酸雨对水生态系统的影响

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人工合成草鱼生长激素cDNA在大肠杆菌中的表达

经密码子优化的人工合成草鱼生长激素ｃＤＮＡ与表达载体ｐＥＴ－２８ａ（＋）重组，构建重组表达质粒ｐＥＴ－ＧＨ。转化大肠杆菌ＢＬ２１（ＤＥ３），筛选阳性克隆，ＩＰＴＧ诱导表达。１２．５％的ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ分析显示，大肠杆菌表达产物中含有与草鱼生长激素分子量一致的新增蛋白带，激光密度扫描，其产量约占菌体总蛋白的４０％。金属离子螯合层析柱亲和纯化，获得电泳纯的重组蛋白。Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ－ｂｌｏｔｔｉｎｇ和酶联免疫吸附受体法检测证实：重组蛋白与抗草鱼生长激素的多克隆抗体发生特异性结合；复性后的重组蛋白有与天然草鱼生长

秦岭西段鱼类多样性现状初报

对秦岭西段汉江水系和嘉陵江水系的鱼类和环境调查显示 ,人类活动对鱼类多样性产生了较大的影响。本文试图对该地区鱼类多样性丧失的现状加以报道并对原因进行分析。以前该地区鱼类共有 142种 ,本次调查的渔获物中只有 34种。鱼类物种资源的减少是多种因素造成的 :水坝的修建使得鱼类栖息地环境改变从而导致鱼类的种类和种群数量变化 ,水污染、过度捕捞和非法渔业也在一定程度上破坏了鱼类物种多样性。

揭开武汉东湖蓝藻水华消失之谜

水华（亦称湖靛）是湖泊富营养化最恶劣的表征之一。武汉东湖７０年代至１９８４年间每年夏季出现蓝藻水华，１９８５年起突然消失，至今已有１４年没有重现，原因何在？通过三次设在湖里的围隔试验，证明鲢鳙的大量放养，是水华消失的决定性因素。文章报道了三次原地围隔试验的情况，结合东湖鲢鳙生物量的鱼群探测仪记录，指出鲢鳙的放养密度达到每立方米水（即１ｔ有鱼５０ｇ）（即市制１两）时，就能控制蓝藻水华的发生。文章还对治理水体富营养化的流行学说—生物操纵论进行了评论。

水体磷酸酶:来源、特征及其生态学意义

酶在水生态系统的物质循环与能量转化过程中具有关键作用本文以湖泊磷酸酶为例讨论了水环境中酶的来源、特征及其生态学意义酶主要源于细菌、浮游植物和浮游动物，且能以胞外的或溶解态的形式存在这部分酶对于ｐＨ值、温度以及其它理化条件表现出明显的适应性和稳定性．磷酸酶能补充磷的营养、指示磷的丰缺、介导磷的循环．水环境中酶效应的广泛以及作用的特殊性已足以使之成为“生态酶学（ Ｅｃｏｌｏｇｉｃａｌ Ｅｎｚｙｍｏｌｏｇｙ）”的独立分支（水体酶）

鱼类病原菌耐药质粒的研究概况

鱼类病原菌耐药质粒的研究概况李爱华王伟俊（中国科学院水生生物研究所，武汉４３００７２自５０年代起，许多国家仿照畜牧业上的做法，广泛使用化学治疗药物来防治鱼类疾病。其后果不可避免地导致耐药菌的出现。早在１９５７年，美国就观察到由耐磺胺药的Ａｅｒｏｍｏｎ...

