长白山北坡植物群落间物种共有度的海拔梯度变化(英文)

应用梯度格局法在长白山北坡海拔700-2600 m之间每100 m设置一样地，共计20块样地，应用Jaccard指数，对植物群落间物种共有度的海拔梯度变化进行了分析。不同海拔群落间的共有度，无论以哪一层次的植物种来表达，基本都以与其最相邻海拔的群落之间为最高。相邻海拔群落的不同层次物种间的共有度变化存在相似性和相异性；但如相邻海拔的两个群落属于不同植被类型，其共有度则较低。群落间物种共有度的峰值与谷点反映了植被的海拔梯度格局，且灌木种的物种更替在这些地段具有非常明显的规律。在同一海拔差群落间的共有度数值都非常接近，并均随着海拔差的增加呈明显的下降趋势，表明群落各层次物种的构成有很大的相关性。

辽宁老秃顶子北坡森林土壤蜱螨共有度的海拔梯度变化

在老秃顶子自然保护区北坡海拔700～1320m地段,从低海拔到高海拔设置12块样地,并采用Jaccard指数,对不同蜱螨目(Acarina)土壤动物群落间物种共有度的海拔梯度变化进行了分析。结果表明,不同海拔蜱螨群落间物种的共有度,无论以哪一生活层的螨类来表达,基本都以与其最相邻的群落间为最高。中气门亚目(Mesostigmata)、甲螨亚目(Oribatida)、蜱螨目(Acarina)螨类的共有度,均随着海拔差的增加呈下降趋势,但并不与植被情况完全吻合,低海拔群落间甲螨亚目、蜱螨目共有度大于高海拔,而中气门亚目则相反。

浙江产车前(Plantagoasiatica)种群遗传分化的主坐标分析

运用 18个有效的 10mer 寡核苷酸引物对浙江产车前 (Plantagoasiatica)的 8个种群基因组DNA进行了PCR扩增 ,共检测到 186个位点 ,其中多态位点 12 5个 ,占 6 8.70 % .应用Jaccard公式计算了 8个种群在 12 5个位点上的相似性 .以此为基础 ,应用主坐标排序 ,作出了 8个种群遗传分化的三维排序图 .结果表明 ,8个种群的遗传分化与地理位置、海拔高度有联系 .

Genetic analysis of the gametophytes of Undaria pinnatifida (Phaeophyceae) with ISSR method

Inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) analysis was used to assess eleven pairs of Undaria pinnatifida (Harv.) Suringar male and female gametophytes. After screening fifty primers, 18 ISSR primers were selected for final analysis. A total of 104 loci were obtained, of which 77 were polymorphic, among the gametophytes studied. Genetic relationships were analyzed with simple matching (S), Jaccard's (J) and Dice's (D) distance coefficients. Little genetic variations were found among the selected Undaria gametophytes, for instance, the genetic distances ranging from 0.010 to 0.125 with Dice coefficients. UPGMA dendrograms showed that 11 pairs of Undaria gametophytes were distributed into five groups. Most Undaria strains cultivated in China exhibited closely genetic relationships with the strains from Japan. However, gametophytes from Qingdao appeared as distinct clades from other Undaria strains with all three distance coefficients used. Mantel test showed that the three distance measurements generated congruent clustering patterns on the same data. Our results demonstrated the feasibility of applying ISSR markers for genetic analysis of Undaria gametophytes. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

沱沱河地区紫花针茅群落种间联结性分析

基于方差比率(VR)、χ~2检验和Jaccard指数对沱沱河地区紫花针茅群落12个主要种的种间联结性进行了分析.结果表明,紫花针茅群落优势种多物种间显著正关联,存在稳定共存的种间关系.建群种与其它物种间联结性不显著,在群落中能够稳定存在并占据优势生态位,群落处于植被演替过程的一个相对稳定的阶段.伴生种或次优势种之间联结显著,在群落中表现出很强的依赖性,分布易受其它物种的影响,在群落中不能稳定存在且只占据劣势生态位.根据种间联结性的分析结果,将紫花针茅群落分为2个不同的生态种组,但这2个生态种组并不具有明显的界限,它们之间存在着直接或间接的联系.

