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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-1432
    Keywords: CpG suppression ; GC content ; Angiosperms ; Isochores ; GC bias ; Mutational pressure ; Error-prone repair ; Transcriptionally coupled repair
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Nuclear protein coding sequences from gymnosperms are currently scarce. We have determined 4 kb of nuclear protein coding sequences from gymnosperms and have collected and analyzed 〉60 kb of nuclear sequences from gymnosperms and nonspermatophytes in order to better understand processes influencing genome evolution in plants. We show that conifers possess both biased and nonbiased genes with respect to GC content, as found in monocots, suggesting that the common ancestor of conifers and monocots may have possessed both biased and nonbiased genes. The lack of biased genes in dicots is suggested to be a derived character for this lineage. We present a simple but speculative model of land-plant genome evolution which considers changes in GC bias and CpG frequency, respectively, as independent processes and which can account for several puzzling aspects of observed nucleotide frequencies in plant genes.
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    International journal of earth sciences 83 (1994), S. 249-256 
    ISSN: 1437-3262
    Keywords: Mediterranean microplates ; Pre-Alpidic rifting ; Inversion ; Low angle faulting ; Intracrustal shearing
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    Topics: Geosciences
    Notes: Abstract This progress report is based on investigations of the tectonometamorphic development of crystalline complexes and is restricted to a few key problems of the Hellenides: 1. ‘Hinterland’. Rhodopia is strongly affected by Alpidic metamorphism, granitoid intrusions, orogenic deformation and intracrustal delamination. Therefore, close relations between the Balkanides and Hellenides have to be considered. 2. External zones. The Phyllite-Quartzite Series probably originated in a Late Palaeozoic rift within Apulia. In Middle Triassic times rifting stopped and the area became the basement on an extended carbonate platform (Late Triassic-Liassic). From the Dogger to Palaeocene, parts of that platform subsided, forming the Ionian pelagic basin. The Eocene orogenesis within the central Hellenides then caused an inversion of the buried Phyllite-Quartzite rift zone, whereas from the Late Oligocene onwards the previous rift zone underwent continental (A-) subduction. Finally, uplift of the Phyllite-Quartzite Series and nappe emplacement started in Miocene times. 3. Late orogenic intracrustal shearing. Structural analyses of crystalline complexes of Attica have shown that neotectonic extension and the large vertical displacement of the Aegean region were caused by low angle faulting and large-scale shearing within the deeper crust, probably along former overthrust planes. These results reveal the mechanisms of intracratonic tectonics, remobilization of continental crust and intracrustal detachment throughout the evolution of the Hellenides.
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    Journal of biomedical science 1 (1994), S. 201-203 
    ISSN: 1423-0127
    Keywords: Hypertension ; Eicosanoid ; Rat ; Genetics ; Kidney
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The present paper reviews the evidence for a possible involvement of renal eicosanoids in the pathophysiology of high blood pressure in genetically hypertensive rats of the Lyon strain. Both in vivo and in vitro experiments suggest that an increased ability to synthesize the vasoconstrictor prostaglandin H2 and/or thromboxane A2 in renal vessels (1) acts as an autocrine amplifier of pressor agents and (2) may contribute to resetting the pressure natriuresis curve which is a prerequisite for the development and maintenance of hypertension.
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    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Loading ; Strain ; Modeling ; Rat ; Ulna
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Abstract Adaptive changes in bone modeling in response to noninvasive, cyclic axial loading of the rat ulna were compared with those using 4-point bending of the tibia. Twenty cycles daily of 4-point bending for 10 days were applied to rat tibiae through loading points 23 and 11 mm apart. Control bones received nonbending loads through loading points 11 mm apart. As woven bone was produced in both situations, any strain-related response was confounded by the response to direct periosteal pressure. Four-point bending is not, therefore, an ideal mode of loading for the investigation of strain-related adaptive modeling. The ulna's adaptive response to daily axial loading over 9 days was investigated in 30 rats. Groups 1–3 were loaded for 1200 cycles: Group 1 at 10 Hz and 20 N, Group 2 at 10 Hz and 15 N, and Group 3 at 20 Hz and 15 N. Groups 4 and 5 received 12,000 cycles of 20 N and 15 N at 10 Hz. Groups 1 and 4 showed a similar amount of new bone formation. Group 4 showed the same pattern of response but in reduced amount. The responses in Groups 2 and 3 were either small or absent. Strains were measured with single-element, miniature strain gauges bonded around the circumference of dissected bones. The 20 N loading induced peak strains of 3500–4500 μstrain. The width of the periosteal new bone response was proportional to the longitudinal strain at each point around the bone's circumference. It appears that when a bone is loaded in a normal strain distribution, an osteogenic response occurs when peak physiological strains are exceeded. In this situation the amount of new bone formed at each location is proportional to the local surface strain. Cycle numbers between 1200 and 12,000, and cycle frequencies between 10 and 20 Hz have no effect on the bone's adaptive response.
