桃蚜诱捕色板的青-洋红-黄-黑四色模式优化

采用计算机模拟混色技术,结合正交设计,定量测定了有翅桃蚜Myzus persicae(Sulzer)对青(C)、洋红(M)、黄(Y)和黑(K)4色成分模式混合色的选择性反应。第1组L25(56)试验结果表明,因子效应顺序为:Y﹥M﹥K﹥C。最佳理论混合色参数为C=25%、Y=25%、M=100%、K=0,模拟色板的叶色竞争系数(LCC)达77.78%。第2组L16(45)正交试验结果表明,当C、M、Y、K分别在10%～40%、10%～40%、85%～100%和0～15%区间变化时,对所有处理的叶色竞争系数均无显著影响。模拟色板叶色竞争系数与黄色成分和黑色成分的回归方程分别为LCC=0.0390Y2-0.1875Y+0.5591(R2=0.9913)和LCC=0.0163K2-0.1237K+0.6176(R2=0.7926)。     

湖北省五大湖泊水生植物多样性的比较研究

对湖北省五大湖泊斧头湖、洪湖、梁子湖、长湖和西凉湖水生植物多样性进行了监测、为保护与可持续利用提供依据,本文将断面法与GIS及GPS技术相结合,通过野外调查和分析前人的工作,揭示了五大湖泊水生植物多样性的现状和50余年来的变化,探讨了人为干扰强度与多样性丰富程度及丧失程度的关系,主要结论是:(1)2001年斧头湖、洪湖、梁子湖、长湖和西凉湖各分布有水生植物61种、94种、8种、92种和种,种数/面积比值以重度干扰的斧头湖和洪湖最小(分别为0.53与0.2种/km2),以轻度干扰的西凉湖最大(1.0种/km2).(2)斧头湖、洪湖、梁子湖、长湖与西凉湖现各有水生植物群丛类型5、5、12、12和13个,植被覆盖率分别是16.30%、16.43%、32.56%、45.16%和62.04%,全湖平均单位面积生物量(鲜重)分别为299.0g/m2、64.2g/m2、808.6g/m2、1039.1g/m2和119.8g/m2.(3)近50余年来斧头湖、洪湖、梁子湖、长湖和西凉湖水生植被分布区严重缩小、覆盖率显著下降、生物量极大降低,分别有9、8、5、3和1种水生植物消失,消失的水生植物群丛类型数各为、8、4、2和1个.(4)多样性的丰富程度随人为干扰强度的增强而下降,多样性的丧失程度随干扰强度的增强而上升;围网养殖比围垦对五大湖泊水生植物多样性的破坏更为严重.       

基于16S rDNA部分序列探讨中国近海30种石斑鱼类的分子系统进化关系

石斑鱼因其种类繁多、分布广泛及缺乏显著的形体特征,使其系统分类的研究颇为困难。为探讨中国近海石斑鱼类的系统进化关系,通过PCR扩增获得了石斑鱼亚科(Epinephelinae)6属30个种类的线粒体16SrDNA基因片段序列。采用多个生物软件对序列变异和碱基组成进行分析,计算了Kimura2parameter遗传距离、转换/颠换比等遗传信息指数,并结合GenBank石斑鱼属的同源序列,以多纹长尾(Pronotogrammusmultifasciatus)和皮氏叫姑鱼(Johniusbelengerii)为外群构建NJ、MP和ML系统树。根据所得分子依据并结合形态学特征,推论如下:1)在本研究的30种石斑鱼中,鳃棘鲈属(Plectropomus)最先分化,并呈明显单系性;九棘鲈属(Cephalopholis)是一个单系群,并且较石斑鱼属(Epinephelus)原始;侧牙鲈属(Variola)的进化地位介于鳃棘鲈属与九棘鲈属之间;2)宽额鲈(Promicropslanceolatus)可以归入石斑鱼属,而驼背鲈(Cromileptesaltivelis)也与石斑鱼属有很近的亲缘关系,甚至可能是石斑鱼属内的特化类群;3)石斑鱼属内部存在两个平行进化的姐妹分支,分支内部的种类组成与地理分布无关,暗示了石斑鱼属早期的分化模式。     

