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Rebecca Hufft Kao 《西北部美国博物学家》2011,68(2)
Although polyploidy can alter host plants in important ways (e.g., size, phenology, resource use, and ecological range), little is known about the effects of polyploidy-associated changes on plant-insect interactions. The presence of Campiglossa footeorum Novak (Diptera: Tephritidae) and its effect on its host plant Arnica cordifolia Hook. (Asteraceae) were monitored throughout Colorado, where triploids and tetraploids of the host plant occur. Campiglossa footeorum is more abundant in sites with more tetraploids and attacks tetraploids more than triploids. Polyploidy could be an important force shaping the current evolutionary trajectory of the plants and insects in this system. Campiglossa footeorum is intimately linked to A. cordifolia , and polyploidy should be included in any assessment of the insect’s population dynamics. 相似文献
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Alu elements are found exclusively in primate species and comprise over 10% of the human genome. To better define the mechanisms responsible for Alu replication, we introduced a human Alu element into mouse cells. We report that Alu retrotransposition can be induced in mouse cells by exposure to the topoisomerase II inhibitor etoposide and is mediated in trans by endogenous mouse long interspersed elements (LINEs). 相似文献
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Hillier LW Fulton RS Fulton LA Graves TA Pepin KH Wagner-McPherson C Layman D Maas J Jaeger S Walker R Wylie K Sekhon M Becker MC O'Laughlin MD Schaller ME Fewell GA Delehaunty KD Miner TL Nash WE Cordes M Du H Sun H Edwards J Bradshaw-Cordum H Ali J Andrews S Isak A Vanbrunt A Nguyen C Du F Lamar B Courtney L Kalicki J Ozersky P Bielicki L Scott K Holmes A Harkins R Harris A Strong CM Hou S Tomlinson C Dauphin-Kohlberg S Kozlowicz-Reilly A Leonard S Rohlfing T Rock SM Tin-Wollam AM Abbott A 《Nature》2003,424(6945):157-164
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Mutations in IRF6 cause Van der Woude and popliteal pterygium syndromes 总被引:25,自引:0,他引:25
Kondo S Schutte BC Richardson RJ Bjork BC Knight AS Watanabe Y Howard E de Lima RL Daack-Hirsch S Sander A McDonald-McGinn DM Zackai EH Lammer EJ Aylsworth AS Ardinger HH Lidral AC Pober BR Moreno L Arcos-Burgos M Valencia C Houdayer C Bahuau M Moretti-Ferreira D Richieri-Costa A Dixon MJ Murray JC 《Nature genetics》2002,32(2):285-289
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This paper defends a unificationist theory of explanation. I first explore the notion of understanding entrenched by the unificationist.
Then I present an overview of various kinds of causal statements and explanations. It is claimed that only genuine causal
law statements have explanatory power. Finally, I attempt to fit causal explanations into the unificationist theory of explanation.
