甘蔗亚族的地理分布

对甘蔗亚族植物在世界的分布状况和在中国的分布特点进行了讨论,通过分析甘蔗亚族各属种的分布区类型,认为亚洲东南部为甘蔗亚族的分布中心和多样性中心,同时对甘蔗亚族起源作了推测。     

Eléments de systématique biochimique chez les mugilidés de Méditerranée

Five species of Mediterranean grey mullet (Mugilidae) belonging to three genera were screened for protein variation at sixteen enzymatic loci. Protein identities were computed and compared to that obtained from other taxa. The present taxonomical structure of the family is discussed on this basis.     

The old world salsola as a source of valuable secondary metabolites endowed with diverse pharmacological activities: a review

Salsola is an important genus in the plant kingdom with diverse traditional, industrial, and environmental applications. Salsola species are widely distributed in temperate regions and represent about 45% of desert plants. They are a rich source of diverse phytochemical classes, such as alkaloids, cardenolides, triterpenoids, coumarins, flavonoids, isoflavonoids, and phenolic acids. Salsola spp. were traditionally used as antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory, and immunostimulants. They attracted great interest from researchers as several pharmacological activities were reported, including analgesic, antipyretic, antioxidant, cytotoxic, hepatoprotective, contraceptive, antidiabetic, neuroprotective, and antimicrobial activities. Genus Salsola is one of the most notorious plant genera from the taxonomical point of view. Our study represents a comprehensive review of the previous phytochemical and biological research on the old world Salsola secies. It is designed to be a guide for future research on different plant species that still belong to this genus or have been transferred to other genera.     

Introgression as a Factor in the Evolution of Polytypical Plankton Cladocera

The genera Bosmina and Daphnia offer considerable taxonomical difficulties due to the existence of a very great number of different races. An attempt has been made to understand this phenomenon mainly as the result of introgressive processes.     

春黄菊族6属植物种子的微形态特征

应用光学显微镜和扫描电镜对春黄菊族6属10种的种子微形态特征进行了比较观察。结果表明:10种种子在种子形态、表面纹饰、脐处的喙状突起、种子端的衣领状环等方面都表现出丰富的多样性,例如茼蒿的穴状和芫荽菊的细胞状纹饰等,具有明显的属级水平上的分类特征;在系和种级水平上,微形态特征虽有相似性,但仍具有一定的分类学价值,如龙蒿系圆头蒿的沟壑状纹饰和猪毛蒿系猪毛蒿的搓板状纹饰等。说明春黄菊族植物丰富的种子微形态特征在其系统分类中具有重要的参考价值;本研究结果支持栉叶蒿属、紊蒿属、茼蒿属独立成属的观点。     

广西玄参科简志及其地理分布特点

在广西植物区系中,玄参科属于中等大小的科,计３１属９６种（变种）（另有栽培部分８属１３种已除外）．广布于全区各地．作者近年编《广西植物志》（玄参科）时．全面整理研究了该科广西的馆藏标本。现将其中科研或经济价值较大的部分分类群含广西新记录的３属１９种）加以简报,以资利用。同时,对本科在广西的地理分布特点亦作一初探。     

中国小鲵科属、种分类变更的回顾

小鲵科为亚洲特有的有尾两栖动物,是现生有尾目10科中第三大科.中国是小鲵科动物属、种分布的主要区域,且研究其分类历史较久,学者较多,故导致学术观点差异较大.本文对中国小鲵科分类地位发生变更的部分属(巴鲵属Liua、拟小鲵属Pseudohynobius、肥鲵属Pachyhynobius)、种(秦巴巴鲵L. tsinpaensis、满洲小鲵Hynobius mantchuricus、豫南小鲵H. yunanicus、弱唇褶山溪鲵Batrachuperus cochranae和太白山溪鲵B. taibaiensis)的变更历史进行回顾,旨在为小鲵科动物的分类提供一个清晰的背景知识.     

