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Cínthia C. Bonatto Beatriz S. Magalhães Joaquim O. Branco Edison L. Durigon Luciano P. Silva 《Polar Biology》2009,32(2):287-293
Antarctic biodiversity is evolutionarily complex, reflecting the extreme ambient conditions. Therefore, Antarctic organisms
exhibit sophisticated adaptations in all organization levels, including organs, tissues, and cells. Since red blood cells
(RBCs) travel through the vertebrates blood delivering O2 to all tissues and organs and purging the unwanted CO2, they represent an interesting model to investigate biological adaptations. We have used atomic force microscopy (AFM) to
compare the shape and size of RBCs of the Pygoscelid penguins. A total of 18 landmarks were measured in AFM images. When analyzed
individually, the parameters were not capable of discriminating the RBCs of each species. However, the simultaneous use of
multiple parameters discriminated (74%) among the RBCs. In addition, the use of RBC measurements was sufficient to hierarchically
cluster the species in accordance to other common and reliable phylogenetic strategies. In light of these results, the use
of RBC characters could effectively benefit taxonomic inferences. 相似文献
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Howard C. Rosenbaum Cristina Pomilla Martin Mendez Matthew S. Leslie Peter B. Best Ken P. Findlay Gianna Minton Peter J. Ersts Timothy Collins Marcia H. Engel Sandro L. Bonatto Deon P. G. H. Kotze Mike Me?er Jaco Barendse Meredith Thornton Yvette Razafindrakoto Solange Ngouessono Michel Vely Jeremy Kiszka 《PloS one》2009,4(10)
Although humpback whales are among the best-studied of the large whales, population boundaries in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) have remained largely untested. We assess population structure of SH humpback whales using 1,527 samples collected from whales at fourteen sampling sites within the Southwestern and Southeastern Atlantic, the Southwestern Indian Ocean, and Northern Indian Ocean (Breeding Stocks A, B, C and X, respectively). Evaluation of mtDNA population structure and migration rates was carried out under different statistical frameworks. Using all genetic evidence, the results suggest significant degrees of population structure between all ocean basins, with the Southwestern and Northern Indian Ocean most differentiated from each other. Effective migration rates were highest between the Southeastern Atlantic and the Southwestern Indian Ocean, followed by rates within the Southeastern Atlantic, and the lowest between the Southwestern and Northern Indian Ocean. At finer scales, very low gene flow was detected between the two neighbouring sub-regions in the Southeastern Atlantic, compared to high gene flow for whales within the Southwestern Indian Ocean. Our genetic results support the current management designations proposed by the International Whaling Commission of Breeding Stocks A, B, C, and X as four strongly structured populations. The population structure patterns found in this study are likely to have been influenced by a combination of long-term maternally directed fidelity of migratory destinations, along with other ecological and oceanographic features in the region. 相似文献
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Aulus EAD Barbosa Érika VS Albuquerque Maria CM Silva Djair SL Souza Osmundo B Oliveira-Neto Arnubio Valencia Thales L Rocha Maria F Grossi-de-Sa 《BMC biotechnology》2010,10(1):44
Background
Coffee is an important crop and is crucial to the economy of many developing countries, generating around US70 billion per year. There are 115 species in the < i > Coffea < /i > genus, but only two, < i > C. arabica < /i > and < i > C. canephora < /i > , are commercially cultivated. Coffee plants are attacked by many pathogens and insect-pests, which affect not only the production of coffee but also its grain quality, reducing the commercial value of the product. The main insect-pest, the coffee berry borer ( < i > Hypotheneumus hampei < /i > ), is responsible for worldwide annual losses of around US70 billion per year. There are 115 species in the Coffea genus, but only two, C. arabica and C. canephora, are commercially cultivated. Coffee plants are attacked by many pathogens and insect-pests, which affect not only the production of coffee but also its grain quality, reducing the commercial value of the product. The main insect-pest, the coffee berry borer (Hypotheneumus hampei), is responsible for worldwide annual losses of around US500 million. The coffee berry borer exclusively damages the coffee berries, and it is mainly controlled by organochlorine insecticides that are both toxic and carcinogenic. Unfortunately, natural resistance in the genus Coffea to H. hampei has not been documented. To overcome these problems, biotechnological strategies can be used to introduce an α-amylase inhibitor gene (α-AI1), which confers resistance against the coffee berry borer insect-pest, into C. arabica plants. 相似文献44.
