Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research最新文献

{"title":"Cannot see you but can hear you: vocal identity recognition in microbats.","authors":"Xiong Guo,&nbsp;Bo Luo,&nbsp;Ying Liu,&nbsp;Ting-Lei Jiang,&nbsp;Jiang Feng","doi":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.257","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Identity recognition is one of the most critical social behaviours in a variety of animal species. Microchiropteran bats present a special use case of acoustic communication in the dark. These bats use echolocation pulses for navigating, foraging, and communicating; however, increasing evidence suggests that echolocation pulses also serve as a means of social communication. Compared with echolocation signals, communication calls in bats have rather complex structures and differ substantially by social context. Bat acoustic signals vary broadly in spectrotemporal space among individuals, sexes, colonies and species. This type of information can be gathered from families of vocalizations based on voice characteristics. In this review we summarize the current studies regarding vocal identity recognition in microbats. We also provide recommendations and directions for further work. </p>","PeriodicalId":88862,"journal":{"name":"Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research","volume":"36 5","pages":"257-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4771957/pdf/ZoolRes-36-5-257.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34142087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A new species of Triplophysa Rendahl (Cypriniformes, Nemacheilidae) from Sichuan Province, China.","authors":"Si-Li Yan,&nbsp;Zhi-Yu Sun,&nbsp;Yan-Shu Guo","doi":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.299","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Triplophysa yajiangensis sp. nov. is described from the upper and middle reaches of the Yalong River, Yangtze Basin, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. This new species can be distinguished from other congeneric species by the following characters: body surface smooth and scaleless; lateral line complete; caudal peduncle compressed and tapered slightly; lower jaw shovel-shaped; head shorter than caudal peduncle; dorsal-fin origin anterior to pelvic-fin origin and closer to tip of snout than to caudal-fin base, last unbranched ray hard; pelvic-fin reaches or exceeds anus; posterior chamber of gas bladder absent; intestine spiral type with 3-5 winding coils. </p>","PeriodicalId":88862,"journal":{"name":"Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research","volume":"36 5","pages":"299-304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4771960/pdf/ZoolRes-36-5-299.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34075295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Longitudinal analysis reveals characteristically high proportions of bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria and temporal variability of vaginal microbiota in northern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca leonina).","authors":"Lin Zhu,&nbsp;Ai-Hua Lei,&nbsp;Hong-Yi Zheng,&nbsp;Long-Bao Lyu,&nbsp;Zhi-Gang Zhang,&nbsp;Yong-Tang Zheng","doi":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The complex and dynamic vaginal microbial ecosystem is critical to both health and disease of the host. Studies focusing on how vaginal microbiota influences HIV-1 infection may face limitations in selecting proper animal models. Given that northern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca leonina) are susceptible to HIV-1 infection, they may be an optimal animal model for elucidating the mechanisms by which vaginal microbiota contributes to resistance and susceptibility to HIV-1 infection. However, little is known about the composition and temporal variability of vaginal microbiota of the northern pig-tailed macaque. Here, we present a comprehensive catalog of the composition and temporal dynamics of vaginal microbiota of two healthy northern pig-tailed macaques over 19 weeks using 454-pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes. We found remarkably high proportions of a diverse array of anaerobic bacteria associated with bacterial vaginosis. Atopobium and Sneathia were dominant genera, and interestingly, we demonstrated the presence of Lactobacillus-dominated vaginal microbiota. Moreover, longitudinal analysis demonstrated that the temporal dynamics of the vaginal microbiota were considerably individualized. Finally, network analysis revealed that vaginal pH may influence the temporal dynamics of the vaginal microbiota, suggesting that inter-subject variability of vaginal bacterial communities could be mirrored in inter-subject variation in correlation profiles of species with each other and with vaginal pH over time. Our results suggest that the northern pig-tailed macaque could be an ideal animal model for prospective investigation of the mechanisms by which vaginal microbiota influence susceptibility and resistance to HIV-1 infection in the context of highly polymicrobial and Lactobacillus-dominated states. </p>","PeriodicalId":88862,"journal":{"name":"Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research","volume":"36 5","pages":"285-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4771959/pdf/ZoolRes-36-5-285.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34075294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Catalog of insect type specimens preserved at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science with corrections of some specimens.","authors":"Kai-Qin Li,&nbsp;Yun-Zhen Wang,&nbsp;Da-Zhi Dong,&nbsp;Li-Kun Zhang","doi":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.263","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents a list of insect types preserved in Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology (KNHMZ). As of March, 2015, 3 412 type specimens belonging to 266 species/subspecies of 37 families in 9 orders (Odonata, Isoptera, Mantodea, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera) are included. Information corrections of some specimens are provided in this article. </p>","PeriodicalId":88862,"journal":{"name":"Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research","volume":"36 5","pages":"263-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.263","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34075293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How to write an appealing scientific story.","authors":"Su-Qing Liu","doi":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.255","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88862,"journal":{"name":"Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research","volume":"36 5","pages":"255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4771956/pdf/ZoolRes-36-5-255.