月8日达到极显著差异,5月21日均为最小值,含量分别为222.0 ng/g FW和340.1 ng/g FW;雄株叶片IAA含量均高于雌株,雌、雄植株叶片中IAA含量在8月8日达到极显著差异,9月8日达到最大值,分别为984.8 ng/g FW和1000.6 ng/g FW;雌株GA3/ABA的比值在7月至9月极显著高于雄株,9月8日差异值最大,为42.8;雌、雄株叶片IAA/ABA在5月21日差异值最大,为0.54;雌、雄株叶片Spd含量存在显著或极显著差异,均在7月8日达到最大值,分别为47.9μg/g FW和42.8μg/g FW;雄株叶片Spm含量均大于雌株,雌、雄株叶片Spm含量在10月8日达到极显著差异,均在7月8日出现最大值,分别为24.3μg/g FW和34.5μg/g FW;雄株叶片Put含量在各个时期均低于雌株,雌、雄株叶片Put含量除5月21日外,存在显著或极显著差异,在9月8日均达到最大值,分别为156.0μg/g FW和135.1μg/g FW。雌、雄株叶片、叶柄过氧化物酶同工酶有显著差异,雌株叶片过氧化物酶同工酶有5条带,分别为POD-1、POD-2、POD-3、POD-4、POD-5;雄株叶片只有4条带,分别为POD-2、POD-3、POD-4、POD-5;雌株叶柄内的过氧化物酶同工酶有4条带,分别为POD-1’、POD-3’、POD-4’、POD-5’,雄株叶柄内的过氧化物酶同工酶有3条带,分别为POD-2’、POD-4’、POD-5’。POD-1为雌株叶片特有条带,POD-1’、POD-3’为雌株叶柄特有条带,POD-2’为雄株叶柄特有条带。通过试验得出,黄连木叶片中ABA、IAA、Spd、Spm和Put含量与性别有关,叶片和叶柄的POD同工酶条带也是鉴别黄连木性别的有效指标。     

POD同工酶在酸枣、枣分类中的应用

运用聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳（ＰＡＧＥ）技术,对来自不同产地的８３个酸枣类型（品种）,及３６个枣品种的叶片过氧化物酶（ＰＯＤ）同工酶扫描数据,进行了主因子分析和聚类分析研究。结果表明,运用距离系统的类平均法（ＵＰＧＭＡ）可将全部试材划分为六大类群和３个特殊型,且聚类结果与地理位置直接相关。此外,依同工酶带的有无,可将全部供试枣品种叶片ＰＯＤ同工酶合并为５种谱型,全部酸枣类型（品种）合并为２２种谱型。大马     

工蜂与蜂王的“繁殖等级之战”

蜂群通常具有很高水平的合作,而最新发表在《分子生态学》上的研究表明工蜂和蜂王之间存在繁殖冲突,一些工蜂会“自私”地将蜂群的资源占为己有。该研究以巴西的一种高度社会化的无刺蜂Melipona scutellaris为研究对象,其蜂群有大约1500只工蜂和1只蜂王。     

螺旋藻POD、CAT和SOD同工酶的研究

采用聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳法对毛乌素沙地碱湖的钝顶螺旋藻S3和鄂尔多斯螺旋藻S4与国外引进的钝顶螺旋藻S1和极大螺旋藻S2 的POD、CAT和SOD同工酶进行了比较研究。结果表明 :4个样品的 3种酶同工酶带数目不同 ,依次是S4 >S3>S1>S2 ;S3和S4 酶带数多 ,对环境适应性强 ,进化程度较高。螺旋藻不同种间的酶谱相似系数为 0 5 3～ 0 80 ,有较近的亲缘关系 ;原产地不同的钝顶螺旋藻S1和S3间酶谱相似系数最高为 0 86,表明螺旋藻种内差异 <种间差异。     

粳稻细胞质雄性不育系、保持系POD同工酶的比较研究

粳稻３４１Ａ、３４１Ｂ的不同器官和花药及雌蕊的不同发育时期共检测出９种ＰＯＤ同工酶谱带,其中ＰＯＤ＿５、ＰＯＤ＿６在所有１０个器官中存在,因此可以认为是粳稻３４１Ａ、３４１Ｂ的基本谱带。ＰＯＤ＿８、ＰＯＤ＿９谱带仅在少数器官中存在,具有一定的器官专一性。花粉粒发育的两个关键时刻,ＰＯＤ同工酶均多于保持系,这可能是雄性不育细胞质基因对核基因表达的调控作用所致,细胞质基因与细胞核基因存在着一定的相互关系,雄性不育可能是这两种基因共同作用的结果。     