Distribution of styrylpyrones in the basidiocarps of various Hymenochaetaceae

Styrylpyrones were found to be restricted, among Aphyllophorales, to the Hymenochaetaceae s.s. (lacking asterosetae) and, athough lacking in some representatives, are thus an important characteristic of this family in the same way as the hymenial setae. Three main patterns were encountered corresponding to three major taxonomical divisions: hispidin alone (Phaeolus); hispidin with hymenoquinone (Hymenochaete); and hispidin with dimers (other poroid genera). Among the polypores of this family, styrylpyrones do not allow a clear-cut distinction between genera, but some infrageneric groups are readily characterized.     

大兴安岭地区硅藻中国新记录

报道了采自中国大兴安岭地区的中心类及无壳缝类硅藻植物5属9种,其中含3个中国新记录种:正链藻属的角状正链藻Orthoseira roeseana(Rabenhorst)O'Meara、脆杆藻属的古拉德脆杆藻Fragilaria goulardii(Brébisson)Lange-Bertalot和菱形脆杆藻Fragilaria nitzschioides Grunow。对国内文献报道较少的正链藻属、假十字形藻属、类十字形藻属、十字形藻属植物的形态特征进行了描述;对9种硅藻植物的分类特征及生态分布特点进行了描述。     

How are gene sequence analyses modifying bacterial taxonomy? The case of Klebsiella.

Bacterial names are continually being changed in order to more adequately describe natural groups (the units of microbial diversity) and their relationships. The problems in Klebsiella taxonomy are illustrative and common to other bacterial genera. Like other bacteria, Klebsiella spp. were isolated long ago, when methods to identify and classify bacteria were limited. However, recently developed molecular approaches have led to taxonomical revisions in several cases or to sound proposals of novel species.     

Diatoms of the Peatbog Sediments from Shemya Island (Aleutian Islands,United States)

Results of a study of diatoms from Holocene peatbog sediments from Shemya Island (Aleutian Islands, United States) are presented. The column of peat sediments (385 cm depth) was investigated (formation of peat sediments began more than 9500 years ago). Sixty-seven taxa of 31 genera, 17 families, eight orders, and three classes were identified. According to results of taxonomical and eco-geographical analyses, most taxa belong to the order Naviculales and family Pinnulariaceae and are benthic organisms with cosmopolitan distribution. Forms with different quality of frustule preservation were revealed. Centric diatoms demonstrate the best preservation in sediment. Of special interest is the dissolution of frustules in a water body with presumably low pH value. Dynamics of the pattern of species relative abundance was studied. Several zones with characteristic diatom complexes are distinguished. Analysis of distribution of diatoms in the column showed that, apparently, this locality was a shallow oligotrophic reservoir with a relatively low pH in the past. Water level changed occasionally, but trophic level did not change over the period of the reservoir’s existence.     

植物染色体图象分析数据库在芸苔族分类研究中的应用

本文首次用电脑图象分析手段对芸苔族5属13种植物进行了核型分析。其中蓝花子Raphanus;sativus var．raphanistroides、白芥Sinapis alba等植物的核型分析结果,都是国内外首次报道的。笔者建立了十字花科芸苔族植物的染色体数据库,这是国内外第一个专科性的植物染色体图象分析数据库,并且首次将染色体图象分析数据库应用于分类学研究。例如,比较分析芸苔族植物种间的亲缘关系和分类地位,以及探索物种之间的演化关系,得到了若干新的核型论据。笔者认为,植物染色体图象分析数据库在植物分类学研究中具有应用前景。     

Characterisation of aerobically grown non-spore-forming bacteria from paper mill pulps containing recycled fibres

