Sedimentary characteristics and genetic mechanism of the giant ancient pockmarks in the Qiongdongnan Basin,northern South China Sea

In the late Miocene, giant ancient pockmarks, which are fairly rare globally, developed in the Qiongdongnan Basin. In this paper, to determine the sedimentary characteristics and genetic mechanism of these giant ancient pockmarks in the Yinggehai Formation of the Qiongdongnan Basin, based on high-resolution 3D seismic data and multiattribute fusion technologies, we analyzed the planar distribution and seismic facies of the ancient pockmarks and compared the characteristics of the ancient pockmar...     

New interpretation on the provenance changes of the upper Pinghu–lower Huagang Formation within Xihu Depression,East China Sea Shelf Basin

Both Pinghu and Huagang formations are important hydrocarbon reservoirs of the Xihu Depression in the East China Sea Shelf Basin. Clarifying the source suppliers and restoring source-to-sink transport routes are of great significance to the future petroleum and gas undertakings. Previous researchers were largely confined by either limitation of geological records, highly dependence on a singular method or low-precision dating techniques. Our study integrated heavy mineral assemblages, geochemica...     

荧光淬灭剂TrueBlack Lipofuscin对珊瑚自体荧光的消除及其在免疫荧光标记中的应用

自体荧光是生物体内部组织成分在吸收光时自然发出的荧光,会影响人工标记荧光的有效识别,严重干扰对抗体标记的目的蛋白荧光的观察及数据分析,在珊瑚冰冻切片免疫荧光标记研究中尤为突显。为更有效地去除珊瑚组织切片中的自体荧光,本研究以共生模式种花伞软珊瑚（Xenia sp.）为研究对象,首次尝试在花伞软珊瑚冰冻切片免疫荧光染色中,使用一种在小鼠和人体组织切片中常用的TrueBlack Lipofuscin自体荧光淬灭剂,并与已有研究中的酒精梯度脱水法进行比较。结果表明,使用荧光淬灭剂TrueBlack Lipofuscin后,花伞软珊瑚组织切片中的自体荧光强度是传统的酒精梯度脱水法的52.4%,且在Cy5通道下效果最佳。同时,通过珊瑚免疫荧光标记实验表明使用TrueBlack Lipofuscin的实验组特异性荧光信号强度为对照组的205.3%,背景荧光和自体荧光基本去除。     

2017年春季季风间期南海中北部浮游植物生长与微型浮游动物摄食

Phytoplankton growth rates and mortality rates were experimentally examined at 21 stations during the 2017 spring intermonsoon(April to early May) in the northern and central South China Sea(SCS) using the dilution technique, with emphasis on a comparison between the northern and central SCS areas which had different environmental factors. There had been higher temperature but lower nutrients and chlorophyll a concentrations in the central SCS than those in the northern SCS. The mean rates of phytoplankton growth(μ_0) and microzooplankton grazing(m) were(0.88±0.33) d~(–1) and(0.55±0.22) d~(–1) in the central SCS, and both higher than those in the northern SCS with the values of μ_0((0.81±0.16) d~(–1)) and m((0.30±0.09) d~(–1)), respectively.Phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing rates were significantly coupled in both areas. The microzooplankton grazing impact(m/μ_0) on phytoplankton was also higher in the central SCS(0.63±0.12) than that in the northern SCS(0.37±0.06). The microzooplankton abundance was significantly correlated with temperature in the surface. Temperature might more effectively promote the microzooplankton grazing rate than phytoplankton growth rate, which might contribute to higher m and m/μ_0 in the central SCS. Compared with temperature, nutrients mainly affected the growth rate of phytoplankton. In the nutrient enrichment treatment,the phytoplankton growth rate(μn) was higher than μ_0 in the central SCS, suggesting phytoplankton growth in the central SCS was nutrient limited. The ratio of μ_0/μn was significantly correlated with nutrients concentrations in the both areas, indicating the limitation of nutrients was related to the concentrations of background nutrients in the study stations.     

中国卤虫早期胚胎发育相关基因的研究--mRNA差异显示技术的三种不同染色方法比较

利用mRNA差异显示技术研究中国孤雌生殖卤虫胚胎发育的相关基因，并对中国孤雌生殖卤虫差异显示中SYBR Green Ⅰ、硝酸银和溴化乙锭三种染色方法进行了比较。以三种单碱基锚定引物对发育0h，4h，8h，12h，16h和10天的中国孤雌生殖卤虫的RNA进行逆转录和26种随机引物进行PCR反应，经非变性的6％聚丙稀酰胺凝胶电泳后，分别用SYBR Green Ⅰ、硝酸银和溴化乙锭染色，最后进行差异条带的回收和再扩增。结果表明：(1)6种样本的DD-PCR产物显示长200-3．0k不等的扩增片段，条带清晰，并呈现出有无和强弱的变化(2)SYBR Green Ⅰ和硝酸银染色的灵敏度比溴化乙锭染色的灵敏度高(3)经SYBR Green Ⅰ和溴化乙锭染色的凝胶的回收和再扩增效率比硝酸银染色的高(4)水煮法和NAP-25过柱法对凝胶片段的回收效果几乎相当。利用mRNA差异显示技术研究中国孤雌生殖卤虫胚胎发育相关基因时，得到了较好的扩增片段；三种染色方法中SYBR Green Ⅰ染色灵敏度较高，并且SYBR Green Ⅰ染色有利于凝胶片段的回收和再扩增。     

