大西洋牙鲆胚胎发育的形态观察

为了掌握大西洋牙鲆早期发育的规律,2005年2月在实验室利用显微镜和显微数码摄像显示系统观察测量拍摄大西洋牙鲆受精卵胚胎发育和初孵仔鱼的形态特征,描述并记录其发育过程和时间。大西洋牙鲆的卵为球形游离的浮性卵,卵径平均977μm,单油球,偶见2或3油球,油球径180μm。在水温19~20.8℃时孵化,大约受精后50 min胚盘形成,5 h30 min进入囊胚期,8 h后进入原肠胚期,21 h左右进入胚体器官分化期,40 h后尾部游离,心跳开始,胚体搐动,51~52 h孵出。实验表明,大西洋牙鲆受精卵的孵化进度与水温相关。孵化时间(Ht)与水温(t/℃)关系方程为Ht=3 154.8t-1.333 6(R2=0.925 4)。     

Interannual Variability of Antarctic Hydrographic Structure and Frontal Zones along Meridional Sections between Syowa Station and Southern Africa

Six years of quasi-meridional crossings of the Antarctic Ocean from Antarctica to southern Africa between 4°W and 16°E longitude are analyzed, with emphasis on temperature and salinity distributions. Data are sparse, but (particularly in the southern part of the sections) adequate to show significant variations in the latitude/depth distributions and T-S characteristics of the principal water masses. In particular, the cross-sectional area occupied by Warm Deep Water (Weddell Deep Water) dropped by about one third in 1968. Positions of major features associated with the Antarctic Divergence varied by up to 5 degrees of latitude. The surface temperature gradient often observed at the Antarctic Divergence appears to be the surface expression of a shallow (possibly seasonal) thermocline which sometimes slopes upward to intersect the sea surface. There is a clear need for more closely spaced and consistently planned data from Antarctic cruises, particularly those on which physical oceanography is an ancillary activity. As a bare minimum, much more closely spaced surface temperature (and if possible also salinity) measurements would be useful.     

Isolation of differentially expressed genes from contaminant exposed European flounder by suppressive, subtractive hybridisation

Commercially farmed European flounder (Platichthys flesus) were treated with benzo[a]pyrene or cadmium under controlled laboratory conditions. In addition, animals were collected from the polluted Tyne and relatively clean Alde estuaries in the UK. Potential differentially expressed genes were isolated from liver tissue by means of suppressive, subtractive hybridisation. A total of 284 different mRNAs were identified as having the potential for being differentially expressed, of which 84 could be tentatively identified by homology with database sequences. These clones will form part of a flounder cDNA array for validation and future applications, with full identification being pursued for those expressed sequence tags for which differential expression can be confirmed by array technology.     

Interannual variations of the occurrence of epipelagic fish in the diets of the seabirds breeding on Teuri Island, northern Hokkaido, Japan

The diets of breeding seabirds can be a good monitor of marine environmental changes. From 1984 to 2001 we monitored the diets of black-tailed gulls (Larus crassirostris) (“surface foragers”), rhinoceros auklets (Cerorhinca monocerata) (“epipelagic divers”), and Japanese cormorants (Phalacrocorax filamentotus) (“bottom divers”) that breed on Teuri Island at the northern boundary of the Tsushima Warm current in the Sea of Japan/East Sea. Between 1984 and 1987, both the gulls and the auklets foraged on the sardine (Sardinops melanostictus), but after 1992, they switched to the anchovy (Engraulis japonica). This change might reflect the collapse of the sardine stock in the late 1980s. In the 1990s, the year-to-year variations of the percentage of anchovy in the diets of the three seabird species showed similar trends: High in 1994 and 1998–2001; and low in 1992–1993 and 1995–1997. The estimated stock size of the anchovy population in the Tsushima Current area was positively correlated with the percentage of mass of anchovy in the seabirds’ diets. Thus, the short-term annual changes of the total anchovy availability, which might reflect SST or the volume transport of Tsushima Current, possibly affected the seabirds diets on this island.     

