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MIRIAM TEUSCHER MARTIN BRÄNDLE VERENA TRAXEL ROLAND BRANDL 《Ecological Entomology》2009,34(6):718-724
- 1 The size–grain hypothesis ( Kaspari & Weiser, 1999 ) states that (1) as organisms decrease in size, they perceive their environment as being more rugose; (2) long legs allow organisms to step over obstacles but hinder them from entering small gaps; and (3) as the size of an organism decreases, the benefits of long legs begin to be outweighed by the costs of construction. Natural selection should therefore favour proportionally longer legs in larger organisms, thereby leading to a positive allometry between leg and body length (scaling exponent b > 1).
- 2 Here we compare the scaling exponent of leg‐to‐body length relationships among insects that walk, walk and fly, and predominantly fly. We measured the lengths of the hind tibia, hind femur, and body length of each species.
- 3 The taxa varied considerably in the scaling exponent b. In seven out of ten groups (Formicidae, Isoptera, Carabidae, Pentatomidae, Apidae, Lepidoptera, Odonata adult), b was significantly greater than one. However, there was no gradual decrease in b from walking to walking/flying to flying insects.
- 4 The results of the present study provide no support for the size–grain hypothesis. We propose that leg length is not only affected by the rugosity of the environment, but also by (1) functional adaptations, (2) phylogeny, (3) lifestyle, (4) the type of insect development (hemimetabolism or holometabolism), and (5) constraints of gas exchange.
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Lilian Noindorf Ana C Bonatto Rose A Monteiro Emanuel M Souza Liu U Rigo Fabio O Pedrosa Maria BR Steffens Leda S Chubatsu 《BMC microbiology》2011,11(1):8
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The PII protein family comprises homotrimeric proteins which act as transducers of the cellular nitrogen and carbon status in prokaryotes and plants. In Herbaspirillum seropedicae, two PII-like proteins (GlnB and GlnK), encoded by the genes glnB and glnK, were identified. The glnB gene is monocistronic and its expression is constitutive, while glnK is located in the nlmAglnKamtB operon and is expressed under nitrogen-limiting conditions. 相似文献23.
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Cancer of the oral tongue is the second most common cancer among males in various parts of India. Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment the failure rates in cancer of the oral tongue are high and survival poor. Majority of these failures occur in untreated neck. 相似文献24.
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B Nagy BR Watters PDW van der Merwe FPD Cotterill DU Bellstedt 《African Journal of Aquatic Science》2017,42(3):201-218
Nothobranchius cooperi, Nagy, Watters and Bellstedt, new species, is described from seasonal streams and ephemeral pools associated with the upper Mansa River system in the middle Luapula drainage and systems draining into the low-lying area marginal to the southwestern part of Lake Bangweulu, in the Luapula province of northern Zambia. It belongs to the N. brieni species group. Males of Nothobranchius cooperi are distinguished from congeners by the following unique combination of characters: body scales with broad orange posterior margin, forming a highly irregular cross-barred pattern; anal fin fairly uniform orange-red with irregular to regular, light blue-green zone close to the base; caudal peduncle length 1.2–1.3 times its depth; prepelvic length 48.8–51.9% SL; and head depth 75–77% of head length. Genetic divergence of the mitochondrial COI and ND2 genes and nuclear S7 gene support the distinction of the new species from its closest known relative, N. rosenstocki and confirms its position in the N. brieni species group. 相似文献
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Molecular phylogenetic and biogeochemical studies of sulfate-reducing bacteria in the rhizosphere of spartina alterniflora 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Hines ME Evans RS Sharak Genthner BR Willis SG Friedman S Rooney-Varga JN Devereux R 《Applied and environmental microbiology》1999,65(5):2209-2216