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    Calcified tissue international 55 (1994), S. 33-37 
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Osteoporosis ; Rat ; Orchidectomy ; Exercise ; Strength
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Abstract The effect of exercise on castration-induced osteoporosis in 3-month-old male rats weighing 264±4 g at the beginning of the experiment was studied. A testosterone deficiency was induced by orchidectomy (ORC), and the exercise group ran 10 m/minute for 1 hour a day on a treadmill at 0% grade. There were seven groups of eight rats (n=56) randomized into a control group killed at time 0, and sham, ORC and ORC and exercise groups killed at 4 and 8 weeks. ORC reduced body weight gain (with analysis of variance (ANOVA) P〈0.001), and at 4 weeks the body weight was 343±14 g in ORC group and 301±4 g in the ORC and exercise group (P〈0.01). The increase in femoral length was slower in the ORC+exercise groups. The ash weight of the tibia did not decrease significantly after ORC or ORC+ exercise. ORC did not affect 45Ca incorporation, but exercise slightly increased it in the whole tibia 8 weeks after ORC (with ANOVA P=0.057). ORC had significantly lowered the trabecular bone volume in the secondary spongiosa of the distal femur at 4 and 8 weeks, and exercise did not prevent this. This is an opposite finding to our previous study with ovariectomized female rats [12]. ORC also significantly had reduced the osteoblast-lined trabecular bone surface and the number of osteoclasts by 8 weeks after the operation. Exercise increased the osteoblast-lined surface and the number of osteoclasts. The mechanical strength of the femoral neck also was reduced after ORC and this was not prevented by exercise either. In conclusion, ORC reduces bone growth and turnover which leads to osteopenia in growing rats. Moderate treadmill exercise does not reverse the ORC-induced loss of trabecular bone and the reduced mechanical strength of the femoral neck, although it has a positive effect on the osteoblast and osteoclast indices and on calcium incorporation into bone.
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    Calcified tissue international 54 (1994), S. 150-154 
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Vitamin D analog ; KH1060 ; Kidney transplantation ; Rat
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Abstract KH1060 is a new 20-epi-vitamin D3 analog, which has exerted a considerable immunosuppressive potency in vitro. We have tested in vivo the effect of KH1060 on the suppression of renal allograft rejection in the rat. Allogenic kidney transplantation from DA donor rats to Lewis recipient rats treated intraperitoneally with KH1060 in doses from 0.2 to 6 μg/kg/day, or saline (placebo group), or CyA 10 mg/kg/day for 10 days (positive control group), was performed. Median graft survival time in KH1060-treated groups was 7–9 days, in the placebo group 6 days, whereas CyA led to long-term graft survival, 34 days in 50% of rats and 〉100 days in 50% of rats. In vivo, KH1060 failed to prolong renal allograft survival considerably, and led to development of hypercalcemia. Our results stress the existence of a large discrepancy between the in vitro and in vivo immunoregulatory effects of this vitamin D analog.
