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Surveys were distributed to New Zealand land users in 1998 and 2008 to acquire information about New Zealand frogs with the aim of compiling and mapping their distribution and inferred population trends without costly and time-consuming field surveys. The overall frog population trend was reported as declining, with possible causes reported as an increase in agriculture, an increase in the distribution of predatory fish and disease. The resultant maps could be used for four main purposes: 1) to identify regions where Litoria populations are known to occur, which can be eliminated when considering suitable regions for translocation of Leiopelma; 2) to identify growing or stable populations of Litoria species, which may assist future disease surveys, population monitoring and to identify sources of genetic material that may serve as an Ark for declining Australian populations; 3) to highlight populations that are in decline to enable effective targeting of detailed disease studies; and 4) to approximate the stability of amphibian populations in the absence of more accurate, but costly, scientific monitoring. 相似文献
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N Lübcker J Dabrowski TA Zengeya PJ Oberholster G Hall S Woodborne 《African Journal of Aquatic Science》2016,41(4):399-411
The alien invasive silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix established a self-sustaining feral population in an oligotrophic impoundment, Flag Boshielo Dam, in South Africa. The ability of this population to persist in a dam with low algal biomass (median annual suspended chlorophyll a = 0.08 µg l?1), and limited access to rivers considered large enough for successful spawning, has implications for their invasive potential in other systems. Stomach content and stable isotope analysis were used to assess the trophic ecology of H. molitrix, which was then compared with indigenous Mozambique tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus, on a seasonal basis during 2011. Hypophthalmichthys molitrix are generalist filter feeders, with a diet consisting primarily of sediment, vegetative detritus, dinoflagellates and diatoms. The dominance of sediments in their stomachs suggests occasional benthic scavenging. However, H. molitrix occupied a higher trophic level (TL = 2.8) than expected, suggesting that this population subsidised their diet with an unidentified dietary constituent, characterised by enriched nitrogen values. Although the stomach contents indicated dietary overlap between H. molitrix and O. mossambicus, stable isotopes revealed fine-scale resource partitioning, despite both species occupying the same trophic level. Nonetheless, the persistence of this feral H. molitrix population in an oligotrophic impoundment highlights their phenotypic plasticity. 相似文献
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Recently, a group of diplomonads has been found to use a genetic code in
which TAA and TAG encode glutamine rather than termination. To survey the
distribution of this characteristic in diplomonads, we sought to identify
TAA and TAG codons at positions where glutamine is expected in genes for
alpha-tubulin, elongation factor-1 alpha, and the gamma subunit of
eukaryotic translation initiation factor-2. These sequences show that the
variant genetic code is utilized by almost all diplomonads, with the genus
Giardia alone using the universal genetic code. Comparative phylogenetic
analysis reveals that the switch to this genetic code took place very early
in the evolution of diplomonads and was likely a single event. Termination
signals and downstream untranslated regions were also cloned from three
Hexamita genes. In all three of these genes, the predicted TGA termination
codon was found at the expected position. Interestingly, the untranslated
regions of these genes are high in AT. This is incongruent with the coding
regions, which are comparatively GC-rich.
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Emma L Hesketh John RP Knight Rosemary HC Wilson James PJ Chong Dawn Coverley 《Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.)》2015,14(3):333-341
The minichromosome maintenance complex (MCM2-7) is the putative DNA helicase ineukaryotes, and essential for DNA replication. By applying serial extractions to mammaliancells synchronized by release from quiescence, we reveal dynamic changes to thesub-nuclear compartmentalization of MCM2 as cells pass through late G1 and early S phase,identifying a brief window when MCM2 becomes transiently attached to the nuclear-matrix.The data distinguish 3 states that correspond to loose association with chromatin prior toDNA replication, transient highly stable binding to the nuclear-matrix coincident withinitiation, and a post-initiation phase when MCM2 remains tightly associated withchromatin but not the nuclear-matrix. The data suggests that functional MCM complexloading takes place at the nuclear-matrix. 相似文献
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Skeiky YA Ovendale PJ Jen S Alderson MR Dillon DC Smith S Wilson CB Orme IM Reed SG Campos-Neto A 《Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)》2000,165(12):7140-7149
Infection of C57BL/6 mice with Mycobacterium tuberculosis results in the development of a progressive disease during the first 2 wk after challenge. Thereafter, the disease is controlled by the emergence of protective T cells. We have used this infection model in conjunction with direct T cell expression cloning to identify Ags involved with the early control of the disease. A protective M. tuberculosis-specific CD4 T cell line derived from mice at 3 wk postchallenge was used to directly screen an M. tuberculosis genomic expression library. This screen resulted in the identification of a genomic clone comprising two putative adjacent genes with predicted open reading frames of 10 and 41 kDa, MTB10 and MTB41, respectively (the products of Rv0916c and Rv0915c, respectively, in the TubercuList H37Rv database). MTB10 and MTB41 belong to the PE and PPE family of proteins recently identified to comprise 10% of the M. tuberculosis genome. Evaluation of the recombinant proteins revealed that MTB41, but not MTB10, is the Ag recognized by the cell line and by M. tuberculosis-sensitized human PBMC. Moreover, C57BL/6 mice immunized with MTB41 DNA developed both CD4- (predominantly Th1) and CD8-specific T cell responses to rMTB41 protein. More importantly, immunization of C57BL/6 mice with MTB41 DNA induced protection against infection with M. tuberculosis comparable to that induced by bacillus Calmette-Guérin. Thus, the use of a proven protective T cell line in conjunction with the T cell expression cloning approach resulted in the identification of a candidate Ag for a subunit vaccine against tuberculosis. 相似文献
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Improved analyses of human mtDNA sequences support a recent African origin for Homo sapiens 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:2
New quantitative methods are applied to the 135 human mitochondrial
sequences from the Vigilant et al. data set. General problems in analyzing
large numbers of short sequences are discussed, and an improved strategy is
suggested. A key feature is to focus not on individual trees but on the
general "landscape" of trees. Over 1,000 searches were made from random
starting trees with only one tree (a local optimum) being retained each
time, thereby ensuring optima were found independently. A new tree
comparison metric was developed that is unaffected by rearrangements of
trees around many very short internal edges. Use of this metric showed that
downweighting hypervariable sites revealed more evolutionary structure than
studies that weighted all sites equally. Our results are consistent with
convergence toward a global optimum. Crucial features are that the best
optima show very strong regional differentiation, a common group of 49
African sequences is found in all the best optima, and the best optima
contain the 16 !Kung sequences in a separate group of San people. The other
86 sequences form a heterogeneous mixture of Africans, Europeans,
Australopapuans, and Asians. Thus all major human lineages occur in Africa,
but only a subset occurs in the rest of the world. The existence of these
African-only groups strongly contradicts multiregional theories for the
origin of Homo sapiens that require widespread migration and interbreeding
over the entire range of H. erectus. Only when the multiregional model is
rejected is it appropriate to consider the root, based on a single locus,
to be the center of origin of a population (otherwise different loci could
give alternative geographic positions for the root). For this data, several
methods locate the root within the group of 49 African sequences and are
thus consistent with the recent African origin of H. sapiens. We
demonstrate that the time of the last common ancestor cannot be the time of
major expansion in human numbers, and our results are thus also consistent
with recent models that differentiate between the last common ancestor,
expansion out of Africa, and the major expansion in human populations. Such
a two-phase model is consistent with a wide range of molecular and
archeological evidence.
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