小鼠黑色素瘤功能异常CD8~+T细胞基因调控网络构建与分析

疾病是全球范围内危害畜禽健康的主要问题,解析免疫系统调控相关基因成为当前抗病分子育种的研究热点。为研究小鼠黑色素瘤模型功能异常CD8~+T细胞对免疫抗体处理的应答机制,通过基因调控网络方法筛选功能异常CD8~+T细胞在Ig G和PD1抗体处理的特定基因、转录因子和细胞表面受体。结果发现对照组、PD1抗体与Ig G抗体处理组分别有28、17、33个特定表达基因。与对照组相比,Ig G和PD1处理组有2个转录因子Zfx、Zfhx3关闭表达,PD1处理组细胞表面受体Raet1b表达。Raet1b基因的表达可能使小鼠黑色素瘤功能异常CD8~+T细胞恢复功能,结果为抗病育种的相关基因研究提供理论基础。     

牧区草地承包经营权流转及其对牧民生计的影响——以内蒙古草原牧区为例

牧区草地承包经营权流转,是伴随草原新三牧政策(休牧、禁牧、划区轮牧)实施、畜牧业增长方式转型、牧区产业结构调整、牧区剩余劳动力转移等过程集中出现,又事关牧区民生与构建和谐新牧区的一个崭新的重要研究命题。本研究阐明内蒙古牧区草地承包经营权流转现状与特征,指出伴随草地流转出现租赁期短、草畜平衡对草地流转限制等问题以及牧区草地流转动因与东中部土地流转不同、草地类型流转程度不同的特征。畜产品是牧民主要收入来源,草地流转价格低影响牧民增收、加大牧区剩余劳动力转移风险。在牧区调研的基础上,提出建立与完善草地承包经营权流转机制的政策建议。     

小粒野生稻酵母双杂交cDNA文库的构建

采用酵母双杂交系统,利用SMART技术,在酵母菌株AH109中构建了小粒野生稻全长cDNA文库,文库容量约为1×106,插入片段平均大小约为640bp。该文库可以用于进一步的酵母双杂交筛选。     

盐胁迫对乌拉尔甘草种子萌发的影响研究

研究了NaCl和Na2SO4不同浓度下两种中性盐胁迫对乌拉尔甘草种子萌发的效应。结果表明:280mmol/L浓度的NaCl和Na2SO4处理时,发芽率高于60%,高浓度的Na2SO4抑制种子发芽强于NaCl;不同浓度Na2SO4处理的发芽高峰期出现比对照早3～5d,比NaCl处理的早2～6d;Na2SO4处理种子的发芽势小于相同浓度的NaCl;溶液浓度大于200mmol/L时,种子发芽指数小于对照,NaCl溶液各梯度处理下的发芽指数均高于相应浓度的Na2SO4。发芽率、发芽势和发芽指数与NaCl和Na2SO4浓度之间呈极显著的负相关,发芽高峰期的出现与NaCl浓度之间呈正相关,与Na2SO4浓度之间呈负相关。     

冀西北坝上地区大蒜播种期研究

为了探讨冀西北坝上地区大蒜适宜的播种期,给当地大蒜高效生产提供理论依据,试验以大蒜品种西八里为试验材料,设置A(3月22日)、B(4月1日)、C(4月11日)3个不同播期,测定了不同播期下大蒜的生育期、植株性状、蒜头性状、蒜薹和蒜头产量等指标。结果表明,播期B和C较播期A的出苗时间分别缩短7 d和11 d;播期B的植株性状、蒜头性状均优于播期A和C,播期B一级蒜的比例最高,较播期A、C分别高出11.0和27.6个百分点;播期B较播期A和C的蒜薹产量分别提高8.41%和40.82%,蒜头产量分别提高10.19%和16.08%。本试验条件下,坝上地区大蒜适宜的播种期为3月底至清明节之间。     

Daily and alternate-day supplementation of urea or biuret to ruminants consuming low-quality forage: III. Effects on ruminal fermentation characteristics in steers

