Pigmentation of gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata (L. 1875), using Chlorella vulgaris (Chlorophyta, Volvocales) microalga

A feeding experiment was conducted over 9 weeks with seven groups of 30 (fish per group) unpigmented gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata (L. 1875) (initial mean weight = 145.2 ± 12.3 g). Three experimental diets were prepared by adding to a basal diet free of carotenoid (final pigment content of around 40 mg per kg feed): (i) a biomass of the carotenogenic Chlorella vulgaris (Chlorophyta, Volvocales); (ii) a synthetic astaxanthin; and (iii) a mixture (1:1) of microalgal biomass and synthetic astaxanthin. At 3‐week intervals, five fish were sampled from each tank for total carotenoids analysis in skin and muscle. The carotenoid pigments (total amount = 0.4%) identified in the carotenogenic alga were lutein (0.3%), β‐carotene (1.2%), canthaxanthin (36.2%), astaxanthin, free and esterified forms (55.0%), and other pigments (7.3%). Carotenoid pigments were significantly deposited in the four skin zones studied during the feeding trial: the forefront between the eyes, the opercule, along the dorsal fin and in the abdominal area. In the muscle, regardless of the astaxanthin source, the amount of carotenoids measured was very low (less than 1 mg kg^?1) and differences not significant. Moreover, no muscle pigmentation was evident, and there was no variation in the amount of carotenoid analysed in skin tissue, through the trial, for each treatment. It was concluded that supplementing the feed with C. vulgaris would be an acceptable practice in aquaculture to improve the market appeal of the gilthead seabream.     

沈阳地区淡水蓝藻门、硅藻门和绿藻门藻类调查报告

报道了在沈阳地区采集到的淡水蓝藻门，硅藻门和绿藻门的藻类，总计3六，5纲，13目，22科，68属，共140种。     

Fatty acid composition of twelve algae from the coastal zones of Qatar

Fatty acid compositions of twelve algal species from two different classes were determined. Three Chlorophyta species (Acetabularia calyculus, Cladophora sericoides and Dictyosphaeria cavernosa) and nine Phaeophyta species (Colpomenia sinuosa, Cystoseria trinodis, Dictyota cervicornis, Hormophysa triquetra, Padina gymnospora, Sargassum binderi, S. boveanum, S. denticulatum and S. heteromorpha) were investigated. Thirty-four fatty acids were identified. Myristic, palmitic, oleic, linoleic, eicosodienic and lignoceric acids were predominant in all examined algal species. Branched saturated fatty acids were also found in all investigated species except Cladophora serricoides.     

Thermal stress responses of a sterile mutant of Ulva pertusa (Chlorophyta)

SUMMARY: The thermal stress responses of a sterile mutant of the marine alga Ulva pertusa were investigated at 20°C and 30°C. The amounts of the photosynthetic pigments, β-carotene, chlorophylls a and b , lutein, neoxanthin, and violaxanthin, were 1.4–2.4 times higher in the 30°C-cultivated alga than in the 20°C-cultivated alga. The free amino acids, asparagine, aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid, glycine, and serine, were abundant in the 20°C-cultivated alga, and increased 1.9–10.5-fold in response to thermal stress (30°C). Total carbon and nitrogen contents also increased in the 30°C-cultivated alga. Sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic patterns of total proteins extracted from both temperature-treated algae showed the increases of 20, 25, and 90 kDa proteins in the 30°C-cultivated alga. Isozyme assays for 20 enzymes showed a different banding pattern only in the case of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH). Although it was observed that both temperature-treated algae possessed NAD⁺- and NADP⁺-specific GDH, the 30°C-cultivated alga had an additional NADP⁺-specific GDH (NADP-GDH). These results suggest that NADP-GDH compensates for the thermally induced decreases in nitrogen assimilation efficiency and thereby regulates nitrogen metabolism under conditions of temperature stress.     

氮磷比率对两种蓝藻和两种绿藻生长的影响

基于千岛湖2009-2010年春夏硅藻不占优势,蓝藻和绿藻发生相互演替的现象,选取千岛湖两种优势蓝藻和两种优势绿藻进行室内生态实验来比较氮磷比对于蓝藻和绿藻生长的影响,得到的主要结果如下:室内条件下,以BG-11培养基为基础设置了5组氮磷比(原子比:N/P=76.77、N/P=307.06、N/P=153.53、N/P=15.35、N/P=3.84)的培养液,研究氮磷比变化对两种蓝藻(水华微囊藻Microcystis flos-aquae和蓝纤维藻Dactylococcopsis sp.)和两种绿藻(小球藻Chlorella sp.和四尾栅藻Scenedesmus quadricauda)的影响,利用logistic生长方程描述四种藻生长曲线且拟合度均较高,水华微囊藻和四尾栅藻随着氮磷比的降低,最大生物量K值和内禀增长率r值均升高,蓝纤维藻则在接近于Redfield比值的培养基中r值最高,小球藻在接近于或低于Redfield比值的培养基中出现暴发性增殖。水华微囊藻在高氮磷比组(N/P=307.06和N/P=153.53)实验结束时藻体累积的总氮含量显著低于其他组(P0.05),四尾栅藻低氮磷比组(N/P=3.84)单细胞氮含量也显著低于其他各组(P0.05),四种藻类藻体中总磷的变化则是随着氮磷比的降低而显著升高(P0.05)。     

Isolation and characterization of the rbcS genes from a sterile mutant of Ulva pertusa (Ulvales,Chlorophyta) and transient gene expression using the rbcS gene promoter

We isolated two different genomic DNAs (UprbcS1 and UprbcS2) encoding the small subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase and portions of the 5′- and 3′-flanking regions from sterile Ulva pertusa Kjellman. The UprbcS1 and UprbcS2 genes had three introns in the coding region. Each predicted UprbcS polypeptide was a 180-amino-acid (AA) residue including a 38-AA transit peptide, although the 104th AA residue was replaced. The nucleotide sequences of UprbcS cDNAs isolated from a cDNA library corresponded to that of the UprbcS1 gene, suggesting that the UprbcS1 gene was predominantly expressed in sterile U. pertusa compared to UprbcS2. Southern blot analysis showed that each UprbcS gene was a single-copy gene in the sterile U. pertusa genome. Northern hybridization indicated that the expression of UprbcS was induced and repressed by dark and light treatments, respectively. When sterile U. pertusa cells were transformed with an expression vector containing the UprbcS1 promoter and terminator sequences fused with the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene, GFP fluorescence was observed in the cells transformed. These results suggest that the UprbcS1 gene promoter is light regulated and highly active in the sterile U. pertusa cells and is available for genetic transformation system in the alga.     

孔石莼的同形世代交替

通过实验室培养和显微观察,描述了孔石莼同形世代交替各个阶段的发育情况。雌雄异体的配子体成熟后,放散两鞭毛的配子,雌雄配子接合成合子进而发育成孢子体,孢子体成熟后放散四鞭毛的游孢子,游孢子固着后,可直接发育成配子体。其同形世代交替是单倍体的配子体与二倍体的孢子体相互交替。