The phylogenetic relationships among characids are complex with many genera remaining of uncertain systematic position inside the family. The genus Hollandichthys is one of these problematic genera. It has been considered as incertae sedis inside this family until two recently published phylogenies, one morphological and one molecular, arrived at alternative hypothesizes as to the relationships of Hollandichthys with Pseudochalceus or Rachoviscus, respectively. In this paper, we infer the phylogenetic relations of these taxa based on five genes (three mitochondrial - COI, ND2 and 16S; and two nuclear - Sia and Trop), totaling up to 2719 bp. The 41 analyzed species in the Characidae include four incertae sedis characid taxa once hypothesized as related to Hollandichthys, but never analyzed in a single phylogeny (Rachoviscus, Pseudochalceus, Nematocharax and Hyphessobrycon uruguayensis). Here we propose Rachoviscus as the sister-group of Hollandichthys, grouped in the large clade C previously defined, along with the remaining incertae sedis taxa studied here. In addition, we support the evidence that insemination evolved independently at least three times in the Characidae. 相似文献
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Heller AH Salzano FM Barrantes R Krylov M Benevolenskaya L Arnett FC Munkhbat B Munkhtuvshin N Tsuji K Hutz MH Carnese FR Goicoechea AS Freitas LB Bonatto SL 《Human biology; an international record of research》2004,76(4):591-604
One-hundred three individuals from two Mongolian, two Siberian, and ten native American populations were studied in relation to a 340-bp sequence from an Alu insertion located in the 3' untranslated region of the LDLR gene. Seven haplotypes have been determined, and haplotype B1 was the most common, accounting for about half the sequences found. In general, diversity values are quite high, about 2.5 times higher than those found in other autosomal Alu sequences. Almost all (93%) of the variability occurs at the intrapopulation level, but the greatest among-group differentiation (6-8%) was found when we grouped in a single population all Native Americans plus Siberian Eskimos and Chukchi and compared them with Mongolians. This result is compatible with earlier mtDNA and Y-chromosome suggestions of a single origin for the first colonizers of the American continent. With this nuclear locus it was not possible to broadly distinguish between Central and South American natives. No evidence of selection or marked demographic changes was obtained with these data. 相似文献
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Antioxidant, a pro-oxidant and cytotoxic effects of Achyrocline satureioides extracts 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Polydoro M de Souza KC Andrades ME Da Silva EG Bonatto F Heydrich J Dal-Pizzol F Schapoval EE Bassani VL Moreira JC 《Life sciences》2004,74(23):2815-2826
In this study we compared the antioxidant properties of five different extracts of different composition obtained from Achyrocline satureioides' inflorescences (Compositae), a widely used Brazilian folk medicinal herb. All of the extracts presented significant antioxidant potential identified by TRAP assay, which increased in the presence of human plasma. Characterization of the content of flavonoids in each extract showed that the FDP80 (ethanol 80%) and FFr (enriched flavonoid fraction) extracts contained a higher content of flavonoids. Cytotoxicity of the extracts as determined in Sertoli cell culture showed that FDP80 and FFr were highly toxic at most concentrations tested. The extracts induced a significant increase in lipid peroxidation levels in Sertoli cells. These results suggest that medicinal herb extracts that contain higher flavonoid concentrations and shows higher antioxidant protection in vitro might not always produce the greatest benefit. 相似文献
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The organization of filamentous actin (F-actin) in living cells of the oomycete Phytophthora cinnamomi was determined during zoosporogenesis and zoospore encystment by microinjecting sporangia with fluorescently labeled phalloidin and observing resultant fluorescence by confocal microscopy. In multinucleate sporangia prior to the induction of cleavage, phalloidin labeling took the form of plaques which occurred mainly in the periphery of the sporangia. After induction of cleavage, phalloidin labeling showed that the plaques disappeared and that F-actin began to accumulate along the developing cleavage planes and around nuclei and water expulsion vacuoles. F-actin labeling was also observed near the plasma membrane in zoospores and young cysts but reverted to the plaque form in older cysts. Localization of F-actin close to the developing cleavage planes is consistent with the idea that actin microfilaments function in the positioning and expansion of the cleavage membranes. Observations of plaques of actin in living sporangia provide evidence that plaques are not aldehyde-induced fixation artifacts. Copyright 1998 Academic Press. 相似文献
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Serglycin is the major proteoglycan in most hematopoietic cells, including
monocytes and macrophages. The monoblastic cell line U937-1 was used to
study the expression of serglycin during proliferation and differentiation.
