Prenatal diagnosis of a de novo complex chromosomal rearrangement involving four chromosomes

A complex chromosome rearrangement, apparently a balanced translocation involving chromosomes 4,6, 15 and 16, was found in cultured cells of amniotic fluid from a 32–year-old primigravida who requested amniocentesis for prenatal diagnosis because of a family history of mental retardation. Chromosome analysis of peripheral blood from both parents were normal. The couple was counselled for the prenatal diagnosis of this de novo complex translocation and, subsequently, elected to terminate the pregnancy. Post-mortem examination revealed a 23–week fetus with intrauterine growth retardation. The identical chromosome rearrangement was subsequently confirmed in cultured fibroblasts from skin and cord obtained from the abortus. To our knowledge, this is the first report where routine prenatal diagnosis revealed a fetus with a balanced complex chromosomal rearrangement involving four chromosomes of de novo origin.     

藻类急性毒性监测中参比毒物的研究

依据藻类生命力强、繁殖快、对环境条件变化反应敏感的特点,在污染源废水监测中日益受到重视,但其质量保证体系还不完善,而参比毒物是生物毒性监测采取的重要质量保证措施,控制毒性监测数据的可信程度,使毒性监测数据实验室间相容可比.通过二氯化汞、叠氮化钠、砷、重铬酸钾、硫酸镉、硝酸铅、敌百虫、乐果8种毒物对斜生栅藻的生长影响(细胞数、光密度)试验研究,确定HgCl2、NaN3、CdSO4都可以作为藻类阳性参比毒物,废水毒性监测结果可采用藻类生长阻碍率和相当于硫酸隔浓度值表示.     

光照、温度和营养盐对滇池微囊藻生长的影响

研究了光照、温度与营养盐对滇地铜绿微囊藻（Ｍｉｃｒｏｃｙｓｔｉｓａｅｒｕｇｉｎｏｓａ）生长的影响。实验表明，在５００～５０００ｌｘ光强范围内，随光强增加，比增殖速率加大；在２２～３５℃区间内，比增殖速率随温度的升高而增加，且温度的影响大于光照；氮磷比（Ｎ／Ｐ）值在５～１０范围内，比增殖速率变化较大，Ｎ／Ｐ值为１４．５时，比增殖速率达最大值。滇池湖水的氮磷比值为１４．４左右，与实验值相接近。根据实验结果及限制因子的定义，总体上讲，滇池中磷是藻类生长的主要限制因子，控制滇池富营养化应以控制磷为主。     

污水灌溉对水稻生长影响的模拟

本文根据各工厂污水排入大通河的负荷量，作污灌模拟试验。试验证明：１．各工厂排污所含有机物质超过一定量便对水稻生长及产量产生严重影响；２．用大通河水灌溉，也会影响水稻的生长及产量。这说明大通河水已受到各工厂污染物的严重污染。     

On interacting bee/mite populations: a stochastic model with analysis using cumulant truncation

Parasitism by the Varroa mite has had recent drastic impact on both managed and feral bee colonies. This paper proposes a stochastic population dynamics model for interacting African bee colony and Varroa mite populations. Cumulant truncation procedures are used to obtain approximate transient cumulant functions, unconstrained by the usual assumption of bivariate Normality, for an assumed large-scale model. The apparent size of the variance and skewness functions suggest the importance of the proposed truncation procedure which retains some higher-order cumulants, but determining the accuracy of the approximations is problematical. A smaller-scale bee/Varroa mite model is hence proposed and investigated. The accuracy for the means is exceptional, for the second-order cumulants is moderate, and for some third-order cumulants is poor. Notwithstanding the poor accuracy of a skewness approximation, the saddlepoint approximations for the marginal transient population size distributions are excellent. The cumulant truncation methodology is very general, and research is continuing in its application to this new class of host-parasite models.     

不同氮浓度下三角褐指藻生长特性和化学组成

三角褐指藻是一类海洋单细胞硅藻,富含多不饱和脂肪酸,可以作为鱼、虾、贝等理想的饵料。而近年该藻曾多次在我国沿海海域发生暴发性增殖,给当地生态环境带来了一定的影响。为了探讨不同氮浓度对三角褐指藻生长特性和化学组成的影响,设置了低氮(44 μ mol.L-1)、中氮(880 μmol.L-1)和高氮(4 400 μmol.L-1)浓度三种处理,着重测定三角褐指藻的细胞密度、比生长率、生物量、可溶性糖、蛋白质含量和叶绿素含量等指标。结果表明,高氮浓度明显地促进了藻细胞的生长繁殖。高氮浓度下的藻细胞密度、比生长率和生物量分别比低氮浓度下的提高了 5.38 倍、0.81 倍和 2.86 倍。藻生长前期,高氮浓度和中氮浓度下的生长曲线相似,呈现一个"S"型的曲线。另外,高氮浓度下的藻细胞可溶性糖、蛋白质和叶绿素a含量分别是低氮浓度下的 2.5 倍、1.5 倍和 15 倍,说明高氮浓度促进了藻细胞化学组成的转化和积累。结果揭示,氮浓度可能是导致三角褐指藻近年在我国沿海海域发生暴发性增殖的重要因素。     