醇溶蛋白水平上甘、青两省春小麦品种间的遗传多样性现状及演变趋势

用APAGE技术检测了43个春小麦品种在醇溶蛋白水平上的遗传变异，在计算Jaccard相似系数的基础上用UPGMA方法进行聚类分析。共得到42种不同的带型，电泳共分离出37条带，其中33条具有多态性。品种间在醇溶蛋白水平上的遗传距离变异范围很大（0.0000～0.8148），平均遗传距离GD＝0.5073。说明43个品种在醇溶蛋白编码位点上存在较大变异。聚类结果显示，除佛手麦自成一类外（GS＝0.28），地方品种和引进品种与大多数育成品种（GS＝0.46）分属不同的亚类，说明育成品种同地方品种和引进品种在醇溶蛋白编码基因上存在较大变异。育成品种间在醇溶蛋白水平上的遗传多样性程度不高，这一结果提示在这一地区进行与醇溶蛋白相关的品质育种很难在现在的育成品种间杂交的基础上取得成功。从遗传多样性的演变趋势来看，历史上以地方品种间醇溶蛋白的遗传变异程度最大（GD＝0.5455），50年代引进品种变异程度最小（GD＝0.3310）。从60～90年代，育成品种醇溶蛋白水平上的遗传多样性有一先增后减的过程，但总体上变异程度要低于地方品种，其原因与亲本单一和育种目标由高产到优质变化条件下人工选择压由弱到强有关。

SSR水平上甘、青两省春小麦品种间的遗传多样性现状及演变趋势

利用22对SSR引物的扩增结果计算品种间的Jaccard相似系数，在此基础上用UPGMA方法进行了聚类分析，检测了43个春小麦品种间在DNA水平上的遗传变异。22对引物共扩增出102条多态性带，平均每对引物可扩增出4.64条多态性带，具有较好的多态性。SSR水平上43个品种间遗传距离变异范围为0.2222～0.8393，平均遗传距离GD％=0.6054。43个品种聚为两大类，除佛手麦自成一类外，其余42个品种聚为第二大类。聚类结果真实地反映了品种间基因型差异。历史上地方品种间SSR水平上的遗传变异最大，育成品种遗传多样性水平总体上呈下降趋势，且低于地方品种和引进品种。1BL／1RS易位片段特异性引物Rye检测结果显示，共有7个品种含朋1RS片段，结果需进一步证实和深入研究。

Variabilidade genética em acessos e cultivares de quatro espécies de Brachiaria estimada por marcadores RAPD.

A importância do gênero Brachiaria para o desenvolvimento da pecuária nas regiões tropicais e subtropicais é notória. Brachiaria brizantha, Brachiaria decumbens, Brachiaria ruziziensis e Brachiaria humidicola estão entre as principais espécies utilizadas como forrageiras e fazem parte do programa de melhoramento da Embrapa Gado de Corte. Neste trabalho, a técnica de Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) foi utilizada para estimar a variabilidade genética em 14 genótipos dessas quatro espécies, incluindo cultivares e acessos utilizados como genitores em cruzamentos inter e intra-específicos. Foram utilizados 47 primers que amplificaram 396 bandas, escoradas como "1" para presença e "0" para ausência, e uma matriz de similaridade genética foi construída usando o coeficiente de Jaccard. Os valores de similaridade genética variaram de 0,49 a 0,87, dos quais os acessos mais similares (C48 e B105) pertencem à mesma espécie, B. brizantha. As cultivares B. brizantha cv. Marandu e B. humidicola cv. BRS Tupi foram as mais divergentes. As análises de agrupamento obtidas pelos métodos Unweighted Pair-group Method with Arithmetical Average (UPGMA) e de Tocher foram similares, dividindo os acessos em quatro grupos que correspondem às espécies estudadas. O dendrograma obtido com o método UPGMA mostrou que B. brizantha, B. decumbens e B. ruziziensis são geneticamente mais próximas entre si do que B. humidicola. Além disso, este trabalho possibilitou a identificação de primers que podem ser utilizados com a finalidade de identificação precoce de híbridos quando esses genótipos forem utilizados como genitores.

Análise da diversidade genética em Stylosanthes guianensis utilizando marcadores RAPD.