In unstimulated proliferating U937-1 cells serglycin mRNA is
nonconstitutively expressed. The level of serglycin mRNA was found to
correlate with the synthesis of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG).
The U937-1 cells were induced to differentiate into different types of
macrophage-like cells by exposing the cells to PMA, RA, or VitD3. These
inducers of differentiation affected the expression of serglycin mRNA in
three different ways. The initial upregulation seen in the normally
proliferating cells was not observed in PMA treated cells. In contrast, RA
increased the initial upregulation, giving a reproducible six times
increase in serglycin mRNA level from 4 to 24 h of incubation, compared to
a four times increase in the control cells. VitD3 had no effect on the
expression of serglycin mRNA. The incorporation of (35S)sulfate into CSPG
decreased approximately 50% in all three differentiated cell types.
Further, the (35S)CSPGs expressed were of larger size in PMA treated cells
than controls, but smaller after RA treatment. This was due to the
expression of CSPGs, with CS-chains of 25 and 5 kDa in PMA and RA treated
cells, respectively, compared to 11 kDa in the controls. VitD3 had no
significant effect on the size of CSPG produced. PMA treated cells secreted
75% of the (35S)PGs expressed, but the major portion was retained in cells
treated with VitD3 or RA. The differences seen in serglycin mRNA levels,
the macromolecular properties of serglycin and in the PG secretion
patterns, suggest that serglycin may have different functions in different
types of macrophages.
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Timothy J. Colston Felipe G. Grazziotin Donald B. Shepard Laurie J. Vitt Guarino R. Colli Robert W. Henderson S. Blair Hedges Sandro Bonatto Hussam Zaher Brice P. Noonan Frank T. Burbrink 《Molecular phylogenetics and evolution》2013,66(3):953-959
Inferring the evolutionary and biogeographic history of taxa occurring in a particular region is one way to determine the processes by which the biodiversity of that region originated. Tree boas of the genus Corallus are an ancient clade and occur throughout Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles, making it an excellent group for investigating Neotropical biogeography. Using sequenced portions of two mitochondrial and three nuclear loci for individuals of all recognized species of Corallus, we infer phylogenetic relationships, present the first molecular analysis of the phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic C. cropanii, develop a time-calibrated phylogeny, and explore the biogeographic history of the genus. We found that Corallus diversified within mainland South America, via over-water dispersals to the Lesser Antilles and Central America, and via the traditionally recognized Panamanian land bridge. Divergence time estimates reject the South American Caribbean-Track as a general biogeographic model for Corallus and implicate a role for events during the Oligocene and Miocene in diversification such as marine incursions and the uplift of the Andes. Our findings also suggest that recognition of the island endemic species, C. grenadensis and C. cookii, is questionable as they are nested within the widely distributed species, C. hortulanus. Our results highlight the importance of using widespread taxa when forming and testing biogeographic hypotheses in complex regions and further illustrate the difficulty of forming broadly applicable hypotheses regarding patterns of diversification in the Neotropical region. 相似文献
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Phasmids are remarkable mimics of twigs, sticks, and leaves. This extreme adaptation for crypsis can easily lead to the convergent evolution of morphology, making it difficult to establish a taxonomic system of phasmids. Accordingly, there are multiple phylogenetic hypotheses that conflict with each other. Phylogenetic arrangements suggested by molecular data disagree with the morphology-based taxonomy in some instances. We collected 13 phasmatodean species, sequenced their mitochondrial genomes, and recovered their molecular phylogeny. Our analyses did not support the monophyly of Areolatae or Anareolatae, two major infraorders of Phasmatodea. The position of Neohirasea was also quite different from the conventional taxonomic systems, thus challenging the previously assumed monophyly of the subfamily Lonchodinae. The enigmatic taxon, Timema, was shown to be distantly related to other phasmatodeans. 相似文献