Gravity, a regulation factor in the differentiation of rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

Background

Stem cell therapy has emerged as a potential therapeutic option for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, but many issues remain to be resolved, such as the amount of seed cells, committed differentiation and the efficiency. Several previous studies have focused on the study of chemical inducement microenvironments. In the present study, we investigated the effects of gravity on the differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) into force-sensitive or force-insensitive cells.

Methods and results

Rat BMSCs (rBMSCs) were cultured under hypergravity or simulated microgravity (SMG) conditions with or without inducement medium. The expression levels of the characteristic proteins were measured and analyzed using immunocytochemical, RT-PCR and Western-blot analyses. After treatment with 5-azacytidine and hypergravity, rBMSCs expressed more characteristic proteins of cardiomyocytes such as cTnT, GATA4 and β-MHC; however, fewer such proteins were seen with SMG. After treating rBMSCs with osteogenic inducer and hypergravity, there were marked increases in the expression levels of ColIA1, Cbfa1 and ALP. Reverse results were obtained with SMG. rBMSCs treated with adipogenic inducer and SMG expressed greater levels of PPARgamma. Greater levels of Cbfa1- or cTnT-positive cells were observed under hypergravity without inducer, as shown by FACS analysis. These results indicate that hypergravity induces differentiation of rBMSCs into force-sensitive cells (cardiomyocytes and osteoblasts), whereas SMG induces force-insensitive cells (adipocytes).

Conclusion

Taken together, we conclude that gravity is an important factor affecting the differentiation of rBMSCs; this provides a new avenue for mechanistic studies of stem cell differentiation and a new approach to obtain more committed differentiated or undifferentiated cells.     

大豆猝死综合症病菌枝状镰孢的活性检测研究

应用来源于美国、阿根廷的我国对外检疫性有害生物大豆猝死综合症病菌枝状镰孢Fusarium virguliforme共8个菌株,分别在43℃至47℃ 5个温度梯度下水浴处理1min至5min 5个时间梯度,荧光染色后,经单细胞微量分析系统进行活性检测分析,设置传统萌发试验作为对照,结果表明:该病菌在47℃水浴处理4min即全部失活,SPSS统计分析得出该病菌的活性检测值与处理温度呈极显著负相关,而与处理时间(除菌株2-1和22825呈显著负相关外)均呈极显著负相关;所设置的孢子萌发率与处理温度和处理时间之间也呈极显著负相关;活性检测值与萌发率两者之间具有极显著的正相关性.本研究表明活性检测可以替代传统的孢子萌发方法,从而大幅度缩短该病菌活性检测时间,明显提高检测效率.     