The population composition and biogeochemistry of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in the rhizosphere of the marsh grass Spartina alterniflora was investigated over two growing seasons by molecular probing, enumerations of culturable SRB, and measurements of SO42- reduction rates and geochemical parameters. SO42- reduction was rapid in marsh sediments with rates up to 3.5 &mgr;mol ml-1 day-1. Rates increased greatly when plant growth began in April and decreased again when plants flowered in late July. Results with nucleic acid probes revealed that SRB rRNA accounted for up to 43% of the rRNA from members of the domain Bacteria in marsh sediments, with the highest percentages occurring in bacteria physically associated with root surfaces. The relative abundance (RA) of SRB rRNA in whole-sediment samples compared to that of Bacteria rRNA did not vary greatly throughout the year, despite large temporal changes in SO42- reduction activity. However, the RA of root-associated SRB did increase from <10 to >30% when plants were actively growing. rRNA from members of the family Desulfobacteriaceae comprised the majority of the SRB rRNA at 3 to 34% of Bacteria rRNA, with Desulfobulbus spp. accounting for 1 to 16%. The RA of Desulfovibrio rRNA generally comprised from <1 to 3% of the Bacteria rRNA. The highest Desulfobacteriaceae RA in whole sediments was 26% and was found in the deepest sediment samples (6 to 8 cm). Culturable SRB abundance, determined by most-probable-number analyses, was high at >10(7) ml-1. Ethanol utilizers were most abundant, followed by acetate utilizers. The high numbers of culturable SRB and the high RA of SRB rRNA compared to that of Bacteria rRNA may be due to the release of SRB substrates in plant root exudates, creating a microbial food web that circumvents fermentation. 相似文献
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Codon fitnesses for chloroplast genes were estimated using the relative
synonymous codon use of psbA, which has a different pattern of codon use
than other chloroplast genes and is the major translation product of the
chloroplast. These estimates were used to calculate the codon adaptation
index (CAI) of chloroplast genes from Marchantia polymorpha, Nicotiana
tabacum, and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The genes with the highest CAI
values in M. polymorpha correspond to those that are expressed at the
highest levels. The rate of divergence between M. polymorpha and both C.
reinhardtii and N. tabacum is inversely related to the CAI value of the M.
polymorpha gene. The data suggest that selection is acting on the
synonymous codon use of the highly expressed genes of the M. polymorpha
chloroplast genome. The data set is inconclusive about N. tabacum genes,
but, as there is a weaker correspondence between CAI value and expression
level, it suggests that selection is not operating in this lineage.
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Alien fishes are considered a major threat to aquatic biodiversity in South Africa, yet relatively little regional information on their biology and ecology is available for many of these species. Seasonal changes in the diet of the bluegill Lepomis macrochirus in Howieson’s Poort Dam, Grahamstown, were assessed during summer and winter in 2014–2015, using stomach content analysis. In winter, juvenile and adult fish diets were dominated by crustacean zooplankton and insects, respectively. In summer, juvenile fish fed on crustaceans and insects, whereas adults consumed mostly fish eggs, indicating a potential impact by these invasive fish on native fish through oophagy. 相似文献
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Dey G Palit S Banerjee R Maiti BR 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》2002,28(4):193-200
A maltooligosaccharide-forming amylase that hydrolyzes starch into maltotriose and maltopentaose was found in the culture
filtrate of a strain of Bacillus circulans GRS 313 isolated from local soil. The enzyme was purified by organic solvent fractionation, Sephadex G-100 gel filtration
and CM-Sephadex column chromatography. Optimum pH and temperature of amylase were evaluated using response surface methodology
(RSM) and were found to be 48°C and 4.9, respectively. The enzyme was stable up to 60°C and its pH stability was in the range
of 5.0–8.0. The K
m and V
max of the amylase with starch were 11.66 mg/ml and 68.97 U, respectively, and the energy of activation, E
a, was 7.52 kcal/mol. Dextrin inhibited the enzyme competitively, with a K
i of 6.1 mg/ml, and glucose caused noncompetitive inhibition with a K
i of 9.5 mg/ml. The enzyme was inhibited by Hg2+, Mn2+, Fe3+ and Cu2+ and enhanced by Co2+ and Mg2+. EDTA reversed the inhibitory effect of the metals. Paper chromatographic and high-performance liquid chromatography analysis
of the products of the amylolytic reaction showed the presence of maltotriose, maltotetraose, maltopentaose, maltose and glucose
in the starch hydrolysate. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (2002) 28, 193–200 DOI: 10.1038/sj/jim/7000220
Received 11 December 2000/ Accepted in revised form 22 October 2001 相似文献