学术类科技期刊正文转接的原则与技巧

通过编辑实践经验,对学术类科技期刊正文转接的原则和技巧进行总结提炼。阐述了尽量避免跳页排印、以少接多、顺势接排、尽量避免逆向转接、分段或分句转接、不能出现背题的接排、含图表和公式部分不宜转接、应避免转接错误和字体混乱等8条原则以及具体实施的技巧,认为处理正文转接的最适宜时期是清样"定版"环节,其目的在于不断提高编辑工作的效率和期刊的编辑质量。     

浓香型白酒两个产区窖泥微生物群落结构分析

【目的】探索浓香型白酒两个典型产区窖泥微生物群落结构和多样性,分析窖泥微生物群落地域特征及对白酒风格形成的影响。【方法】分别提取四川和安徽两个产区窖泥样品总DNA,应用PCR-ARDRA和16S rRNA基因克隆测序技术对两个产区窖泥细菌和古菌进行研究。【结果】两个浓香型白酒产区窖泥细菌丰富,包括:厚壁菌门(Firmicute)、拟杆菌门(Bacteroidetes)、绿弯菌门(Chloroflexi)、互养菌门(Synergistetes)、Armatimonadetes类群和未分类细菌(Unclassified bacteria)。两个产区窖泥绝对优势种群均为厚壁菌门中梭菌纲(Clostridia)细菌,在四川产区窖泥中检出较多的互营单胞菌属(Synthrophomonas)和紫单胞菌属(Petrimonas)。古菌的群落组成较为简单,主要是甲烷囊菌属(Methanoculleus)、甲烷八叠球菌属(Methanosarcina)、甲烷鬃菌属(Methanosaeta)和甲烷杆菌属(Methanobacterium)4个产甲烷古菌类群,四川产区窖泥优势古菌为甲烷囊菌和甲烷八叠球菌,安徽产区则为甲烷八叠球菌属和甲烷鬃菌。【结论】四川和安徽两个产区窖泥微生物的16S rRNA基因克隆文库系统地反映了两者微生物群落的相似性和差异性,对揭示浓香型白酒两个产区的酒体风格差异形成有一定的参考价值。     

A Thermodynamic Perspective on Natural Selection

A novel thermodynamic perspective on natural selection is presented. In the case that life continuity is optimized in an ideal system, where relatively constant and homogeneous selective pressures favour a given competing species, natural selection leads that system to a stationary state of maximum genotypic uniformity of life and maximum sustainable consumption of available energy by life (competitive equilibrium). Structurally and functionally, this optimizing tendency towards competitive equilibrium looks similar to the optimizing tendency towards thermodynamic equilibrium of classical thermodynamics (maximum energetic uniformity and maximum degradation of available energy). The principle of competitive exclusion may thus be conceptually viewed as an ecological manifestation of the second law of (classical) thermodynamics. On the other hand, the novel thermodynamic perspective on natural selection is discussed with regard to the open and nonequilibrium system of nature, where selective pressures vary in space and time. In this case, natural selection can induce diversity instead of uniformity, though an optimizing tendendcy towards maximum sustainable consumption of resources (optimization of life continuity) always remains. Overall, it is concluded that the action of natural selection favours the maximization of the sustainable consumption of energy at the level of individual organism.     

Tree uprooting: review of impacts on forest ecology

This paper reviews the ecological effects of tree uprooting. In many forests, disturbance by uprooting is the primary means of maintaining species richness and diversity. Treefall may be due to exogenous factors or it may be endogenously created, although the former predominate. The canopy gap formed by downed trees is often vital to community vegetation dynamics and successional pathways, by providing high light niches (gaps) for pioneer species, by encouraging release of suppressed, shade-tolerant saplings, and through recruitment of new individuals. Nutrient cycling may be affected by uprooting as subsoil materials are brought to the surface, via additions of woody debris to the forest floor, through exposure of bare mineral soil, and by changes in throughfall chemistry. The influence of the resultant pit/mound microtopography on understorey herb distribution is largely due to microclimatic and microtopographic variation. Tree seedling distribution, however, is related to microtopography primarily through differences in soil morphology, nutrition, and moisture content of mound and pit sites.     

