内蒙古库布齐沙地黑线仓鼠食物构成的季节变化

黑线仓鼠 (Ｃｒｉｃｅｔｕｌｕｓｂａｒａｂｅｎｓｉｓ)是广泛分布于我国华北和中原地区草原、农田的一种农牧业害鼠[8] ,在这些生境中 ,其食物以各种农作物和牧草种子为主 ,并取食大量昆虫[1,3 ,5,6 ] 。在鄂尔多斯高原库布齐沙地环境中 ,由于该种耐受高温环境的能力相对较低 ,仅分布在郁蔽程度较高的固定沙地和农田。研究表明 ,本地区该种的数量近年呈上升趋势[2 ] 。结合研究其数量变动规律 ,我们于 1996年 4～ 10月对其食物构成的季节变化进行了研究 ,以分析其生态适应对策。1　研究方法研究点设在库布齐沙地东段的中国农业科学院草原研…     

食品常见真菌毒素的危害及其防止措施

真菌毒素是一类由真菌产生的普遍存在的化合物。危害人类健康的真菌毒素主要源于曲霉Aspergillus、青霉Penicil-lium、麦角菌属Claviceps和镰刀菌Fusarium等产生的次生代谢物。从全球范围来看,粮食安全问题经常是由谷物、坚果、水果和绿色咖啡豆上的真菌毒素造成的。其中,玉米和花生仁中的黄曲霉素经常超过安全阈值。在以这些食物作为主食的地处温暖和潮湿气候国家的消费者特别容易食用到黄曲霉素污染的食物。而真菌毒素往往会引起人类和动物急性中毒、慢性中毒和致癌。其不可避免地、广泛地、持续地影响着全球人类的健康。目前的防止措施包括选用抗真菌植物、采用适当方法贮藏食物以及食用绿色蔬菜等来预防癌症等。本文阐述了食品中常见真菌毒素的污染情况及其毒性,并对常用防止措施进行了综述,以期为食品真菌毒素防控工作提供参考。     

植物精油的抗菌特性及在食品工业中应用研究新进展

概述了植物精油和其单组分的来源、安全性评价、抗菌性能以及在食品工业上应用研究的新进展。并简要讨论了在食品应用中,食物中脂肪、蛋白、水、盐、pH等含量以及外在条件如包装、精油的添加形态和病菌的特性对植物精油的抗菌活性的影响。     

藜麦及其资源开发利用

藜麦Chenopodium quinoa Willd.英文名:quinoa,原产于南美洲安第斯山区,是印加土著居民的主要传统食物,至今已有5 000~7 000多年的利用和种植历史。古代印加人将它称之为"粮食之母"。藜麦在20世纪80年代,被美国宇航局用于宇航员的太空食品。联合国粮农组织认为藜麦是唯一的单一植物即可满足人体基本营养需求的食物,正式推荐藜麦为最适宜人类的完美的全营养食品。本文对藜麦的植物形态、生态特性、营养价值以及在我国种植展望作了综合报道。     

银杏牛蒡混合发酵食品对小鼠衰老指标的影响

目的：研究一种以银杏叶、牛蒡提取物为主成分的发酵食品(GBF)对小鼠衰老指标的影响。方法：以D-半乳糖造衰老模型,以每只每天0．5ml剂量的GBF对小鼠灌胃,以不喂GBF的衰老模型小鼠为对照,以正常饲养的小鼠为空白对照(CK),42d后研究其对衰老相关指标组织单胺氧化酶、丙二醛含量、羟脯氨酸含量和腹腔巨噬细胞吞噬活性的影响。结果：喂食GBF的小鼠肝,脑组织中单胺氧化酶的活性比对照降低了36．7%和25．1%,丙二醛含量比对照降低了19%和44．6%。差异达到统计学显著水平(p＜0．05);而皮肤组织中羟脯氨酸含量和巨噬细胞吞噬活性分别高于对照28．6%和63．2%,显著高于对照(p＜0．05)。结论：GBF具有显著抗衰老活性。     

Sentinel systems on the razor's edge: effects of warming on Arctic geothermal stream ecosystems

