珍稀濒危植物珙桐超氧化物歧化酶活性

采用比色法测定了不同年龄和部位珙桐叶的超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)活性,以探讨不同年龄级珙桐的生理生态适应性。结果表明:不同年龄同一生长期珙桐叶的SOD活性不同,同年龄级同层珙桐叶的SOD活性随叶位增加大致呈先升后降的变化;同叶位不同层及同层不同叶位的珙桐叶的SOD活性不同。珙桐叶SOD活性对生长期敏感,其活性随叶片的生长、衰老呈先升后降变化。即珙桐叶SOD活性受生物和非生物因子共同影响,且不同年龄级、叶位、层次均存在差异。     

Transfer between views of conspecific faces at different ages or in different orientations by sheep

Sheep are able to discriminate photographs of conspecific faces. The present study investigates adult ewe's recognition of faces of the same animal between different ages or between different orientations. Twelve adult sheep were first trained to discriminate between faces of two unfamiliar animals, one of which was associated with a food reward. Transfer of discrimination from this pair to the same pair but at a different age, or in a different orientation, was then evaluated (transfer test), and compared with a new pair of the same condition (control test). Learned discrimination of a frontal view of unfamiliar 3-month-old lambs' faces improved subsequent discrimination of the same pair when they were 1-month-old in comparison to discrimination of new 1-month-old faces. Moreover, sheep that were trained to discriminate frontal views of unfamiliar adult individuals discriminated profile views of the same animals more accurately than that of novels. However, learned discrimination of the profile view of unfamiliar adult faces had no effect on subsequent discrimination of the frontal view of that same pair. These results suggest that to some extent sheep recognise faces of unfamiliar animals at different ages and in different orientations.     

负荷时间和类型对糖代谢,脂肪供谢,蛋白质代谢的影响

２５名运动员在相同的时间里随３种不同类型的负荷和不同的时间里承受相同的负荷,测定负荷后血浆ＴＣＡ循环产物,ＦＦＡ组成和尿液尿素氮,尿肌酐,游离氨基酸组分含量。结果表明：同一时间里采用运动量相近但类型不同的负荷,会产生不同的生理效应,同一负荷内容安排在下午比安排在早晨或上午更容易导致人体内蛋白质分解代谢加强;耐力负荷以早晨训练对ＴＣＡ循环和ＦＦＡ及其组分影响较大;下午训练利于发展速度,力量等项目的素     

Reorganization of Composition of Striatal Neurons Correlating with Behavior in the Monkey Macaca nemestrina

The available experimental data do not provide a sufficiently complete picture of the neuronal activity connected with some action of the animal, as they have been obtained under different experimental protocols and as a result of study of different cells. The present work was aimed at studying activity of the same neuron group at different moments of animal's behavior. A monkey (Macaca nemestrina) was taught to perform a behavioral program consisting of several functional heterogeneous actions. The impulsive activity of striatal neurons was recorded in the central region of putamen with coordinates A 16.5, L7, and H 8–10 [18]. The activity of each neuron was recorded during 13 consecutive stages of the same behavioral task. As a whole, in 59 putamen neurons, 767 fragments of neuronal activity were studied. It was shown that the same neurons could be involved at different behavioral stages when the animal performed different actions. At individual stages, the number of neurons common with other behavioral stages reached 70–80% of all reactive cells at the stage. The number of the neurons common within the rest of 12 stages was determined for every program stage. The number of such common neurons established in the experiment was in 142 out of 156 cases higher than their number that could be expected on the basis of statistical relations. The data obtained indicate that the reorganization in composition of behavior-reactive cells at every behavioral stage occurs mainly by using the same neurons but not only the neurons that are specialized for the given action. The polymodality of individual striatal neurons is unlikely to be connected with that they have several functions, but results from that the same neuron can be a constituent of neuronal mosaics of different configurations corresponding to different behavioral moments.     

Regional histomorphology of cancellous bone in Macaca fascicularis

The structural and dynamic characteristics of cancellous bone from biopsy sites representing different degrees of weight bearing were quantified following double fluorochrome labeling of adult male Macaca fascicularis. A strong correlation of bone formation rate was found between the humerus, tibia, and iliac crest within the same individual. There was no significant correlation between differing biopsy sites for the structural measures of bone. The coefficient of variation for bone formation rate at different sites from the same animal was comparable to the coefficient of variation for different animals measured at the same biopsy site. The present study suggests that any accessible site of cancellous bone will yield a representative measure of bone formation rate, but that structural measures are not generalizable between different sites. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