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    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Bone mechanics ; Bone composition ; Vitamin D3 ; Corticosteroid ; Rat
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Abstract The effects of 1α-vitamin D3 were studied for 6 months in 2-month-old male and female rats on a moderately low calcium diet with or without low-dose prednisolone treatment. Both cortical bone mechanical and biochemical properties were examined. Femoral bone specimens were subjected to torsional loading tests. With age, bone strength and stiffness increased in both sexes, accompanied by an increased degree of mineralization (bone ash and calcium concentrations). During growth, strength and stiffness increased more in male than in female rats. When 1α-vitamin D3 (0.5 μg/kg/day) was given alone, bone mechanical competence improved significantly whereas insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and calcium concentrations in the bone matrix were significantly reduced. Treatment with low-dose prednisolone (0.5 mg/kg/day) alone did not influence bone mechanical properties compared with intact control rats (without prednisolone) although a significant reduction in calcium concentration and an increased phosphorus concentration were measured. A combined therapy with prednisolone and 1α-vitamin D3 significantly increased bone strength, toughness, and stiffness compared with control bones. Both mineralization degree (ash and calcium concentration) and IGF-I concentration were decreased. We conclude that (1) mechanical properties of rat cortical bones improve relatively more in males compared with agematched females during growth which is related to increased bone mass and size, (2) low-dose prednisolone treatment does not change mechanical properties in males, and altered them only nonsignificantly in females despite a change in mineralization degree in both sexes; (3) treatment with 1α-vitamin D3 results in a consistent increase in mechanical competence of the bone accompanied by a significant decrease in IGF-I concentration in the bone matrix.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Key words: Pituitary ; Pars tuberalis ; α-Subunit ; Immunocytochemistry ; In situ hybridization ; Rat ; Mouse ; Guinea-pig
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. The nature of the hormone(s) secreted by the pars tuberalis (PT) is still unknown. This pituitary lobe is mainly formed by specific glandular cells that differ in their ultrastructural features from the other adenohypophysial cell types. Data from the literature indicate the presence of thyroid-stimulating hormone immunoreactivity in the PT-specific cells of the rat and the Djungarian hamster but not of other species, including the mouse and guinea-pig. The PT also encloses variable numbers of pars distalis cells, essentially gonadotrophs that are mainly dispersed in its caudal area. We studied the expression of the glycoprotein hormone α-subunit in the PT of the rat, mouse and guinea-pig by in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry. In situ hybridization, using an oligonucleotide probe complementary to rat cDNA sequence 196–237 revealed the expression of the α-subunit gene throughout the PT of the rat and the mouse; in the guinea-pig, the probe labelled no pituitary cells. Light- and electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry demonstrated α-subunit immunoreactivity in the secretory granules of the PT-specific cells in the three species examined. These cells did not react with a specific antibody against the β-subunit of luteinizing hormone, an antibody that labelled scattered gonadotrophs. The present data suggest that hormone(s) produced by the PT-specific glandular cells are, at least partly, related to glycoprotein hormones.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Pituitary ; Pars tuberalis ; α-Subunit ; Immunocytochemistry ; In situ hybridization ; Rat ; Mouse ; Guinea-pig
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The nature of the hormone(s) secreted by the pars tuberalis (PT) is still unknown. This pituitary lobe is mainly formed by specific glandular cells that differ in their ultrastructural features from the other adenohypophysial cell types. Data from the literature indicate the presence of thyroid-stimulating hormone immunoreactivity in the PT-specific cells of the rat and the Djungarian hamster but not of other species, including the mouse and guinea-pig. The PT also encloses variable numbers of pars distalis cells, essentially gonadotrophs that are mainly dispersed in its caudal area. We studied the expression of the glycoprotein hormone α-subunit in the PT of the rat, mouse and guinea-pig by in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry. In situ hybridization, using an oligonucleotide probe complementary to rat cDNA sequence 196–237 revealed the expression of the α-subunit gene throughout the PT of the rat and the mouse; in the guinea-pig, the probe labelled no pituitary cells. Light-and electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry demonstrated α-subunit immunoreactivity in the secretory granules of the PT-specific cells in the three species examined. These cells did not react with a specific antibody against the β-subunit of luteinizing hormone, an antibody that labelled scattered gonadotrops. The present data suggest that hormone(s) produced by the PT-specific glandular cells are, at least partly, related to glycoprotein hormones.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Key words: snRNPs ; Testis ; Spermatocytes ; Spermatids ; Immunocytochemistry ; Chromatoid body ; Intermitochondrial nuage ; Rat
