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王昕 《西南民族学院学报(自然科学版)》2004,30(6):758-763
主要对一棵24岁的Douglas-fir(花旗松,北美西北部的主要树种之一)的生长情况进行详细的测量和描述,其目的是创建出一个准确的计算机三维模型.同样的研究由Mark Goebel在2002年对同一试验地砍伐的另一棵Douglas-fir的地下部分作过.把两次研究的结果结合起来制作出一个可以用于教学演示的Douglas-fir生长模型.使用G.H.Dufr和Noran J.Nolan首创的分析法对测量结果进行了分析.主千年轮的直径生长,主干平均年轮面积,主干垂直生长,枝干长度增长和年平均枝干直径的数值都进行了构图分析.生长曲线同理想生长曲线表现出了一定的差异,同时显示了各年问的细微变化.过去24年间好的生长年份可以因此被确定出来.测量分析结果和Goebel的研究结果相吻合,因此重建一棵Douglas-fir的目的能够被实现.但是研究结果表示我们砍伐的Douglas-fir并不是完全没有受到生长压力的绝对优势物种,要进一步创建三维模型还需要一些计算才能实现. 相似文献
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Douglas A. Wilson Victoria Raish Alison Carr-Chellman 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》2017,30(3):277-293
The paper explores cinematic films as a pedagogical tool to promote critical thinking and student discussions in a doctoral-level learning, design, and technology seminar course at a major U.S. research university. These discussions focused on systemic change and systemic thinking concepts. The authors offer evidence from the literature that supports films’ power as a visual metaphor and neurocognitive stimulator to promote development of new perspectives in graduate students on case studies through articulation, reflection, and explanation of their thought processes on change and diffusion of innovation. There are theoretical, political, social, and technological issues that create tensions during any systemic change effort. The goal of using film in this seminar is to equip students with the requisite skills, theoretical frameworks, and interpersonal experiences needed to address these issues within organizations and communities. The change expected from systemic thinking is for students to think more deeply about the interconnectedness of systems and the importance of bottom-up change efforts that consider the perspective of all stakeholders. 相似文献
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Prud'homme B Minervino C Hocine M Cande JD Aouane A Dufour HD Kassner VA Gompel N 《Nature》2011,473(7345):83-86
Body plans, which characterize the anatomical organization of animal groups of high taxonomic rank, often evolve by the reduction or loss of appendages (limbs in vertebrates and legs and wings in insects, for example). In contrast, the addition of new features is extremely rare and is thought to be heavily constrained, although the nature of the constraints remains elusive. Here we show that the treehopper (Membracidae) 'helmet' is actually an appendage, a wing serial homologue on the first thoracic segment. This innovation in the insect body plan is an unprecedented situation in 250 Myr of insect evolution. We provide evidence suggesting that the helmet arose by escaping the ancestral repression of wing formation imparted by a member of the Hox gene family, which sculpts the number and pattern of appendages along the body axis. Moreover, we propose that the exceptional morphological diversification of the helmet was possible because, in contrast to the wings, it escaped the stringent functional requirements imposed by flight. This example illustrates how complex morphological structures can arise by the expression of ancestral developmental potentials and fuel the morphological diversification of an evolutionary lineage. 相似文献
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Roberts AE Araki T Swanson KD Montgomery KT Schiripo TA Joshi VA Li L Yassin Y Tamburino AM Neel BG Kucherlapati RS 《Nature genetics》2007,39(1):70-74
Noonan syndrome, the most common single-gene cause of congenital heart disease, is characterized by short stature, characteristic facies, learning problems and leukemia predisposition. Gain-of-function mutations in PTPN11, encoding the tyrosine phosphatase SHP2, cause approximately 50% of Noonan syndrome cases. SHP2 is required for RAS-ERK MAP kinase (MAPK) cascade activation, and Noonan syndrome mutants enhance ERK activation ex vivo and in mice. KRAS mutations account for <5% of cases of Noonan syndrome, but the gene(s) responsible for the remainder are unknown. We identified missense mutations in SOS1, which encodes an essential RAS guanine nucleotide-exchange factor (RAS-GEF), in approximately 20% of cases of Noonan syndrome without PTPN11 mutation. The prevalence of specific cardiac defects differs in SOS1 mutation-associated Noonan syndrome. Noonan syndrome-associated SOS1 mutations are hypermorphs encoding products that enhance RAS and ERK activation. Our results identify SOS1 mutants as a major cause of Noonan syndrome, representing the first example of activating GEF mutations associated with human disease and providing new insights into RAS-GEF regulation. 相似文献