不同地理种群大豆蚜生长发育的形态指标

对采自广东、山东、河北和黑龙江4个省份大豆蚜Aphis glycines Matsumura种群在不同温度条件下的生长发育形态指标进行测定。结果表明,在20、25和30℃,不同地理种群大豆蚜生长发育形态指标差异不显著;在15℃,不同地理种群大豆蚜生长发育形态指标差异显著。在15～30℃,单一大豆蚜地理种群形态指标有随温度降低而增大的趋势。试验结果也表明,单一地理种群大豆蚜的Q值也有随着温度降低而增大的趋势;而在相同温度下,不同种群间的Q值变化不明显,差异性不显著。     

Different levels of immunity to Schistosoma mansoni in the mouse: the role of variant cercariae.

Very variable levels of immunity to a second infection with Schistosoma mansoni were recorded in 7 strains of mice, 12--15 weeks following a small primary infection. When 2 or more strains of mice were assayed at the same time, less variation occurred within the experiment than between different experiments. This evidence suggested variation between pools of cercariae as the main cause of variability in immunity. In direct experiments in one strain of mouse, 2 different pools of cercariae stimulated widely different levels of immunity to the same challenge. Conversely, challenge infections drawn from different pools showed different susceptibility to immunity stimulated by the same primary infection. Individual clones of cercariae, from snails infected with single miracidia, showed a high level of susceptibility to immunity stimulated by a small bisexual infection, or were not susceptible at all. Antigenic polymorphism is the most likely explanation for the differences observed between clones of cercariae. However, indirect immunofluorescence showed the presence of at least 1 common antigen on the surface of schistosomula derived from different clones of cercariae and clone-specific antigens have not been detected.     

Effects of fish age versus size on the development of whirling disease in rainbow trout

We examined the effects of both fish age and size on the development of resistance to whirling disease in Erwin strain rainbow trout. Previously, we demonstrated that juvenile rainbow trout became resistant to development of the disease when first exposed to triactinomyxons of the parasite Myxobolus cerebralis at about 9 wk post-hatch when raised at 12 degrees C, but ages and sizes of fish used in that experiment were confounded (Ryce EKN, Zale AV, MacConnell E [2004] Dis Aquat Org 59:225-233). In this study, rainbow trout of the same age and different sizes, and the same size and different ages, were exposed to the parasite to distinguish the influences of age and size. Fish were reared at 3 different water temperatures prior to exposure to produce groups with different growth rates and were exposed to the parasite at 7 or 9 wk post-hatch. Disease severity was affected by both age and size at first exposure, but the effects were not independent. An increase in fork length from 36 to 40 mm among fish exposed at 7 wk post-hatch did not confer increased resistance, but the same increase in size at 9 wk post-hatch did. Similarly, an increase in age from 7 to 9 wk post-hatch among fish exposed at 36 mm fork length did not confer increased resistance, but the same increase in age at 40 mm did. Rainbow trout must be both 9 wk post-hatch or older and at least 40 mm in fork length at time of exposure to exhibit enhanced resistance to whirling disease. Resistance to disease was not associated with the level of skeletal ossification.     

The molecular basis of white pericarps in African domesticated rice: novel mutations at the Rc gene

Repeated phenotypic evolution can occur at both the inter- and intraspecific level and is especially prominent in domesticated plants, where artificial selection has favoured the same traits in many different species and varieties. The question of whether repeated evolution reflects changes at the same or different genes in each lineage can now be addressed using the domestication and improvement genes that have been identified in a variety of crops. Here, we document the genetic basis of nonpigmented ('white') pericarps in domesticated African rice (Oryza glaberrima) and compare it with the known genetic basis of the same trait in domesticated Asian rice (Oryza sativa). In some cases, white pericarps in African rice are apparently caused by unique mutations at the Rc gene, which also controls pericarp colour variation in Asian rice. In one case, white pericarps appear to reflect changes at a different gene or potentially a cis-regulatory region.     

Protein Electrophoresis of Single Pollen Grains of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

Electrophoresis and staining of proteins from the single pollen grains of Hibiscus rosasinensis have been developed by using general ultrathin polyacrylamide gel combined with highly-sensitive silver staining technique. The result revealed that the pollen abortion could occur in different stages of pollen development. The protein patterns varied greatly in different stages of pollen development, even in the different pollen grains in the same anther at the same development stage. Some bands exhibited a disjunction by classical Mendelian ratio 1: 1, suggesting that the gene loci were heterogeneous and the proteins were related to the expression of the genes at the early stage of pollen development.     