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. The objective of this study was to determine the cellular and subcellular distribution of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs) in the adult rat testis in relation to the different cell types at the various stages of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium. The distribution of snRNPs in the nucleus and cytoplasm of germ cells was quantitated in an attempt to correlate RNA processing with morphological and functional changes occurring during the development of these cells. Light-microscopic immunoperoxidase staining of rat testes with polyclonal anti-Sm and monoclonal anti-Y12 antibodies localized spliceosome snRNPs in the nuclei and cytoplasm of germ cells up to step 10 spermatids. Nuclear staining was intense in Sertoli cells, spermatogonia, spermatocytes, and in the early steps of round spermatid development. Although comparatively weaker, cytoplasmic staining for snRNPs was strongest in mid and late pachytene spermatocytes and early round spermatids. Quantitative electron-microscopic immunogold labeling of Lowicryl embedded testicular sections confirmed the light-microscopic observations but additionally showed that the snRNP content peaked in the cytoplasm of mid-pachytene spermatocytes and in the nuclei of late pachytene spermatocytes. The immunogold label tended to aggregate into distinct loci over the nuclear chromatin. The chromatoid body of spermatids and spermatocytes and the finely granular material in the interstices of mitochondrial aggregates of spermatocytes were found to be additional sites of snRNP localization and were intensely labeled. This colocalization suggests that these dense cytoplasmic structures may be functionally related. Anti-U1 snRNP antibodies applied to frozen sections showed the same LM localization pattern as spliceosome snRNPs. Anti-U3 snRNP antibodies applied to frozen sections stained nucleoli of germ cells where pre-rRNA is spliced.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Autonomic ganglia ; Neuropeptides ; Pelvic plexus ; Rat
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The male rat major pelvic ganglion contains both sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons that supply the lower urinary and digestive tracts, and the reproductive organs. The aim of this study was to describe the distribution and identify potential targets of sensory and intestinofugal axons in this ganglion. Two putative markers of these projections were chosen, substance P for primary sensory axons and bombesin for myenteric intestinofugal projections. Varicose substance P-immunoreactive axons were associated only with non-noradrenergic (putative cholinergic) somata, and most commonly with those that contained vasoactive intestinal peptide. Immunoreactivity for substance P was also present in a small group of non-noradrenergic somata, many of which were immunoreactive for enkephalins, neuropeptide Y or vasoactive intestinal peptide. Bombesin immunoreactivity was found only in preterminal and terminal (varicose) axons, the latter of which were exclusively associated with non-noradrenergic somata that contain neuropeptide Y-immunoreactivity. Some varicose axons containing either substance P-or bombesin-immunoreactivity were intermingled with clumps of small, intensely fluorescent cells. These studies indicate that substance P-and bombesin-immunoreactive axons are likely to connect with numerically small, but discrete, populations of pelvic neurons.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Key words: Adrenal cortex ; Renin-angiotensin system ; Steroidogenesis ; Electron microscopy ; Morphometry ; Rat ; transgenic (mRen2) 27
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. Transgenic rats for the murine Ren-2 gene display high blood pressure, low circulating levels of angiotensin II, and high renin content in the adrenal glands. Moreover, transgenic rats possess an increased aldosterone secretion (maximal from 6 to 18 weeks of age), paralleling the development of hypertension. To investigate further the cytophysiology of the adrenal glands of this strain of rats, we performed a combined morphometric and functional study of the zona glomerulosa of 10-week-old female transgenic rats. Morphometry did not reveal notable differences between zona glomerulosa cells of transgenic and age- and sex-matched Sprague-Dawley rats, with the exception of a marked accumulation of lipid droplets, in which cholesterol and cholesterol esters are stored. The volume of the lipid-droplet compartment underwent a significant decrease when transgenic rats were previously injected with angiotensin II or ACTH. Dispersed zona glomerulosa cells of transgenic rats showed a significantly higher basal aldosterone secretion, but their response to angiotensin II and ACTH was similar to that of Sprague-Dawley animals. Angiotensin II-receptor number and affinity were not dissimilar in zona glomerulosa cells of transgenic and Sprague-Dawley rats. These data suggest that the sustained stimulation of the adrenal renin-angiotensin system in transgenic animals causes an increase in the accumulation in zona glomerulosa cells of cholesterol available for steroidogenesis, as indicated by the expanded volume of the lipid-droplet compartment and the elevated basal steroidogenesis. However, the basal hyperfunction of the zona glomerulosa in transgenic animals does not appear to be coupled with an enhanced responsivity to its main secretagogues, at least in terms of aldosterone secretion.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: snRNPs ; Testis ; Spermatocytes ; Spermatids ; Immunocytochemistry ; Chromatoid body ; Intermitochondrial nuage ; Rat
