高产王浆西蜂DNA分子中的相关基因标志筛选及其鉴定

为了探讨西蜂与高产王浆相关特异基因标记 ,用 12种随机引物 (P1～P12 )对产王浆量不同的4品系西蜂的基因组DNA进行了RAPD PCR分析 ,分别获得了产王浆量高、低不同西蜂的DNA多态性图谱 ,并从P2 引物的DNA多态性图谱中筛选出一差异DNA片段P2 316bp .将P2 316bp差异DNA片段用地高辛标记制备成探针 ,进行Southern杂交鉴定 .实验显示 ,探针与高产王浆西蜂基因组DNA的扩增产物出现了阳性杂交信号 ,而与低产王浆西蜂基因组DNA的扩增产物未出现阳性杂交信号 .结果表明 ,该差异性基因片段P2 316bp是西蜂高产王浆优良性状相关的遗传标记 ,序列为 30 5个核苷酸 .     

甜瓜属种间杂交线粒体DNA的遗传分析

为了研究甜瓜属种间杂交线粒体DNA的遗传规律,对甜瓜属人工杂交合成的异源四倍体新种(Cucumis hytivus Chen and Kirkbride.)的S5后代及其杂交母本甜瓜属野生种（Cucumis hystrix Chakr.）和父本栽培种黄瓜‘北京截头’(Cucumis sativus L.)线粒体中apocytochrome b (cob), NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (nad 1), NADH dehydrogenase subunit 7(nad 7) 基因序列片断进行了测序与分析。结果显示3个种长度为909 bp cob, 943 bp nad 1和880 bp nad 7基因片断序列中分别存在着相应的1、7和17个多态性核苷酸位点,其中新种与父本‘北京截头’相同而与母本野生种不同的多态性碱基位点分别有1、6和14个,nad 1和nad 7中分别只有1和3个多态性位点与双亲都不相同。该结果表明甜瓜属hystrix譻ativus种间杂交后代线粒体DNA多态性碱基位点主要来源于父本而不是母本,线粒体DNA主要表现为父系遗传。     

利用F-MSAP分析菜心表观遗传多样性

菜心杂交除了引起DNA序列变化,还可能引起不依赖于DNA序列的表观遗传变化,为揭示菜心表观遗传多样性形成机理,该文利用F-MSAP检测49份菜心的DNA甲基化水平和模式变化。结果表明：(1)F-MSAP检测效率较高,菜心DNA甲基化多态性较高,杂交可以提高DNA甲基化多态性。(2)菜心表观遗传多样性较低,均质化严重,大部分遗传变异来源于种内,自交增加自交系的表观遗传差异,杂交增加杂种的表观遗传差异。(3)49份菜心的DNA甲基化水平较高,以全甲基化模式为主,自交降低DNA甲基化水平,杂交通过DNA甲基化模式变化增加自交系杂种的DNA甲基化水平。(4)49份菜心分成五类,聚类分析和主成分分析结果基本一致,杂种倾向于按照母本亲缘关系分类。该研究利用F-MSAP检测菜心表观遗传多样性,提高了菜心的鉴定效率和准确性,为进一步开展杂交育种提供了理论基础和技术支持。     

杂交水稻幼芽呼吸和抗氰呼吸强度的研究

本文研究了13个水稻杂交组合幼芽总呼吸强度和抗氰呼吸强度,发现杂交水稻幼芽总呼吸和抗氰呼吸强度多表现为负优势。杂种幼芽总呼吸强度及抗氰呼吸强度与其亲本均值均呈极显著正相关,回归关系亦极显著。杂种幼芽抗氰呼吸和其中亲值的差值与其父母本之差值呈显著正相关,而杂种幼芽呼吸强度其中亲值的差值与其父母本之差值呈不显著负相关。认为杂种幼芽的抗氰呼吸强度和总呼吸强度均可由其双亲均值预测,抗氰呼吸强度作为杂种优势预测生理指标的潜力更大一些。     