The honeybee queen influences the regulation of colony drone production

Social insect colonies invest in reproduction and growth, buthow colonies achieve an adaptive allocation to these life-historycharacters remains an open question in social insect biology.Attempts to understand how a colony's investment in reproductionis shaped by the queen and the workers have proved complicatedbecause of the potential for queen–worker conflict overthe colony's investment in males versus females. Honeybees,in which this conflict is expected to be minimal or absent,provide an opportunity to more clearly study how the actionsand interactions of individuals influence the colony's productionand regulation of males (drones). We examined whether honeybeequeens can influence drone regulation by either allowing orpreventing them from laying drone eggs for a period of timeand then examining their subsequent tendency to lay drone andworker eggs. Queens who initially laid drone eggs subsequentlylaid fewer drone eggs than the queens who were initially preventedfrom producing drone eggs. This indicates that a colony's regulationof drones may be achieved not only by the workers, who buildwax cells for drones and feed the larvae, but also by the queen,who can modify her production of drone eggs. In order to betterunderstand how the queen and workers contribute to social insectcolony decisions, future work should attempt to distinguishbetween actions that reflect conflict over sex allocation andthose that reflect cooperation and shared control over the colony'sinvestment in reproduction.     

A comparison of honeybee (Apis mellifera) queen,worker and drone larvae by RNA‐Seq

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) have haplodiploid sex determination: males develop from unfertilized eggs and females develop from fertilized ones. The differences in larval food also determine the development of females. Here we compared the total somatic gene expression profiles of 2-day and 4-day-old drone, queen and worker larvae by RNASeq. The results from a co-expression network analysis on all expressed genes showed that 2-day-old drone and worker larvae were closer in gene expression profiles than 2-day-old queen larvae. This indicated that for young larvae (2-day-old) environmental factors such as larval diet have a greater effect on gene expression profiles than ploidy or sex determination. Drones had the most distinct gene expression profiles at the 4-day larval stage, suggesting that haploidy, or sex dramatically affects the gene expression of honeybee larvae. Drone larvae showed fewer differences in gene expression profiles at the 2-day and 4-day time points than the worker and queen larval comparisons (598 against 1190 and 1181), suggesting a different pattern of gene expression regulation during the larval development of haploid males compared to diploid females. This study indicates that early in development the queen caste has the most distinct gene expression profile, perhaps reflecting the very rapid growth and morphological specialization of this caste compared to workers and drones. Later in development the haploid male drones have the most distinct gene expression profile, perhaps reflecting the influence of ploidy or sex determination on gene expression.     

Differential antennal proteome comparison of adult honeybee drone, worker and queen (Apis mellifera L.)

To understand the olfactory mechanism of honeybee antennae in detecting specific volatile compounds in the atmosphere, antennal proteome differences of drone, worker and queen were compared using 2-DE, mass spectrometry and bioinformatics. Therefore, 107 proteins were altered their expressions in the antennae of drone, worker and queen bees. There were 54, 21 and 32 up-regulated proteins in the antennae of drone, worker and queen, respectively. Proteins upregulated in the drone antennae were involved in fatty acid metabolism, antioxidation, carbohydrate metabolism and energy production, protein folding and cytoskeleton. Proteins upregulated in the antennae of worker and queen bees were related to carbohydrate metabolism and energy production while molecular transporters were upregulated in the queen antennae. Our results explain the role played by the antennae of drone is to aid in perceiving the queen sexual pheromones, in the worker antennae to assist for food search and social communication and in the queen antennae to help pheromone communication with the worker and the drone during the mating flight. This first proteomic study significantly extends our understanding of honeybee olfactory activities and the possible mechanisms played by the antennae in response to various environmental, social, biological and biochemical signals.     

蜂王受精囊维持精子可育性的生理基础研究进展

蜜蜂是社会性群居昆虫,蜂群中通常只有1头生殖系统发育健全、具有繁殖能力的雌性个体——蜂王,保持蜂王旺盛的产卵力是蜂群繁衍和发展的重要保障.受精囊是蜂王交配后存储精子的结构,它可以维持精子可育性长达数年之久,其生理结构和功能值得深入探讨.本文综述了近年来蜜蜂受精囊结构与生殖生理、精子活力的影响因素和蜂王受精囊微环境的生理...     