Feeding Strategy of Japanese Sand Lance Larvae in Relation to Ciliated Protozoa in the Vicinity of a Thermohaline Front

Larval feeding and survival strategies are described on a Japanese sand lance, Ammodytes personatus Girard, collected in the vicinity of a thermohaline front in the Ise Bay, in comparison with those of other predominant larvae, Hexagrammos spp. and Sebastiscus marmoratus (Cuvier). First-feeding A. personatus larvae (3.1–3.9 mm NL) fed primarily on tintinnid ciliates, subsequently switching to copepod nauplii (4.0–7.9 mm NL larvae) and post-naupliar copepods (8.0–11.3 mm NL larvae). First-feeding Hexagrammos spp. larvae (6.5–6.9 mm NL) fed primarily on post-naupliar copepods, and first-feeding S. marmoratus larvae (<4.0 mm NL), mostly on copepod nauplii. The different food preferences of these species at first-feeding were related to their different mouth widths (0.15–0.19, 0.52–0.56 and 0.32–0.40 mm, respectively) and/or body size (3.1–3.9, 6.5–6.9 and 3.2–3.9 mm NL, respectively). Ciliate-feeding by first-feeding A. personatus larvae was strongly related to the convergence of the larvae and their prey near the thermohaline front, densities of both being greater on the inshore side of the frontal zone. In conclusion, the aggregation of ciliates near the thermohaline front may have improved feeding conditions and survival of first-feeding A. personatus larvae.     

实验微粒饲料中廿碳五烯酸(EPA)与廿碳四烯酸(AA)的比例对牙鲆仔稚鱼生长、存活的影响

制备了4种n-3系列高度不饱和脂肪酸（n-3HUFA）含量相等,廿二碳六烯酸（DHA）含量相等,廿碳五烯酸（EPA）含量亦相等,廿碳五烯酸与廿碳四烯酸（AA）的比例分别为5／1,2／1,1／1和0．4／1的实验微粒饲料。探讨了EPA与AA的不同比例对牙鲆仔稚鱼生长、存活、体内相关成分以及对外部压力耐受性的影响。26d的养殖试验结果表明,当牙鲆仔稚鱼实验微粒饲料中EPA与AA的比例为2／1时,牙鲆仔稚鱼的生长、存活达到最佳。因此,在该试验条件下,牙鲆仔稚鱼实验微粒饲料中EPA与AA的最佳比例为2／1。养殖试验结束后,4组试验稚鱼体内脂肪酸的分析测定结果表明,稚鱼体内AA的含量,随着微粒饲料中AA含量的增高而增大。     

饲料中添加锌对牙鲆生长和生化指标的影响

含锌３７．５ｍｇ／ｋｇ的基础饲料中,分别加入锌０,１５,３０,５０,８０ｍｇ／ｋｇ,饲喂初重为３０．８５～３４．８５ｇ的牙鲆幼鱼１个月。结果表明,饲料中添加锌,鱼的增重率、肝脏锌含量、肠粘膜碱性磷酸酶活性都高于不添加组;且有随添加量加大而增加的趋势。当添加锌８０ｍｇ／ｋｇ时,此３项指标达到最大,分别为１１２．７％,４３．８ｍｇ／ｋｇ和１８．２８Ｕ／ｍｇ蛋白质。但添加锌没有影响鱼的成活率和肌肉锌含量。此结果说明,添加锌对牙鲆鱼苗具有促生长作用。建议在牙鲆的实用饲料中,锌添加量应大于８０ｍｇ／ｋｇ,锌的总含量应在１１９．２ｍｇ／ｋｇ以上。     

鲈鱼生长催乳素的分离纯化与N-末端序列分析

生长催乳素(SL)是生长激素/催乳素家族的一种新的脑垂体蛋白质激素,本研究首次从鲈鱼脑垂体中分离得到.鲈鱼脑垂体在碱性条件下,经葡聚糖凝胶(SephadexG-100)过滤和反相高效液相色谱(rpHPLC)分离出纯化的鲈鱼生长催乳素,(sbSL),并与大麻哈鱼生长催乳素(sSL)抗体发生特异性的Western免疫印迹交叉反应证实.SDS-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳(SDS-PAGE)分析,发现鲈鱼生长催乳素分别是由分子量为23.2×103和28.4×103u两种形式组成(后者可能是一种糖基化形式).根据Edman降解原理,测得鲈鱼生长催乳素的N-末端16个氨基酸的序列,它与已知鱼类生长催乳素的N-末端序列比较,具有较高的同源性;由此进一步证实,分离纯化得到的鲈鱼生长催乳素是正确的.