随机扩增杂交微卫星方法在大仓鼠种群遗传多态性研究中的应用

随机扩增杂交微卫星(Random amplified hybridization microsatellites,RAHM)是一种复合RAPD扩增和寡核苷酸扫描的方法。该方法能够从RAPD产物凝胶上获得更多的信息,具有分析方法快速,高敏感性,能检测到高水平的多态性等优点。RAHM方法通过对RAPD扩增的DNA片段进行微卫星杂交来替代限制性内切酶对基因组DNA的消化,有助于揭示微卫星基因组克隆,进行微卫星引物的筛选。本文采用随机扩增杂交微卫星方法来检测小型哺乳动物大仓鼠(Techerskia triton)种群的遗传多态性,结果表明RAHM方法能够检测到大仓鼠种群中较高的多态性以及种群间的差异,这些条带模式可能代表真核基因组中另一种多态性标记的来源,可用于检测小型哺乳动物种群的遗传多态性。     

宁夏野生枸杞(Lycium barbarum L.)苦味性状研究

采用植物学分类、常规杂交、PCR-SSR分子标记检测、超高效液相色谱-高分辨质谱[UPLC-MS(HRMS)]等方法,围绕宁夏野生苦味枸杞的苦味性状进行了研究。结果表明:野生苦味枸杞花丝、花柱的长度、种子大小和颜色等方面与其他中国枸杞种质资源存在较大差异,其花蕾中的雄蕊花丝、雌蕊花柱呈弓曲状,多数情况下其浆果簇状着生。PCR-SSR分子标记检测结果表明,宁夏野生苦味枸杞DNA扩增出了栽培枸杞品种宁杞1、2、3、4、5、7号等所没有的条带;在111~147 bp之间,扩增出了略高于中国枸杞其他种质资源的条带,其分子量高于中国枸杞其他种质资源相应的DNA的分子量,遗传差异明显。以宁杞7号作母本与宁夏野生苦味枸杞杂交,所得到的F_1成熟浆果出现苦味、甜味分离个数比例接近1∶1。宁杞7号作母本与野生半苦味枸杞杂交的F_1浆果苦、甜味的分离个数比例为1∶4。其反交F_1浆果均为苦味。野生苦味枸杞苦味基因可能是杂合的。苦味性状可能受多个显性加性基因控制,并与细胞核、质遗传物质互作有关。而甜味性状可能受隐性基因控制。初步判定,苦味物质是具有二氢槲皮素结构的黄酮类化合物。     

RAPD标记鉴定水稻3种不同细胞质雄性不育类型的杂交种及其亲本

利用RAPD引物对3种不同细胞质雄性不育类型的杂交水稻组合及其亲本共21个材料进行了DNA多态性分析。从264个随机引物中筛选出具有非常明显多态性的引物25个, 对25个引物在3种不同细胞质不育类型的杂交组合及其亲本间的DNA扩增多态性差异进行比较,最终选出具有不同类型间特异性扩增带的引物7个,利用这些特异性扩增带能有效地区分和鉴定目前在生产上大面积种植和推广,或者是具有应用潜力的3种不同细胞质雄性不育类型—野败型(WA)、红莲型(HL)和包台型(BT))—的6种杂交水稻组合及其亲本。     

陕油8号种子纯度的RAPD鉴定研究

从杂交油菜“陕油8号”及其亲本中提取基因组DNA,用100个RAPD随机引物进行扩增,从中筛选出3个可将亲本和子代区分的引物BA208、BA1090、BA497。BA208产生亲本互补的特征带BA208-1050bp、BA2081250bp;BA1090产生母本特征带BA1090-700bp,BA497产生父本特征带BA497-870bp,上述谱带均在子代中出现。以BA208产生的特征谱带作为分子标记对杂交油菜种子纯度鉴定得到了一致的结果,并与大田纯度检测结果一致。BA497可将“陕油8号”与当地4个主栽品种有效区分。此外,还对双引物共同鉴定杂交种子纯度问题进行了初步探讨。     

印度恒河蓝黑鲮与南亚黑鲮杂交个体的分子检测

利用鉴别性的同工酶位点从印度恒河水系的支流Banganga中检测到了蓝黑鲮(Labeo calbasu)与南亚黑鲮(Labeorohita)的一个杂交个体。线粒体DNA的单倍型模式进一步确认这个杂交个体的母本是河蓝黑鲮。     

优质甘薯种质福薯1号鉴定及利用研究

福薯1号是福建省农业科学院作物研究所以广薯62为母本,A48、福薯26等8个品种为父本计划集团杂交获得的优质甘薯种质。该种质作为亲本材料具有开花习性好、结实率高的特点,杂交获得的后代品系具有入选率高、食味品质好、商品品质优、抗病性强等特点,利用福薯1号为母本已选育出3个品种通过国家甘薯品种鉴定或福建省审定。     