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The objective of this study was to determine the cellular and subcellular distribution of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs) in the adult rat testis in relation to the different cell types at the various stages of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium. The distribution of snRNPs in the nucleus and cytoplasm of germ cells was quantitated in an attempt to correlate RNA processing with morphological and functional changes occurring during the development of these cells. Light-microscopic immunoperoxidase staining of rat testes with polyclonal anti-Sm and monoclonal anti-Y12 antibodies localized spliceosome snRNPs in the nuclei and cytoplasm of germ cells up to step 10 spermatids. Nuclear staining was intense in Sertoli cells, spermatogonia, spermatocytes, and in the early steps of round spermatid development. Although comparatively weaker, cytoplasmic staining for snRNPs was strongest in mid and late pachytene spermatocytes and early round spermatids. Quantitative electron-microscopic immunogold labeling of Lowicryl embedded testicular sections confirmed the light-microscopic observations but additionally showed that the snRNP content peaked in the cytoplasm of midpachytene spermatocytes and in the nuclei of late pachytene spermatocytes. The immunogold label tended to aggregate into distinct loci over the nuclear chromatin. The chromatoid body of spermatids and spermatocytes and the finely granular material in the interstices of mitochondrial aggregates of spermatocytes were found to be additional sites of snRNP localization and were intensely labeled. This colocalization suggests that these dense cytoplasmic structures may be functionally related. Anti-U1 snRNP antibodies applied to frozen sections showed the same LM localization pattern as spliceosome snRNPs. Anti-U3 snRNP antibodies applied to frozen sections stained nucleoli of germ cells where pre-rRNA is spliced.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 192 (1994), S. 177-197 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Leguminosae ; Leucaena esculenta ; L. leucocephala ; Hybridization ; sterile triploid ; morphometric analysis ; DNA characters ; restriction site analysis
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Phytogeographical, morphological, and molecular evidence for the widespread but sporadic occurrence of sterile hybrids betweenLeucaena leucocephala subsp.glabrata andL. esculenta subsp.esculenta in South-Central Mexico is presented. Most morphological and DNA characters studied in the putative hybrids showed states intermediate between the proposed parental taxa. The occurrence of non-additive nuclear ribosomal DNA phenotypes is discussed and the need to use a suite of nuclear taxon-specific markers to determine hybridity is emphasized. The origin of the hybrid is discussed in relation to the disruption of the distributions of both parental taxa through use by man as minor food plants, providing another example of the important influence of human interference on the evolution ofLeucaena. The successful use of dried leaf material as a source of DNA is highlighted as an efficient way to identify sterile hybrids at the molecular level.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 193 (1994), S. 115-123 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Strelitzia ; Heliconia ; Typha ; Benincasa ; Epicuticular wax ; wax ultrastructure ; wax chemistry ; systematics ; taxonomy
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Certain non-liliiflorous taxa within the monocotyledons (e.g.,Strelitzia, Heliconia, Typha) are characterized by compound epicuticular wax rodlets (Strelitzia type). Similar rodlets are also encountered on the surface of the dicotyledonous plantBenincasa hispida (Thunb.)Cogn. Chemical analysis of the surface wax from both sources showed that the rodlets are chemically distinct. The rodlets of the monocotyledons consist exclusively of aliphatic wax lipids, mainly wax esters. In contrast, the rodlets ofBenincasa are cheifly composed of triterpenol acetates and triterpenols. Formation of rodlets is therefore interpreted as ultrastructural convergency. It is concluded that taxonomical studies on wax crystalloids can be misleading when interpreted in terms of micromorphology of crystalloids only.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 189 (1994), S. 165-191 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Rutaceae ; Zanthoxylum ; Fagara ; Flower morphology ; perianth ; gynoecium ; acrostylous and anacrostylous-basistylous carpels ; compitum ; taxonomy
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The question whether the uniseriate perianth ofZanthoxylum L. s. str. is homologous with the calyx or the corolla of taxa included inFagara, or of an independent origin, has been controversial for a long time, but the arguments mostly have remained theoretical. The present investigation of floral structures indicates that there are two different types of uniseriate perianth inZanthoxylum s. str. Therefore, this taxon does not represent a natural group and should be united withFagara asZanthoxylum s.l. The infrageneric taxonomy of this genus is still very ambiguous. It is shown that differences in indumentum, number of sepals and petals (5-4-3) resp. perianth segments (4–9), stamens (3–6), and free carpels (1–5) are of systematic relevance. Particularly important but so far neglected is carpel shape, where an acrostylous and an anacrostylous-basistylous type can be recognized. Stigmata of 2 or more carpels mostly fuse to form a compitum. 4–5-merous flowers with calyx and corolla, and acrostylous carpels are considered as plesiomorphic character states in the genus. On the basis of ± corresponding morphological and phytochemical progressions a working hypothesis about the relationships withinZanthoxylum s.l. is presented in graphical form (Fig. 9).
