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Galef BG 《Journal of applied animal welfare science : JAAWS》1999,2(4):267-280
Because of the difficulty of' establishing objective measures of laboratory rodents' psychological well-being, developing environmental enrichment programs that are actually beneficial to rodents destined to participate in laboratory research is particularly challenging. Many studies of effects of environmental complexity, social housing, and increases in cage size suggest that professional judgments as to the impact of diverse types of environmental enrichment on rodent welfare are not a reliable basis for evaluating the outcomes of enrichment programs for laboratory rodents. Successful enrichment programs will vary from one rodent species to another, between sexes, as well as between age classes. There is a need for objective, measurable goals for proposed environmental enrichment programs for rodents, as well a s for empirical investigations of the beneficial and detrimental consequences of proposed environmental manipulations. 相似文献
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The productivity of breeding colonies of Mongolian gerbils can be substantially enhanced by using as breeding stock only the 40% of females that exhibit vaginal opening before reaching 25 days of age. Early-maturing females are more likely to breed successfully on first pairing. The lifetime fecundity of early-maturing females is more than twice that of their late-maturing sisters. In those cases in which early-maturing females fail to breed with the first male with which they are paired, they (but not late-maturing females) can be mated with a second male with a high probability of success. Two-thirds of the early-maturing females that failed to reproduce following a first pairing became pregnant following a second. Only 11% of late-maturing females did so. 相似文献
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Determining the evolutionary potential of a gene 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
In addition to information for current functions, the sequence of a gene
includes potential information for the evolution of new functions. The
wild-type ebgA (evolved beta-galactosidase) gene of Escherichia coli
encodes a virtually inactive beta-galactosidase, but that gene has the
potential to evolve sufficient activity to replace the lacZ gene for growth
on the beta-galactoside sugars lactose and lactulose. Experimental
evidence, which has suggested that the evolutionary potential of Ebg enzyme
is limited o two specific amino acid replacements, is limited to examining
the consequences of single base- substitutions. Thirteen
beta-galactosidases homologous with the Ebg beta-galactosidase are widely
dispersed, being found in gram-negative and gram-positive eubacteria and in
a eukaryote. A comparison of Ebg beta-galactosidase with those 13
beta-galactosidases shows that Ebg is part of an ancient clade that
diverged from the paralogous lacZ beta- galactosidase over 2 billion years
ago. Ebg differs from other members of its clade at only 2 of the 15
active-site residues, and the two mutations required for full Ebg
beta-galactosidase activity bring Ebg into conformity with the other
members of its clade. We conclude that either these are the only acceptable
amino acids at those positions, or all of the single-base-substitution
replacements that must arise as intermediates on the way to other
acceptable amino acids are so deleterious that they constitute a deep
selective valley that has not been traversed in over 2 billion years. The
evolutionary potential of Ebg is thus limited to those two replacements.
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Each of 36 observer rats was: (1) exposed to a demonstrator rat that had eaten an unpalatable, cayenne-pepper-flavored diet (Diet Cay), then tested to determine its willingness to eat Diet Cay and (2) exposed to a demonstrator rat that had eaten a palatable diet (Diet NPT) to which the observer had previously learned an aversion, then tested to determine its willingness to eat Diet NPT. In both instances, some observers ate substantial amounts of the diet that their respective demonstrators had eaten, while other observers did not. No consistency was found across the two situations in the relative susceptibility of individual observer rats to social influences on their food choices. In a second experiment, observer rats interacted, at 3 day intervals, with demonstrator rats that had each eaten different diets. After each interaction, all observers were given a choice test to determine their preferences for the diet that their demonstrators had eaten. Again, there was no consistency in the relative strength of individual observer rats' socially induced preferences for diets fed to demonstrators. Stable individual differences in magnitude of susceptibility to social influence on food preference did not account for a detectable proportion of observed variance in diet selection. 相似文献
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A female Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica, will increase her tendency to affiliate and mate with a conspecific male after seeing him court and mate with another female. In the present study, we found that female quail increased the time they spent near a live target male after seeing that same male court and mate with another female in a 5-min video displayed on an active-matrix TFT monitor. However, female quail that were shown 5-min video sequences of either a target male standing alone or a randomly selected male courting and mating did not subsequently increase the time they spent near a live target male. These findings provide the first demonstration of which we are aware of birds transferring individual identification from a video sequence to a real animal. Copyright 2003 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. 相似文献
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N. Atton B. J. Galef W. Hoppitt M. M. Webster K. N. Laland 《Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society》2014,281(1789)
Numerous factors affect the fine-scale social structure of animal groups, but it is unclear how important such factors are in determining how individuals encounter resources. Familiarity affects shoal choice and structure in many social fishes. Here, we show that familiarity between shoal members of sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) affects both fine-scale social organization and the discovery of resources. Social network analysis revealed that sticklebacks remained closer to familiar than to unfamiliar individuals within the same shoal. Network-based diffusion analysis revealed that there was a strong untransmitted social effect on patch discovery, with individuals tending to discover a task sooner if a familiar individual from their group had previously done so than if an unfamiliar fish had done so. However, in contrast to the effect of familiarity, the frequency with which individuals had previously associated with one another had no effect upon the likelihood of prey patch discovery. This may have been due to the influence of fish on one another''s movements; the effect of familiarity on discovery of an empty ‘control’ patch was as strong as for discovery of an actual prey patch. Our results demonstrate that factors affecting fine-scale social interactions can also influence how individuals encounter and exploit resources. 相似文献
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Role of cryptic genes in microbial evolution 总被引:24,自引:1,他引:23
Cryptic genes are phenotypically silent DNA sequences, not normally
expressed during the life cycle of an individual. They may, however, be
activated in a few individuals of a large population by mutation,
recombination, insertion elements, or other genetic mechanisms. A
consideration of the microbial literature concerning biochemical evolution,
physiology, and taxonomy provides the basis for a hypothesis of microbial
adaptation and evolution by mutational activation of cryptic genes.
Evidence is presented, and a mathematical model is derived, indicating that
powerful and biologically important mechanisms exist to prevent the loss of
cryptic genes. We propose that cryptic genes persist as a vital element of
the genetic repertoire, ready for recall by mutational activation in future
generations. Cryptic genes provide a versatile endogenous genetic reservoir
that enhances the adaptive potential of a species by a mechanism that is
independent of genetic exchange.
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