墨龙与红鲫的视网膜和视盖解剖结构比较

墨龙是一种由红鲫进化来的龙睛种金鱼(Carassius auratus)。随机取体长10—12 cm, 重约35 g的墨龙和红鲫各4尾, 解剖取出整个眼球及脑, 并常规石蜡切片, HE染色。在光学显微镜下观察墨龙和红鲫的视网膜、视盖系统的显微结构变化并比较各层厚度, 发现与红鲫相比, 墨龙视网膜的总厚度下降29.9%, 其中外网状层厚度增加2.5%、内网状层厚度增加11.8%; 而内核层厚度下降21.6%、外核层厚度降低35.6%, 神经节细胞层、杆锥层也变薄, 且后两者分层不规则; 墨龙视盖壁整体厚度增加28.9%, 其中除围脑室层厚度减少22.6%外, 中央纤维层厚度增加12.8%, 中央细胞层厚度增加30.6%, 表面纤维层厚度增加21.9%, 且纤维远较红鲫密集, 视神经层厚度增加91.7%, 边缘层厚度增加35.6%。结果表明长期的人工选择不但改变了墨龙的外形, 而且使其中枢神经组织结构也发生了较大变化, 并推测墨龙的眼球直径及视网膜面积较大, 从而导致自视网膜传入视盖的纤维增多, 是视网膜和视盖中的传递神经冲动的神经元、神经纤维所在层段增厚的主要原因; 同时墨龙视网膜中色素上皮层向杆锥层交错对插, 富含神经元的视网膜外核层、内核层以及视盖中的围脑室层厚度也降低, 可以减少因视网膜面积大而造成的强光伤害; 此外由于墨龙的围脑室层厚度降低, 导致其游动及平衡能力较红鲫差。     

Compensation limits of fish muscle myofibrillar ATPase enzyme to environmental temperature

1. 1.|Goldfish acclimated to a range of temperatures between 5 and 35°C were found to only compensate the specific activity of their myofibrillar ATPase enzyme between 10 and 30°C.

2. 2.|The preferred temperatures of goldfish acclimated to 5°C and to 30°C were determined to be about 10 and 26°C respectively.

3. 3.|It is conlcuded that goldfish are only able to acclimate their myofibrillar ATPase system to temperatures between 10 and 30°C, but acclimation to these temperatures enables them to tolerate extremes.

Do body and fin form affect the abilities of fish to stabilize swimming during maneuvers through vertical and horizontal tubes?

Goldfish, Carassius auratus, silver dollar, Metynnis hypsauchen, and angelfish, Pterophyllum scalare were induced to swim through narrow vertical and horizontal tubes ranging in length from 0 to 20 cm (approximately 0 to 3 times total fish length, FL). The ability to stabilize the body while negotiating these confined spaces was quantified as (1) the minimum width of vertical (w_v) and horizontal (w_h) tubes traversed, where width is the smaller cross-sectional dimension of the tube, (2) the ratio w_v/w_h, and (3) transit speed through the tubes. Tube width was expressed as relative width, obtained by dividing tube width by fish length. Minimum relative widths traversed increased from 0.15 to 0.19 in the order silver dollar > angelfish > goldfish for vertical tubes and from 0.17 to 0.18 in the order goldfish=silver dollar > angelfish for horizontal tubes. w_v/w_h increased from 0.91 to 1.10 in the order silver dollar=angelfish > goldfish. Minimum tube widths generally increased with tube length for vertical tubes. Although significant differences in relative minimum widths among species were found, these were small. In contrast, for horizontal tubes, there was no significant effect of tube length on minimum tube width for any species. Large differences were found in transit speed. Transit speed generally decreased as the tube length increased. The slope of the relationship between transit speed and tube length varied among species generally increasing from – 0.41 to – 1.16 for horizontal tubes in the order goldfish > silver dollar > angelfish and from – 0.42 to – 1.07 in the order silver dollar > goldfish > angelfish for vertical tubes. As a result, goldfish usually took longest to traverse tubes of zero length but the shortest time to traverse the longest tubes. In contrast, angelfish traversed short tubes in the least time and long tubes in the greatest time. Deeper bodied angelfish swam slowly and traversed tubes with difficulty because they required experience during each trial to replace median and paired fin with body and caudal fin swimming. According to our data, goldfish were best able to swim in confined spaces.     

3种肟类化合物对中毒乙酰胆碱酯酶的重活化能力比较

3种肟类化合物(TMB4、LUH6和2-PAM-Cl)对辛硫磷抑制的鲫鱼、蟑螂和家蝇的乙酰胆碱酯酶(AChE)均具有重活化作用。初步比较研究了3种肟类化合物对中毒AChE的重活化能力,发现它们对被抑制的蟑螂和家蝇的AChE重活化能力差异不显著;但是对被抑制的鲫鱼的AChE来说,TMB4和L H6的重活化能力明显比2-PAM-Cl强。推测这3种肟类化合物对蟑螂、家蝇和鲫鱼的中毒AChE的活化能力的差异可能是由脊椎动物与无脊椎动物AChE本身的差异性造成的。     

