鹿茸血肽疏水性分离及抗氧 化和ACE抑制作用的研究

实验采用DA201-C型大孔吸附树脂对Alcalase蛋白酶水解鹿茸血3 h的水解液进行吸附,采用25%、50%、75%、100%乙醇分级洗脱,收集各组分进行氨基酸组成分析,发现各洗脱组分具有不同疏水性值,同时测定各组分的血管紧张素转化酶(ACE)抑制活性和二苯代苦味肼基自由基(DPPH·)清除活性:75%乙醇洗脱组分的ACE抑制活性最高,为54.71%,且ACE抑制活性与组分疏水性值显著相关;100%乙醇洗脱组分的DPPH清除率最高.     

生物学实践活动资源的开发与利用

生物学实践活动资源是开展实践活动的重要基础,是培养学生生物科学素养的条件。在开发和利用生物学实践活动资源时,应当从三个方面入手。一是建设好学校生物园,开放生物实验室,充分挖掘校内实践活动资源的潜力;二是努力开发和利用校外实践活动资源,充分发挥动物园、植物园、学校周围的社区资源以及自然保护区、森林公园等自然生境的作用;三是有效开发和利用信息资源,发挥图书馆、教学软件和网络资源的作用。     

Does interference competition explain why White Terns of Aride Island,Seychelles, breed predominantly when marine productivity is lower?

White Terns Gygis alba breed throughout the year on Aride Island but show a marked preference to nest during the northwest monsoon (November–March), when interspecific competition and also marine productivity are considered to be lower. In this study we investigated and compared breeding and foraging parameters of White Terns between the northwest and southeast (May–September) monsoons to assess whether interspecific competition affected foraging activity and explained the timing of breeding of White Terns. Goatfish (Mullidae) dominated the diet of White Terns and no significant differences were found in diet composition between the northwest and southeast monsoons. Similar diets and patterns of food provisioning of White Terns between the two monsoons do not support the hypothesis of strong exploitation competition during the southeast monsoon. On the other hand, foraging behaviour and frequency of capture attempts of White Terns differed between the two monsoons. The percentages of multi‐species flocks with White Terns and of large flocks with more than 25 noddies Anous and terns Onychoprion were significantly higher during the southeast monsoon. Moreover, capture attempt frequencies of White Terns foraging in multi‐species flocks were lower than those of solitary individuals, and both solitary and flocking White Terns had significantly lower capture attempt frequencies during the southeast monsoon in comparison with the northwest monsoon. These results suggest that interference competition depresses foraging activity of flock‐foraging White Terns, particularly during the southeast monsoon, which could potentially explain why White Terns breed preferentially during the northwest monsoon. However, and despite avoiding interference competition, White Terns nesting during the northwest monsoon did not show higher breeding success than those nesting during the southeast monsoon. Other hypotheses that might explain the preference of White Terns for breeding during the northwest monsoon, such as avoidance of agonistic interactions with Lesser Noddies Anous tenuirostris at nest sites, should also be investigated.     

Immediate and delayed life history effects caused by food deprivation early in life in a short‐lived lizard

Detailed studies of the mechanisms driving life history effects of food availability are of prime importance to understand the evolution of phenotypic plasticity and the capacity of organisms to produce better adapted phenotypes. Food availability may influence life history trajectories through three nonexclusive mechanisms: (i) immediate and long‐lasting effects on individual quality, and indirect delayed effects on (ii) intracohort and (iii) intercohort interactions. Using the common lizard (Zootoca vivipara), we tested whether a food deprivation during the two‐first months of life influence life history (growth, survival, reproduction) and performance traits (immunocompetence, locomotor performances) until adulthood. We investigated the underlying mechanisms and their possible interactions by manipulating jointly food availability in a birth cohort and in cohorts of older conspecifics. Food deprivation had direct immediate negative effects on growth but positive long‐lasting effects on immunocompetence. Food deprivation had also indirect delayed effects on growth, body size, early survival and reproduction mediated by an interaction between its direct effects on individual quality and its delayed effects on the intensity of intercohort social interactions combined with density dependence on body size. These results demonstrate that interactions between direct and socially mediated effects of past environments influence life history evolution in size‐structured and stage‐structured populations.     

Rejecting strictly allopatric speciation on a continental island: prolonged postdivergence gene flow between Taiwan (Leucodioptron taewanus,Passeriformes Timaliidae) and Chinese (L. canorum canorum) hwameis

Allopatry is conventionally considered the geographical mode of speciation for continental island organisms. However, strictly allopatric speciation models that assume the lack of postdivergence gene flow seem oversimplified given the recurrence of land bridges during glacial periods since the late Pliocene. Here, to evaluate whether a continental island endemic, the Taiwan hwamei (Leucodioptron taewanus, Passeriformes Timaliidae) speciated in strict allopatry, we used weighted‐regression‐based approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) to analyse the genetic polymorphism of 18 neutral nuclear loci (total length: 8500 bp) in Taiwan hwamei and its continental sister species, the Chinese hwamei (L. canorum canorum). The nonallopatry model was found to fit better with observed genetic polymorphism of the two hwamei species (posterior possibility = 0.82). We also recovered unambiguous signals of nontrivial bidirectional postdivergence gene flow (N_em » 1) between Chinese hwamei and Taiwan hwamei until 0.5 Ma. Divergence time was estimated to be 3.5 to 2 million years earlier than that estimated from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences. Finally, using the inferred nonallopatry model to simulate genetic variation at 24 nuclear genes examined showed that the adiponectin receptor 1 gene may be under divergent adaptation. Our findings imply that the role of geographical barrier may be less prominent for the speciation of continental island endemics, and suggest a shift in speciation studies from simply correlating geographical barrier and genetic divergence to examining factors that facilitate and maintain divergence, e.g. differential selection and sexual selection, especially in the face of interpopulation gene flow.     

