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Taylor SK Buergelt CD Roelke-Parker ME Homer BL Rotstein DS 《Journal of wildlife diseases》2002,38(1):107-114
The Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi) is one of the most endangered mammals, with the entire population estimated to consist of only 30-50 adult animals. Between 1978 and 1999, 73 free-ranging Florida panther carcasses were submitted for postmortem evaluation, of which 47 (64%) were radiocollared and 26 (36%) were uncollared cats. Overall, mortality of panthers > 6-mo-old was due to vehicular trauma in 25 (35%), intraspecific aggression in 19 (26%), illegal kill in seven (10%), research activities in two (3%), infectious diseases in two (3%), esophageal tear in one (1%), pleuritis in one (1%), pyothorax in one (1%), aortic aneurysm in one (1%), atrial septal defect in one (1%), and causes of death were undetermined in 13 (18%) due to autolysis. Of the 25 panthers that were killed by vehicular trauma, 20 (80%) died between October and April. This coincides with increased number of winter visitors to south Florida. Among radiocollared panthers, intraspecific aggression was the primary cause of mortality for 19 (41%) dead cats. Of these cats, 16 (84%) were males and 14 (88%) were either less than 3 or more than 8-yr-old. These animals were probably fighting to establish or retain territory. Among the 26 uncollared panthers, vehicular trauma was the primary cause of mortality and was responsible for 16 (62%) deaths. This study documents the causes of mortality and the age, sex, and seasonal mortality trends for both radiocollared and uncollared free-ranging endangered Florida panthers over a 21-yr-period. 相似文献
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Microbial diversity and complexity in hypersaline environments: A preliminary assessment 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
The microbial communities in solar salterns and a soda lake have been characterized using two techniques: BIOLOG, to estimate
the metabolic potential, and amplicon length heterogeneity analysis, to estimate the molecular diversity of these communities.
Both techniques demonstrated that the halophilic Bacteria and halophilic Archaea populations in the Eilat, Israel saltern
are dynamic communities with extensive metabolic potentials and changing community structures. Halophilic Bacteria were detected
in Mono Lake and the lower salinity ponds at the Shark Bay saltern in Western Australia, except when the crystallizer samples
were stressed by exposure to Acid Green Dye #9899. At Shark Bay, halophilic Archaea were found only in the crystallizer samples.
These data confirm both the metabolic diversity and the phylogenetic complexity of the microbial communities and assert the
need to develop more versatile media for the cultivation of the diversity of bacteria in hypersaline environments. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (2002) 28, 48–55 DOI: 10.1038/sj/jim/7000175
Received 20 May 2001/ Accepted in revised form 15 June 2001 相似文献
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Mário C BarrosoJúnior Guilherme P Esteves Thiago P Nunes Lucia MG Silva Alvaro CD Faria Pedro L Melo 《Biomedical engineering online》2011,10(1):14
Introduction
A novel system that combines a compact mobile instrument and Internet communications is presented in this paper for remote evaluation of tremors. The system presents a high potential application in Parkinson's disease and connects to the Internet through a TCP/IP protocol. Tremor transduction is carried out by accelerometers, and the data processing, presentation and storage were obtained by a virtual instrument. The system supplies the peak frequency (fp), the amplitude (Afp) and power in this frequency (Pfp), the total power (Ptot), and the power in low (1-4 Hz) and high (4-7 Hz) frequencies (Plf and Phf, respectively). 相似文献24.