长白山三种赤杨根瘤内Frankia基因多样性的REP分析

利用REP PCR方法研究了长白山不同海拔处 3种赤杨根瘤内Frankia菌基因多样性。结果表明 ,赤杨根瘤内Frankia菌存在丰富的基因多样性。宿主和海拔因素共同影响长白山赤杨属Frankia菌的基因多样性 :东北赤杨Frankia菌的宿主专一性很强 ,西伯利亚赤杨和色赤杨的Frankia菌的有较近的亲缘关系。不同海拔的同种宿主共生的Frankia菌基因类型不同 ,相同海拔的西伯利亚赤杨和色赤杨的Frankia菌出现宿主混乱现象     

Effect of density variations along ion drift trajectories on the poloidal and toroidal rotation velocities of a collisionless tokamak plasma

The effect of plasma density variations along ion drift trajectories on the ion velocity distribution function at a given point on a tokamak magnetic surface is studied. The observed distortion of the distribution function can be interpreted as a poloidal (or toroidal) plasma rotation that is additional to the neoclassical rotation. Due to this additional rotation, the velocity of the toroidal plasma rotation is different on the low-and high-field sides of the same magnetic surface. In the case of large ion density gradients, the poloidal rotation velocity on the same magnetic surface can have different signs at different poloidal angles.     

Quantification of plasticity of plant traits in response to light intensity: comparing phenotypes at a common weight

Summary Plasticity of plant traits is commonly quantified by comparing different phenotypes at the same age. In this paper, we present a method in which the effect of resource conditions on plant weight is used as a basis for quantifying the plasticity of individual plant traits. Abutilon theophrasti individuals were grown in, and some transferred between, high and low intensity light conditions, resulting in four phenotypes. Plant traits were found to exhibit different degrees of plasticity, decreasing in this order: height; specific leaf area; allocation to branch roots; allocation to leaf area; number of nodes; allocation to tap roots; allocation to stem; allocation to leaf weight. Under these conditions, individuals of the four phenotypes had very similar heights when compared at the same age, but very different heights when compared at the same plant weight. The latter comparison indicates that light intensity influences height independently of its influence on plant weight. Individuals that were transferred from high to low light had greater allocation that had not been transferred, but individuals of all phenotypes had nearly the same leaf weight allocation when compared at the same plant weight. The latter comparison indicates that light intensity influeces leaf weight allocation mostly by influencing plant weight. In the phenotype resulting from the transfer of plants from low to high light, reproduction was stimulated much less than plant weight and axillary leaf growth, and reproductive allocation was delayed relative to the other three phenotypes. We conclude that when plasticity is measured by comparing phenotypes at the same plant weight, the effects of resources on plant size can be excluded from the quantification.     

Cohort movement of different ligands and receptors in the intracellular endocytic pathway of alveolar macrophages

The rate of movement of different receptors and ligands through the intracellular endocytic apparatus was studied in alveolar macrophages. Cells were exposed to iodinated alpha-macroglobulin-protease complexes, mannose terminal glycoproteins, diferric transferrin, and maleylated proteins. By use of the diaminobenzidine density shift procedure, we demonstrated that these ligands were internalized into the same endocytic vesicle. We then compared the rates of transfer to the lysosome or recycling to the cell surface of different ligands/receptors contained in the same endosome. We found that although the rate constant for degradation was ligand specific, the lag time prior to the initiation of degradation was the same for all three ligands. We also found that molecules taken up nonspecifically by fluid-phase pinocytosis had the same lag time prior to degradation as ligands internalized via receptor-mediated endocytosis. These data suggest that different molecules within the same endocytic compartment are transferred to the lysosome (or degradative compartment) at the same rate. We measured the rate of return of receptors to the cell surface by either inactivating surface receptors by protease treatment at 0 degrees C, or by incubating cells with saturating amounts of nonradioactive ligand at 37 degrees C. We then measured the rate of appearance of "new" receptors on the cell surface. Using these approaches, we found that three different receptors were transferred from internal pools to the cell surface at the same rate. The rate of transfer was independent of whether receptors were initially occupied or unoccupied. Our observations indicate that receptor/ligands, once inside alveolar macrophages, are transported by vesicles which transfer their contents as a cohort from one compartment to another. The rate of movement of these receptors is determined by the movement of vesicles and is independent of their content.     

