Adverse impact of industrial animal agriculture on the health and welfare of farmed animals

Industrial animal agriculture is grounded in the concept of maximizing productivity and profit. Selective breeding for maximum productivity in one characteristic of the animal (e.g. milk yield in cows, or breast meat in broiler chickens) has resulted in genotypes and phenotypes that may predispose the animals to poor health and welfare. The conditions in which these individuals are kept may also frustrate many inherited behaviors that they are strongly motivated to perform. In order to curb the resulting harmful aberrant behaviors, such as feather‐pecking in chickens, we sometimes resort to mutilating the animals. In many places chickens are routinely de‐beaked by means of a hot metal guillotine. Compassion in World Farming (an international organization that promotes the humane treatment of farm animals) believes that it is unethical to treat sentient beings in such ways. We have a duty to respect farm animals' sentience by providing them with housing conditions that take their needs and wants into account, and by reverting to the use of dual‐purpose, slower‐growing breeds that have the potential for good welfare. Alternatives to current farming practices are available, and we owe it to the animals, and to our consciences, to pursue them.     

人工饲养条件下荒漠猫的饲养与繁殖管理

在人工饲养条件下,通过模拟野外栖息环境,加强科学饲养管理,成功繁殖荒漠猫的饲养管理方法和荒漠猫的发情、交配、妊娠、哺乳等繁殖行为。同时对在西宁动物园产下并成活的3只幼猫的体尺、体重、形态和行为的变化进行了描述。     

浅谈我国的马鹿饲养业及发展目标

综述了我国北方 14省市自治区形成我国马鹿饲养业的人工选育品种及地方品种等 10种马鹿的数量分布、饲养方式、经营体制、繁育体系、饲养模式及其数量规模 ;典型的 6种马鹿的突出优良性状及品质评定 ;饲养马鹿产品的国内外市场及发展趋势 ;并从 6个方面阐述了中国马鹿饲养业的发展目标。     

福建省林木良种繁育概况及今后工作设想

本文介绍了福建省林木种质资源的收集保存、研究利用，优良家系选育，树种内种源研究，高世代种子园研究，乡土树种栽培驯化，外来树种引种，提高种子园种子产量所采取的措施，无性繁殖技术等林木良种繁育概况；并就林木育种工作存在的问题及今后工作设想提出建设性意见。     

西藏阿里地区家畜良种繁育体系建设

在西藏阿里地区畜牧业生产考察的基础上，对家畜繁育现状及存在问题进行了分析。根据繁育体系建设原则及切实可行的技术路线，提出了西藏阿里地区繁育体系建设的目标及内容，并对繁育体系的建设进行了经济效益、生态效益及社会效益分析。针对繁育体系的建设，提出了切实有效的建议。     

Relating Kirtland's warbler population to changing landscape composition and structure

The population of male Kirtland's warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii) in the breeding season has averaged 206 from 1971 to 1987. The Kirtland's warbler occupies dense jack pine (Pinus banksiana) barrens from 5 to 23 years old and from 1.4 to 5.0 m high, formerly of wildfire origin. In 1984, 73% of the males censused were found in habitat naturally regenerated from wildfire or prescribed burning. The rest were in plantations (11%) or in harvested, unburned jack pine stands stocked by natural regeneration (16%). Twenty-two percent (630 of 2,886) of the Kirtland's warbler males counted in the annual censuses from 1971 through 1984 were found in 26 stands that were unburned and naturally regenerated following harvest. From 1982 to 1987, suitable regenerating areas were barely sufficient to replace currently occupied maturing stands, so population growth was impeded. Ecosystems of suitable size and regeneration characteristics (wildfire and plantation) doubled in area by 1989. In response, the population of Kirtland's warblers increased from 167 to 398 males between 1987 and 1992, but they withdrew almost entirely from the unburned, unplanted barrens by 1989 when the area of more suitable regeneration types increased. Minimum (368 males) and maximum (542 males) population estimates for 1996 were calculated based on 1984 average density (1.9 males per 40 ha) and peak population in burns (2.8 males per 40 ha).     

分子间的作用及其结构适应性

某些分子间的作用无法的用范德华力、氢键、介电常数、偶极矩等化学基本理论来加以解释，引入控制论的方法对这些分析间的作用进行研究后的结果表明，选择性分析间引力很可能是分子是最强的物理作用，而分子间的化学作用亦与分子间的结构适应性密切相关。     

分子标记用于赤眼蜂分子监测的研究

通过对松毛虫赤眼蜂（Trichogramma dedrolimi Matsumura）以及玉米螟赤眼蜂（Trichogramma ostriniae Pang et Chen）rDNA-ITS2基因的克隆测序，并联机检索GenBank核酸序列库中其它赤眼蜂的相关序列，利用核酸分析软件找到松毛虫赤眼蜂和玉米螟赤眼蜂ITS2序列中一段有鉴别意义的标志，并据此设计出蜂种的特异PCR引物，实现了松毛虫赤眼蜂和玉米螟赤眼蜂rDNA特异区带的PCR扩增。研究表明该特异区带具有种的特异性。我们认为该分子标记技术可用于目前我国生防中常用的松毛虫赤眼蜂和玉米螟蒌眼蜂的分子监测，如田间种群动态监控和寄生效果评估。     

用RAPD技术筛选中国荷斯坦牛产奶量性状遗传标记

选用320条10碱基随机引物在由36头高产（305d产奶量〉8500kg）和32头低产（305d产奶量〈5600kg）中国荷斯坦牛所组成的2个DNA池间进行RAPD-PCR扩增，从中筛选出稳定性好、带型清晰且在2个DNA池间有明显差异的RAPD引物24条。用筛选到的24条引物对所有个体进行PCR检测，得到了5个与奶牛产奶量性状相关的RAPD标记，并对其中4个进行了克隆测序和SCAR标记转化以及生物信息学分析。结果表明：SCAR标记yield—s139与产奶量密切相关，应用电子克隆方法已将该标记由921bp延伸到2141bp，经同源性比较发现，此标记对应于奶牛基因组中LINEs家族中的一个重复元件，推测该元件附近可能存在与产奶量性状相关的QTLs或主效基因。     

中国西门塔尔牛第6号染色体上部分微卫星的特征

利用微卫星技术对牛第6号染色体上9个微卫星位点进行了研究,检测其在中国西门塔尔牛育种核心群中152头母牛的多态性。本试验9个位点中,BM4528为单态,BM4203属于中度多态位点(0.5>PIC>0.25),而其它的7个位点均是高度多态位点(PIC>0.5)。