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Kumaran Kandasamy Sujatha S Mohan Rajesh Raju Shivakumar Keerthikumar Ghantasala S Sameer Kumar Abhilash K Venugopal Deepthi Telikicherla Daniel J Navarro Suresh Mathivanan Christian Pecquet Sashi Kanth Gollapudi Sudhir Gopal Tattikota Shyam Mohan Hariprasad Padhukasahasram Yashwanth Subbannayya Renu Goel Harrys KC Jacob Jun Zhong Raja Sekhar Vishalakshi Nanjappa Lavanya Balakrishnan Roopashree Subbaiah YL Ramachandra Abdul B Rahiman Keshava TS Prasad Jian-Xin Lin Jon CD Houtman Stephen Desiderio Jean-Christophe Renauld Stefan N Constantinescu Osamu Ohara Toshio Hirano Masato Kubo Sujay Singh Purvesh Khatri Sorin Draghici Gary D Bader Chris Sander Warren J Leonard Akhilesh Pandey 《Genome biology》2010,11(1):1-9
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Saman Bowatte Paul CD Newton Shona Brock Phil Theobald Dongwen Luo 《The ISME journal》2015,9(1):265-267
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from grazed pastures are a product of microbial transformations of nitrogen and the prevailing view is that these only occur in the soil. Here we show this is not the case. We have found ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB) are present on plant leaves where they produce N2O just as in soil. AOB (Nitrosospira sp. predominantly) on the pasture grass Lolium perenne converted 0.02–0.42% (mean 0.12%) of the oxidised ammonia to N2O. As we have found AOB to be ubiquitous on grasses sampled from urine patches, we propose a ‘plant'' source of N2O may be a feature of grazed grassland.In terms of climate forcing, nitrous oxide (N2O) is the third most important greenhouse gas (Blunden and Arndt, 2013). Agriculture is the largest source of anthropogenic N2O (Reay et al., 2012) with about 20% of agricultural emissions coming from grassland grazed by animals (Oenema et al., 2005).Grazed grassland is a major source of N2O because grazers harvest nitrogen (N) from plants across a wide area but recycle it back onto the pasture, largely as urine, in patches of very high N concentration. The N in urine patches is often in excess of what can be used by plants resulting in losses through leaching as nitrate, as N2O and through volatilisation as ammonia (NH3) creating a high NH3 environment in the soil and plant canopy; an important point that we will return to later. The established wisdom is that N2O is generated exclusively by soil-based microbes such as ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB). This soil biology is represented in models designed to simulate N2O emissions and the soil is a target for mitigation strategies such as the use of nitrification inhibitors.We have previously shown that pasture plants can emit N2O largely through acting as a conduit for emissions generated in the soil, which are themselves controlled to some degree by the plant (Bowatte et al., 2014). In this case the origin of the emission is still the soil microbes. However, AOB have been found on the leaves of plants, for example, Norway spruce (Papen et al., 2002; Teuber et al., 2007) and weeds in rice paddies (Bowatte et al., 2006), prompting us to ask whether AOB might be present on the leaves of pasture species and contribute to N2O emissions as they do in soil.We looked for AOB on plants in situations where NH3 concentrations were likely to be high, choosing plants from urine patches in grazed pastures and plants from pastures surrounding a urea fertiliser manufacturing plant. DNA was extracted from the leaves (including both the surface and apoplast) and the presence of AOB tested using PCR. AOB were present in all the species we examined—the grasses Lolium perenne, Dactylis glomerata, Anthoxanthum odoratum, Poa pratensis, Bromus wildenowii and legumes Trifolium repens and T. subterraneum.To measure whether leaf AOB produce N2O, we used intact plants of ryegrass (L. perenne) lifted as cores from a paddock that had been recently grazed by adult sheep. The cores were installed in a chamber system designed to allow sampling of above- and belowground environments separately (Bowatte et al., 2014). N2O emissions were measured from untreated (control) plants and from plants where NH3 was added to the aboveground chamber and leaves were either untreated or sterilised by wiping twice with paper towels soaked in 1% hypoclorite (Sturz et al., 1997) and then with sterile water. We tested for the presence and abundance of AOB on the leaves by extracting DNA and using PCR and real-time PCR targeting the ammonia monoxygenase A (amoA) gene, which is characteristic of AOB. AOB identity was established using cloning and DNA sequencing. Further details of these experiments can be found in the Supplementary Information.The addition of NH3 to untreated plants significantly stimulated N2O emissions (P<0.001) compared with the controls; by contrast, the plants with sterilised leaves produced significantly less N2O than controls (P<0.001) even with NH3 added (Figure 1) providing strong evidence for emissions being associated with bacteria on the leaves. Control plants did emit N2O suggesting there was either sufficient NH3 available for bacterially generated emissions and/or other plant-based mechanisms were involved (Bowatte et al., 2014).Open in a separate windowFigure 1Effect of an elevated NH3 atmosphere and surface sterilisation of leaves on leaf N2O emissions measured over 1-h periods on three occasions during the day. Values are means (s.e.m.), where n=7.The major AOB species identified was Nitrosospira strain III7 that has been previously shown to produce N2O (Jiang and Bakken, 1999). We measured 109 AOB cells per m2 ryegrass leaf, assuming a specific leaf area of 250 cm2 g−1 leaf.The rate of production of N2O (0.1–0.17 mg N2O-N per m2 leaf area per hour) can be translated to a field situation using the leaf area index (LAI)—1 m2 leaf per m2 ground