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Ralph ET Vanstreels Nola J Parsons Cuan McGeorge Renata Hurtado Katrin Ludynia Lauren Waller 《Ostrich》2019,90(4):359-372
The African Penguin Spheniscus demersus is an endangered seabird endemic to southern Africa, and killing sprees by terrestrial predators have been one of the main threats for its mainland colonies. The methods employed to manage predators may differ depending on the species involved, therefore the implementation of strategies to limit the impacts of predation relies on the correct identification of the culprit predator. We report and quantify the lesions seen in African Penguins killed by four species of terrestrial predators: Caracal Caracal caracal (52 kills), Leopard Panthera pardus (27 kills), Domestic Dog Canis lupus familiaris (10 kills), and Cape Grey Mongoose Galerella pulverulenta (4 kills). We discuss patterns of necropsy findings that can be used to identify the predator species involved. Traditional forensic methods are useful tools to direct species-specific management actions for the conservation of the African Penguin and other seabirds so that effective mitigating measures can be deployed quickly to prevent further losses. It should be borne in mind, however, that the age, size and previous hunting experience of the predator are likely to influence the pattern of lesions that will be observed, and not all carcasses will have hallmark lesions or recognisable bite marks. 相似文献
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LM Harris L Blank RP Desai NE Welker ET Papoutsakis 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》2001,27(5):322-328
The effect of solR inactivation on the metabolism of Clostridium acetobutylicum was examined using fermentation characterization and metabolic flux analysis. The solR-inactivated strain (SolRH) of this study had a higher rate of glucose utilization and produced higher solvent concentrations
(by 25%, 14%, and 81%, respectively, for butanol, acetone, and ethanol) compared to the wild type. Strain SolRH(pTAAD), carrying
a plasmid-encoded copy of the bifunctional alcohol/aldehyde dehydrogenase gene (aad) used in butanol production, produced even higher concentrations of solvents (by 21%, 45%, and 62%, respectively, for butanol,
acetone, and ethanol) than strain SolRH. Clarithromycin used for strain SolRH maintenance during SolRH(pTAAD) fermentations
did not alter product formation; however, tetracycline used for pTAAD maintenance resulted in 90% lower solvent production.
Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (2001) 27, 322–328.
Received 12 September 2000/ Accepted in revised form 21 July 2001 相似文献
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This report describes a convenient method for the rapid and efficient
release of N-linked oligosaccharides from low microgram amounts of
glycoproteins. A 96-well MultiScreen assay system containing a
polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membrane is employed to immobilize
glycoproteins for subsequent enzymatic deglycosylation. Recombinant
tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) is used to demonstrate the
deglycosylation of 0.1-50 micrograms of a glycoprotein. This method enabled
the recovery of a sufficient amount of N-linked oligosaccharides released
enzymatically with peptide N-glycosidase F (PNGaseF) from as little as 0.5
microgram rt-PA for subsequent analysis by matrix-assisted laser
desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI- TOF) mass spectrometry. The
immobilization of rt-PA to the PVDF membrane did not sterically inhibit the
PNGaseF-mediated release of oligosaccharides from rt-PA as determined by
tryptic mapping experiments. Comparison of the oligosaccharides released
from 50 micrograms of rt-PA by either the 96-well plate method or by a
standard solution digestion procedure showed no significant differences in
the profiles obtained by high-pH anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed
amperometric detection (HPAEC-PAD). Both neutral and sialylated
oligosaccharide standards spiked into wells were recovered equally as
determined by HPAEC-PAD. One advantage of this approach is that reduction
and alkylation can be performed on submicrogram amounts of glycoproteins
with easy removal of reagents prior to PNGaseF digestion. In addition, this
method allows 60 glycoprotein samples to be deglycosylated in 1 day with
MALDI-TOF or HPAEC-PAD analysis being performed on the following day.
