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JOSEP PIÑOL XAVIER ESPADALER NÚRIA CAÑELLAS JORDI MARTÍNEZ‐VILALTA JOSÉ A. BARRIENTOS DANIEL SOL 《Ecological Entomology》2010,35(3):367-376
1. Predation‐exclusion experiments have highlighted that top‐down control is pervasive in terrestrial communities, but most of these experiments are simplistic in that they only excluded a single group of predators and the effect of removal was evaluated on a few species from the community. The main goal of our study was to experimentally establish the relative effects of ants and birds on the same arthropod assemblage of canopy trees. 2. We conducted 1‐year long manipulative experiments in an organic citrus grove intended to quantify the independent effects of bird and ant predators on the abundance of arthropods. Birds were excluded with plastic nets whereas ants were excluded with sticky barriers on the trunks. The sticky barrier also excluded other ground dwelling insects, like the European earwig Forficula auricularia L. 3. Both the exclusion of ants and birds affected the arthropod community of the citrus canopies, but the exclusion of ants was far more important than the exclusion of birds. Indeed, almost all groups of arthropods had higher abundance in ant‐excluded than in control trees, whereas only dermapterans were more abundant in bird‐excluded than in control trees. A more detailed analysis conducted on spiders also showed that the effect of ant exclusion was limited to a few families rather than being widespread over the entire diverse spectrum of spiders. 4. Our results suggest that the relative importance of vertebrate and invertebrate predators in regulating arthropod populations largely depends on the nature of the predator–prey system. 相似文献
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Krupnik OV Fadeeva NV Kvitko N Shepelev VA Nielsen PE Lazurkin YS 《Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics》2004,21(4):503-512
Structurally isomeric complexes formed between homopyrimidine bis-PNAs (T(2)JT(2)JT(4)-linker-T(4)CT(2)CT(2)) and single- and double-stranded DNA targets were investigated. These complexes are triplexes designated S1, S2 and S3 in order of increased mobility by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. It is shown that the S3 isomer is formed only on double-stranded DNA and possesses highest stability. Isomers S2 and S1 are formed upon binding of bis-PNA to double-stranded as well as to single-stranded DNA. It was found that the stability of the isomer S1 increases dramatically in the presence of excess single-stranded oligonucleotide complementary to the bis-PNA. The structure of the stabilized S1 isomer is proposed to consist of two bis-PNA/DNA triplexes. The relationship between the yield of the isomer S1 formed on single-stranded DNA and the bis-PNA concentration was investigated and a kinetic model of the formation of S1 is presented. 相似文献
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The binding affinity of the two substrate–water molecules to the water-oxidizing Mn4CaO5 catalyst in photosystem II core complexes of the extremophilic red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae was studied in the S2 and S3 states by the exchange of bound 16O-substrate against 18O-labeled water. The rate of this exchange was detected via the membrane-inlet mass spectrometric analysis of flash-induced oxygen evolution. For both redox states a fast and slow phase of water-exchange was resolved at the mixed labeled m/z 34 mass peak: kf = 52 ± 8 s− 1 and ks = 1.9 ± 0.3 s− 1 in the S2 state, and kf = 42 ± 2 s− 1 and kslow = 1.2 ± 0.3 s− 1 in S3, respectively. Overall these exchange rates are similar to those observed previously with preparations of other organisms. The most remarkable finding is a significantly slower exchange at the fast substrate–water site in the S2 state, which confirms beyond doubt that both substrate–water molecules are already bound in the S2 state. This leads to a very small change of the affinity for both the fast and the slowly exchanging substrates during the S2 → S3 transition. Implications for recent models for water-oxidation are briefly discussed. 相似文献
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O V Krupnik Y Guscho K Sluchanko P Nielsen Y Lazurkin 《Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics》2001,19(3):535-542
Equilibrium melting curves were obtained for triplexes, formed by single stranded DNA containing an A10 target with bis-PNA consisting of two T10 decamers. Thermodynamic parameters of melting were determined for Na(+) concentrations 50, 200 and 600mM by two methods. The melting enthalpy Delta H degrees was evaluated from the width of the differential melting curves and from the concentration dependence of the melting temperature. The latter method allowed also evaluating the melting entropy Delta S degrees. The following results were obtained: Delta H degrees = - 137 kcal/M, Delta S degrees = - 368 cal/M.K, Delta G degrees (298)= - 27 kcal/M. No dependence of Delta H degrees, Delta S degrees and Delta G degrees (298) was observed upon ionic strength within the accuracy of the experiment (+/- 10%). The absolute values of Delta H degrees, Delta S degrees and Delta G degrees(298) are 2 to 3 times higher than the published values of corresponding melting parameters for decameric PNA/DNA duplexes of various nucleic base sequences. The origin of the extremely high stability of the triplexes is discussed. 相似文献
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MARIA JOSÉ ASINS IRENE VILLALTA MOHAMED M. ALY RAQUEL OLÍAS PAZ ÁLVAREZ DE MORALES RAÚL HUERTAS JUN LI NOELIA JAIME‐PÉREZ ROSARIO HARO VERÓNICA RAGA EMILIO A. CARBONELL ANDRÉS BELVER 《Plant, cell & environment》2013,36(6):1171-1191
