小球藻属DNA条形码的鉴定研究

为探讨小球藻鉴定的新方法以及评估小球藻属 DNA 条形码候选序列的鉴定作用,文章对20株小球藻的线粒体基因细胞色素C氧化酶亚基Ⅰ(COI)、核基因组rDNA的内转录间隔区(ITS)以及核酮糖1,5-二磷酸羧化酶(rbcL)3个片段进行PCR扩增测序,并对各序列进行生物信息学分析。研究结果表明：COI、ITS和rbcL序列在20株小球藻中的扩增和测序效率均呈阳性,扩增成功率分别为76%、83%和70%;经评估,COI、ITS和rbcL序列作为DNA条形码在小球藻分类鉴定中均不适合较低的分类单位,但可参考动植物的分类方法,将多个片段组合应用,从而筛选不同进化级别的DNA条形码。     

DNA条形码技术在鲻科鱼类鉴定中的应用

本研究选用DNA条形码的通用基因片段,采用特异性扩增测序及与GenBank已有序列结合分析的方法,进行了鲻科(Mugilidae)6属17种鱼类的COI基因片段的序列比较、分子树构建和系统进化研究。研究表明,在所得的17种鲻科鱼类共有的555bp COI基因片段中平均GC含量为46.9%。其中,第二密码子位点含量最高(49.8%~56.2%),平均54.9%;第一密码子变化范围最大(31.9%~48.6%),平均42.9%;第三密码子差别不显著(42.5%~43.4%),平均42.7%。依据Kimura-2-parameter模型(K2P),17种鲻科鱼类种内遗传距离的平均值为0.004 5,种间遗传距离为0.191,是种内遗传距离的42倍。在分子系统树上,所有物种均呈单系,5属为独立分支,只有隶属于梭属(Liza)的尖头梭(Liza tade)与莫鲻属(Moolgarda)聚类,表现出与传统形态学分类不一致的结果。本研究结果验证了线粒体COI基因作为DNA条形码对鲻科鱼类进行物种鉴定的有效性,可用于辅助探讨鲻科科下属、种分类阶元系统发育问题。     

几种北极桧叶螅和薮枝螅的DNA条形码分析

以2016年第7次北极科学考察期间在不同海域采集到的形态各异的水螅样品为研究对象,初步描述了样品的形态特征,并且利用DNA条形码序列进行了分子鉴定。基于16SrRNA基因序列构建的系统进化树表明,S12,NB06,R01和NB05属于桧叶螅科桧叶螅属,R08和B08为钟形螅科薮枝螅属,而且不同种的水螅均以较高的置信度聚类为一个稳定的分支。因此16SrRNA序列可以作为DNA条形码用于这2属的水螅的分类鉴定。桧叶螅的COI序列扩增较困难,不宜作为DNA条形码用于该属的鉴定,而薮枝螅的COI序列则较易扩增。基于16S rRNA和COI序列的长薮枝螅种间遗传距离均远大于种内遗传距离,存在明显的条形码间隙。且薮枝螅基于COI序列的种内遗传距离比16SrRNA基因的更大,认为COI序列可作为薮枝螅不同地理起源的分析鉴定依据。     

中国沿海常见蜑螺科贝类的DNA条形码

DNA条形码不仅为物种鉴定提供了有效方法,而且也有助于分类学和生物多样性研究。本研究旨在探讨将COI和16S rRNA基因序列应用于中国沿海蜑螺科贝类物种鉴定的可行性,获得了该科3属7种贝类61个个体的COI和16S rRNA基因序列。基于COI基因序列的种内遗传距离为0.00—1.29%,平均为0.67%;属内种间遗传距离为4.62%—19.25%,平均为13.02%;基于16S rRNA基因序列的种内遗传距离为0.00%—0.48%,平均为0.23%;属内种间遗传距离为2.47%—8.48%,平均为6.37%。两种基因序列在所研究的蜑螺中,种内遗传差异均小于种间遗传差异,存在明显的条形码间隙,所有物种在系统发生树上都表现为独立的单系群。结果表明,线粒体COI和16S rRNA基因序列可以作为DNA条形码标准基因对蜑螺科贝类进行有效地物种鉴定。     

海洋生物DNA条形码研究现状与展望

海洋生物种类多样,分布广泛,具有复杂性、多样性和趋同性等特点,为了对物种进行更快速、准确地鉴定,急需在传统形态分类学基础上,建立并结合便捷准确的分子鉴定手段。DNA条形码提供了可信息化的分类标准和有效的分类学手段,已成为近年来分类学与生物多样性研究中重要的技术依托。本文概述了DNA条形码当前的发展现状与趋势,并介绍了DNA条形码技术在主要海洋浮游植物(红藻、褐藻、绿藻、硅藻、甲藻)、无脊椎动物(海绵动物、刺胞动物、甲壳动物和软体动物等)和鱼类中的研究进展,以及不同条形码基因针对于不同生物类群的有效性和适用性,指出了目前条形码技术在各海洋类群中存在的主要问题,并对未来的相关工作做了展望,希望为今后我国的海洋生物DNA条形码研究提供理论基础。     

