不同数量的精子人工授精对狐繁殖力的影响

<正> 在北欧、加拿大和苏联等国家和地区,人们对狐的人工授精越来越重视.自从引进挪威的狐人工授精技术以来,这项技术已为许多国家所采用.1986年,北欧四国大约有150,000只母狐用新鲜精液进行人工授精.为了提高新鲜精液人工授精的使用效果,就要减少每次人工授精使用的精子数量.以前的研究结果表明,每次人工授精使用的新鲜精液中,精子数量最少在100—150百万个之间,才能保证最佳的繁殖效果.     

Atomic and molecular manipulation with the scanning tunneling microscope

The prospect of manipulating matter on the atomic scale has fascinated scientists for decades. This fascination may be motivated by scientific and technological opportunities, or from a curiosity about the consequences of being able to place atoms in a particular location. Advances in scanning tunneling microscopy have made this prospect a reality; single atoms can be placed at selected positions and structures can be built to a particular design atom-by-atom. Atoms and molecules may be manipulated in a variety of ways by using the interactions present in the tunnel junction of a scanning tunneling microscope. Some of these recent developments and some of the possible uses of atomic and molecular manipulation as a tool for science are discussed.