Partial 18S rRNA sequences of five chelicerate arthropods plus a
crustacean, myriapod, insect, chordate, echinoderm, annelid, and
platyhelminth were compared. The sequence data were used to infer phylogeny
by using a maximum-parsimony method, an evolutionary-distance method, and
the evolutionary-parsimony method. The phylogenetic inferences generated by
maximum-parsimony and distance methods support both monophyly of the
Arthropoda and monophyly of the Chelicerata within the Arthropoda. These
results are congruent with phylogenies based on rigorous cladistic analyses
of morphological characters. Results support the inclusion of the
Arthropoda within a spiralian or protostome coelomate clade that is the
sister group of a deuterostome clade, refuting the hypothesis that the
arthropods represent the "primitive" sister group of a protostome coelomate
clade. Bootstrap analyses and consideration of all trees within 1% of the
length of the most parsimonious tree suggest that relationships between the
nonchelicerate arthropods and relationships within the chelicerate clade
cannot be reliably inferred with the partial 18S rRNA sequence data. With
the evolutionary-parsimony method, support for monophyly of the Arthropoda
is found in the majority of the combinations analyzed if the coelomates are
used as "outgroups." Monophyly of the Chelicerata is supported in most
combinations assessed. Our analyses also indicate that the
evolutionary-parsimony method, like distance and parsimony, may be biased
by taxa with long branches. We suggest that a previous study's inference of
the Arthropoda as paraphyletic may be the result of (a) having two few
arthropod taxa available for analysis and (b) including long-branched taxa.
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Per cell protein expression in virally-infected insect cells declines significantly at high cell density resulting in a decrease in volumetric productivity. Specific protein expression levels in Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf-21) cells could be increased at high cell densities by increasing the oxygen supply and by supplementing the medium with glutamine post-infection. beta-Galactosidase yield was increased from 411 to 855 IU/ml by increasing the glutamine concentration in the medium by 46% and increasing the gas phase oxygen concentration from 21 to 80%. Similarly, the yield of a secreted alkaline phosphatase was increased from 14.2 to 26.2 IU/mL using the same conditions. Part of the increase in production with Sf-21 culture was due to increased release to the extra-cellular compartment at the higher oxygen concentrations. Increasing the gas phase oxygen concentration to 95% in conjunction with a 100% increase in glutamine and glucose concentrations did not improve the yield any further. Peak production under elevated oxygen and nutrient conditions occurred at 72 h about 24-48 h earlier than under normal conditions. In a Trichoplusia ni cell line (BTI-TN-5B1-4), the maximum secreted alkaline phosphatase activity was increased from 10 to 27.2 IU/mL by similarly manipulating the oxygen supply. (c) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 54: 142-152, 1997. 相似文献
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The separate effects of concentration, pH and anion species on intensity of
sourness and astringency of organic acids were evaluated. Judges rated
sourness and astringency intensity of lactic, malic, tartaric and citric
acid solutions at three levels of constant pH varying in normality and at
three levels of constant concentration varying in pH. To assess the
comparative sourness and astringency of the organic acid anions of study,
binary acid solutions matched in pH and titratable acidity were also rated.
As pH was decreased in equinormal solutions, both sourness and astringency
increased significantly (P < 0.001). By contrast, as the normality of
the equi-pH solutions was increased, only sourness demonstrated significant
increases (P < 0.001) while astringency remained constant or decreased
slightly. At the lowest normality tested, all solutions were more
astringent than sour (P < 0.05). Although lactic acid was found to be
significantly more sour than citric acid (P < 0.05), no other sourness
or astringency differences among the organic acid anions were noted. This
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Complete coding regions of the 18S rRNA gene of an enteropneust
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aligned with 18S rRNA gene sequences of all major chordate clades and four
outgroups. Gene sequences were analyzed to test morphological character
phylogenies and to assess the strength of the signal. Maximum- parsimony
analysis of the sequences fails to support a monophyletic Chordata; the
urochordates form the sister taxon to the hemichordates, and together this
clade plus the echinoderms forms the sister taxon to the cephalochordates
plus craniates. Decay, bootstrap, and tree-length distribution analyses
suggest that the signal for inference of dueterostome phylogeny is weak in
this molecule. Parsimony analysis of morphological plus molecular
characters supports both monophyly of echinoderms plus enteropneust
hemichordates and a sister group relationship of this clade to chordates.
Evolutionary parsimony does not support chordate monophyly.
Neighbor-joining, Fitch-Margoliash, and maximum-likelihood analyses support
a chordate lineage that is the sister group to an
echinoderm-plus-hemichordate lineage. The results illustrate both the
limitations of the 18S rRNA molecule alone for high- level phylogeny
inference and the importance of considering both molecular and
morphological data in phylogeny reconstruction.
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