The location of major quantitative trait loci (QTL) contributing to stem and leaf [Na+] and [K+] was previously reported in chromosome 7 using two connected populations of recombinant inbred lines (RILs) of tomato. HKT1;1 and HKT1;2, two tomato Na+‐selective class I‐HKT transporters, were found to be closely linked, where the maximum logarithm of odds (LOD) score for these QTLs located. When a chromosome 7 linkage map based on 278 single‐nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was used, the maximum LOD score position was only 35 kb from HKT1;1 and HKT1;2. Their expression patterns and phenotypic effects were further investigated in two near‐isogenic lines (NILs): 157‐14 (double homozygote for the cheesmaniae alleles) and 157‐17 (double homozygote for the lycopersicum alleles). The expression pattern for the HKT1;1 and HKT1;2 alleles was complex, possibly because of differences in their promoter sequences. High salinity had very little effect on root dry and fresh weight and consequently on the plant dry weight of NIL 157‐14 in comparison with 157‐17. A significant difference between NILs was also found for [K+] and the [Na+]/[K+] ratio in leaf and stem but not for [Na+] arising a disagreement with the corresponding RIL population. Their association with leaf [Na+] and salt tolerance in tomato is also discussed. 相似文献
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Igor Krupnik 《Human ecology: an interdisciplinary journal》2018,46(5):685-700
The paper introduces a new vision advanced by the recent project, Arctic People and Animal Crashes: Human, Climate and Habitat Agency in the Anthropocene (2014–2015) developed at the Smithsonian Institution. Unlike earlier top-down models of polar animal-climate-people connections that tied changes in Arctic species’ abundance and ranges to alternating warmer and cooler temperatures or high ice/low sea-ice regimes, rapid animal declines (‘crashes’) may be better approached at regional and local scales. This approach is close to Arctic peoples’ traditional vision that animals, like people, live in ‘tribes’ and that they ‘come and go’ according to their relations with the local human societies. As the Arctic changes rapidly and climate/sea-ice/ecotone boundaries shift, we see diverse responses by Arctic people and animals to environmental stressors. I examine recent data on the status of three northern mammal species – caribou/reindeer, Pacific walrus, and polar bear—during two decades of the ongoing Arctic warming. The emerging record may be best approached as a series of local human-animal disequilibria interpreted from different angles by population biologists, indigenous peoples, and anthropologists, rather than a top-down climate-induced ‘crash.’ Such new understanding implies the varying speed of change in the physical, animal, and human domains, which was not factored in the earlier models of climate–animal–people’s interactions. 相似文献
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Maksymilian Zienkiewicz Tomasz Krupnik Anna Drożak Wioleta Wasilewska Anna Golke Elżbieta Romanowska 《Plant molecular biology》2018,96(1-2):135-149
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We have successfully produced single-cell colonies of C. merolae mutants, lacking the PsbQ’ subunit in its PSII complex by application of DTA-aided mutant selection. We have investigated the physiological changes in PSII function and structure and proposed a tentative explanation of the function of PsbQ’ subunit in the PSII complex.Abstract
We have improved the selectivity of the Cyanidioschyzon merolae nuclear transformation method by the introduction of diphtheria toxin genes into the transformation vector as an auxiliary selectable marker. The revised method allowed us to obtained single-cell colonies of C. merolae, lacking the gene of the PsbQ’ extrinsic protein. The efficiency of gene replacement was extraordinarily high, allowing for a complete deletion of the gene of interest, without undesirable illegitimate integration events. We have confirmed the absence of PsbQ’ protein at genetic and protein level. We have characterized the physiology of mutant cells and isolated PSII protein complex and concluded that PsbQ’ is involved in nuclear regulation of PSII activity, by influencing several parameters of PSII function. Among these: oxygen evolving activity, partial dissociation of PsbV, regulation of dimerization, downsizing of phycobilisomes rods and regulation of zeaxanthin abundance. The adaptation of cellular physiology appeared to favorite upregulation of PSII and concurrent downregulation of PSI, resulting in an imbalance of energy distribution, decrease of photosynthesis and inhibition of cell proliferation.9.
K. A. Razumova V. V. Alikaev I. S. Bondarenko A. A. Borschegovskii V. A. Vershkov A. V. Gorshkov Yu. V. Gott Yu. N. Dnestrovskij V. V. Dreval M. M. Dremin L. G. Eliseev G. S. Kirnev A. Ya. Kislov I. V. Klimanov A. S. Kozachok A. D. Komarov V. A. Krupin L. I. Krupnik S. V. Krylov S. E. Lysenko A. A. Medvedev A. V. Melnikov T. B. Myalton G. E. Notkin A. Yu. Novikov Yu. D. Pavlov D. P. Petrov V. I. Poznyak I. N. Roy P. V. Savrukhin V. V. Sannikov S. V. Soldatov A. V. Sushkov V. M. Trukhin S. M. Khrebtov V. V. Chistyakov D. A. Shelukhin 《Plasma Physics Reports》2001,27(4):273-277
Abstract-the formation of transport barriers under electron cyclotron resonance heating and current drive in the t-10 tokamak is studied. in regimes with off-axis co-eccd and q L <4 at the limiter, a spontaneous transition to improved confinement accompanied by the formation of two electron transport barriers is observed. the improvement resembles an L-H transition. It manifests itself as density growth, a decrease in the Dα emission intensity, and an increase in the central electron and ion temperatures. Two deep wells on the potential profile (the first one at r/a L ≈0.6, where a L is the limiter radius, and the second one near the edge) arise during the transition. the internal barrier is formed when dq/dr~0 with q≈1 in the barrier region. 相似文献
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