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Diel vertical migration arising in a habitat selection game 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Predator and prey react to each other, adjusting their behavior to maximize their fitness and optimizing their food intake while keeping their predation risk as low as possible. In a pelagic environment, prey reduce their predation mortality by adopting a diel vertical migration (DVM) strategy, avoiding their predator during their peak performance by finding refuge in deep layers during daylight hours and feeding at the surface during the night. Due to the duality of the interaction between prey and predator, we used a game theory approach to investigate whether DVM can be a suitable strategy for the predator as well as the prey. We formulated three scenarios in plankton ecology in order to address this question. A novel finding is that mixed strategies emerge as optimal over a range of the parameter space, where part of the predator or prey population adopts a DVM while the rest adopt one or other “sit and wait” strategies. 相似文献
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Light‐Harvesting Materials: New Light‐Harvesting Materials Using Accurate and Efficient Bandgap Calculations (Adv. Energy Mater. 2/2015)
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Søndergaard H Frederiksen KS Thygesen P Galsgaard ED Skak K Kristjansen PE Odum N Kragh M 《Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII》2007,56(9):1417-1428
Interleukin (IL)-21 is a recently discovered cytokine in early clinical development, which has shown anti-tumor activity in
various animal models. In the present study, we examine the anti-tumor activity of IL-21 protein therapy in two syngeneic
tumor models and its effect on the density of tumor infiltrating T cells. We treated mice bearing established subcutaneous
B16 melanomas or RenCa renal cell carcinomas with intraperitoneal (i.p.) or subcutaneous (s.c.) IL-21 protein therapy and
subsequently scored the densities of tumor infiltrating CD4+ and CD8+ T cells by immunohistochemistry. Whereas both routes of IL-21 administration significantly inhibited growth of small, established
RenCa and B16 tumors, only s.c. therapy significantly inhibited the growth of large, established tumors. We found a greater
bioavailability and significant drainage of IL-21 to regional lymph nodes following s.c. administration, which could account
for the apparent increase in anti-tumor activity. Specific depletion of CD8+ T cells with monoclonal antibodies completely abrogated the anti-tumor activity, whereas NK1.1+ cell depletion did not affect tumor growth. In accordance, both routes of IL-21 administration significantly increased the
density of tumor infiltrating CD8+ T cells in both B16 and RenCa tumors; and in the RenCa model s.c. administration of IL-21 led to a significantly higher density
of tumor infiltrating CD8+ T cells compared to i.p. administration. The densities of CD4+ T cells were unchanged following IL-21 treatments. Taken together, these data demonstrate that IL-21 protein has anti-tumor
activity in established syngeneic tumors, and we show that IL-21 therapy markedly increases the density of tumor infiltrating
CD8+ T cells. 相似文献
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In this paper we consider the advective/diffusive transport of a solute near a hovering zooplankter. We approximate the fluid
flow with that of a Stokeslet, corresponding to the plankter exerting a point force on the water, and assume that the plankter
acts as a point source for the transported solute, located at the same point as the force. We find an analytical expression
in closed form for the steady-state concentration of the solute. We also discuss the situation where the plankter performs
Brownian motion. Finally we apply the results to the courtship of the marine copepod Pseudocalanus elongatus, where the male performs a mating dance below the hovering female. For this situation, our model supports the hypothesis
that the mating dance is guided by the plume of a signalling pheromone. 相似文献
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Michael J. Selig Chia‐Wen Carmen Hsieh Lisbeth G. Thygesen Michael E. Himmel Claus Felby Stephen R. Decker 《Biotechnology progress》2012,28(6):1478-1490
Milliliter scale (ligno)cellulose saccharifications suggest general solute concentration and its impact on water availability plays a significant role in detrimental effects associated with high solids lignocellulose conversions. A microtumbler developed to enable free‐fall mixing at dry solids loadings up to 35% (w/w) repeatedly produced known detrimental conversion trends on cellulose, xylan and pretreated lignocellulose with commercial enzymes. Despite this, high concentrations of insoluble nonhydrolysable dextrans did not depress saccharification extents in 5% (w/w) cellulose slurries suggesting mass transfer limitations may not significantly limit hydrolysis extents at high solids loadings. Interestingly, cellulose saccharification by purified cellulases showed increased conversions with increasing dry solids loadings. This prompted investigations into impacts the concentration of soluble species, such as sugar alcohols, low molecular weight enzyme preparation components, and monomer hydrolysis products, have on the hydrolysis environment. Such substances significantly depress conversion rates and were shown to correlatively lower water activity (Aw) in the hydrolysis environment while high insoluble solids concentrations did not. Furthermore, low‐field NMR on concentrated slurries of insoluble complex carbohydrates, including the nonhydrolysable dextrans, showed all solids constrained water significantly more than high concentrations of soluble species (inhibitory) suggesting water constraint may not be as problematic an issue at high solids loadings compared to the availability of water in the system. Additionally, the introduction of soluble species lessened overall water constraint in high solids systems and appears to shift the distribution of water away from insoluble surfaces. This is potentially a critical issue for industrial processes operating at high dry solids levels. © 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 2012 相似文献
