致病溶藻弧菌脂多糖对点带石斑鱼毒性和免疫原性的影响

以热酚水抽提法提取致病溶藻弧菌(Vibrio alginolyticus)粗脂多糖(Lipopolysaccharides,LPS),并将不同浓度的溶藻弧菌粗LPS通过腹腔注射法接种点带石斑鱼(Epinephelus coioides),研究该LPS对点带石斑鱼毒性和免疫原性的影响,并同弱致病溶藻弧菌粗LPS及高纯度大肠杆菌(Escherichia coli)LPS对石斑鱼的刺激效果进行比较。结果表明:溶藻弧菌致病株和弱致病株粗LPS均对石斑鱼具有比较强的毒性,溶藻弧菌LPS对石斑鱼的免疫原性随LPS浓度的增高而增强,高纯度大肠杆菌LPS对石斑鱼的免疫原性效果要优于溶藻弧菌粗LPS。     

人工养殖点带石斑鱼弧菌病病原菌的分离及鉴定

广东、海南两省多个海水网箱养殖场养殖的点带石斑鱼(Epinephelus malabaricus)发生严重的弧菌病,从海南三亚和广东深圳的发病鱼病灶上分离到2株致病性细菌VAL02和VAL00,经人工回接感染实验证明这2株菌引起点带石斑鱼弧菌病,VAL02对点带石斑鱼苗的半致死量是2.25×10~5 cfu/g。经形态及生理生化特征分析,鉴定出VAL02及VAL00均为溶藻弧菌。应用药敏纸片法研究了22种化学疗剂对VAL02及溶藻弧菌标准株的生长抑制作用,发现VAL02对氯霉素、氟哌酸、卡那霉素和乙酰螺旋霉素等产生耐药性,对复方新诺明和环丙沙星等敏感。     

斜带石斑鱼养殖群体遗传多样性的RAPD分析

利用随机扩增多态DNA(RAPD)技术分析了斜带石斑鱼Epinephelus coioides繁育亲本以及2001、2004年孵育的2批子代群体的遗传多样性。17个引物共扩增出104个位点。应用生物软件POPGENE进行统计分析,3个取样群体的多态位点百分率分别为32.69%(繁育亲本)、30.77%(2001年子代)和24.04%(2004年子代);基因多样性和香侬信息指数均为繁育亲本群体最高(0.110 8和0.167 0)、2004年子代群体最低(0.066 6和0.103 8)。通过t检验检测群体间遗传多样性的差异显著程度并根据Nei公式计算遗传相似度和遗传距离分析群体间的遗传分化。结果表明,RAPD技术具有较高的灵敏性和多态性,是分析评估斜带石斑鱼遗传多样性较为适宜的分子标记之一;人工养殖不仅使斜带石斑鱼遗传多样性逐年下降,而且目前已经降低到显著的程度,近交和遗传漂变可能是导致遗传多样性下降的2个重要因素。最后对保持斜带石斑鱼遗传多样性的养殖策略进行了探讨。     

34株副溶血弧菌16S-23S rDNA间区多态性DGGE分析

采用PCR-变性梯度凝胶电泳技术(PCR-DGGE)分析比较了34株分离于环境和水产养殖动物体内的副溶血弧菌及标准株16S-23S rDNA间区(Intergenic Spacer Region, ISR)的多态性和亲缘关系.结果表明, 34株副溶血弧菌的ISR经PCR-DGGE电泳后均能分离出4―10条条带, 共计产生15个多态性位点.所有菌株聚为H、I、J、K四大簇, 株间遗传差异最大为株A18和A25, 遗传距离达到0.4.ISR PCR-DGGE方法为副溶血弧菌基因分型提供了一种新的方法.     

海水养虾池的几种致病弧菌生态

研究了对虾养成期中养殖海水和虾体中弧菌的数量变化、种类组成及其相关因素，初步探讨了弧菌数量与虾病的关系。结果表明，无论养殖水和虾作中弧菌检出率均为100％，养殖水中弧菌测值为2.3×102～4．9×105个／dm3，均值1．78×105个／dm3；虾体中弧菌数是4.4×102～2．9×106个／g，均值为2.9×104个／g。出现于虾体和养殖水中的弧菌有副溶血弧菌（Vibrioparahaemolyticus）、溶藻弧菌（Vibrioalginolyticus）、创伤弧菌（Vibriovulnificus）、河弧菌（Vibriofluvialis）和模拟弧菌（Vibriomimicus）．其中副溶血弧菌和溶藻弧菌是各地的优势种。检测期间，虾池水的生化和理化因素较稳定，对弧菌数量无明显影响。个别虾池出现虾病与弧菌数量较高有关。以分离菌株进行浸染试验的结果表明，副溶血弧菌和溶藻弧菌能使对虾出现与病虾同样的病症。     