would be an LAI of 1. LAI in a pasture can vary from <1 to >6 depending on the management (for example, Orr et al., 1988). At LAI of 1, the AOB leaf emission rate would equate to a N2O emission rate of about 0.1–0.3 mg N2O-N per m2 ground per hour. By comparison, the emission rates measured after dairy cattle urine (650 kg N ha−1) was applied to freely and poorly drained soil were 0.024–1.55 and 0.048–3.33 mg N2O-N per m2 ground per hour, respectively (Li and Kelliher, 2005).The fraction of the NH3 that was converted to N2O by the leaf AOB was 0.02–0.42% (mean 0.12%). The mean value is close to that measured for Nitrosospira strains including strain III7 isolated from acidic, loamy and sandy soils where values ranged from 0.07 to 0.10% (Jiang and Bakken, 1999). This is good evidence that the AOB on leaves have the capacity to produce N2O at the same rate as AOB in soils. We do not suggest that leaf AOB will produce as much N2O as soil microbes; however, because leaf AOB have access to a source of substrate—volatilised NH3—that is unavailable to soil microbes and may constitute 26% (Laubach et al., 2013) to 40% (Carran et al., 1982) of the N deposited in the urine, N2O emissions from these aboveground AOB are additional to soil emissions. Further research is required to identify the situations in which leaf AOB contribute to total emissions and to quantify this contribution. 相似文献
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Bacterioplankton Dynamics in the McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes, Antarctica: Production and Biomass Loss over Four Seasons 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Abstract Research of the microbial ecology of McMurdo Dry Valley lakes has concentrated primarily on phototrophs; relatively little is known about the heterotrophic bacterioplankton. Bacteria represent a substantial proportion of water column biomass in these lakes, comprising 30 to 60% of total microplankton biomass. Bacterial production and cell numbers were measured 3 to 5 times, within four Antarctic seasons (October to January), in Lakes Fryxell, Hoare, and Bonney. The winter-spring transition (September to October) was included during one year. Lake Fryxell was the most productive, but variable, lake, followed by Lakes Bonney and Hoare. Bacterial production ranged from 0 to 0.009 μg C ml-1 d-1; bacterial populations ranged from 3.2 x 10(4) to 4.4 x 10(7) cells ml-1. Bacterial production was always greatest just below the ice cover at the beginning of the season. A second maximum developed just above the chemocline of all the lakes, as the season progressed. Total bacterioplankton biomass in the lakes decreased as much as 88% between successive sampling dates in the summer, as evidenced by areal integration of bacterial populations; the largest decreases in biomass typically occurred in mid-December. A forward difference model of bacterial loss in the trophogenic zone and the entire water column of these lakes showed that loss rates in the summer reached 6.3 x 10(14) cells m-2 d-1 and 4.16 x 10(12) cells m-2 d-1, respectively. These results imply that bacteria may be a source of carbon to higher trophic levels in these lakes, through grazing. 相似文献
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Thomas J. O'Shea Galen B. Rathbun Robert K. Bonde Claus D. Buergelt Daniel K. Odell 《Marine Mammal Science》1991,7(2):165-179
Over a 10-wk period in early 1982, 39 Florida manatees ( Trichechus manatus latirostris ) were found dead in the lower Caloosahatchee River and nearby waters of southwestern Florida. Two were killed by boats. The remainder showed no evidence of trauma. Lesions indicative of infectious agents were not identified, and bacteriological and contaminant residue findings were unremarkable. Nonspecific lesions of congestion and hemorrhage were identified in brain tissue. Numerous reports were also received of manatee morbidity. Some distressed manatees showed no biochemical lesions in clinical analyses of blood samples and recovered quickly. Timing of manatee illnesses coincided with fish and double-crested cormorant ( Phalacrocorax auritus ) mortality and morbidity. A widespread bloom of the dinoflagellate red tide organism ( Gymnodinium breve ) also coincided with these incidents. G. breve produces potent neurotoxins (brevetoxins). Circumstantial evidence links these events, and possible routes of exposure may include ingestion of filter-feeding ascidians. Ecological conditions that magnified the extent of the epizootic included an early dispersal of manatees into the area from a nearby winter aggregation site and unusually high salinities that facilitated the inshore spread of the red tide bloom. Management responses to future episodes of red tide in manatee areas are suggested. 相似文献
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Sequence variation among 10 alleles of the alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) gene
of the Hawaiian drosophilid D. mimica was analyzed with reference to the
evolutionary history of the Hawaiian subgroup as well as to levels and
patterns of polymorphism of the Adh gene in continental drosophilid
species. The Adh gene of D. mimica is less polymorphic than that of other
drosophilid species, and no replacement substitutions were found.
Statistical analyses of the Adh alleles suggested the action of balancing
selection and revealed significant linkage disequilibrium among three of
the variable sites. The effective population size was estimated to be only
slightly smaller than that of continental species and, surprisingly, on the
same order of magnitude as the actual size.
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拐芹根化学成分研究Ⅱ 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
从伞型科当归属植物拐芹(Angelica polymorpha Maxim)的根及根茎中又分得4个结晶性化合物。经物理常数测定、光谱分析,分别鉴定为欧前胡素Ⅰ,异氧化前胡内酯Ⅱ,Pabulenol Ⅲ,Phellopterin Ⅳ。 相似文献