西沙群岛马尾藻科的研究Ⅰ

马尾藻类是重要的经济海藻。自古以来,我国劳动人民就以马尾藻作为药材和食品；近几年来,随着医药工业的发展,马尾藻类不仅越来越广泛地用在医药上,而且成为提取褐藻胶、甘露醇、碘和氯化钾的重要工业原料之一。因此,弄清这类海藻的种类、分布和资源情况是有效地开发、利用马尾藻类海藻的前提。西沙群岛地处我国海防前哨,海洋植物资源很丰富,马尾藻类种类也较多,为了更好地开发利用西沙群岛的海藻资源,使其为祖国的社会主义建设和工、农、兵服务,中国科学院海洋研究所曾于1957年,1958年,特别是无产阶级文化大革命后的1975年,1976年前后四次对西沙群岛的海藻进行了调査,收集了大量的标本。在此基础上,我们对西沙群岛的马尾藻科海藻进行了较为系统的研究，本文仅是这项研究任务的一部分,以后将陆续整理发表。     

植物硅酸体的研究及在我国第四纪地质学中的初步应用

本文简述了国外植物硅酸体(植物蛋白石)这门新兴学科的进展情况,介绍了植物硅酸体研究在我国第四纪地质学中如古气候与古环境、地层时代、考古等方面的初步应用。     

Laboratory tests of vortex-induced vibrations of a long flexible riser pipe subjected to uniform flow

Laboratory tests have been conducted on vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of a long flexible riser towed horizontally in a wave basin. The riser model has an external diameter of 16 mm and a total length of 28.0 m giving an aspect ratio of about 1750. Reynolds numbers ranged from about 3000 to 10,000. Fiber optic grating strain gages are adopted to measure the dynamic response in both cross-flow and in-line directions. The cross-flow vibrations were observed to vibrate at modes up to 6 and the in-line reached up to 12. The fundamental response frequencies can be predicted by a Strouhal number of about 0.18. Multi-mode responses and the asymmetry of the bare pipe response in uniform flow were observed and analyzed. The experimental results confirmed that the riser pipe vibrated multi-modally despite it being subject to a uniform current profile and all of the excited modes vibrated at the Strouhal frequency. The asymmetrical distribution of displacement mainly resulted from the modal composition. Higher harmonics of the VIV response such as the third, fourth and fifth harmonics frequencies were found to be steady over the entire duration of the test even if they varied along the length of the riser pipe.     

A new model for the vibration isolation via pile rows consisting of infinite number of piles

In this study, on the basis of the Floquet transform method, a numerical model for the simulation of the vibration isolation via multiple periodic pile rows with infinite number of piles is established. By means of the fictitious pile method due to Muki and Sternberg, the second kind of Fredholm integral equations for the pile rows are developed by using the fundamental solutions for the half‐space and the compatibility conditions between the piles and half‐space. Employing the Floquet transform method, integral equations for the pile rows in the wavenumber domain are then derived. Solution of the integral equations yields the wavenumber domain solution for the pile rows. The space domain solution can then be retrieved by inversion of the Floquet transform. Numerical results show that the proposed model with the Floquet transform method is in a good agreement with those of the conventional direct superposition method. On the basis of the new model, influences of the spacing between neighboring piles, the Young's modulus of the piles, and the pile length on the vibration isolation effect of the pile rows are investigated. Numerical simulations conducted in this study show that compared with the direct superposition method, the efficiency of the proposed model for simulation of the vibration isolation via pile rows is very high. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Large Tetrapod Burrows from the Permian Naobaogou Formation of the Daqingshan Area,Nei Mongol,China

Two new tetrapod burrow casts from the Naobaogou Formation （Middle or Late Permian） of Nei Mongol,China are described.It marks the first pre-Cenozoic tetrapod burrow from China,and one of the earliest records of tetrapod burrows.Comparison to other Permian and Triassic burrows suggests that these burrows were created by tetrapod slightly smaller than Lystrosaurus.Deduced from the morphology and sizes of two burrows and known tetrapods of the Naobaogou Formation,the burrow should be the production of a therapsid,most likely a dicynodon.These burrows indicate a seasonal climate and this area was semiarid or arid during that time.