中国近海大型底栖动物DNA条形码的研究进展

DNA条形码是利用标准的、变异率适度、易于扩增且相对较短的DNA片段对物种进行快速准确鉴定的技术。海洋大型底栖动物分布广泛,具有多样性、复杂性和趋同性等特点,DNA条形码技术能够在传统分类学基础上对物种进行快速、准确地鉴定。本文概述了DNA条形码技术在中国近海大型底栖动物研究中的发展现状,如多孔动物(Porifera)、刺胞动物(Coelenterata)、多毛动物(Polychaeta)、软体动物(Mollusca)、甲壳动物(Crustacea)、棘皮动物(Echinodermata)等,介绍了该技术在物种鉴定、隐存种发现、生物多样性评估等领域的研究进展,指出了目前条形码技术在应用中的局限性,并对未来的研究工作进行了展望。     

DNA条形码技术在鱼类浮游生物鉴定中的应用及研究展望

鱼类浮游生物的准确鉴定是鱼类浮游生物研究的基础。传统的基于形态特征的鉴定不仅费时费力,而且由于缺乏足够信息,鉴定存在困难,导致物种多样性被低估。为了对物种进行准确、快速地鉴定,急需在传统形态分类学基础上,建立并结合便捷准确的分子鉴定手段。DNA条形码技术是利用一段较短的DNA序列实现快速准确物种鉴定的工具,就像在商店里扫描仪读取条形码那样,对每一种生物也能通过快速分析其DNA中的一小段(线粒体细胞色素c氧化酶I亚基,mt COI)加以识别。DNA条形码提供了可信息化的分类标准和有效的分类学手段,已成为近年来生物类群的研究热点。文章介绍了DNA条形码的概念、原理、工作流程及其优点,分析了其在鱼类浮游生物鉴定中的应用可行性,并展望未来鱼类浮游生物学发展的前景:分子技术鉴定鱼类浮游生物相关规范标准的建立,传统形态鉴定与分子方法相结合的分类学研究,以及鱼类浮游生物的生态学研究。     

DNA条形码技术在仔稚鱼鉴定中的实践

对物种准确鉴定是进行生物多样性研究的前提。为提高物种鉴定的准确性,文章采用DNA条形码技术结合形态学对长江口仔稚鱼样品进行种类鉴定。结果表明,44个样品中,通过线粒体COI基因的分析鉴定有17个种、1个属;部分形态上难以鉴定的种类,如虾虎鱼科的矛尾虾虎鱼、斑尾刺虾虎鱼、睛尾蝌蚪虾虎鱼、褐吻虾虎鱼和斑点竿虾虎鱼,可通过DNA条形码实现有效鉴定;形态较为相似的种类,通过DNA条形码可鉴定到种,淡水鲤科的有青鱼、鲢、鳊,鲻科的有龟鮻和前鳞龟鮻。利用DNA条形码技术结合形态进行仔稚鱼种类的鉴定,能提高仔稚鱼鉴定的精确度。     

印度洋、西北太平洋龟螺属和小龟螺属种类的分类及DNA条形码鉴定

近来的研究表明,一些所谓的环球或环极地分布的广布种实际上包含着一些局限性分布的隐存种,物种多样性可能被低估。本文采用形态学和DNA条形码技术相结合的方式,对印度洋和西北太平洋海域的龟螺属(Cavolinia)和小龟螺属(Diacavolinia)的种类进行了分类学研究和物种鉴定。结果表明,线粒体16S rRNA基因数据不支持小龟螺属形态种的划分,分布于西北太平洋的D. grayi、D. vanutrechti、D. pacifica、D. elegans、D. angulosa等多个形态种可能属同一个种,即长吻小龟螺(D.longirostris)。COI基因数据也不支持钩龟螺(C. uncinata)亚种和变形的划分。许多形态特征不能作为种或种下分类单元的区分依据。钩龟螺、球龟螺(C. globulosa)和长吻小龟螺在COI系统树中均形成2个地理支系,其内部可能存在隐存种。西北太平洋海域长吻小龟螺的核基因组中存在线粒体假基因,对DNA条形码分析产生严重干扰。     