Range and Frequency of Africanized Honey Bees in California (USA)

Africanized honey bees entered California in 1994 but few accounts of their northward expansion or their frequency relative to European honey bees have been published. We used mitochondrial markers and morphometric analyses to determine the prevalence of Africanized honeybees in San Diego County and their current northward progress in California west of the Sierra Nevada crest. The northernmost African mitotypes detected were approximately 40 km south of Sacramento in California’s central valley. In San Diego County, 65% of foraging honey bee workers carry African mitochondria and the estimated percentage of Africanized workers using morphological measurements is similar (61%). There was no correlation between mitotype and morphology in San Diego County suggesting Africanized bees result from bidirectional hybridization. Seventy percent of feral hives, but only 13% of managed hives, sampled in San Diego County carried the African mitotype indicating that a large fraction of foraging workers in both urban and rural San Diego County are feral. We also found a single nucleotide polymorphism at the DNA barcode locus COI that distinguishes European and African mitotypes. The utility of this marker was confirmed using 401 georeferenced honey bee sequences from the worldwide Barcode of Life Database. Future censuses can determine whether the current range of the Africanized form is stable, patterns of introgression at nuclear loci, and the environmental factors that may limit the northern range of the Africanized honey bee.     

Pollen diets and niche overlap of honey bees and native bees in protected areas

The decline of both managed and wild bee populations has been extensively reported for over a decade now, with growing concerns amongst the scientific community. Also, evidence is growing that both managed and feral honey bees may exacerbate threats to wild bees. In Australia, there are over 1600 native bee species and introduced European honey bees (Apis mellifera) have established throughout most landscapes. There is a major gap in knowledge of the interactions between honey bees and native bees in Australian landscapes, especially floral resource use.Here we report on the pollen diets of wild bees in protected areas of coastal heathland, an ecosystem characterised by mass flowering in late winter and spring. We sampled bees within three sites and DNA metabarcoding was used to compare the pollen diets of honey bees and native bees. We recorded 2, 772 bees in total, with 13 genera and 18 described species identified. Apis mellifera was the most common species across all locations, accounting for 42% of all bees collected. Native bee genera included eusocial Tetragonula (stingless bees) (37%), and semi-social Exoneura and Braunsapis (19.8% combined). Metabarcoding data revealed both Tetragonula and honey bees have wide foraging patterns, and the bipartite network overall was highly generalised (H₂’ = 0.24). Individual honey bees carried pollen of 7–29 plant species, and significantly more species than all other bees. We found niche overlap in the diets of honey bees and native bees generally (0.42), and strongest overlap with stingless bees (0.70) and species of Braunsapis (0.62). A surprising finding was that many species carried pollen from Restionaceae and Cyperaceae, families generally considered to be predominantly wind-pollinated in Australia. Our study showed introduced honey bee use of resources overlaps with that of native bees in protected heathlands, but there are clear differences in their diet preferences.     

A new threat to honey bees, the parasitic phorid fly Apocephalus borealis

Honey bee colonies are subject to numerous pathogens and parasites. Interaction among multiple pathogens and parasites is the proposed cause for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a syndrome characterized by worker bees abandoning their hive. Here we provide the first documentation that the phorid fly Apocephalus borealis, previously known to parasitize bumble bees, also infects and eventually kills honey bees and may pose an emerging threat to North American apiculture. Parasitized honey bees show hive abandonment behavior, leaving their hives at night and dying shortly thereafter. On average, seven days later up to 13 phorid larvae emerge from each dead bee and pupate away from the bee. Using DNA barcoding, we confirmed that phorids that emerged from honey bees and bumble bees were the same species. Microarray analyses of honey bees from infected hives revealed that these bees are often infected with deformed wing virus and Nosema ceranae. Larvae and adult phorids also tested positive for these pathogens, implicating the fly as a potential vector or reservoir of these honey bee pathogens. Phorid parasitism may affect hive viability since 77% of sites sampled in the San Francisco Bay Area were infected by the fly and microarray analyses detected phorids in commercial hives in South Dakota and California's Central Valley. Understanding details of phorid infection may shed light on similar hive abandonment behaviors seen in CCD.     

Honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) distribution and potential for supplementary pollination in commercial tomato greenhouses during winter

This study examined the use of honey bees, Apis mellifera L., to supplement bumble bee, Bombus spp., pollination in commercial tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum Miller, greenhouses in Western Canada. Honey bee colonies were brought into greenhouses already containing bumble bees and left for 1 wk to acclimatize. The following week, counts of honey and bumble bees foraging and flying throughout the greenhouse were conducted three times per day, and tomato flowers open during honey bee pollination were marked for later fruit harvest. The same counts and flower-marking also were done before and after the presence of honey bees to determine the background level of bumble bee pollination. Overall, tomato size was not affected by the addition of honey bees, but in one greenhouse significantly larger tomatoes were produced with honey bees present compared with bumble bees alone. In that greenhouse, honey bee foraging was greater than in the other greenhouses. Honey bees generally foraged within 100 m of their colony in all greenhouses. Our study invites further research to examine the use of honey bees with reduced levels of bumble bees, or as sole pollinators of greenhouse tomatoes. We also make specific recommendations for how honey bees can best be managed in greenhouses.     

Resource overlap and possible competition between honey bees and wild bees in central Europe

Evidence for interspecific competition between honey bees and wild bees was studied on 15 calcareous grasslands with respect to: (1) foraging radius of honey bees, (2) overlap in resource use, and (3) possible honey bee effects on species richness and abundance of flower-visiting, ground-nesting and trap-nesting wild bees. The grasslands greatly differed in the number of honey bee colonies within a radius of 2 km and were surrounded by agricultural habitats. The number of flower-visiting honey bees on both potted mustard plants and small grassland patches declined with increasing distance from the nearest apiary and was almost zero at a distance of 1.5–2.0 km. Wild bees were observed visiting 57 plant species, whereas honey bees visited only 24 plant species. Percentage resource overlap between honey bees and wild bees was 45.5%, and Hurlbert’s index of niche overlap was 3.1. In total, 1849 wild bees from 98 species were recorded on the calcareous grasslands. Neither species richness nor abundance of wild bees were negatively correlated with the density of honey bee colonies (within a radius of 2 km) or the density of flower-visiting honey bees per site. Abundance of flower- visiting wild bees was correlated only with the percentage cover of flowering plants. In 240 trap nests, 1292 bee nests with 6066 brood cells were found. Neither the number of bee species nor the number of brood cells per grassland was significantly correlated with the density of honey bees. Significant correlations were found only between the number of brood cells and the percentage cover of shrubs. The number of nest entrances of ground-nesting bees per square metre was not correlated with the density of honey bees but was negatively correlated with the cover of vegetation. Interspecific competition by honey bees for food resources was not shown to be a significant factor determining abundance and species richness of wild bees. Received: 22 March 1999 / Accepted: 24 September 1999     

The habitat disruption induces immune-suppression and oxidative stress in honey bees

The honey bee is a major insect used for pollination of many commercial crops worldwide. Although the use of honey bees for pollination can disrupt the habitat, the effects on their physiology have never been determined. Recently, honey bee colonies have often collapsed when introduced in greenhouses for pollination in Japan. Thus, suppressing colony collapses and maintaining the number of worker bees in the colonies is essential for successful long-term pollination in greenhouses and recycling of honey bee colonies. To understand the physiological states of honey bees used for long-term pollination in greenhouses, we characterized their gene expression profiles by microarray. We found that the greenhouse environment changes the gene expression profiles and induces immune-suppression and oxidative stress in honey bees. In fact, the increase of the number of Nosema microsporidia and protein carbonyl content was observed in honey bees during pollination in greenhouses. Thus, honey bee colonies are likely to collapse during pollination in greenhouses when heavily infested with pathogens. Degradation of honey bee habitat by changing the outside environment of the colony, during pollination services for example, imposes negative impacts on honey bees. Thus, worldwide use of honey bees for crop pollination in general could be one of reasons for the decline of managed honey bee colonies.     

Genotypical Variability for the Tasks of Water Collecting and Scenting in a Honey Bee Colony

The polyandrous mating behaviour of the honey bee queen increases the genotypical variability amongst her worker offspring. Microsatellite DNA analyses revealed a total of 16 subfamilies in one colony of honey bees. The subfamilies were represented in significantly different proportions in two subgroups of bees, water collecting bees and scenting bees, indicating a genetic component in task choice.