A total of 179 non-spore-forming bacteria aerobically growing on Nutrient Agar, Plate Count Agar or in specific enrichment conditions for salmonella, campylobacteria, listeria, yersinia or staphylococci, were isolated from 16 untreated paper mill pulps. After phenotypical screening the isolates were characterised by automated ribotyping and partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. They could be divided into seven taxonomical classes representing 63 taxa (species): actinobacteria (11 species), bacilli (7), flavobacteria (3) alphaproteobacteria (10), betaproteobacteria (5), gammaproteobacteria (25) and sphingobacteria (2). Most of the gammaproteobacteria were enterobacteria, mainly species of the genera Enterobacter (7 species, 7 samples/3 mills) and Klebsiella (5 species, 6 samples/3 mills). Other commonly occurring bacteria were most closely related to Microbacterium barkeri (7 samples/3 mills), Cloacibacterium normanense (6 samples/2 mills), Pseudoxanthomonas taiwanensis (5 samples/2 mills) and Sphingobacterium composti (5 samples/1 mill). Sporadic isolates of Listeria innocua, L. monocytogenes, Enterococcus casseliflavus and Staphylococcus warneri were detected, from which only L. monocytogenes is considered to be a food pathogen. No isolates of the genera Campylobacter, Salmonella or Yersinia were detected. The detected bacteria may be harmful in process control, but the load of food pathogens with recycled fibres to paper machines is insignificant. Faecal contamination of the pulp samples was not indicated.     

Studies in Montia L. and Claytonia L. and Allied Genera

The pollen morphology of several genera in Portulacaceae is described. Particular attention has been paid to the genera of the subfamily Montioideae, as a stage of continued monographical studies. Among genera especially dealt with are Claytonia, Montia, Crunocallis, Naiocrene, Neopaxia, Mona, Maxia, Limnalsine, and Montiastrum. In the taxonomical treatment of these genera the pollen morphology has proved to afford many important additional characters.

The pollen grains of Claytonia are distinguished from those of the remainder in being 3-colpate. The grains of the Claytonia-type have many similarities with those of Lewisia, a genus of the subfamily Portulacoideae. The other genera of Montioideae have pantocolpate pollen grains. Among these genera several different pollen types are distinguished, chiefly with regard to the sexine structures and the aperture membranes. The Montiastrum-type is especially interesting, with tholate grains, a particular pollen type not met with in any other genus in the family. The pollen morphology of some genera in the Portulacoideae is also treated. In some species in Calandrina and Talinum pantotreme pollen grains are observed with apertures transitional between pori and colpi. The apertures of the pantotreme grains are arranged in characteristic patterns.

Particular attention has been given to the variation of the pollen morphological characters. This variation has been examined with regard to the differences between different populations of the same species as well as between different species. The greatest variation has been observed in the shape and size of the grains. The structure and sculpture and thickness of the sexine and the aperture membranes are less variable. Some polyploid taxa are connected with the occurrence of pollen grains with divergent and varying aperture numbers.

In a survey of the genera the taxonomical results of the investigation are presented with particular regard to the pollen morphology. The new genus, Maxia Ö. Nilss., is described. One new species, Montia clara Ö. Nilss., is described and some new combinations are made.

Pollen morphological diagnoses are given for 46 different taxa. The aperture conditions for 96 different species are presented.     

Soil Bacterial Community Shifts after Chitin Enrichment: An Integrative Metagenomic Approach

Chitin is the second most produced biopolymer on Earth after cellulose. Chitin degrading enzymes are promising but untapped sources for developing novel industrial biocatalysts. Hidden amongst uncultivated micro-organisms, new bacterial enzymes can be discovered and exploited by metagenomic approaches through extensive cloning and screening. Enrichment is also a well-known strategy, as it allows selection of organisms adapted to feed on a specific compound. In this study, we investigated how the soil bacterial community responded to chitin enrichment in a microcosm experiment. An integrative metagenomic approach coupling phylochips and high throughput shotgun pyrosequencing was established in order to assess the taxonomical and functional changes in the soil bacterial community. Results indicate that chitin enrichment leads to an increase of Actinobacteria, γ-proteobacteria and β-proteobacteria suggesting specific selection of chitin degrading bacteria belonging to these classes. Part of enriched bacterial genera were not yet reported to be involved in chitin degradation, like the members from the Micrococcineae sub-order (Actinobacteria). An increase of the observed bacterial diversity was noticed, with detection of specific genera only in chitin treated conditions. The relative proportion of metagenomic sequences related to chitin degradation was significantly increased, even if it represents only a tiny fraction of the sequence diversity found in a soil metagenome.     