中华钩线虫的DNA条形码研究及分类意义探讨

海洋线虫是海洋底栖生物中数量上最丰富的类群,在海洋生态系统中起着重要的作用。对海洋线虫进行种类鉴定是线虫研究中最重要的工作之一。目前,海洋线虫的鉴定主要采用形态学的分析方法,但是这种方法往往费时费力,对于如此丰富的物种,急需新的鉴定方法。作者以黄海潮间带自由生活线虫优势种——中华钩线虫(Oncholaimus sinensis)为例,在形态学分类的基础上,将DNA条形码技术引入线虫的鉴定中,探讨了线粒体细胞色素C氧化酶第一亚基(mt COI)基因序列、28S r DNA序列的D2D3区以及18S r DNA序列的部分序列作为DNA条形码在中华钩线虫中的适用性。结果表明,18S r DNA序列可作为该种线虫的DNA条形码,为海洋线虫的DNA条形码研究提供了很好的借鉴。目前,利用DNA条形码技术对海洋线虫进行鉴定的报道在国内还属空白,本研究将是海洋线虫分类学研究的很好补充。同时,对于了解该海域海洋线虫多样性及群落分布格局,开展海洋环境监测,进而对海洋的底质环境状况进行健康评价具有十分重要的科学意义。     

Microbial Biomass and Organic Nutrients in the Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin

In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, we measured the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian pioneer area. Sediments were collected using box core and grab samples during September 1996. The total bacterial numbers ranged from 10 10 -10 11 cells per g -1 dry weight sediment. There was a marginal decrease in the number of bacteria from surface to 30 cm depth, though the subsurface section registered a higher number than did the surface. The highest numbers were encountered at depths of 4-8 cm. The retrievable number of bacteria were two orders less in comparison with the direct total counts of bacteria. An almost homogeneous distribution of bacteria, total organic carbon, living biomass, and lipids throughout the depth of cores indicates active microbial and benthic processes in the deep sea sediments. On the other hand, a uniform distribution of total counts of bacteria, carbohydrates, and total organic carbon in all the cores indicates their stable nature and suggests that they can serve as useful parameters for long-term monitoring of the area after the benthic disturbance. Further studies on temporal variability in this region would not only verify the observed norms of distribution of these variables but would also help to understand restabilization processes after the simulated benthic disturbance.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Geoacoustic Inversion via Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Manganese Sediment Identification

An acoustic inversion method using a wide-band signal and two near field receivers is proposed and applied to multiple layered seabed models including a manganese sediment. The inversion problem can be formulated into a probabilistic model comprised of signals, a forward model, and additive noise. The forward model simulates wide-band signals, such as chirp signals, and is chosen to be the source-waveletconvolution plane wave modeling method. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the possible numerical ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm is applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L 2 norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. Not only the marginal pdf but also its statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

Phylogenetic diversity and phenotypic characterization of cultivable bacterioplankton isolated from polar oceans

A set of 27 marine planktonic bacteria isolated from the polar regions was characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing and physiological and biochemical testing. More than half of these bacteria were positive for caseinase, gelatinase and 13-glucosidase, and could utilize glucose, maltose or malic acid as carbon source for cell growth. Twelve isolates expressed nitrate reduction activities. Except for one antarctic isolate BSwlO175 belonging to Actinobacteria phylum, these isolates were classified as γ-Proteobacteria, suggesting that γ-Proteobacteria dominated in cultivable marine bacterioplankton at both poles. Genus Pseudoalteromonas was the predominant group in the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, and genus ShewaneUa dominated in cultivable bacterioplankton in the Prydz Bay. With sequence similarities above 97%, genus Psychrobacter was found at both poles. These 27 isolates were psychrotolerant, and significant 16S rDNA sequence similarities were found not only between arctic and antarctic marine bacteria （ 〉 99% ）, but also between polar marine bacteria and bacteria from other aquatic environments （ ≥ 98.8% ）, including temperate ocean, deep sea, pond and lake, suggesting that in the polar oceans less temperature-sensitive bacteria may be cosmopolitan and have a bipolar, even global, distribution at the species level.     

Deep-Sea Sediment Compression Curves: Some Controlling Factors, Spurious Overconsolidation, Predictions, and Geophysical Reproduction

Oedometer tests have been carried out on 70 undisturbed surficial clays (at approximately 250 mm below the mudline), mostly collected by free-fall corers from sites widely scattered throughout the deep-sea North Atlantic. Acoustic measurements were also made, initially on contiguous samples and ultimately on the same sample using a geophysically instrumented oedometer which also collected electrical resistivity data. Apart from those quiescent areas below the carbonate compensation depth, such as north of the West Indies where very fine clays exist, most of the samples are silty clays whose geotechnical-geophysical properties are dependent on the type of clay minerals present (and their ability to take in moisture), the sand-size fraction, and the quantity of carbonate present. Thus the pure clays have high compressibilities which decrease on the addition of coarse particles, while the converse is true for the acoustic parameters, these increasing with the sand fraction. Using the notion of the intrinsic compression line for all samples, and comparison to it of the measured compression curves, it is clear that, contrary to some previously held ideas, most deep-sea clays are normally consolidated; the addition of carbonate has the effect of creating an open, stronger sediment skeleton. Interestingly, where information is available, the variation with depth of a sample's acoustic velocity follows the void ratio pressure relationship of the compression curve. This allows the construction of an in-situ sediment compression curve using the in-situ geophysical observations.