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Lorena Beatriz Quiroga María Daniela Moreno Ariel Aníbal Cataldo Juan Héctor Aragón-Traverso María Victoria Pantano Juan Pablo Segundo Olivares 《Journal of Natural History》2015,49(27-28):1703-1716
The American bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus has been introduced around the world, with invasive populations reported from almost all South American countries. A population of this species was introduced in the Calingasta department of San Juan province, which is an arid environment in western Argentina. This work provides information on the dietary composition of an invasive population of L. catesbeianus, and compares the degree of dietary overlap between adults and juveniles. Stomach contents of 169 bullfrogs (82 adults and 87 juveniles) were analysed. Adults consumed 40 prey taxa and Hymenoptera (Insecta) was the most numerous prey item (41.8%), followed by Araneae (13.6%) and Aeglidae (13.4%). Juveniles consumed 29 prey taxa and Hymenoptera constituted the highest percentage in prey number (77.2%). The trophic overlap niche index at the same level shows a value of 0.64 overlap in dietary community between adults and juveniles of this bullfrog. Aeglidae was volumetrically the most important trophic item (25.4%), followed by Anura (25.02%). Our results showed that cannibalism in bullfrogs is more common than the consumption of native anurans, coinciding with that reported in other populations of introduced bullfrogs. The high similarity in the diets of both size classes and the association between the size of the predator and prey suggest that the impact caused by bullfrogs throughout their ontogeny is high and probably has an impact on their prey. Freshwater crabs are the main items in the diet of Lithobates catesbeianus in other introduced populations and are usually the most conspicuous at our study site. The crabs in freshwater ecosystems are part of the lowest trophic level in the food chain. The major threats to the southern region’s freshwater crabs include deforestation, farming and exotic species. Lithobates catesbeianus has a generalist diet and high overlap between adults and juveniles. 相似文献
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A latent ability to persist: differentiation in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Toxoplasma gondii</Emphasis>
Victoria Jeffers Zoi Tampaki Kami Kim William J. SullivanJr. 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2018,75(13):2355-2373
A critical factor in the transmission and pathogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii is the ability to convert from an acute disease-causing, proliferative stage (tachyzoite), to a chronic, dormant stage (bradyzoite). The conversion of the tachyzoite-containing parasitophorous vacuole membrane into the less permeable bradyzoite cyst wall allows the parasite to persist for years within the host to maximize transmissibility to both primary (felids) and secondary (virtually all other warm-blooded vertebrates) hosts. This review presents our current understanding of the latent stage, including the factors that are important in bradyzoite induction and maintenance. Also discussed are the recent studies that have begun to unravel the mechanisms behind stage switching. 相似文献
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Panizzi JR Becker-Heck A Castleman VH Al-Mutairi DA Liu Y Loges NT Pathak N Austin-Tse C Sheridan E Schmidts M Olbrich H Werner C Häffner K Hellman N Chodhari R Gupta A Kramer-Zucker A Olale F Burdine RD Schier AF O'Callaghan C Chung EM Reinhardt R Mitchison HM King SM Omran H Drummond IA 《Nature genetics》2012,44(6):714-719
Cilia are essential for fertilization, respiratory clearance, cerebrospinal fluid circulation and establishing laterality. Cilia motility defects cause primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD, MIM244400), a disorder affecting 1:15,000-30,000 births. Cilia motility requires the assembly of multisubunit dynein arms that drive ciliary bending. Despite progress in understanding the genetic basis of PCD, mutations remain to be identified for several PCD-linked loci. Here we show that the zebrafish cilia paralysis mutant schmalhans (smh(tn222)) encodes the coiled-coil domain containing 103 protein (Ccdc103), a foxj1a-regulated gene product. Screening 146 unrelated PCD families identified individuals in six families with reduced outer dynein arms who carried mutations in CCDC103. Dynein arm assembly in smh mutant zebrafish was rescued by wild-type but not mutant human CCDC103. Chlamydomonas Ccdc103/Pr46b functions as a tightly bound, axoneme-associated protein. These results identify Ccdc103 as a dynein arm attachment factor that causes primary ciliary dyskinesia when mutated. 相似文献