Amino acids and osmolarity in honeybee drone haemolymph

Summary In the haemolymph of honeybee drones, concentrations of free amino acids were higher than in worker haemolymph, with different relative proportions of individual amino acids. The overall concentration of free amino acids reached its highest level at the 5th day after adult drone emergence, and after the 9^th day only minor changes in the concentration and distribution of free amino acids were observed. This coincides with the age when drones reach sexual maturity and change their feeding behaviour. Levels of essential free amino acids were high during the first 3 days of life and thereafter decreased. Osmolarity was lowest at emergence (334 ± 41 mOsm), increased until the age of 3 days (423 ± 32mOsm) and then stayed generally constant until the 16^th day of life. Only 25-day-old drones had significantly higher osmolarity (532 ± 38 mOsm). The overall change in osmolarity during a drone's lifetime was about 40%.     

The influence of queen age and quality during queen replacement in honeybee colonies

Honeybee, Apis mellifera, colonies replace their queens by constructing many queen cells and then eliminating supernumerary queens until only one remains. The ages of the queens and the variation in their reproductive potential are important factors in the outcome of such events. Selection would favour colonies that requeen as quickly as possible to minimize the brood hiatus, therefore selecting for queens reared from older larvae. Conversely, reproductive potential (queen 'quality') is maximized by rearing queens from younger larvae. This potential trade-off was tested during two phases of queen replacement, namely queen rearing and polygyny reduction. Our results suggest that queen age is a significant element during both queen rearing and polygyny reduction, whereas queen quality, at least to the magnitude tested in this experiment, has little impact on the outcome of either process. The rate of queen replacement therefore appears to be an important factor in the honeybee life cycle, and further mechanisms of potential importance during this life history transition are discussed. Copyright 2000 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.     

A stereological analysis of developing egg chambers in the honeybee queen,Apis mellifera

Summary A polytrophic ovariole of the queen honeybee, Apis mellifera, is composed of a linear series of increasingly mature egg chambers, each consisting of an oocyte, an interconnected cluster of nurse cells, and a covering layer of follicle cells. This study describes changes in the volume of each of these components, as a function of the position of the egg chamber in the ovariole. An oocyte increases in volume from approximately 8.9 × 10³ m³ to approximately 9.6 × 10⁶ m³ over an average series of 20 egg chambers.     

The chemical basis of honeybee, Apis mellifera, caste formation. Partial purification of queen bee determinator from royal jelly

On royal jelly, 1- to 2-day-old honeybee worker larvae have been reared in vitro to adults in a yield of 67±18 per cent. Up to 100 per cent and, on an average, 60 per cent of them were queens and intercaster. The preparation of a basic food from royal jelly by extensive alcohol extraction is described. With this control food, a survival rate of 47±18 per cent was achieved; 15 per cent of the adults were determined, 4·3 per cent of them were queens. Rearing of 1- to 2-day-old worker larvae on a basic food, to which unknown fractions may be added, was used as a biological test for the partial purification of queen bee determinator from royal jelly. By chromatography of the ethanol extract, previously treated with charcoal, on the cation exchanger Dowex 50 WX4 and rechromatography on silica gel, a 10⁵-fold purification of determinator was achieved. Chemical properties of the highly hydrophilic, low molecular active fraction are described.     

Quantum chemical study on the stability of honeybee queen pheromone against atmospheric factors

The managed honeybee, Apis mellifera, has been experienced a puzzling event, termed as colony collapse disorder (CCD), in which worker bees abruptly disappear from their hives. Potential factors include parasites, pesticides, malnutrition, and environmental stresses. However, so far, no definitive relationship has been established between specific causal factors and CCD events. Here we theoretically test whether atmospheric environment could disturb the chemical communication between the queen and their workers in a colony. A quantum chemistry method has been used to investigate for the stability of the component of A. mellifera queen mandibular pheromone (QMP), (E)-9-keto-2-decenoic acid (9-ODA), against atmospheric water and free radicals. The results show that 9-ODA is less likely to react with water due to the high barrier heights (~36.5 kcal?·?mol^?1) and very low reaction rates. However, it can easily react with triplet oxygen and hydroxyl radicals because of low or negative energy barriers. Thus, the atmospheric free radicals may disturb the chemical communication between the queen and their daughters in a colony. Our pilot study provides new insight for the cause of CCD, which has been reported throughout the world.