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    Plant systematics and evolution 191 (1994), S. 83-104 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Angiosperms ; androecium ; Merosity ; phyllotaxis ; pseudowhorl ; zygomorphy
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The term merosity stands for the number of parts within whorls of floral organs, leaves, or stems. Trimery is considered to be a basic condition that arose through the cyclisation of a spiral flower. Pentamery is mostly derived from trimery by the repetitive fusion of two different whorls. Dimery is either directly derived from trimery, or through pentamery as an intermediate stage. Tetramery is linked with pentamery and should not be confused with dimery. Possible causes for a change in merosity are the reduction of the number of carpels and zygomorphy in flowers. Derivations of different merosities have important consequences for the arrangement of the androecium (the insertion of stamen whorls, their identifications, and their number). It is concluded that two main groups can be identified within the angiosperms: magnolialean and monocotyledonean taxa are mostly trimerous or dimerous; non-magnolialean dicots are mostly pentamerous or tetramerous.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 190 (1994), S. 245-248 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Rubiaceae ; Chloroplast DNA ; atpB-rbcL intergene region ; phylogeny
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Representatives of seven genera from five tribes ofRubiaceae have been compared in respect to a non-coding intergene cpDNA region of about 1000 bp, situated between the atpB and the rbcL genes. The resulting most parsimonious PAUP cladogram corresponds very well with one based on total cpDNA restriction site data obtained byBremer & Jansen (1991). The two different molecular analyses thus corroborate each other and contribute to an improved systematic arrangement of the large family, e.g., in respect to placing the tribeHedyotideae clearly into the subfamilyRubioideae, closer toRubieae than toPsychotrieae.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 192 (1994), S. 79-97 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Angiosperms ; paleoherbs ; Magnoliidae ; Gnetales ; Floral evolution
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Concepts of primitive angiosperm flowers have changed in recent years due to new studies on relic archaic groups, new paleobotanical finds and the addition of molecular biological techniques to the study of angiosperm systematics and evolution.Magnoliidae are still the hot group, but emphasis is now on small primitive flowers with few organs and also on the great lability of organ number. Of the extant groups, a potential basal position of the paleoherbs has been discussed by some authors. Although some paleoherbs have a simple gynoecium with a single orthotropous ovule, anatropous ovules may still be seen as plesiomorphic in angiosperms. Anatropy is not necessarily a consequence of the advent of closed carpels. It may also exhibit biological advantages under other circumstances as is the case in podocarps among gymnosperms. Valvate anthers have now been found in most larger subgroups of theMagnoliidae (recently also in paleoherbs) and in some Cretaceous fossils. Nevertheless, as seen from its systematic distribution, valvate dehiscence is not necessarily plesiomorphic for the angiosperms, but may be a facultative by-product of the thick connectives and comparatively undifferentiated anther shape inMagnoliidae and lowerHamamelididae. A perianth is relatively simple in extantMagnoliidae or even wanting in some families. In groups with naked flowers the perianth may have been easily lost because integration in the floral architecture was less pronounced than in more advanced angiosperm groups. Problems with the comparison of paleoherb flowers with those ofGnetales are discussed. The rapid growth of information from paleobotany and molecular systematics requires an especially open attitude towards the evaluation of various hypotheses on early flower evolution in the coming years.
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    Transport in porous media 14 (1994), S. 33-72 
    ISSN: 1573-1634
    Keywords: Inversion ; radii frequency ranges ; geometrically modelled pore space ; continuous radii distribution ; structural hysteresis ; contact angle hysteresis
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    Topics: Geosciences , Technology
    Notes: Abstract Today's practice of interpreting Hg capillary pressure curves — a widespread method in porosimetry — is generally unsatisfactory. This has already been demonstrated by Fatt. First, the saturation branch of such a curve is interpreted using the concept of a pore space model in which essential features of a network structure are disregarded. Second, the data provided by the desaturation branch are not used. Distributions of radii of capillaries within porous materials derived by this technique are usually incorrect in that the frequencies of occurrence of the greater radii turn out too small, those of the smaller radii too large. We present a more reliable approach which constrains radii frequency ranges for the Hg saturated pore space and for both the part of the pore space that desaturates and the part that traps mercury when Hg pressure is released. The pore space may be of an arbitrary geometrical structure, the radii distribution may be continuous. Also, the Hg desaturation may enable one to distinguish experimentally between structural and contact angle hysteresis.
