Seasonal growth in brown trout in two New Zealand streams

Brown trout Salmo trutta Linn, were marked with individual tags and recaptured throughout a year in two small Canterbury streams. The growth recorded showed a marked seasonal variation which differed in pattern in the two streams. There was a considerable difference in the growth rate between the two populations and fish transferred from the slow‐growth stream to the faster‐growth stream showed an immediate response to the change.     

Toward a mechanistic understanding of larval dispersal: insights from genomic fingerprinting of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila

Larval dispersal is critical for the maintenance of species populations in patchy and ephemeral hydrothermal vent habitats. On fast‐spreading ridges, such as the East Pacific Rise, rates of habitat turnover are comparable to estimated lifespans of many of the inhabiting species. Traditionally, dispersal questions have been addressed with two very different approaches, larval studies and population genetics. Population genetic studies of vent‐endemic species have been informative for determining whether patterns of dispersal are suggestive of stepping stone or island models and estimating rates of gene flow (effective migrants per generation) over broad geographic ranges. However, these studies leave fundamental questions unanswered about the specific mechanisms by which larvae disperse and species maintain their populations and biogeographic ranges. With the goal of examining genetic structure and elucidating alternative larval dispersal mechanisms, we employed a genomic DNA fingerprinting technique, amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs). To assess the potential utility of AFLPs, and genetic structure of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila, genomic ‘fingerprints’ were recovered from 29 individuals from five vent fields spanning a distance of up to c. 5000 km along the East Pacific Rise. In contrast to previous population genetic studies that found little to no genetic structure using allozymes and mitochondrial DNA, genetic analyses of 630 polymorphic AFLP loci identified distinct subclades within R. pachyptila populations. Significant levels of differentiation were observed among populations from all vent regions as well as within each region. Discrete assemblages of tubeworms separated by as little as c. 400 m within a given vent region were genetically distinguishable and cohorts (based on size‐frequency distribution) within an aggregation were found to be most closely related. These results suggest that mechanisms of larval dispersal act to retain cohort fidelity in R. pachyptila.     

转录组数据的大菱鲆(Scophthalmus maximus) SNP标记开发及多态性分析

大菱鲆(Scophthalmus maximus)是最具商业价值和养殖前途的海水鱼类之一, 雌雄间生长有一定的差异。其高通量雌雄转录组测序的完成为大规模鉴定和开发SNP标记提供了参考序列。本研究基于大菱鲆雌雄转录组测序数据, 选择其中45个SNP位点, 设计引物63组, 其中21个位点(46.7%)应用小片段高分辨率熔解曲线(HRM)技术分型成功。对其进行多态性检测, 21个位点均具有二个单倍型。观测杂合度Ho的分布范围为0.256—1.000, 期望杂合度He的范围为0.276—0.518, 19个位点符合Hardy-Weinberg平衡。14个SNP位点位于基因编码区, 其中3个属于非同义突变。含有这些SNP位点的基因大多与信号转导和转录翻译相关。本研究结果表明, 高通量转录组测序和小片段HRM适合大规模SNP标记开发, 为大菱鲆的分子遗传育种提供了候选标记资源。     

缩骨鲫(Carassius auratus sogu var.)MC4R克隆、组织分布以及与生长相关SNPs的筛选

黑色素皮质素受体-4(Melanocortin reporter-4,MC4R)是G蛋白偶联受体超家族成员,在能量调控中发挥重要作用。本实验采用同源克隆以及染色体步移对缩骨鲫(Carassius auratus sogu var.)MC4R基因进行克隆,对其核苷酸序列和推测的氨基酸序列进行生物信息学分析,通过Real-time PCR对其m RNA组织分布进行研究,并对缩骨鲫MC4R编码区潜在的与生长相关的SNPs进行筛选。本实验克隆MC4R基因组基因长度为2854bp,只包含一个外显子,长度为981bp,共编码326个氨基酸,MC4R共有七个跨膜结构,是较为稳定的疏水蛋白。缩骨鲫MC4R与鲫鱼的MC4R氨基酸序列的同源度最高达到99.3%,与MC3R和MC5R同源度相对其他MCRs成员较高。缩骨鲫MC4R m RNA在脑中表达量最为显著,眼中次之,肌肉,卵巢和肾脏中表达较少,在鳃、肠、心脏和肝胰腺中微量表达。在MC4R的CDs区内检测到6个与生长潜在相关的SNPs:两个错义突变(A199G和A881C),4个同义突变(A123G,C231T,A444G和C480T)。本实验可为缩骨鲫生长和发育的分子机制研究以及遗传育种提供基础资料。     

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PUFFERFISH OF GENUS TAKIFUGU BY RAPD ANALYSIS

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不同地理种群大黄鱼染色体核型的比较研究

大黄鱼(Pseudosciaena crocea(Richardson)),隶属于鲈形目(Perciformes),石首鱼科(Scieani-dae),黄鱼属(Pseudosciaena),是我国重要的海水养殖种类.近年来,经过长期的人工繁育和人工养殖,大黄鱼的性状有了较大的变化.主要表现为个体小型化,性成熟提前,抗病力下降等.目前有关大黄鱼遗传背景的研究还十分缺乏,相关的研究仅见于国内学者对养殖、野生大黄鱼的染色体核型、同工酶酶谱、不同群体遗传多样性水平的研究[1~7],这些研究多是针对我国沿海3个大黄鱼地理种群之一的闽粤东族进行的.     

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PUFFERFISH OF GENUS TAKIFUGU BY RAPD ANALYSIS

AmpLifications with 300 10-base primers under predetermined optimal reaction yielded 2762 reproducible amplified fragments ranging from 200 to 3000 bp. Genetic distances among five species of Takifugu and Lagocephalus spadiceus as outgreup were calculated based on the presence/absence of the amplified fragments. Topological phylogenie trees of the 5 species of Takgfugu and the outgroup were gen-erated by Parsimony and Neighbor-Joining analysis based on RAPD data set. The genetic distance between T. rubripes and T. pseudommus was almost the same as that between individuals within each species, but was much smaller than that among T. rubripes, T. pseudommus and the other species. The molecu-lar data from RAPD analysis convincingly showed that T. rubripes and T. pseudommus should be the same species.