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TUBA BUCAK ECE SARAOĞLU ETİ E. LEVİ Ü. NİHAN TAVŞANOĞLU A. İdİl ÇAKİROĞLU ERIK JEPPESEN MERYEM BEKLİOĞLU 《Freshwater Biology》2012,57(8):1631-1642
1. Water‐level fluctuations are typical of lakes located in the semi‐arid Mediterranean region, which is characterised by warm rainy winters and hot dry summers. Ongoing climate change may exacerbate fluctuations and lead to more severe episodes of drought, so information on the effects of water level on the functioning of lake ecosystems in such regions is crucial. 2. In eutrophic Lake Eymir, Turkey, we conducted a 4‐month (summer) field experiment using cylindrical 0.8‐m‐ (low‐water‐level) and 1.6‐m‐deep (high‐water‐level) mesocosms (kept open to the sediment and atmosphere). Fish (tench, Tinca tinca, and bleak, Alburnus escherichii) were added to half of the mesocosms, while the rest were kept fishless. Ten shoots of Potamogeton pectinatus were transplanted to each mesocosm. 3. Sampling for physicochemical variables, chlorophyll a (chl‐a), zooplankton and per cent plant volume inhabited (PVI%) by macrophytes was conducted weekly during the first 5 weeks, and subsequently biweekly. Macrophytes were harvested on the last sampling date. During the course of the experiment, the water level decreased by 0.41 ± 0.06 m. 4. Throughout the experiment, fish affected zooplankton abundance (?), nutrient concentrations (+), chl‐a (+) and water clarity (?) most strongly in the low‐water‐level mesocosms and the zooplankton community shifted towards dominance of small‐sized forms. The fishless mesocosms had a higher zooplankton/phytoplankton ratio, suggesting higher grazing. 5. Greatest macrophyte growth was observed in the low‐water‐level fishless mesocosms. However, despite high nutrient concentrations and low water clarity, macrophytes were also abundant in the fish mesocosms and particularly increased following a water‐level decrease from midsummer onwards. Macrophyte growth was poor in the high‐water‐level mesocosms, even in the fishless ones with high water clarity. This was ascribed to extensive periphyton development reducing light availability for the macrophytes. 6. Our results indicate that a reduction in water level during summer may help maintain the growth of macrophytes in Mediterranean eutrophic shallow lakes, despite a strong negative effect of fish predation on water clarity. It is therefore probable that an expected negative effect of global climate change on water clarity because of eutrophication and enhanced top‐down control of fish may be, at least partly, counteracted by reduced water level, provided that physical disturbance is not severe. 相似文献
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Michelle G Rooks Patrick Veiga Leslie H Wardwell-Scott Timothy Tickle Nicola Segata Monia Michaud Carey Ann Gallini Chloé Beal Johan ET van Hylckama-Vlieg Sonia A Ballal Xochitl C Morgan Jonathan N Glickman Dirk Gevers Curtis Huttenhower Wendy S Garrett 《The ISME journal》2014,8(7):1403-1417
Dysregulated immune responses to gut microbes are central to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and gut microbial activity can fuel chronic inflammation. Examining how IBD-directed therapies influence gut microbiomes may identify microbial community features integral to mitigating disease and maintaining health. However, IBD patients often receive multiple treatments during disease flares, confounding such analyses. Preclinical models of IBD with well-defined disease courses and opportunities for controlled treatment exposures provide a valuable solution. Here, we surveyed the gut microbiome of the T-bet−/−
Rag2−/− mouse model of colitis during active disease and treatment-induced remission. Microbial features modified among these conditions included altered potential for carbohydrate and energy metabolism and bacterial pathogenesis, specifically cell motility and signal transduction pathways. We also observed an increased capacity for xenobiotics metabolism, including benzoate degradation, a pathway linking host adrenergic stress with enhanced bacterial virulence, and found decreased levels of fecal dopamine in active colitis. When transferred to gnotobiotic mice, gut microbiomes from mice with active disease versus treatment-induced remission elicited varying degrees of colitis. Thus, our study provides insight into specific microbial clades and pathways associated with health, active disease and treatment interventions in a mouse model of colitis. 相似文献
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Nucleotide sequence divergence in the A+T-rich region of mitochondrial DNA in Drosophila simulans and Drosophila mauritiana 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