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    ISSN: 1432-136X
    Keywords: Vascular smooth muscle ; Phenylephrine-induced contraction ; Pregnancy ; Aorta ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The effect of pregnancy on the supply of calcium ions for the contractile responses of rat aortic rings to phenylephrine was investigated. The contractility of intact aortic rings from pregnant rats, compared with that of similar rings from non-pregnant rats, to phenylephrine and potassium chloride was significantly decreased. Contractions of rings from non-pregnant rats, pretreated with phenylephrine or potassium chloride, in response to calcium chloride were greater than those of similarly treated rings from pregnant rats. When the concentration of calcium chloride in the medium bathing the rings was reduced to 0.8 mmol·l-1, the contractile response to phenylephrine was significantly (P〈0.005) inhibited in rings from both pregnant and non-pregnant rats but to a greater extent in rings from non-pregnant rats. Contractions of aortic rings from pregnant rats in response to phenylephrine in calcium-free medium were similar to those of rings from non-pregnant rats, suggesting equal dependence on calcium from intracellular stores. The results suggest that pregnancy decreased the response to calcium influx into the aortic smooth muscle cells through both receptor-and voltage-operated calcium entry pathways. Since de-endothelialisation reversed the pregnancy-induced diminished contraction to phenylephrine, it is likely that pregnancy interferred with contractions induced by activation of receptors with phenylephrine through enhanced production of endothelium-derived relaxing factor(s).
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    European journal of nutrition 32 (1993), S. 71-73 
    ISSN: 1436-6215
    Keywords: Rat ; glutamate-induced obesity ; postprandial thermogenesis ; Ratte ; Glutamat-induzierte Adipositas ; postprandiale Thermogenese
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition , Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Bei 4 Monate alten Ratten mit Glutamat-induzierter Adipositas wurde die postprandiale Thermogenese über 8 h nach Fütterung von 300, 450 und 600 kJ/kg0,75 einer Pellet-Diät mittels indirekter Kalorimetrie in computergesteuerten Stoffwechselkäfigen mit offenem Kreislauf bestimmt. Bei den adipösen Tieren war die postprandiale Thermogenese nach Aufnahme von 600 kJ/kg0,75 (oberhalb des Energieerhaltungsbedarfs) signifikant auf 40% der Thermogenese der Kontrolltiere reduziert (12,0 gegenüber 31,5 kJ/kg0,75×8 h). Es wird geschlußfolgert, daß die Ratte mit Glutamat-induzierter Adipositas als ein Tiermodell mit beeinträchtigter fakultativer Thermogenese anzusehen ist, die hauptsächlich durch eine Verminderung der sympathischen adrenergen Aktivität verursacht ist.
    Notes: Summary Postprandial thermogenesis was estimated in 4-month-old male rats with glutamate induced obesity after being fed with 300, 450 and 600 kJ/kg0.75 of a pellet diet, respectively by indirect calorimetry in computer-controlled open circuit metabolic cages over 8 h. After an intake of 600 kJ/kg0.75 (above the maintenance energy requirement) postprandial thermogenesis was significantly reduced in the obese animals to about 40% of control rats (12.0 versus 31.5 kJ/kg0.75×8 h). It is concluded that the glutamate obese rat can be accepted as an animal model with impaired facultative thermogenesis, mainly caused by a reduction of sympathetic adrenergic activity.
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    Mathematics of control, signals, and systems 6 (1993), S. 363-379 
    ISSN: 1435-568X
    Keywords: Nonlinear systems ; Inversion ; Left-inverse system ; Observability
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    Topics: Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology , Mathematics , Technology
    Notes: Abstract The left-invertibility and the general construction of reduced inverse systems are studied and described in a unified vector-space approach for both linear and nonlinear systems. The order of reduced inverse systems is calculated by means of intrinsic invariants, which reflect some properties related to observability. The uniqueness of the reduced inverse is described by a factor space.