Five ruminally and duodenally cannulated steers (491 +/- 21 kg BW) were used in an incomplete 5 x 4 Latin square with four 24-d periods to determine the influence of supplemental nonprotein N (NPN) source and supplementation frequency (SF) on the dynamics of ruminal fermentation in steers consuming low-quality grass straw (4% CP). Treatments (TRT) included an unsupplemented control (CON) and a urea or biuret supplement that were placed directly into the rumen at 0700 daily (D) or every other day (2D). The NPN treatments were formulated to provide 90% of the estimated degradable intake protein requirement; therefore, the urea and biuret treatments received the same amount of supplemental N over a 2-d period. Daily TRT were supplemented with CP at 0.04% of BW/d, whereas the 2D TRT were supplemented at 0.08% of BW every other day. Forage was provided at 120% of the previous 5-d average intake in two equal portions at 0715 and 1900. Ruminal fluid was collected 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24 h after supplementation on a day of and a day before supplementation for all TRT. Ruminal NH3-N increased (P < 0.04) with CP supplementation on the day all supplements were provided and on the day on which only daily supplements were provided compared with the CON. However, an NPN source x SF interaction (P = 0.03) on the day all supplements were provided indicated that NH3-N increased at a greater rate for urea as SF decreased compared with biuret. Ruminal NH3-N on the day only daily supplements were provided was greater (P = 0.02) for D compared with 2D. On the day all supplements were provided, D increased (P = 0.05) ruminal indigestible acid detergent fiber passage rate and ruminal fluid volume compared with 2D. These results suggest that urea or biuret can be used effectively as a supplemental N source by steers consuming low-quality forage without adversely affecting ruminal fermentation, even when provided every other day.     

Plasma Antimullerian Hormone as a Predictor of Ovarian Antral Follicular Population in Bos indicus (Nelore) and Bos taurus (Holstein) Heifers

In Bos taurus cattle, antimullerian hormone (AMH) has been demonstrated to have a high degree of correlation with ovarian antral follicle count and the number of healthy follicles and oocytes. To document the correlation between the plasma concentration of AMH and follicular number in Bos indicus and Bos taurus heifers, Nelore (Bos indicus, n = 16) and Holstein heifers (Bos taurus, n = 16) had their ovarian follicular waves synchronized. After synchronization, ovarian antral follicular population (AFP) was evaluated three times at 60‐day (d) intervals (T‐120 d, 120 days before plasma AMH determination; T‐60 d, 60 days before; and T0, at the time of plasma AMH determination). The plasma AMH concentration was positively correlated with the number of ovarian follicles on the day of the follicular wave emergence in Bos indicus (Nelore) and Bos taurus (Holstein) heifers at each evaluation time (p < 0.05). The AFP was higher in Bos indicus (Nelore) than in Bos taurus (Holstein) heifers (p < 0.05). Similarly, the AMH concentration was higher in Bos indicus (Nelore) than in Bos taurus (Holstein) heifers (p < 0.0001). When heifers were classified as to present high or low AFP according to the mean of the AFP within each genetic group, high‐AFP heifers presented a greater (p < 0.0001) AMH concentration than low‐AFP heifers, regardless of the genetic group. In conclusion, the AFP is positively correlated with plasma AMH concentration in both Bos indicus (Nelore) and Bos taurus (Holstein) heifers. Furthermore, Bos indicus (Nelore) heifers presented both greater plasma AMH concentrations and AFP than Bos taurus (Holstein) heifers.     

Scanning Single-Electron Transistor Microscopy: Imaging Individual Charges

A single-electron transistor scanning electrometer (SETSE)-a scanned probe microscope capable of mapping static electric fields and charges with 100-nanometer spatial resolution and a charge sensitivity of a small fraction of an electron-has been developed. The active sensing element of the SETSE, a single-electron transistor fabricated at the end of a sharp glass tip, is scanned in close proximity across the sample surface. Images of the surface electric fields of a GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs heterostructure sample show individual photo-ionized charge sites and fluctuations in the dopant and surface-charge distribution on a length scale of 100 nanometers. The SETSE has been used to image and measure depleted regions, local capacitance, band bending, and contact potentials at submicrometer length scales on the surface of this semiconductor sample.