In vitro response as a reflection of genomic diversity in long-term cultures of Musa

Summary Ten commercial cultivars of Musa representing five different types of genomic constitutions were studied for in vitro multiplication through meristem culture. In addition, the effects of various genomic constitutions at different ploidy levels on growth and meristem proliferation in long-term cultures were analysed statistically. Plantlets were readily obtained by culturing the excised meristems on MS semisolid medium supplemented with IAA, IBA and BAP at various concentrations. The regenerative potential of all cultivars of Musa, irrespective of their genomes, remained unaffected in long-term culture, even after 28–30 months. The genomic influence on both the nature and rate of proliferative growth was evident. Statistical analysis revealed that the rates of meristem proliferation between different cultivars of the same passage and between different passages of the same cultivar were significantly different. Those cultivars having only an A genome showed a low rate of meristem proliferation, while under the same culture conditions, cultivars having one or two B genomes in addition to the A exhibited a very high rate.     

影响绿茶季节间品质差异的生化因子探析

通过测定同一生态环境下生长的31份茶树材料春、夏、秋3季1芽2叶时茶叶的主要生化成分,同时制作烘青茶样进行感官审评,并对测定数据进行统计分析,以揭示影响绿茶品质季节间差异的主要生化因子。结果表明,有27份材料的茶叶品质呈现出春季高于夏、秋季的变化趋势。对27份材料生化成分与品质总分的逐步回归分析、相关分析和通径分析表明,氨基酸、花青素和叶绿素含量对茶叶品质的影响最大,是导致绿茶品质季节间差异的主要生化因子。其中氨基酸表现为正向影响,在季节间呈现春季高、夏秋季降低的规律;花青素和叶绿素表现为负向影响,在季节间呈现春季低、夏秋季升高的趋势。     

Incremental lines in root cementum of human teeth —A reliable age marker?

In root cementum of teeth, alternating dark and light lines become visible in cross-sections under the light microscope. These lines bear an apparent resemblance to the annual rings of trees. Numerous studies have been done to correlate the number of cementum lines with the dental age by examining a great number of teeth of known age. Our study used a different approach. If lines in root cementum develop in an annual rhythm and are thus comparable to annual rings of trees, the same or at least a very similar number of these structures should be found in all areas of the root cementum of the same tooth. We counted cementum lines in the buccal, lingual, distal and mesial region of different sections, all from the middle third of the same root. This was repeated in eight teeth. To our surprise, we had immense difficulty in counting reproducible line numbers in the same cementum area at repeated counts. Nevertheless, the same tooth was found to differ markedly in the number of lines in different sections as well as in different regions of the same sections. These differences cannot be ascribed to variations caused by difficulties with reproducible line counting. Therefore, we are more than skeptical about the reliability of counting lines in root cementum as a method for determining the age of human teeth.     

黄河流域棉区转Bt基因棉种植对根际土壤微生物数量及细菌多样性的影响

采用传统培养与PCR-DGGE相结合的方法研究了黄河流域棉区4个省份种植的转Bt基因棉在4个生长时期（播种后第30天、第60天、第90天和第120天）的根际土壤微生物数量及细菌多样性.结果表明：同一省份同一生长时期转Bt基因棉根际土壤微生物数量与常规棉相比均无显著差异,其数量主要受不同生长时期影响,而不同省份间主要受地域条件的影响.4个省份转Bt基因棉根际土壤细菌多样性较丰富,同一省份同一生长时期内转Bt基因棉与常规棉根际土壤细菌多样性指数、均匀度和丰富度均无显著差异.不同省份间细菌多样性主要因地域条件而有所不同,但差异较小.     

空间异质性定量研究理论与方法

通过变异函数对空间异质性定量研究进行了讨论．结果表明,空间异质性定量研究应从空间特征和空间比较两方面去考虑．对空间特征,着重讨论怎样应用变异函数将空间异质性分解成各定量组分;确定空间异质性程度;探测空间异质性变化的尺度．对空间比较,怎样对同一变量和不同变量用变异函数比较空间异质性时的统计检验;采用标准化变异函数比较同一地点上的不同变量的空间异质性．最后通过阔叶红松景观中林型和土壤类型的空间异质定量研究实例验证了上述理论与方法．     

负荷时间和类型对糖代谢、脂肪代谢、蛋白质代谢的影响

２５名运动员在相同的时间里承受３种不同类型的负荷和在不同的时间里承受相同的负荷,测定负荷后血浆ＴＣＡ循环产物、ＦＦＡ组成和尿液尿素氮、尿肌酐、游离氨基酸组分含量。结果表明：同一时间里采用运动量相近但类型不同的负荷,会产生不同的生理效应,同一负荷内容安排在下午比安排在早晨或上午更容易导致人体内蛋白质分解代谢加强;耐力负荷以及早晨训练对ＴＣＡ循环和ＦＦＡ及其组分影响较大;下午训练利于发展速度、力量等项目的素质