苗期中国对虾幼体异养细菌区系及其变化与病害发生的关系

研究了2个育苗场不同发育期的中国对虾(Penaeus chinensis)幼体的异养菌和弧菌种群变化的动态过程。以典型特征法、BIOLOGGN法和数值分类法对菌株进行鉴定。结果表明，对虾幼体样品中所分离的细菌，大多是革兰氏阴性杆菌。鉴定为假单胞菌属(Pseudomonas)、气单胞菌属(Aeromonas)和弧菌属(Vibrio)。弧菌属主要为溶藻弧菌(Vibrioal-ginozyticus)和哈维氏弧菌(Vibrio harveyi)。在对虾幼体发育早期，假单胞菌(Pseudomonas)和气单胞菌(Aeromonas)占优势，随着对虾幼体的发育，弧菌(Vibrio)渐成为优势，其中溶藻弧菌(Vibrio alginolyticus)和哈维氏弧菌(Vibrio harveyi)优势明显。二者的消长与苗期病害的发生相关，溶藻弧菌总是在虾幼体健康时出现或成为优势，而哈维氏弧菌成为优势时，苗期病害容易发生。     

6种海洋致病性弧菌36kDa外膜蛋白特性分析

研究本着筛选和制备弧菌共同外膜蛋白亚单位疫苗,用十二烷基肌氨酸钠抽提并结合超速离心的方法提取了鳗弧菌(Vibrio anguillarum)、鱼肠道弧菌(V.ichthyoenteri)、溶藻弧菌(V.alginolyticus)、副溶血弧菌(V.parahaemolyticus)、哈维氏弧菌(V.harveyi)和创伤弧菌(V.vulnificus)6种海洋致病性弧菌的主要外膜蛋白, SDS-PAGE图谱比较发现这6种弧菌都存在36 kDa的外膜蛋白条带.通过电泳洗脱分离纯化这6种弧菌的36 kDa外膜蛋白,并制备了鳗弧菌菌株SJ060621的36 kDa外膜蛋白多抗.ELISA和Western-blot印迹结果显示,仅鳗弧菌SJ060621、S010610-1和哈维氏弧菌的36 kDa外膜蛋白存在免疫交叉反应;双向电泳分析了鳗弧菌SJ060621、S010610-1、哈维氏弧菌和溶藻弧菌的36 kDa外膜蛋白,2-DE图谱显示出鳗弧菌SJ060621和S010610-1均由3种等电点相近的蛋白组成,存在很高的同源性,2株鳗弧菌与溶藻弧菌和哈维氏弧菌在蛋白质组成数量和等电点上都存在较大的差异,结果说明通过主要外膜蛋白的分子量和免疫特性研究,可为筛选不同弧菌共同外膜蛋白的亚单位疫苗提供有利参考.     

拮抗菌对病原性溶藻弧菌(Vibrio alginolyticus)粘附大黄鱼(Pseudosciaena crocea)表皮粘液的影响

采用3H-TdR同位素示踪法研究了病原性溶藻弧菌和9株拮抗菌对大黄鱼表皮粘液的粘附动力学。结果表明,10株细菌的粘附作用都符合饱和粘附动力学特征;R4、R13和R32等3株拮抗菌的最大粘附量高于溶藻弧菌;9株拮抗菌的分离常数都高于溶藻弧菌;R32的亲和指数大于溶藻弧菌,其余8株拮抗菌的亲和指数都小于溶藻弧菌。测定了9株拮抗菌对病原性溶藻弧菌粘附大黄鱼表皮粘液的竞争、排斥和置换作用,结果显示:9株拮抗菌在竞争条件下都能极显著减少溶藻弧菌对表皮粘液粘附(P<0.01);在粘附排斥方面,R4、R13、J26、J28、J312、Y59等6株拮抗菌能显著排斥病原性溶藻弧菌对大黄鱼表皮粘液的粘附作用(P<0.05);在粘附置换方面,J26、J28等2株拮抗菌能极显著(P<0.01)降低病原性溶藻弧菌对大黄鱼表皮粘液的粘附量。研究结果表明,病原性溶藻弧菌对大黄鱼表皮粘液有较强的粘附作用;9株拮抗菌能够抑制溶藻弧菌对大黄鱼表皮粘液的粘附作用,其中竞争作用效果最好,排斥作用次之,置换作用的效果最差;拮抗菌对病原菌粘附的抑制效果受多种因素的影响,各菌株的粘附动力学参数有重要的影响作用。     

分子鉴定方法研究大亚湾水体弧菌种类变化

借助分子鉴定方法监测大亚湾水体中弧菌Vibrio种类季节性动态的变化规律.通过增菌培养、菌株分离,在224份海水中共分离出弧菌368株,并用分子生物学辅助生化鉴定方法鉴定弧菌菌株.结果表明,在大亚湾海域水体中鉴定的弧菌种类有溶藻弧菌Vibrio alginolyticus、副溶血弧菌V.parahaemolyticus、哈氏弧菌V.harveyi和创伤弧菌V.vuinificus,没有检测到霍乱弧菌V.cholerae、拟态弧菌V.mimicus、河流弧菌V.fluvialis和霍利斯弧菌V.hollisae.溶藻弧菌和副溶血弧菌为优势菌群,分别占弧菌总数的27.99%和21.74%.     

东山九孔鲍细菌性疾病研究

本文分离纯化了1999年春东山县患病九孔鲍的2株主要病原菌，进行了回归感染、药敏试验、病变组织的超薄切片观察。结果表明此次暴发性流行鲍病的致病菌主要是溶藻弧菌和副溶血弧菌。在所进行的48种药物的药敏试验中，2株菌仅对氯霉素和复方新诺明等8种药物共同敏感，药物联合抗菌试验还表明复方新诺明与磺胺甲基异恶唑等有协同作用，氯霉素与复方新诺明等有加成作用。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.