用4个微卫星标记分析7个绵羊群体之间的遗传关系

分析了4个微卫星基因座BM143、OarHH35、OarAE101、BMS2508在7个绵羊群体（小尾寒羊、湖羊、乌珠穆沁羊、萨福克羊、多赛特羊、夏洛来羊、多赛特公羊×小尾寒羊母羊F1代杂种羊）286只绵羊中的遗传多态性。结果表明,这4个微卫星标记在7个绵羊群体中的等位基因数分别为9、11、14和9,其多态信息含量/有效等位基因数/杂合度分别为0.7073/3.7231/0.7314、0.8267/6.4399/0.8447、0.5743/2.5178/0.6028、0.6172/3.0712/0.6744,其中OarHH35的遗传变异最大,OarAE101最小。7个绵羊群体中小尾寒羊的遗传变异最大,湖羊的最小。基于Nei氏DA距离和DS标准遗传距离,采用UPGMA方法构建了系统发生树。该发生树将中国地方品种（小尾寒羊、乌珠穆沁羊、湖羊）和法国的夏洛来羊归为一类,将F1杂种羊、英国品种（萨福克羊和多赛特羊）归为另一类。绵羊微卫星基因分型技术为检查品种（群体）之间的遗传关系提供了一个有用的工具。 Abstract：The genetic polymorphisms of four microsatellite loci BM143,OarHH35,OarAE101,and BMS2508 were analyzed in 286 sheep of seven sheep populations (Small Tail Han sheep, Hu sheep, Ujumqin sheep, Suffolk sheep, Dorset sheep, Charolais sheep, F1 of Dorset♂ × Small Tail Han sheep♀). The numbers of alleles for BM143,OarHH35,OarAE101,and BMS2508 are 9, 11, 14 and 9 in seven sheep populations, respectively. The polymorphism information content/number of effective alleles/ heterozygosity of BM143,OarHH35,OarAE101 and BMS2508 were 0.7073/3.7231/0.7314, 0.8267/6.4399/0.8447,0.5743/2.5178/0.6028,0.6172/3.0712/0.6744 in 286 sheep, respectively. The results revealed the greatest genetic variation at OarHH35 locus and the lowest at OarAE101, the greatest genetic variation in Small Tail Han sheep and the lowest in Hu sheep among seven sheep populations. In the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) dendrograms based on Nei's DA distance and Nei's DS standard genetic distance, the Chinese native breeds (Small Tail Han sheep, Ujumqin sheep, Hu sheep) were grouped together, then with Charolais sheep. The F1 crossbred sheep, and the two British native sheep (Suffolk sheep, Dorset sheep) also clustered together. Microsatellite genotyping in sheep provided a useful tool for examining the genetic relationships among breeds(populations).     

Paternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in the sheep (Ovine aries)

Paternal inheritance of mitochondria DNA in sheep was discovered by examination of 152 sheep from 38 hybrid families for mtDNA D-loop polymorphisms using PCR-RFLP, amplification of repeated sequence somain, and PCR-SSCP of the D-loop 5' end region of a 253 bp fragment. Our findings have provided the first evidence of paternal inheritance of mtDNA in sheep and possible mechanisms of paternal inheritance were discussed.     

利用流式细胞术研究大肠埃希菌对肝癌腹水瘤细胞系Hca—F25／CL—16A3的作用

利用小鼠肝癌腹水瘤细胞Hca-F25/CL-16A3,运用流式细胞技术研究了大肠埃希菌对肿瘤细胞的作用,对细胞DNA含量的影响以及诱导细胞凋亡的作用,结果表明：大肠埃希菌在直接希伤肿瘤细胞的同时,还可以影响细胞DNA的含量,并可诱导细胞发生调亡。     

江苏盐城黑紫鸥（Larus saundersi）繁殖微生境的选择

1999～2001年春夏对江苏盐城国家级自然保护区黑嘴鸥的繁殖微生境进行了调查,黑嘴鸥的繁殖生境包括碱蓬群落（Suaeda glauca）、獐毛群落（Aeluropus littoralis）和大米草群落（Spartina anglica）,通过生境可获得性与可利用性分析,得知黑嘴鸥营巢对碱蓬生境具有正选择性,对獐毛和大米草生境具有负选择性。对繁殖微生境选择研究的结果表明,黑嘴鸥繁殖微生境具有以下特征：植被高度5～25cm,植被盖度20%～60%,底栖生物量大于300g/m^2,距水源距离500～1000m,距人类活动干扰距离大于500m,滩涂开发和人为活动是影响盐城地区黑嘴鸥繁殖微生境选择的重要因素。本文对黑嘴鸥繁殖栖息地的保护和管理提出了一些建议。     

巴西蘑菇原种培养基的筛选

以麦草、稻草、棉籽壳、玉米秸、木屑、麦粒、玉米粒和麦麸为原料 ,从 2 0种培养基中筛选出 2种适合巴西蘑菇菌丝生长的原种培养基。用这 2种培养基生产的菌种 ,菌丝粗壮、洁白、浓密 ,萌发快。     

塔里木河流域荒漠河岸林群落的多元分析与环境解释

应用无偏对应分析（DCA）及二歧指示种分析（TWINSPAN）对塔里木河流域荒漠河岸林33个植物群落方资料进行了多元分析－排序和数量分类,并应用植物群落的排序值与环境参数的多元回归分析给出各群落类型的定量环境解释,探讨了该区植物群落的基本类型,生态梯度及其与环境因子的定量关系,结果表明,塔里木河流域漠河岸林的群落类型及其分布主要取决于土壤湿度和盐分含量,并可通过环境参数的数字表达式定量的确定。     

Functional design and prey capture dynamics in an ecologically generalized surfperch (Embiotocidae)

Kinematic and electromyographic analyses of prey capture in two species of surfperch (Embiotocidae) reveal differing abilities to modulate strike activity in response to different prey types. Both the black perch, Embiotoca jacksoni, and the shiner perch, Cymatogaster aggregata, demonstrate stereotyped and conserved neuromuscular and kinematic activity in suction feeding. A distinguishing anatomical trait in this family, the interopercular shelf, enhances the coupling of hyoid movement with mandibular depression. Analyses of variance suggest a preprogrammed motor output that is ballistically launched for suction generation, with the possibility of more plasticity in latter phases of the strike. While the trophically limited shiner perch displays a stereotyped repertoire of this one strike pattern, very small prey, larger conglomerates of these, and large distinct prey elicit three modulated patterns in the black perch. Functional characteristics that enable the ecologically generalized black perch to exploit a variety of prey types include energy–conserving modulatory ability, behavioural flexibility in utilizing a conserved suction–generating programme, and the addition of specialized winnowing and spitting activity.     

Computational and Experimental Study of Performance of an Artificial Ligament: DacronTM yarn

Abstract

The success rate of reconstructing the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) with prosthetic ligaments is currently low both in humans and animals. The stress distribution in prosthetic ligaments that causes failure is very complex and not yet understood. Therefore, we have begun to develop a Finite Element Model of a prosthetic ACL. Here we describe the normal and contact stresses in Dacron^TM yarn (a multi-fibrillar structure) using input data based on experimental measurements of the load and strain of six designed yarns.

The results show that the normal and contact stresses in the fibres of the ACL yarn are directly proportional to the yam strains. Increasing the twisting length (transverse deformation) of the yarn increases the normal stress in the fibres and the yarn modulus, but decreases the contact stresses between the fibres. The structural properties of a yarn are dependent on the specific arrangement of various filament types. Increasing the distance between the longitudinal (symmetry) axes of the filaments and the axis of symmetry of the yarn decreases the stresses.