内蒙古中东部草原羽茅Epichlo属内生真菌的分布及rDNA-ITS序列系统发育

对内蒙古中东部地区分布的羽茅6个地理种群的染菌率进行了调查,采集种子并从中分离得到不同形态型的内生真菌,选取其中的19株进行rDNA-ITS片段的扩增、克隆、测序和系统发育分析。结果表明：（1）6个样地羽茅种群内生真菌感染率除西乌旗为96.7%外,其他5个样地均为100％,表明内生真菌侵染羽茅并非偶然现象,二者之间存在一种稳定的共生关系。（2）ITS和5.8S序列得到的N-J树显示,相对于Epichlo属的其他参考菌株,不同地理种群羽茅中的内生真菌聚为一类,形成一个具有97％支持强度的分支。由此推测,不同地理种群羽茅中的内生真菌具有相同的起源点。（3）结合形态观察结果和rDNA-ITS序列分析结果可以看出,羽茅内生真菌种群的优势种亲缘关系较近,可能起源于同一种内生真菌;但由于其地理分布广、气候差异大、群落类型差别也较大,从而造成不同地理种群内生真菌形态上的分化以及种群间明显的遗传分化和较高的遗传多样性。     

趋磁细菌生态学研究进展

趋磁细菌是一类革兰氏阴性的原核生物,广泛分布于淡水和海水环境中的有氧-无氧过渡区.趋磁细菌的分布与其环境中的氧、硫化物及铁等的浓度相关,不同种类分布在不同的物化梯度范围内.趋磁细菌的生长、磁小体的合成及磁小体的成分对环境有一定程度的指示作用.它们在生物地球化学循环中起着重要的作用.主要针对以上研究内容进行回顾,同时结合本实验室的一些研究结果做初步的分析,并对趋磁细菌生态学研究进行展望.     

浙西南山地蕨类植物区系研究

浙西南山地蕨类植物十分丰富,区系有46科99属396种(含变种及变型)组成。优势科是鳞毛蕨科、水龙骨科、蹄盖蕨科、金星蕨科等;优势属是鳞毛蕨属、复叶耳蕨属、铁角蕨属、卷柏属、毛蕨属等。区系地理成分复杂,具有亚热带性质,但兼有亚热带向暖温带过渡的特征;区系起源古老,不乏古老的科、属及孑遗种;区系具有丰富的中国特有成分;该区系与邻近地区蕨类植物区系关系的密切程度依次为西南、华南、日本、华中、台湾、华北、西北、西藏和东北。     

Systematic implicationsofflavonoid patterns in Haplopappus segregates

Complex flavonoid patterns are correlated with primitive woody taxa and high base chromosome numbers among Haplopappus segregates. Variability among flavonoid complements supports the polyphyletic interpretation of the genus.     

Evolution of exceptional species richness among lineages of fleshy-fruited Myrtaceae

MethodsBayesian phylogenetic analyses of plastid and nuclear DNA sequences were used to estimate intertribal relationships and lineage divergence times in Myrtaceae. Focusing on the fleshy-fruited tribes, a variety of statistical approaches were used to assess diversification rates and diversification rate shifts across the family.ConclusionsFleshy fruits have evolved independently in Syzygieae and Myrteae, and this is accompanied by exceptional diversification rate shifts in both instances, suggesting that the evolution of fleshy fruits is a key innovation for rainforest Myrtaceae. Noting the scale dependency of this hypothesis, more complex explanations may be required to explain diversification rate shifts occurring within the fleshy-fruited tribes, and the suggested phylogenetic hypothesis provides an appropriate framework for this undertaking.     

Synthesis of Japanese Boletus edulis ectomycorrhizae with Japanese red pine

Boletus edulis is a well-known ectomycorrhizal mushroom. Although cultivation has been widely attempted, no artificial fruiting has been achieved owing to difficulties associated with mycorrhizal synthesis and acclimatization in fields. We collected fifteen B. edulis basidiomata samples from locations in Japan and identified them microscopically and by phylogenetic analysis of their nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions. Pure culture isolates of B. edulis were established efficiently on malt extract agar medium, and one isolate, EN-63, was inoculated to axenic Pinus densiflora seedlings in vitro. Brownish ectomycorrhizal tips were observed on the pine lateral roots within four months of inoculation. Ten pine seedlings that formed ectomycorrhizae were acclimatized under laboratory and greenhouse conditions. At four months after transplant, mycorrhizal colonization by B. edulis was observed on newly grown root tips under laboratory conditions, but no B. edulis ectomycorrhiza survived under greenhouse conditions. These results suggest that B. edulis ectomycorrhizae synthesized in vitro with P. densiflora requires additional steps for acclimatization to greenhouse conditions.     

Phylogenetic Framework for Trema (Celtidaceae)

We used ITS and trnL sequence data, analyzed separately and combined by MP, to explore species relationships and concepts in Trema (Celtidaceae), a pantropical genus of pioneer trees. Whether Trema is monophyletic or includes Parasponia is still unresolved. Three clades within Trema received moderate to high support, one from the New World and two from the Old World, but their relationships were not resolved. In the New World, specimens of T. micrantha formed two groups consistent with endocarp morphology. Group I, with smaller brown endocarps, is a highly supported clade sister to T. lamarckiana. Group II, with larger black endocarps, is poorly resolved with several subclades, including the highly supported T. integerrima clade. Both Old World clades contain Asian and African species, with three or more species in each region. Trema orientalis is not monophyletic: specimens from Africa formed a highly supported clade sister to T. africana, while those from Asia were sister to T. aspera from Australia.     

Endemic evolutionary radiation of Rhagada land snails (Pulmonata: Camaenidae) in a continental archipelago in northern Western Australia

In the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia's Pilbara Region, several locally endemic, morphologically distinctive species of Rhagada land snails occur, contrasting with the morphologically conservative species with wider distributions on the adjacent mainland. To test alternative origins of this unusual local diversity in a continental archipelago, we examined sequences of the cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 and 16S mitochondrial genes in 22 described species and eight undescribed forms, including all known morphospecies from the Pilbara Region's Dampier Archipelago and adjacent mainland. Phylogenetic analyses consistently resolved four, deep clades within the Pilbara Region, with a mean sequence divergence of 15–18%. All but one of the species from the Dampier Archipelago formed one of the major clades, indicating that the morphological radiation in the archipelago evolved locally, rather than through multiple, relictual mainland lineages. Morphological divergence spanning almost that of the entire genus was within a subclade with sequence divergence < 4%, highlighting the disconnection between morphological diversification and levels of molecular genetic divergence. This in situ morphological radiation in the Dampier Archipelago, which transcends variation seen over much larger distances on the mainland, is unusual for a continental archipelago, and may relate to local heterogeneity of land forms. © 2012 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012, 106 , 316–327.