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Many mainland populations of kiwi are declining because stoats (Mustela erminea) kill most of their chicks. Stoats are often trapped during conservation programmes, but the long-term effectiveness of trapping has not been measured. During continuous trapping of mammalian predators in the 9800?ha Whangarei Kiwi Sanctuary, the survival of brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) chicks declined over time. Following the use of sodium fluoroacetate (1080) to kill rats (Rattus spp.) and possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) and likely secondary poisoning of stoats, chick survival at Riponui increased from 5% to 56%, and the 62% chick survival at Rarewarewa was better than the 20% recorded in a trapped-only area nearby. We suggest that untrappable stoats accumulate in areas subjected to continuous predator trapping. Conservation managers should build into their long-term pest control programmes a periodic pulse of an alternative tool to kill pests that, for whatever reason, actively avoid the primary control tool. 相似文献
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Higher-level snake phylogeny inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences of 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA genes 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Portions of two mitochondrial genes (12S and 16S ribosomal RNA) were
sequenced to determine the phylogenetic relationships among the major
clades of snakes. Thirty-six species, representing nearly all extant
families, were examined and compared with sequences of a tuatara and three
families of lizards. Snakes were found to constitute a monophyletic group
(confidence probability [CP] = 96%), with the scolecophidians (blind
snakes) as the most basal lineages (CP = 99%). This finding supports the
hypothesis that snakes underwent a subterranean period early in their
evolution. Caenophidians (advanced snakes), excluding Acrochordus, were
found to be monophyletic (CP = 99%). Among the caenophidians, viperids were
monophyletic (CP = 98%) and formed the sister group to the elapids plus
colubrids (CP = 94%). Within the viperids, two monophyletic groups were
identified: true vipers (CP = 98%) and pit vipers plus Azemiops (CP = 99%).
The elapids plus Atractaspis formed a monophyletic clade (CP = 99%). Within
the paraphyletic Colubridae, the largely Holarctic Colubrinae was found to
be a monophyletic assemblage (CP = 98%), and the Xenodontinae was found to
be polyphyletic (CP = 91%). Monophyly of the henophidians (primitive
snakes) was neither supported nor rejected because of the weak resolution
of relationships among those taxa, except for the clustering of Calabaria
with a uropeltid, Rhinophis (CP = 94%).
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Bayesian analysis of factorial experiments by mixture modelling 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
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Primary antibody-forming cells and secondary B cells are generated from separate precursor cell subpopulations 总被引:22,自引:0,他引:22
Two precursor cell subpopulations have been isolated from the spleen cells of nonimmune mice. The major B cell subpopulation binds high levels of the J11D monoclonal antibody and, upon T cell-dependent antigenic stimulation, gives rise to primary antibody-forming cell clones but not secondary B cells. A minority of the 10%-14% of Ia+ precursors that bind low levels of J11D (J11Dlo) also generate antibody-forming cell clones after primary stimulation. However, over 70% of J11Dlo precursors yield no primary antibody-forming cell clones but instead give rise to secondarily responsive B cells. The existence of a distinct precursor cell subpopulation that is responsible for the generation of B cell memory is further evidenced by the distribution of variable region clonotypes among J11Dlo primary precursors, which resembles the clonotype patterns of secondary B cells, and by the accumulation of somatic mutations in their clonal progeny. 相似文献
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Sarfraz A Tunio Neil J Oldfield Dlawer AA Ala'Aldeen Karl G Wooldridge David PJ Turner 《BMC microbiology》2010,10(1):280
Background
Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenases (GAPDHs) are cytoplasmic glycolytic enzymes, which although lacking identifiable secretion signals, have also been found localized to the surface of several bacteria (and some eukaryotic organisms); where in some cases they have been shown to contribute to the colonization and invasion of host tissues. Neisseria meningitidis is an obligate human nasopharyngeal commensal which can cause life-threatening infections including septicaemia and meningitis. N. meningitidis has two genes, gapA-1 and gapA-2, encoding GAPDH enzymes. GapA-1 has previously been shown to be up-regulated on bacterial contact with host epithelial cells and is accessible to antibodies on the surface of capsule-permeabilized meningococcal cells. The aims of this study were: 1) to determine whether GapA-1 was expressed across different strains of N. meningitidis; 2) to determine whether GapA-1 surface accessibility to antibodies was dependant on the presence of capsule; 3) to determine whether GapA-1 can influence the interaction of meningococci and host cells, particularly in the key stages of adhesion and invasion. 相似文献67.
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The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the shark Mustelus manazo: evaluating rooting contradictions to living bony vertebrates 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
A remarkable example of a misleading mitochondrial protein tree is
presented, involving ray-finned fishes, coelacanths, lungfishes, and
tetrapods, with sea lampreys as an outgroup. In previous molecular
phylogenetic studies on the origin of tetrapods, ray-finned fishes have
been assumed as an outgroup to the tetrapod/lungfish/coelacanth clade, an
assumption supported by morphological evidence. Standard methods of
molecular phylogenetics applied to the protein-encoding genes of
mitochondria, however, give a bizarre tree in which lamprey groups with
lungfish and, therefore, ray-finned fishes are not the outgroup to a
tetrapod/lungfish/coelacanth clade. All of the dozens of published
phylogenetic methods, including every possible modification to maximum
likelihood known to us (such as inclusion of site heterogeneity and
exclusion of potentially misleading hydrophobic amino acids), fail to place
the ray-finned fishes in a biologically acceptable position. A likely cause
of this failure may be the use of an inappropriate outgroup. Accordingly,
we have determined the complete mitochondrial DNA sequence from the shark,
Mustelus manazo, which we have used as an alternative and more proximal
outgroup than the lamprey. Using sharks as the outgroup, lungfish appear to
be the closest living relative of tetrapods, although the possibility of a
lungfish/coelacanth clade being the sister group of tetrapods cannot be
excluded.
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Decomposable graphical Gaussian model determination 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8