福建九阜山自然保护区竹类资源及其开发利用

福建省尤溪县九阜山自然保护区竹类植物资源共有9属23种,主要的竹林有毛竹林、福建酸竹林、箬竹林、苦竹林。报道了九阜山自然保护区竹类植物资源种类、分类群组成、分布区类型等,并提出竹类资源的合理开发利用建议。     

Pericarp structure and myxocarpy in selected genera of Nepetoideae (Lamiaceae)

The pericarp structure has been analyzed in 37 species representing 13 genera from four tribes of Nepetoideae (Lamiaceae). 11 species are endemics of Balkan Peninsula or other Mediterranean regions. Basically, the pericarp was similar to other Nepetoideae by having exocarp, mesocarp s. str., vertically arranged bone cells and thin innermost cell layer. The ratio between pericarp thickness and nutlet size was the highest in Mentha spp. According to this parameter Micromeria species belonging to different sections could be distinguished. Acinos spp. were characterized by the thickest sclerenchyma in ratio to pericarp thickness. Crystals were present within sclerenchyma region in genera Mentha, Melissa, Nepeta and Prunella . The mucilage production has also been tested. Most of the studied species produced mucilage when becoming wet. The strongest mucilage reaction showed Acinos and Prunella . Pericarp characters studied are of taxonomical interest. They were mainly correlated with the generic or infrageneric classification of some genera.     

Molecular Systematics and Evolution of Arabidopsis and Arabis

Abstract: We provide a phylogenetic analysis of the genera Arabidopsis and Arabis based on nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. We show that traditional taxonomical concepts within tribe Ara-bideae, which includes these genera, are highly artificial. Arabis and Arabidopsis are paraphyletic and consist of several different independent lineages. The genus Capsella, originally placed in tribe Lepideae, is related to North American Arabis and the Arabidopsis thaliana lineage. Other genera, including East Asian Yin-shania, North American Halimolobus, cosmopolitan Barbarea and Cardamine, and European Aubrieta are positioned among different Arabis lineages. One Arabis species, Arabis pauciflora, is only distantly related to tribe Arabideae. Base chromosome number reduction from n = 8 to n = 5 to 7 occurred several times, suggesting that lower base chromosome numbers than n = 8 are derived in tribe Arabideae. Current knowledge on the evolution and systematics of the genera Arabis and Arabidopsis and relationships within the mustard family are summarized and discussed in the light of convergent evolution and transfer of knowledge from Arabidopsis thaliana as a molecular model plant to other species of the Cruciferae.     

Starting to unravel the toxoglossan knot: molecular phylogeny of the "turrids" (Neogastropoda: Conoidea)

The superfamily Conoidea is one of the most speciose groups of marine mollusks, with estimates of about 340 recent valid genera and subgenera, and 4000 named living species. Previous classifications were based on shell and anatomical characters, and clades and phylogenetic relationships are far from well assessed. Based on a dataset of ca. 100 terminal taxa belonging to 57 genera, information provided by fragments of one mitochondrial (COI) and three nuclear (28S, 18S and H3) genes is used to infer the first molecular phylogeny of this group. Analyses are performed on each gene independently as well as for a data matrix where all genes are concatenated, using Maximum Likelihood, Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian approaches. Several well-supported clades are defined and are only partly identifiable to currently recognized families and subfamilies. The nested sampling used in our study allows a discussion of the classification at various taxonomical levels, and several genera, subfamilies and families are found polyphyletic.