糖尿病小型猪心肌、肝脏组织结构变化和心肌VEGF表达

以探讨高糖高脂高胆固醇饲料诱发的糖尿病广西巴马小型猪心肌和肝脏组织结构变化、肝糖原分解和心肌血管内皮生长因子(VEGF)表达情况为目的.通过3月龄雄性广西巴马小型猪10只,随机分2组,5只饲以基础饲料为CD组;5只饲以高糖高脂饲料为HFSCD组,饲养时间5个月.每月末从禁食过夜的小型猪眶静脉窦抽取血样,葡萄糖氧化酶法检测空腹血糖(Glucose);GPO-PAP酶法测定血浆甘油三脂(triglyceride,TG);放射免疫法测血浆胰岛素.第5个月末股动脉放血处死小型猪,取1小块心肌和肝脏组织,固定于10%中性甲醛固定液,常规石蜡包埋、切片、制片后用光学显微镜进行观察的方法.结果HFSCD组血糖、甘油三酯和胰岛素水平升高.与CD组比较,差异具有显著性意义(P<0.05).从肝脏病理切片观察所见,HFSCD组肝脏肝细胞索排列紊乱,肝细胞肿胀呈气球样变,亦可见肝细胞萎缩、坏死,脂肪变性明显,肝小叶间有单个核细胞浸润,肝糖原极少或消失.心肌组织中VEGF的蛋白表达显著增加,且表达范围广泛.得出高糖高脂高胆固醇饲料诱发的糖尿病广西巴马小型猪肝脏和心肌组织结构改变,肝糖原减少,心肌VEGF蛋白表达增加的结论.图5,参13.     

Using Demographic Invariants to Detect Overharvested Bird Populations from Incomplete Data

Abstract:  Conservation biology must be able to provide guidelines even when available data are incomplete, because data on rare and endangered species are usually limited. For instance, data on the effect of additional—human-induced—sources of mortality on vertebrate populations, such as bycatch of seabirds by longline fisheries, are typically incomplete. The importance of an additional source of mortality can be evaluated by comparing it with the maximum annual growth rate of the species of concern, and various authors have attempted to determine the maximum growth rate from incomplete data. We developed a procedure we call the "demographic invariant method" (DIM). First we determined that the maximum growth rate per generation does not vary, by recalling that it is a dimensionless number primarily independent of body weight and also by empirically establishing its near constancy over a restricted set of bird species for which reliable demographic information was available. This first step provided an implicit function linking generation time and maximum annual growth rate, from which we obtained the maximum annual growth rate as a simple function of generation time. From several different ways of obtaining estimates of generation time, we derived in turn several ways to estimate the maximum annual growth rate of a bird species from incomplete demographic data set. We applied our approach to the Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) and determined from incomplete data that longline fishery bycatch has a biologically significant impact on the growth potential of Black-footed Albatross populations. Our method can be applied broadly to the conservation and management of harvested bird populations.     

水稻花药绒毡层特异表达启动子的分离与表达载体构建

从籼稻川75A(OryzasativaL.)黄化苗叶片中直接提取基因组总DNA.根据文献报道的水稻花药绒毡层特异启动子Osg6B序列设计引物,采用TouchdownPCR技术获得水稻花药绒毡层特异表达的启动子Tsp1,将该片段克隆在载体pMD18-TVector上转化到大肠杆菌JM109,并酶切和PCR验证.序列分析发现,该片段与Osg6B启动子同源性为96%,且具有真核生物启动子的多种特征序列,表明启动子Tsp1为来源于籼稻川75A中的水稻花药绒毡层特异表达的启动子.利用该启动子对本实验室保存的质粒pIB467和pIB009进行改造,构建了一个可产生新型雄性不育系的双元植物表达载体pJH401.图7参13     

酸性土壤改良对不同种源的柚木生长的影响

在强酸性土壤上，柚木不能正常生长；用石灰、有机肥和复合肥改良土壤后．树木生长正常，但如不继续追肥．生长将显著下降；7794、8508号种源的柚木在改良后的土壤上生长最好；7794．8508和3054号种源的柚木表现出对酸性土壤有一定的抗性；来自同一种源的个体之间存在着显著的生长差异．