O conhecimento da variabilidade genética e da relação entre diferentes acessos de Stylosanthes guianensis é importante para maximizar o uso dos recursos genéticos disponíveis. Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a variabilidade genética em 20 acessos dessa espécie, pertencentes ao banco de germoplasma da Embrapa Gado de Corte, usando marcadores RAPD (DNA Polimórfico Amplificado ao Acaso). Foram selecionados 40 primers randômicos, que produziram um total de 210 bandas; destas, 82 polimórficas (39,05%). Os dados obtidos foram utilizados para gerar uma matriz de similaridade genética usando o coeficiente de Jaccard. A similaridade genética variou de 0,747 a 0,945, o que indicou uma variabilidade genética pouco acentuada entre os acessos estudados. Os acessos com menor similaridade genética foram SG01 e SG14. Os resultados das análises de agrupamento com os métodos UPGMA (Agrupamento com Média Aritmética Não Ponderada) e Tocher foram similares. Apesar da baixa variabilidade genética detectada entre os 20 acessos, estes foram separados em nove grupos distintos pelo método UPGMA e seis grupos pelo método de Tocher.

Compositional Divergence and Convergence in Local Communities and Spatially Structured Landscapes

Community structure depends on both deterministic and stochastic processes. However, patterns of community dissimilarity (e.g. difference in species composition) are difficult to interpret in terms of the relative roles of these processes. Local communities can be more dissimilar (divergence) than, less dissimilar (convergence) than, or as dissimilar as a hypothetical control based on either null or neutral models. However, several mechanisms may result in the same pattern, or act concurrently to generate a pattern, and much research has recently been focusing on unravelling these mechanisms and their relative contributions. Using a simulation approach, we addressed the effect of a complex but realistic spatial structure in the distribution of the niche axis and we analysed patterns of species co-occurrence and beta diversity as measured by dissimilarity indices (e.g. Jaccard index) using either expectations under a null model or neutral dynamics (i.e., based on switching off the niche effect). The strength of niche processes, dispersal, and environmental noise strongly interacted so that niche-driven dynamics may result in local communities that either diverge or converge depending on the combination of these factors. Thus, a fundamental result is that, in real systems, interacting processes of community assembly can be disentangled only by measuring traits such as niche breadth and dispersal. The ability to detect the signal of the niche was also dependent on the spatial resolution of the sampling strategy, which must account for the multiple scale spatial patterns in the niche axis. Notably, some of the patterns we observed correspond to patterns of community dissimilarities previously observed in the field and suggest mechanistic explanations for them or the data required to solve them. Our framework offers a synthesis of the patterns of community dissimilarity produced by the interaction of deterministic and stochastic determinants of community assembly in a spatially explicit and complex context.

Using Graph Components Derived from an Associative Concept Dictionary to Predict fMRI Neural Activation Patterns that Represent the Meaning of Nouns

In this study, we introduce an original distance definition for graphs, called the Markov-inverse-F measure (MiF). This measure enables the integration of classical graph theory indices with new knowledge pertaining to structural feature extraction from semantic networks. MiF improves the conventional Jaccard and/or Simpson indices, and reconciles both the geodesic information (random walk) and co-occurrence adjustment (degree balance and distribution). We measure the effectiveness of graph-based coefficients through the application of linguistic graph information for a neural activity recorded during conceptual processing in the human brain. Specifically, the MiF distance is computed between each of the nouns used in a previous neural experiment and each of the in-between words in a subgraph derived from the Edinburgh Word Association Thesaurus of English. From the MiF-based information matrix, a machine learning model can accurately obtain a scalar parameter that specifies the degree to which each voxel in (the MRI image of) the brain is activated by each word or each principal component of the intermediate semantic features. Furthermore, correlating the voxel information with the MiF-based principal components, a new computational neurolinguistics model with a network connectivity paradigm is created. This allows two dimensions of context space to be incorporated with both semantic and neural distributional representations.

The role of the seed bank in recovery of temperate heath and blanket bog following wildfires

Questions - Are the germinable seed banks of upland heath and blanket bog reduced following wildfires? Are some species at particular risk? Do the impacts of wildfires on seed banks differ between heathlands and blanket bog?

Location - Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Methods - Vegetation surveys and seed bank sampling were conducted in 2012 at burned and unburned areas within six upland sites where large wildfires had occurred during spring 2011. Differences in seedling abundance, species richness and Jaccard similarity indices between burned and unburned areas were compared using GLMMs. Differences in the community composition were examined using pRDA.