The Earth is experiencing historically unprecedented rates of warming, with surface temperatures projected to increase by 3–5 °C globally, and up to 7.5 °C in high latitudes, within the next century. Knowledge of how this will affect biological systems is still largely restricted to the lower levels of organization (e.g. species range shifts), rather than at the community, food web or ecosystem level, where responses cannot be predicted from studying single species in isolation. Further, many correlational studies are confounded with time and/or space, whereas experiments have been mostly confined to laboratory microcosms that cannot capture the true complexity of natural ecosystems. We used a ‘natural experiment’ in an attempt to circumvent these shortcomings, by characterizing community structure and trophic interactions in 15 geothermal Icelandic streams ranging in temperature from 5 °C to 45 °C. Even modest temperature increases had dramatic effects across multiple levels of organization, from changes in the mean body size of the top predators, to unimodal responses of species populations, turnover in community composition, and lengthening of food chains. Our results reveal that the rates of warming predicted for the next century have serious implications for the structure and functioning of these fragile ‘sentinel’ ecosystems across multiple levels of organization.     

Producing and scrounging can have stabilizing effects at multiple levels of organization

This study shows, for the first time, that the evolution of a simple behavior, scrounging, at the individual level can have effects on populations, food chains, and community structure. In particular, the addition of scrounging in consumer populations can allow multiple consumers to coexist while exploiting a single prey. Also, scrounging in the top predator of a tritrophic food chain can stabilize interactions between the top predator, its prey, and its prey's prey. This occurs because the payoffs to scrounging for food in a population are negative frequency dependent, allowing scroungers to invade a population and to coexist with producers at a frequency which is density‐dependent. The presence of scroungers, who do not search for resources but simply use those found by others (producers) reduces the total amount of resource acquired by the group. As scrounging increases with group size, this leads to less resource acquired per individual as the group grows. Ultimately, this limits the size of the group, its impact on its prey, and its ability to outcompete other species. These effects can promote stability and thus increase species diversity. I will further suggest that prey may alter their spatial distribution such that scrounging will be profitable among their predators thus reducing predation rate on the prey.     

Evolutionarily stable stealing: game theory applied to kleptoparasitism

We present an individual-based model of a group of foraginganimals. Individuals can obtain food either by discovering itthemselves or by stealing it from others (kleptoparasitism).Given that challenging another individual for a discovered fooditem costs time (which could otherwise be spent searching foran undiscovered item), attempting to steal from another maynot always be efficient We show that there is generally a uniquestrategy that maximizes uptake rate—always or never challengingothers. For any combination of parameter values, we can identifywhich strategy is appropraite. As a corollary to this, we predictthat small changes in ecolgical conditions can, under some circumstances,cause a dramatic change in the aggressive behavior of individuals.Further, we investigate situations where searching for undiscoveredfood and searching for potential opportunities for stealingare mutually exclusive activities (i.e., success at one canonly be improved at the expense of the other). Using game theory,we are able to find the evolutionarily stable strategy for investmentin these two activities in terms of the ecological parametersof the model.     

Host-plant specificity limits the geographic distribution of thistle feeding ladybird beetles

The relationships between two phytophagous ladybird beetle species, Epilachna pustulosa K^ono and E. niponica Lewis (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae), and their main host plants, thistles (Cirsium spp., Asteraceae) were investigated in Oshima Peninsula, southern Hokkaido, northern Japan. Epilachna pustulosa was found feeding on Cirsium kamtschaticum in the northernmost part of the peninsula, whereas E. niponica was confined to the Ohno Plain and adjacent areas in the southernmost part, and occurred mainly on C. alpicola. No thistle feeding epilachnines were found in the middle part of the peninsula despite the abundance of another thistle species, C. grayanum. Both beetle species showed lower adult preference and reduced growth performance on C. grayanum compared to their respective host plants under laboratory conditions. We concluded that the distribution of thistle feeding epilachnines in Oshima Peninsula was principally determined by the availability of appropriate host plants.     

生命科学与我国的农业现代化

当前农业的成就显著,但也存在着污染并破坏生态环境、消耗大量矿产能源和资源,以及农产品内在质量常常不佳等问题。在分析国情及上述问题的基础上,提出了我国农业现代化必须要达到的目标为：（１）满足我国人民未来的食物需要;（２）提高农业生产的经济效益;（３）能供应可再生能源和资源,维护及改善生态环境,有利于我国的可持续发展。要达到这些目标,有待生命科学的研究作出重大贡献。农业中的种植业、养殖业和农副产品加工