X连锁凋亡抑制蛋白反义寡核苷酸逆转K562细胞及难治性癫痫大鼠对卡马西平和苯妥英钠耐药性

凋亡在癫痫发生机制中起重要作用,但其在难治性癫痫耐药机制中的作用尚不清楚．为研究X连锁凋亡抑制蛋白(X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein, XIAP)反义寡核苷酸对K562/Dox(阿霉素诱导)耐药细胞及难治性癫痫大鼠耐药性的影响,首先建立耐药的K562/Dox细胞株,比较XIAP在耐药细胞株和正常K562细胞株的表达情况,观察转染XIAP反义寡核苷酸后,线粒体膜电位变化以及对卡马西平和苯妥英钠耐药性的影响．另外,建立慢性杏仁核点燃癫痫模型,筛选出耐药组和药物敏感组,通过侧脑室注射XIAP反义寡核苷酸,对照组注射生理盐水．观察其对各组大鼠后放电阈值(after discharge threshold,ADT)、后放电时程(after discharge duration,ADD)等电生理指标的影响．结果发现,XIAP在K562/Dox耐药细胞上的表达明显高于正常K562细胞,XIAP反义寡核苷酸转染K562/Dox耐药细胞后,XIAP的表达明显下降．导致了K562/Dox细胞线粒体跨膜电位的下降,而且对苯妥英钠和卡马西平的耐药性明显下降,IC₅₀分别由(1 978.2 ± 90.3) mg/L和(1 875.6 ± 83.2) mg/L,降低到(1 123.5 ± 54.2) mg/L和(1 084.5 ± 60.6) mg/L,逆转倍数分别为1.76和1.73．同时动物实验发现,耐药组大鼠在给予XIAP反义寡核苷酸后,ADT明显高于对照组(P < 0.05), ADD时程也明显缩短．上述结果证明,XIAP在耐药的K562/Dox细胞株存在高表达,下调XIAP在K562/Dox细胞株表达可以改善K562/Dox对卡马西平和苯妥英钠的耐药性．而且下调XIAP表达可以协助AEDs改善耐药大鼠的电生理活动,提示XIAP参与了难治性癫痫的耐药．     

Defective potassium channel Kir2.1 trafficking underlies Andersen-Tawil syndrome

Andersen-Tawil syndrome is a skeletal and cardiac muscle disease with developmental features caused by mutations in the inward rectifier K+ channel gene KCNJ2. Patients harboring these mutations exhibit extremely variable expressivities. To explore whether these mutations can be correlated with a specific patient phenotype, we expressed both wild-type (WT) and mutant genes cloned into a bi-cistronic vector. Functional expression in human embryonic kidney 293 cells showed that none of the mutant channels express current when present alone. When co-expressed with WT channels, only construct V302M-WT yields inward current. Confocal microscopy fluorescence revealed three patterns of channel expression in the cell: 1) mutations D71V, N216H, R218Q, and pore mutations co-assemble and co-localize to the membrane with the WT and exert a dominant-negative effect on the WT channels; 2) mutation V302M leads to channels that lose their ability to co-assemble with WT and traffic to the cell surface; 3) deletions Delta 95-98 and Delta 314-315 lead to channels that do not traffic to the membrane but retain their ability to co-assemble with WT channels. These data show that the Andersen-Tawil syndrome phenotype may occur through a dominant-negative effect as well as through haplo-insufficiency and reveal amino acids critical in trafficking and conductance of the inward rectifier K+ channels.     

Time series canopy phenotyping enables the identification of genetic variants controlling dynamic phenotypes in soybean

Advances in plant phenotyping technologies are dramatically reducing the marginal costs of collecting multiple phenotypic measurements across several time points. Yet, most current approaches and best statistical practices implemented to link genetic and phenotypic variation in plants have been developed in an era of single-time-point data. Here, we used time-series phenotypic data collected with an unmanned aircraft system for a large panel of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) varieties to identify previously uncharacterized loci. Specifically, we focused on the dissection of canopy coverage (CC) variation from this rich data set. We also inferred the speed of canopy closure, an additional dimension of CC, from the time-series data, as it may represent an important trait for weed control. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) identified 35 loci exhibiting dynamic associations with CC across developmental stages. The time-series data enabled the identification of 10 known flowering time and plant height quantitative trait loci (QTLs) detected in previous studies of adult plants and the identification of novel QTLs influencing CC. These novel QTLs were disproportionately likely to act earlier in development, which may explain why they were missed in previous single-time-point studies. Moreover, this time-series data set contributed to the high accuracy of the GWASs, which we evaluated by permutation tests, as evidenced by the repeated identification of loci across multiple time points. Two novel loci showed evidence of adaptive selection during domestication, with different genotypes/haplotypes favored in different geographic regions. In summary, the time-series data, with soybean CC as an example, improved the accuracy and statistical power to dissect the genetic basis of traits and offered a promising opportunity for crop breeding with quantitative growth curves.