In this way, I try to provide an account of how causal explanations provide understanding of the phenomena that they explain. 相似文献
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Wallis JW Aerts J Groenen MA Crooijmans RP Layman D Graves TA Scheer DE Kremitzki C Fedele MJ Mudd NK Cardenas M Higginbotham J Carter J McGrane R Gaige T Mead K Walker J Albracht D Davito J Yang SP Leong S Chinwalla A Sekhon M Wylie K Dodgson J Romanov MN Cheng H de Jong PJ Osoegawa K Nefedov M Zhang H McPherson JD Krzywinski M Schein J Hillier L Mardis ER Wilson RK Warren WC 《Nature》2004,432(7018):761-764
Strategies for assembling large, complex genomes have evolved to include a combination of whole-genome shotgun sequencing and hierarchal map-assisted sequencing. Whole-genome maps of all types can aid genome assemblies, generally starting with low-resolution cytogenetic maps and ending with the highest resolution of sequence. Fingerprint clone maps are based upon complete restriction enzyme digests of clones representative of the target genome, and ultimately comprise a near-contiguous path of clones across the genome. Such clone-based maps are used to validate sequence assembly order, supply long-range linking information for assembled sequences, anchor sequences to the genetic map and provide templates for closing gaps. Fingerprint maps are also a critical resource for subsequent functional genomic studies, because they provide a redundant and ordered sampling of the genome with clones. In an accompanying paper we describe the draft genome sequence of the chicken, Gallus gallus, the first species sequenced that is both a model organism and a global food source. Here we present a clone-based physical map of the chicken genome at 20-fold coverage, containing 260 contigs of overlapping clones. This map represents approximately 91% of the chicken genome and enables identification of chicken clones aligned to positions in other sequenced genomes. 相似文献
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Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
Huxman TE Smith MD Fay PA Knapp AK Shaw MR Loik ME Smith SD Tissue DT Zak JC Weltzin JF Pockman WT Sala OE Haddad BM Harte J Koch GW Schwinning S Small EE Williams DG 《Nature》2004,429(6992):651-654
Water availability limits plant growth and production in almost all terrestrial ecosystems. However, biomes differ substantially in sensitivity of aboveground net primary production (ANPP) to between-year variation in precipitation. Average rain-use efficiency (RUE; ANPP/precipitation) also varies between biomes, supposedly because of differences in vegetation structure and/or biogeochemical constraints. Here we show that RUE decreases across biomes as mean annual precipitation increases. However, during the driest years at each site, there is convergence to a common maximum RUE (RUE(max)) that is typical of arid ecosystems. RUE(max) was also identified by experimentally altering the degree of limitation by water and other resources. Thus, in years when water is most limiting, deserts, grasslands and forests all exhibit the same rate of biomass production per unit rainfall, despite differences in physiognomy and site-level RUE. Global climate models predict increased between-year variability in precipitation, more frequent extreme drought events, and changes in temperature. Forecasts of future ecosystem behaviour should take into account this convergent feature of terrestrial biomes. 相似文献
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Prolonged suppression of ecosystem carbon dioxide uptake after an anomalously warm year 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Arnone JA Verburg PS Johnson DW Larsen JD Jasoni RL Lucchesi AJ Batts CM von Nagy C Coulombe WG Schorran DE Buck PE Braswell BH Coleman JS Sherry RA Wallace LL Luo Y Schimel DS 《Nature》2008,455(7211):383-386
Terrestrial ecosystems control carbon dioxide fluxes to and from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and respiration, a balance between net primary productivity and heterotrophic respiration, that determines whether an ecosystem is sequestering carbon or releasing it to the atmosphere. Global and site-specific data sets have demonstrated that climate and climate variability influence biogeochemical processes that determine net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange (NEE) at multiple timescales. Experimental data necessary to quantify impacts of a single climate variable, such as temperature anomalies, on NEE and carbon sequestration of ecosystems at interannual timescales have been lacking. This derives from an inability of field studies to avoid the confounding effects of natural intra-annual and interannual variability in temperature and precipitation. Here we present results from a four-year study using replicate 12,000-kg intact tallgrass prairie monoliths located in four 184-m(3) enclosed lysimeters. We exposed 6 of 12 monoliths to an anomalously warm year in the second year of the study and continuously quantified rates of ecosystem processes, including NEE. We find that warming decreases NEE in both the extreme year and the following year by inducing drought that suppresses net primary productivity in the extreme year and by stimulating heterotrophic respiration of soil biota in the subsequent year. Our data indicate that two years are required for NEE in the previously warmed experimental ecosystems to recover to levels measured in the control ecosystems. This time lag caused net ecosystem carbon sequestration in previously warmed ecosystems to be decreased threefold over the study period, compared with control ecosystems. Our findings suggest that more frequent anomalously warm years, a possible consequence of increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide levels, may lead to a sustained decrease in carbon dioxide uptake by terrestrial ecosystems. 相似文献