润楠属植物叶片和枝条水力特征的协同关系

以润楠属(Machilus) 7种植物成年个体为材料,对其进行生理指标测定,并对它们的叶片水分供需关系以及木质部纹孔特征和导水效率之间的关联进行分析。结果显示,润楠属7种植物相比原始被子植物具有更高的叶脉密度(VD),叶脉密度为9.8～14.1 mm/mm~2;气孔密度(SD)与叶脉密度呈显著正相关,说明叶片水分供需存在协同关系;气孔密度与气孔大小(GLC)呈负相关;气孔越大的叶片其膨压丧失点(TLP)的绝对值越低。枝条边材比导率(Ks)较低,为0.13～1.87 kg·m~(-1)·s~(-1)·MPa~(-1),且种间差异较大。叶脉和气孔密度均与边材比导率呈正相关。边材比导率与纹孔膜面积、纹孔口面积以及纹孔口长短轴比例相关性不显著。研究结果表明润楠属植物虽然叶脉密度较高,且木质部水分供应和叶片结构具有协同关系,但木质部解剖结构较为原始,导管多具梯形穿孔板,导水效率低,只能适应比较湿润的生境。     

Hemidecortication selectively alters release of glutamate in perfusates collected from cerebral cortex of unrestrained rats

The effect of hemidecortication on the in vivo release of amino acids was examined in different areas of the cerebral cortex of the freely-moving rat. After one side of the cortex was lesioned by aspiration, four guide tubes for push-pull perfusion were implanted chronically on the contralateral side so as to rest above the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital areas of the cortex. After 10–14 days elapsed, each of these regions was perfused with an artificial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at a rate of 25.0 l/min. Two types of assays were undertaken to determine the release of either newly synthesized amino acids from [¹⁴C]glucose precursor or the actual endogenous content in samples of perfusate. The separation of the [¹⁴C]amino acids was performed by thin layer chromatography, whereas endogenous amino acids were separated by HPLC with electrochemical detection and quantitated in the range of 1.0–10.0 picomoles. When compared to the control group, samples collected in the hemidecorticate rat showed no significant differences in the new synthesis of glutamate, aspartate, glutamine, glycine, and GABA from the precursor. On the other hand, the analysis of the endogenous amino acid neurotransmitters revealed that the levels of glutamic acid and glutamine declined in samples obtained from the parietal and frontal cortex, respectively. These results implicate further the potential role of glutamic acid as a neurotransmitter of interhemispheric connections in the cerebral cortex.     

Xylem of early angiosperms: Novel microstructure in stem tracheids of Barclaya (Nymphaeaceae)

Pit membranes of stem tracheids of all recognized species of Barclaya, an Indomalaysian genus of Nymphaeaceae, were studied with scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Pit membranes of the tracheids are composed of two thick layers, both constructed of fibrils much larger than those of tracheary elements of angiosperms other than Nymphaeaceae. The outer (distal) layer, which comprises the continuous primary wall around the tracheids, is spongiform, perforated by porosities of relatively uniform size, and confined to or most prominent on end walls of stem tracheids. The second layer consists of thick widely spaced fibrils that are oriented axially and are laid down proximally (facing the cell lumen) to the first (outer) layer, although continuous with it. These axial fibrils are attached at their ends to the pit cavities. This peculiar microstructure is not known outside Nymphaeaceae except in Brasenia and Cabomba (Cabombaceae, Nymphaeales), and has not been previously described for Barclaya. The longitudinally oriented threads and strands in perforation plates of secondary xylem of wood and stems of a variety of primitive woody angiosperms (e.g., Illicium) are not homologous to the pit membrane structure observed in stem tracheids of Barclaya, which, like other Nymphaeaceae, has only primary xylem and no perforation plates. The tracheid microstructure reported here is different from pit structures observed in any other group of vascular plants, living or fossil. The tracheid stem microstructures of Barclaya and other Nymphaeaceae appear to be a synapomorphy of Nymphaeaceae and Cabombaceae, and need further study with respect to ultrastructure and function.