We have determined the nucleotide sequences of two regions within the
A+T-rich region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the siIII type of
Drosophila simulans and the maI type of D. mauritiana. The sequences of the
two regions in siIII and maI are almost identical. The sequences include
elements corresponding to the type I and type II repeats elements and the
T-stretches as reported in D. melanogaster; an approximately 340-bp region
(A region) adjacent to the tRNA(Ile) gene includes a part of the type II
repeat element, and an approximately 440- bp region (B region) includes a
central portion of the A+T-rich region between the type I and type II
repeat arrays. Each sequence of the two species was compared with those of
D. melanogaster and D. yakuba. The sequences of the A region are relatively
well conserved among the four species. The alignment of the two sequences
of the B region with those of D. melanogaster and D. yakuba requires
numerous insertions/deletions. For both regions, nucleotide differences
between D. simulans or D. mauritiana and D. melanogaster are similar to
those between the two and D. yakuba. The tendency is obvious in a subregion
within the type II repeat element in the A region. These findings suggest
that the rate of nucleotide substitution in the subregion is accelerated in
the lineage leading to D. melanogaster. Loss of functional constraint in
the stem-loop-forming sequence is proposed for this acceleration.
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YVES PLUSQUELLEC JEAN LAFUSTE ET GREGORY E. WEBB 《Lethaia: An International Journal of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy》1990,23(4):385-397
Plusquellec, Y., Lafuste, J. & Webb, G. E. 1990 10 15: Organisation de type tétracoralliaire des rides septales de Palaeacis (Cnidaria, Carbonifére). Lethaia, Vol. 23, pp. 385–397. Oslo. ISSN 0024–1164. Precedemment signalée chez Kerforneidictyum (Pleurodictyforme dévonien), la rare disposition des rides septales suivant un mode tétracoralliaire est décrite chez un Palaeack sp. du Viséen d'Algérie et chez P. cuneiformis subsp. A du Viseen d'Australie. Chez Palaeacis sp. sont mises en evidence une ride septale cardinale forte en position externe opposée à une ride antipode déterminant un plan de symétrie bilatérale; de part et d'autre une zone systématiquement confuse marque l'emplacement des rides alaires. La reconnaissance des périantipodes prête à discussion et ce secteur présente une originalité certaine par rapport à celui des Tétracoralliaires. Chez P. cuneiformis subsp. A, une coupe transversale montre la présence de quatre rides proéminentes qui fusionnent dans I'axe du corallite et I'existence d'une symétrie bilatérale. La position systématique du genre Palaeacis est discutée: son attribution aux Tétracoralliaires est exclue, ancun caractére n'est incompatible avec le statut de Tabulé, la création d'une unité taxon-omique nouvelle regroupant Palaeacis, Trachypsammia et les Pleurodictyformes est envisageable mais actuellement prématurée. ? Palaeacis, Tabulata, Rugosa, rides septales, systématique, relations deparenré, Viséen. The tetracoral pattern of septal ridges described in Kerforneidictyum (Devonian Pleurodictyum-like coral) is scar'ce in the Tabulata, but has been found in Palaeacis sp. from the Visean of Algeria and in P. cuneiformis subsp. A from the Visean of Australia. Palaeacis sp. shows a strong cardinal septal ridge in peripheral position, just opposite the counter ridge. thus creating a plane of bilateral symmetry: an area on both sides. which is always blurred, indicates the position of the alar ridges. counter-lateral ridges are not easily identified and yield differing interpretation. Compared with the Rugosa this area presents distinctive features. In P. cuneiformis subsp. A, a transverse section exhibits four well-developed septal ridges that coalesce in the axis of the corallite with obvious bilateral symmetry. The systematic position of the genus Palaeacis is questioned: Rugosa it is not; it may belong to Tabulata: however, erecting a new higher taxon for Palaeacis, Trachypsammia and other Pleurodictyum-like corals is premature at our present state of knowledge. ? Palaeacis, Tabulata, Rugosa, septal ridges, systematic. affinities, Visean. 相似文献
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Both the Entamoeba histolytica lectin, a virulence factor for the causative
agent of amebiasis, and the mammalian hepatic lectin bind to
N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) and galactose (Gal) nonreducing termini on
oligosaccharides, with preference for GalNAc. Polyvalent GalNAc-
derivatized neoglycoproteins have >1000-fold enhanced binding affinity
for both lectins (Adler,P., Wood,S.J., Lee,Y.C., Lee,R.T., Petri,W.A.,Jr.