Results - In total, 24 of the 51 species in the vegetation were detected in the germinable seed bank. Species richness and the abundance of seedlings other than Calluna vulgaris were lower in areas where wildfires had occurred. Species composition of both germinable seed banks and vegetation differed between burned and unburned areas within sites; with negative associations between burned areas and some key indicator species including Drosera rotundifolia, Eriophorum vaginatum, Empetrum nigrum, Narthecium ossifragum and Trichophorum germanicum. We did not find any evidence of significant interactions between burning and habitat, suggesting that wildfires had similar impacts on each species regardless of the habitat in which they occurred.

Conclusions - This study differs from other UK studies in that it examines impacts of wildfires at sites that have not been previously intensively managed by burning. In particular, we highlight potential impacts on N. ossifragum and D. rotundifolia, which are key components of the upland flora and, to our knowledge, were not present in previous UK studies.

CD14 expression on monocytes and TNF alpha production in patients with septic shock, cardiogenic shock or bacterial pneumonia.

OBJECTIVES: In patients with septic shock, circulating monocytes become refractory to stimulation with microbial products. Whether this hyporesponsive state is induced by infection or is related to shock is unknown. To address this question, we measured TNF alpha production by monocytes or by whole blood obtained from healthy volunteers (controls), from patients with septic shock, from patients with severe infection (bacterial pneumonia) without shock, and from patients with cardiogenic shock without infection. MEASUREMENTS: The numbers of circulating monocytes, of CD14+ monocytes, and the expression of monocyte CD14 and the LPS receptor, were assessed by flow cytometry. Monocytes or whole blood were stimulated with lipopolysaccharide endotoxin (LPS), heat-killed Escherichia coli or Staphylococcus aureus, and TNF alpha production was measured by bioassay. RESULTS: The number of circulating monocytes, of CD14+ monocytes, and the monocyte CD14 expression were significantly lower in patients with septic shock than in controls, in patients with bacterial pneumonia or in those with cardiogenic shock (p < 0.001). Monocytes or whole blood of patients with septic shock exhibited a profound deficiency of TNF alpha production in response to all stimuli (p < 0.05 compared to controls). Whole blood of patients with cardiogenic shock also exhibited this defect (p < 0.05 compared to controls), although to a lesser extent, despite normal monocyte counts and normal CD14 expression. CONCLUSIONS: Unlike patients with bacterial pneumonia, patients with septic or cardiogenic shock display profoundly defective TNF alpha production in response to a broad range of infectious stimuli. Thus, down-regulation of cytokine production appears to occur in patients with systemic, but not localised, albeit severe, infections and also in patients with non-infectious circulatory failure. Whilst depletion of monocytes and reduced monocyte CD14 expression are likely to be critical components of the hyporesponsiveness observed in patients with septic shock, other as yet unidentified factors are at work in this group and in patients with cardiogenic shock.

Comportamiento alimentario de los principales recursos pelágicos peruanos en verano y comienzos de otoño 1997

Se han analizado 626 contenidos estomacales de "anchoveta peruana" Engraulis ringes, 251 de "caballa" Scomber japonicus peruanus y 206 de "jurel" Trachurus picturatus murphyi, colectados entre lo 5°12 ' a 18°17 'S durante el verano de 1997. El alimento de la anchoveta estuvo compuesto por diatomeas, silicoflagelados, dinoflagelados, tintínidos, copépodos, entre los más importantes. La caballa y el jurel se alimentaron de crustáceos planctónicos destacando los euf��usidos; en la caballa, además e presentaron peces de las familias Engraulidae y Myctophidae. Usando el software MAXIMS se ha calculado la ración diaria de alimentación de la anchoveta en 0,4391 g.dia-1. Respecto a la caballa y al jurel se vienen realizando las primeras observaciones con este software, habiéndose determinado las raciones en 6,4452 g.dia-1 y 2,9129 g.dia-1, respectivamente. La similaridad alimentaria entre los mismos fue calculada utilizando el Índice de JACCARD que permitió observar diferencias sólo en la utilización del ítem anchoveta siendo la caballa la única que la consumió. En líneas generales la composición alimentaria observada corresponde a patrones e años normales.