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A pilot plant (IBUS) consisting of three reactors was used for hydrothermal treatment of wheat straw (120-150 kg/h) aiming at co-production of bioethanol (from sugars) and electricity (from lignin). The first reactor step was pre-soaking at 80 degrees C, the second extraction of hemicellulose at 170-180 degrees C and the third improvement of the enzymatic cellulose convertibility at 195 degrees C. Water added to the third reactor passed countercurrent to straw. The highest water addition (600 kg/h) gave the highest hemicellulose recovery (83%). With no water addition xylose degradation occurred resulting in low hemicellulose recovery (33%) but also in high glucose yield in the enzymatic hydrolysis (72 g/100g glucose in straw). Under these conditions most of the lignin was retained in the fibre fraction, which resulted in a lignin rich residue with high combustion energy (up to 31 MJ/kg) after enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicellulose. 相似文献
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Electricity production from acetate, glucose and xylose with humic acid as mediator was investigated in two chambers microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Acetate produced the highest voltage (570 mV with 1000 Omega) and maximum power density (P(maxd)=123 mW/m(2)) due to a simpler metabolism than with glucose and xylose. Glucose and xylose resulted in P(maxd) of 28 mW/m(2) and 32 mW/m(2) at lower voltage of 380 mV and 414 mV, respectively. P(maxd) increased by 84% and 30%, for glucose and xylose respectively, when humic acid (2g/l) was present in the medium. No significant effect was found with acetate since the internal resistance possessed a limiting effect. The increase of P(maxd) due to humic acid presence was attributed to its ability to act as mediator. Even though pH decreased to 5 with glucose and xylose, due to production of acetate and propionate, the voltage remained on the same level of 250-350 mV. 相似文献
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Mechanical agitation during enzymatic hydrolysis of insoluble plant biomass at high dry matter contents is indispensable for the initial liquefaction step in biorefining. It is known that particle size reduction is an important part of liquefaction, but the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. Here we put forward a simple model based on mechanical principles capable of capturing the result of the interaction between mechanical forces and cell wall weakening via hydrolysis of glucosidic bonds. This study illustrates that basic material science insights are relevant also within biochemistry, particularly when it comes to up-scaling of processes based on insoluble feed stocks. 相似文献
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Modelling the attack success of planktonic predators: patterns and mechanisms of prey size selectivity 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Caparroy Philippe; Thygesen Uffe Hogsbro; Visser Andre W. 《Journal of plankton research》2000,22(10):1871
A mathematical model of the attack success of planktonic predators(fish larvae and carnivorous copepods) is proposed. Based ona geometric representation of attack events, the model considershow the escape reaction characteristics (speed and direction)of copepod prey affect their probability of being captured.By combining the attack success model with previously publishedhydrodynamic models of predator and prey perception, we examinehow predator foraging behaviour and prey perceptive abilityaffect the size spectra of encountered and captured copepodprey. We examine food size spectra of (i) a rheotactic cruisingpredator, (ii) a suspension-feeding hovering copepod and (iii)a larval fish. For rheotactic predators such as carnivorouscopepods, a central assumption of the model is that attack istriggered by prey escape reaction, which in turn depends onthe deformation rate of the fluid created by the predator. Themodel demonstrates that within a species of copepod prey, theability of larger stages to react at a greater distance fromthe predator results in increased strike distance and, hence,lower capture probability. For hovering copepods, the vorticityfield associated with the feeding current also acts in modifyingthe prey escape direction. The model demonstrates that the reorientationof the prey escape path towards the centre of the feeding current'sflow field results in increased attack success of the predator.Finally, the model examines how variability in the kineticsof approach affects the strike distance of larval fish. In caseswhere observational data are available, model predictions closelyfit observations. 相似文献