and Schnaar,R.L.,1995, J. Biol. Chem ., 270, 5164-5171). Substructural
specificity studies revealed that the 3-OH and 4-OH groups of GalNAc were
required for binding to both lectins, whereas only the E.histolytica lectin
required the 6-OH group. Whereas GalNAc binds with 4-fold lower affinity to
the E.histolytica lectin than to the mammalian hepatic lectin,
galactosamine and N-benzoyl galactosamine bind with higher affinity to the
E. histolytica lectin. Therefore, a synthetic scheme for converting
polyamine carriers to poly-N-acyl galactosamine derivatives (linked through
the galactosamine primary amino group) was developed to test whether such
ligands would bind the E.histolytica lectin with high specificity and high
affinity. Contrary to expectations, polyvalent derivatives including
GalN6lys5, GalN4desmosine, GalN4StarburstTMdendrimer, and
GalN8StarburstTMdendrimer demonstrated highly enhanced binding to the
mammalian hepatic lectin but little or no enhancement of binding to the
E.histolytica lectin. We propose that the mammalian hepatic lectin binds
with greatest affinity to GalNAc "miniclusters," which mimic branched
termini of N-linked oligosaccharides, whereas the E.histolytica lectin
binds most effectively to "maxiclusters," which may mimic more widely
spaced GalNAc residues on intestinal mucins.
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JAGLIN ET FLORENTIN PARIS 《Lethaia: An International Journal of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy》1992,25(2):151-164
Jaglin, J.-C. & Paris, F. 1992 04 IS: Exemples de tératologie chez les Chitinozoaires du Pridoli de Libye et implications sur la signification biologique du groupe. [Teratologic cases among Pridolian chitinozoans from Libya and implications on the biological interpretation of the group.] Lethaia , Vol. 25, pp. 151–164. Oslo. ISSN 0024–1164.
Fairly numerous chitinozoans displaying morphological anomalies are recorded in Late Silurian subsurface material from Western Libya. The individuals described and illustrated in our paper range exclusively in a short interval at the top of the investigated sequence. These abnormal vesicles are interpreted as teratologic cases related lo an event of unknown origin. From our conclusions, the hypothesis of vegetative reproduction stages stated by previous authors seems unlikely. Therefore we still interpret the chitinozoan vesicles as eggs (or to a lesser extent as spores) of marine organisms. * Libya, Chitinozoans, Silurian, teratology, chitinozoan affinities . 相似文献
Fairly numerous chitinozoans displaying morphological anomalies are recorded in Late Silurian subsurface material from Western Libya. The individuals described and illustrated in our paper range exclusively in a short interval at the top of the investigated sequence. These abnormal vesicles are interpreted as teratologic cases related lo an event of unknown origin. From our conclusions, the hypothesis of vegetative reproduction stages stated by previous authors seems unlikely. Therefore we still interpret the chitinozoan vesicles as eggs (or to a lesser extent as spores) of marine organisms. * Libya, Chitinozoans, Silurian, teratology, chitinozoan affinities . 相似文献
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The Janus kinases (Jaks) 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3