Expanding the laticifer knowledge in Cannabaceae: distribution,morphology, origin,and latex composition

Protoplasma - Cannabaceae is a known family because of the production of cannabinoids in laticifers and glandular trichomes of Cannabis sativa. Laticifers are latex-secreting structures, which in...     

家蝇幼虫肠道细菌对其取食选择性和生长发育的影响

目的探究家蝇幼虫肠道细菌对幼虫取食与发育的影响,进而明确肠道细菌的部分功能。方法取3日龄家蝇幼虫,采用细菌传统分离法分离纯化其肠道内可培养细菌并进行分子鉴定,利用这些肠道细菌进行家蝇幼虫爬行选择实验,测定幼虫对不同细菌的选择性;利用这些肠道细菌发酵液与麦麸混合饲养家蝇幼虫,记录家蝇幼虫发育过程中的生物学参数,分别以LB培养原液与麦麸混合饲养的幼虫为阴性对照,以无菌水与麦麸混合饲养的幼虫为空白对照。结果在家蝇幼虫肠道中共分离出9个属10种细菌,分别为霍氏肠杆菌(Enterobacter hormaechei)、肺炎克雷伯菌(Klebsiella pneumoniae)、铜绿假单胞菌(Pseudomonas aeruginosa)、别雷斯不动杆菌(Acinetobacter bereziniae)、斯氏普罗威登斯菌(Providencia stuartii)、阴沟肠杆菌(Enterobacter cloacae)、乳酸乳球菌(Lactococcus lactis)、纺锤形赖氨酸芽胞杆菌(Lysinibacillus fusiformis)、居幼虫普罗威登斯菌(Providencia vermicola)和沙福芽胞杆菌(Bacillus safensis)。其中,除铜绿假单胞菌和斯氏普罗威登斯菌外,其余8种细菌对幼虫有显著吸引作用;除铜绿假单胞菌对家蝇生长有明显抑制作用以外,其余9种细菌对家蝇幼虫生长均有一定的促进作用,其中霍氏肠杆菌和别雷斯不动杆菌对其生长有显著促进作用。结论明确了家蝇幼虫肠道细菌的组成,确定了8种家蝇幼虫肠道细菌对其取食有吸引作用,9种细菌对其生长发育有促进作用。霍氏肠杆菌和别雷斯不动杆菌可作为添加剂用于家蝇的规模化饲养,以提高养殖效率。铜绿假单胞菌可作为生长抑制剂用于家蝇幼虫的防治。     

马铃薯瓢虫与茄二十八星瓢虫SCAR标记的建立及应用

为了探索快速鉴定马铃薯瓢虫Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata(Motschulsky)和茄二十八星瓢虫Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata(Fabricius)的分子生物学方法,本研究在随机扩增多态性DNA(random amplified polymorphic DNA,RAPD)的基础上,分别设计了可以鉴别两个物种的序列特征扩增区域(sequence characterized amplified regions,SCAR)标记。从随机合成的60条引物中筛选出来2条特异性引物(分别为OPI-6和OPJ-15),引物OPI-6在马铃薯瓢虫中扩增出约750 bp的特异性条带,引物OPJ-15在茄二十八星中扩增出约750 bp的特异性条带,根据测序结果设计了两对SCAR引物对筛选结果进行验证,发现根据OPI-6的测序结果所设计的SCAR引物(OPI-6 test)仅能在马铃薯瓢虫中扩增出645 bp的条带,而根据OPJ-15的测序结果所设计的SCAR引物(OPJ-15 test)仅能在茄二十八星瓢虫中扩增出436 bp的条带。这两对SCAR引物能够准确、稳定且快速地区分马铃薯瓢虫与茄二十八星瓢虫,对这两种害虫的精准防控具有重要意义。     

Microbial minorities modulate methane consumption through niche partitioning

Microbes catalyze all major geochemical cycles on earth. However, the role of microbial traits and community composition in biogeochemical cycles is still poorly understood mainly due to the inability to assess the community members that are actually performing biogeochemical conversions in complex environmental samples. Here we applied a polyphasic approach to assess the role of microbial community composition in modulating methane emission from a riparian floodplain. We show that the dynamics and intensity of methane consumption in riparian wetlands coincide with relative abundance and activity of specific subgroups of methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB), which can be considered as a minor component of the microbial community in this ecosystem. Microarray-based community composition analyses demonstrated linear relationships of MOB diversity parameters and in vitro methane consumption. Incubations using intact cores in combination with stable isotope labeling of lipids and proteins corroborated the correlative evidence from in vitro incubations demonstrating γ-proteobacterial MOB subgroups to be responsible for methane oxidation. The results obtained within the riparian flooding gradient collectively demonstrate that niche partitioning of MOB within a community comprised of a very limited amount of active species modulates methane consumption and emission from this wetland. The implications of the results obtained for biodiversity–ecosystem functioning are discussed with special reference to the role of spatial and temporal heterogeneity and functional redundancy.