滇池高背鲫和方正银鲫酯酶、乳酸脱氢酶同工酶的比较研究

本研究以方正银鲫(Carassius auratus gibelio Bloch)普通鲫(Carassius auratus)和滇池高背鲫(Carassius sp.)的各种组织器官为材料,进行酯酶(Esterase)和乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)同工酶电泳图谱的分析比较。结果表明:9种不同组织中酯酶同工酶谱带各不相同,有明显的组织特异性。滇池高背鲫的酯酶谱图有3种表型。方正银鲫和滇池高背鲫同一组织的LDH同工酶酶谱也有明显差异。等电聚焦凝胶电泳(T=7.5％,C=5％)的结果又表明这二种鱼的肝脏、脑、卵的酯酶同工酶酶谱及电泳扫描图亦有差异。这些结果揭示滇池高背鲫与方正银鲫至少在生化水平上已有明显的分化,很可能起源于不同的地区,由不同的祖先,独立演化而形成。滇池高背鲫与云南普通鲫的LDH酶谱较为接近,这说明滇池高背鲫最可能起源于云南本地的普通鲫。     

Distribution of aldehyde dehydrogenase and alcohol dehydrogenase in summer-acclimatized crucian carp, Carassius carassius L.

The tissue distribution of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) in summer-acclimatized crucian carp showed almost the same exceptional pattern as previously found in winter-acclimatized specimens. There was a nearly complete spatial separation of ALDH and ADH; in other vertebrates these enzymes occur together. This exceptional enzyme distribution is probably an adaptation to the extraordinary ability of Carassius to produce ethanol as the major metabolic end product during anoxia. Since the crucian carp is less likely to encounter anoxia during the summer, the present results suggest that the crucian carp is unable to switch over to a 'normal' ALDH and ADH distribution in the summer. However, it is also possible that there is an advantage for the summer-acclimatized crucian carp in keeping ALDH and ADH separate, because of occasional anoxic periods.     

Temperature effects on evoked potentials of hippocampal slices from noncold-acclimated, cold-acclimated and hibernating hamsters

1. 1.|Neural activity was recorded in hippocampal slices from noncold-acclimated, cold-acclimated and hibernating hamsters.

2. 2.|Action potentials from a population of hippocampal pyramidal neurons were evoked by stimulating an afferent fiber tract, the Schaffer collaterals. The temperature of the artificial cerebrospinal fluid bathing the slice was varied by controlling the temperature of a water chamber jacketing the recording chamber.

3. 3.|The temperature just below that at which a population spike could be evoked, T_t, was 15.8 ± 0.9°C (mean ± SEM) for noncold-acclimated hamsters, 13.9 ± 0.3°C for cold-acclimated hamsters and 12.3 ± 0.3°C for hibernating hamsters.

4. 4.|These thresholds for evoked activity were significantly different in noncold-acclimated, cold-acclimated and hibernating hamsters, and may reflect acclimation of hippocampal neurons to cold.

Trout coelomic fluid suitability as Goldfish oocyte extender can be determined by a simple turbidity test

Regeneration technologies such as androgenesis, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and nuclear transfer require that handling conditions do not alter oocyte ability to sustain embryo development. One important parameter in the maintenance of oocyte quality in fish is the possibility to prevent oocytes activation during manipulation. In Cyprinid, such activation is known to be delayed when Salmonid coelomic fluid is used as incubation medium. Coelomic fluid however is a biological fluid whose ability to sustain oocyte quality during in vitro incubation may be variable. The purpose of the present work was to explore this variability using Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) coelomic fluid (TCF) and Goldfish (Carassius auratus) oocytes, and to set up a test which would reflect TCF suitability for Goldfish oocyte incubation. We showed that different TCF induced very different development rates after oocyte incubation for 30 min at 20 °C: at 24h post fertilization (pf) and at hatching, rates ranged between 35% and 110% of the non-incubated controls. When TCF (1 volume) was mixed with tap water (9 volumes), a precipitate developed whose extent was measured by spectrophotometry. This turbidity test proved to be highly correlated to development rates after Goldfish oocyte incubation in TCF (r² = 0.83 at hatching, n = 150): TCF with the highest turbidity (> 1.5 absorbance unit at 400 nm) were the ones which altered the most the development rates after incubation (less than 50 % at hatching). This easy and rapid turbidity test can therefore be used as a reliable estimator of TCF suitability for Goldfish oocyte incubation and manipulation.     

Extensive hybridization reveals multiple coloration genes underlying a complex plumage phenotype

Coloration is an important target of both natural and sexual selection. Discovering the genetic basis of colour differences can help us to understand how this visually striking phenotype evolves. Hybridizing taxa with both clear colour differences and shallow genomic divergences are unusually tractable for associating coloration phenotypes with their causal genotypes. Here, we leverage the extensive admixture between two common North American woodpeckers—yellow-shafted and red-shafted flickers—to identify the genomic bases of six distinct plumage patches involving both melanin and carotenoid pigments. Comparisons between flickers across approximately 7.25 million genome-wide SNPs show that these two forms differ at only a small proportion of the genome (mean F_ST = 0.008). Within the few highly differentiated genomic regions, we identify 368 SNPs significantly associated with four of the six plumage patches. These SNPs are linked to multiple genes known to be involved in melanin and carotenoid pigmentation. For example, a gene (CYP2J19) known to cause yellow to red colour transitions in other birds is strongly associated with the yellow versus red differences in the wing and tail feathers of these flickers. Additionally, our analyses suggest novel links between known melanin genes and carotenoid coloration. Our finding of patch-specific control of plumage coloration adds to the growing body of literature suggesting colour diversity in animals could be created through selection acting on novel combinations of coloration genes.