中国自由生活线虫新记录(色矛目、嘴刺目和窄咽目)

本文报道淡水、土壤自由生活线虫国内新记录11种，即：田园素矛线虫Achromadoraruricola，半棘素矛线虫Achromadorasemiarmata,叉齿烙线虫Ironusdentifurcatus，好逸烙线虫Ironusignavus，亲邻三孔线虫Tripylaaffinis，球形三孔线虫Tripylaglomerans，谢氏小三孔线虫Tripylinasheri,墙根绕线虫Plectusparietinus,似疑绕线虫Plectusinquirendus,愁容筒咽线虫Cylindrolaim

鳗鲡肾胚胎瘤

<正> 近几年,作者在少数养鳗场断续发现一些后肾明显膨大的病鳗鲡,引起了注意。1990年4月在某养鳗场清池的一养鳗池中又获得数尾。经组织切片病理检查为肾胚胎瘤。鱼类肿瘤的研究已有一百来年的历史,国外报道较多,已有数百例,其中肾胚胎瘤仅几例,如Helmboldt和Wyand以及Ashley等。国内也曾报道过一些鱼的肿瘤的个别病例,但迄今还未见鱼类肾胚胎瘤的报道。这次发现的鳗鲡肾胚胎瘤发病率较高,个别池达万分之一以上,为鱼类中罕见,记述如下。

武昌的秀体溞

<正> 秀体溞(Diaphanosoma)是枝角类栉足族仙达溞科(Sididae)中包括种类最多的一个属,根据已往的记录,共计约有20种。关于我国秀体溞的计载,总共只有7种。最早是由 Spandl 在广东记述了镰角秀体溞(D.excisum Sars)一种。上野益三曾发表过有关我国枝角类的文章多篇,他报告了浙江、四川、台湾、黑龙江、吉林以及内蒙古等地的秀体溞共有6种,即:短尾秀体溞[D.brachyurum(Liévin)],长肢秀体溞

Molecular characterization and expression profiles in response to bacterial infection of Chinese soft-shelled turtle interleukin-8 (IL-8), the first reptilian chemokine gene

In this study, an IL-8 homologue has been cloned and identified from a reptile, Chinese soft-shelled turtle for the first time. The full-length cDNA of turtle IL-8 was 1188 bp and contained a 312 bp open reading frame (ORF) coding for a protein of 104 amino acids. The chemokine CXC domain, which contained Glu-Leu-Arg (ELR) motif and four cysteine residues, was well conserved in turtle IL-8. The 4924 bp genomic DNA of turtle IL-8 contained four exons and three introns. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the amino acid sequence of turtle IL-8 clustered together with birds. RT-PCR analysis showed that turtle IL-8 mRNA was constitutively expressed liver, spleen, kidney, heart, blood and intestine tissues of control turtles. Real-time quantitative PCR analysis further indicated that the turtle IL-8 mRNA expression was apparent in various tissues at 8 h and up-regulated significantly during 8 h-7 d after Aeromonas hydrophila infection. The present studies will help us to understand the evolution of IL-8 molecule and the inflammatory response mechanism in reptiles. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Physiological and biochemical responses of Scytonema javanicum (cyanobacterium) to salt stress

Scytonema javanicum (Kutz.) Born et Flah (cyanobacterium) is one of the species distributed widely in the crust of desert soils regularly subjected to severe water stress. To investigate the response of the species to salt stress, many physiological and biochemical parameters, including growth rate, ratio of variable fluorescence to maximum fluorescence (Fv/Fm), reactive oxidative species (ROS), malondialdehyde (MDA), catalase (CAT), and superoxide dismutase (SOD), were determined in culture. The results showed that 50 mM NaCl inhibited growth and Fv/Fm in the medium BG-110, and that the inhibition was maximum after 1-2 days' exposure to salt stress; 50 mM NaCl also increased the contents of ROS and MDA in treated cells, which suggests that salt stress may lead to oxidative damage and lipid peroxidation in the alga. Further, changes in the antioxidative enzymes SOD and CAT in the treated alga were consistent with changes in ROS and MDA at certain extent. These observations suggest that oxidative stress resulting from salt stress in S. javanicum could result in the production of antioxidative enzymes to counteract the oxidative damage, and the enzymes may contribute to the ability of S. javanicum to survive the adverse desert environment. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Molecular cloning, promoter analysis and induced expression of the complement component C9 gene in the grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella

Complement-mediated killing of pathogens through lytic pathway is an important effector mechanism of innate immune response. C9 is the ninth member of complement components, creating the membrane attack complex (MAC). In the present study, a putative cDNA sequence encoding the 650 amino acids of C9 and its genomic organization were identified in grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella. The deduced amino acid sequence of grass carp C9 (gcC9) showed 48% and 38.5% identity to Japanese flounder and human C9, respectively. Domain search revealed that gcC9 contains a LDL receptor domain, an EGF precursor domain, a MACPF domain and two TSP domain located in the N-terminal and C-terminal, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that gcC9 is clustered in a same clade with Japanese flounder, pufferfish and rainbow trout C9. The gcC9 gene consists of 11 exons with 10 introns, spacing over approximately 7 kb of genomic sequence. Analysis of gcC9 promoter region revealed the presence of a TATA box and some putative transcription factor such as C/EBP, HSF, NF-AT, CHOP-C, HNF-3B, GATA-2, IK-2, EVI- 1, AP-1, CP2 and OCT-1 binding sites. The first intron region contains C/EBPb, HFH-1 and Oct-1 binding sites. RT-PCR and Western blotting analysis demonstrated that the mRNA and protein of gcC9 gene have similar expression patterns, being constitutively expressed in all organs examined of healthy fish, with the highest level in hepatopancreas. By real-time quantitative RT-PCR analysis, gcC9 transcripts were significantly up-regulated in head kidney, spleen, hepatopancreas and down-regulated in intestine from inactivated fish bacterial pathogen Flavobacterium columnare-stimulated fish, demonstrating the role of C9 in immune response. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Mitochondrial molecular clocks and the origin of the major Otocephalan clades (Pisces : Teleostei): A new insight

The Otocephala, a clade including ostariophysan and clupeomorph telcosts, represents about a quarter of total fish species diversity, with about 1000 gencra and more than 7000 species. A series of recent papers have defended that the origin of this clade and of its major groups may be significantly older than the oldest fossils of each of these groups suggest. Some of these recent papers explicitly defend a Pangean origin for some otocephalan groups Such as the Siluriformes or Cypriniformes. To know whether or not the otocephalans as a whole, and particularly the mainly freshwater, cosmopolitan otophysans could have originated before the splitting of the Pangean Supercontinent is of extreme importance, since otophysan fishes are among the most useful animal groups for the determination of historical continental relationships. In the present work we examined divergence times for each major otocephalan group by an analysis of complete mtDNA sequences, in order to investigate if these divergence times support the hypotheses advanced in recent studies. The complete mtDNA sequences of nine representative non-otocephalan fish species and of twenty-one representative otocephalan species was compared. The present study is thus, among the studies dealing with molecular divergence times of telcosts, the one in which a greater number of otocephalan species are included. The divergence times obtained support that the major otocephalan groups had a much older origin than the oldest fossil records available for these groups suggest. The origin of the Otocephala is estimated as having occurred about 282 Mya, with the origin of the Otophysi being estimated at about 251 Mya. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Experimental investigation on submicron rib waveguide microring/racetrack resonators in silicon-on-insulator

in experiment, characteristics of silicon microring/racetrack resonators in submicron rib waveguides have been systematically investigated. It is demonstrated that only a transverse-electric mode is guided for a ratio of slab height to rib height h/H = 0.5. Thus, these microring/racetrack resonators can only function for quasi-transverse-electric mode, while they get rid of transverse-magnetic polarization. Electron beam lithography and inductively coupled plasma etching were employed and improved to reduce side-wall roughness for low propagation loss and high performance resonators. Then, the effects of waveguide dimensions, coupling region design, waveguide roughness, and oxide cladding for the resonators have been considered and analyzed. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.