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34142086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Population genetic studies in the genomic sequencing era.","authors":"Hua Chen","doi":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.223","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies have revolutionized the field of population genetics. Data now routinely contain genomic level polymorphism information, and the low cost of DNA sequencing enables researchers to investigate tens of thousands of subjects at a time. This provides an unprecedented opportunity to address fundamental evolutionary questions, while posing challenges on traditional population genetic theories and methods. This review provides an overview of the recent methodological developments in the field of population genetics, specifically methods used to infer ancient population history and investigate natural selection using large-sample, large-scale genetic data. Several open questions are also discussed at the end of the review. </p>","PeriodicalId":88862,"journal":{"name":"Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research","volume":"36 4","pages":"223-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4790258/pdf/ZoolRes-36-4-223.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33950431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The internationalization voyage of Zoological Research.","authors":"Su-Qing Liu","doi":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88862,"journal":{"name":"Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research","volume":"36 4","pages":"181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4790256/pdf/ZoolRes-36-4-181.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33950430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why do we study animal toxins?","authors":"Yun Zhang","doi":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.183","DOIUrl":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.183","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Venom (toxins) is an important trait evolved along the evolutionary tree of animals. Our knowledges on venoms, such as their origins and loss, the biological relevance and the coevolutionary patterns with other organisms are greatly helpful in understanding many fundamental biological questions, i.e., the environmental adaptation and survival competition, the evolution shaped development and balance of venoms, and the sophisticated correlations among venom, immunity, body power, intelligence, their genetic basis, inherent association, as well as the cost-benefit and trade-offs of biological economy. Lethal animal envenomation can be found worldwide. However, from foe to friend, toxin studies have led lots of important discoveries and exciting avenues in deciphering and fighting human diseases, including the works awarded the Nobel Prize and lots of key clinic therapeutics. According to our survey, so far, only less than 0.1% of the toxins of the venomous animals in China have been explored. We emphasize on the similarities shared by venom and immune systems, as well as the studies of toxin knowledge-based physiological toxin-like proteins/peptides (TLPs). We propose the natural pairing hypothesis. Evolution links toxins with humans. Our mission is to find out the right natural pairings and interactions of our body elements with toxins, and with endogenous toxin-like molecules. Although, in nature, toxins may endanger human lives, but from a philosophical point of view, knowing them well is an effective way to better understand ourselves. So, this is why we study toxins. </p>","PeriodicalId":88862,"journal":{"name":"Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research","volume":"36 4","pages":"183-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4790257/pdf/ZoolRes-36-4-183.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33950434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Extraction and identification of membrane proteins from black widow spider eggs.","authors":"Si-Ling Fu,&nbsp;Jiang-Lin Li,&nbsp;Jia Chen,&nbsp;Qiu-Ting Wang,&nbsp;Jian-Jun Li,&nbsp;Xian-Chun Wang","doi":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.248","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The eggs of oviparous animals are storehouses of maternal proteins required for embryonic development. Identification and molecular characterization of such proteins will provide much insight into the regulation of embryonic development. We previously analyzed soluble proteins in the eggs of the black widow spider (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus), and report here on the extraction and mass spectrometric identification of the egg membrane proteins. Comparison of different lysis solutions indicated that the highest extraction of the membrane proteins was achieved with 3%-4% sodium laurate in 40 mmol/L Tris-HCl buffer containing 4% CHAPS and 2% DTT (pH 7.4). SDS-PAGE combined with nLC-MS/MS identified 39 proteins with membrane-localization annotation, including those with structural, catalytic, and regulatory activities. Nearly half of the identified membrane proteins were metabolic enzymes involved in various cellular processes, particularly energy metabolism and biosynthesis, suggesting that relevant metabolic processes were active during the embryonic development of the eggs. Several identified cell membrane proteins were involved in the special structure formation and function of the egg cell membranes. The present proteomic analysis of the egg membrane proteins provides new insight into the molecular mechanisms of spider embryonic development. </p>","PeriodicalId":88862,"journal":{"name":"Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research","volume":"36 4","pages":"248-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.248","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33950435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of frugivorous birds on seed retention time and germination in Xishuangbanna, southwest China.","authors":"Ting-Ting Shi,&nbsp;Bo Wang,&nbsp;Rui-Chang Quan","doi":"10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.4.241","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The dispersal of many plants depends on transportation by birds as seed dispersers. The birds play an important role in long distance seed dispersal and may also affect seed germination. However, for plants who have many bird dispersers, the influence of dominant and non-dominant dispersers on retention time (dispersal distance) and germination remains poorly understood. In this study, we performed experiments with captive frugivorous birds and fruiting plant species to study the effects of dominant and non-dominant dispersers on seed retention time (SRT) and germination (seed germination percentage and germination speed). Our study showed a great interspecific variation in the effects of frugivorous birds on both SRT and germination. Some birds enhance the germination of a given plant species, but others do not. Generally, the dominant visitors improved the seed germination and performed longer seed retention time. </p>","PeriodicalId":88862,"journal":{"name":"Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research","volume":"36 4","pages":"241-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4790260/pdf/ZoolRes-36-4-241.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33950433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}