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    Calcified tissue international 52 (1993), S. 361-364 
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Calcitonin ; Sustained release ; Copolymer depot ; Rat
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Summary Studies were carried out to determine whether monolithic depot formulations, prepared using lactide:glycolide copolymers, could be used to administer salmon calcitonin (sCT) to rats in vivo. Formulations containing 2, 5, or 10% (w/w) sCT were administered subcutaneously to female Wistar strain rats. Release of sCT was determined by measurement of peptide in plasma using a specific radioimmunoassay and by measurement of residual sCT in the depots after recovery at postmortem. Plasma calcium concentrations and cumulative weight gain of the animals were used to measure pharmacological effects of the released sCT. Release of sCT from the depots was controlled by the copolymer and was sustained for periods up to 10 days. However, the release of sCT from the depots did not significantly alter plasma calcium concentrations, and effects on cumulative weight gain were small and transient. Peptide loading of the formulations was shown to modify sCT release. Maximal release of sCT from depots containing 10% peptide occurred over a 7 to 14-day period postadministration, with 5% sCT release occurred between days 11 and 14, and with 2% sCT, the period of maximal release was between days 11 and 18. Release of peptide from the depots was essentially complete by 21 days postadministration irrespective of the peptide loading. These data suggest that lactide:glycolide copolymer depots may have application for the convenient clinical administration of sCT in metabolic bone diseases.
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    Keywords: Bone ; Nandrolone decanoate ; Ovariectomy ; Bone mechanics ; IGF-I ; Rat
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    Notes: Summary Nandrolone decanoate (ND) is an anabolic steroid with a positive effect on bone mass in osteoporotic patients. The mechanism of action, (i.e., reduction of bone resorption and/or Stimulation of bone formation), the ultimate effect on mechanical properties, and the most effective dosage are not yet clear. To address these issues, dose-related effects of the long-term effect of ND on Serum and bone biochemistry, bone mineral content, and bone mechanical properties in ovariectomized (OVX) rats (12 weeks old at the Start of the experiment) were Studied for 6 months. The results were compared with those obtained in agematched, intact, and OVX rats. OVX caused in the femur a significant increase in net periosteal bone formation and net endosteal bone resorption of bone collagen content and torsional strength, and of Serum alkaline phosphatase, osteocalcin, and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) levels, whereas cortical bone density and calcium/creatinine and phosphorus/creatinine in 24-hour urine were Significantly reduced. Treatment of OVX rats with 1 mg ND/14 days resulted in a Significant increase in periosteal bone formation, femur length, cortical and trabecular bone mineral content and density, torsion stiffness and Strength, and bone IGF-I content, and a decrease in Serum osteocalcin, urinary calcium/creatinine levels, and bone collagen content compared with OVX controls. The higher ND dosage of 2.5 mg/14 days did not improve the results. ND treatment did not reverse all changes induced by OVX to the level of the intact controls. These results indicate that ND acts as an antiresorptive drug and as a bone formation Stimulating drug. Furthermore, the increased bone mass and bone mineral density is associated with improved bone Strength and stiffness and the presence of an increased amount of IGF-I. IGF-I is a growth factor considered to play a role in the maintenance of normal skeletal balance by a paracrine or autocrine mechanism.
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    Keywords: Hyperthyroidism ; Osteopenia ; Bisphosphonate ; Rat
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    Notes: Summary Hyperthyroidism, either endogenous or iatrogenic, leads to increased bone turnover and osteopenia. This study was conducted to examine (1) whether thyroid hormone excess in rats causes bone changes similar to those seen in patients with hyperthyroidism, and (2) the effects of the aminobisphosphonate alendronate on the thyroid hormone-induced bone changes. Sprague-Dawley male rats, divided into four groups, received L-thyroxine (T4) 250 μg/kg/day (+T4) or vehicle (-T4) subcutaneously six times per week and alendronate 1.75 mg/kg (+ALN) or vehicle (-ALN) orally twice a week. Rats were sacrificed after 3 weeks of treatment, blood samples were analyzed for serum T4, triiodo-L-thyronine (T3), and osteocalcin, and the proximal tibiae were processed for histomorphometric analysis. Serum T4 and T3 levels measured 20–24 hours after the last injection were 2 to 2.5-fold higher in +T4 groups than in-T4 groups. Serum osteocalcin was significantly (P 〈 0.05) higher in +T4/-ALN group than in the other groups, which were not statistically different from each other. T4 treatment (+T4/-ALN) significantly decreased the amount of cancellous bone volume (-45%) and increased osteoid surface (+254%), osteoblast surface (+111%), and osteoclast surface (+176%) relative to control values. Alendronate increased the bone volume above control values in both T4-treated (+ T4/ +ALN) and untreated (-T4/ +ALN) rats, and prevented the T4-induced increase in bone turnover in +T4/+ALN rats. It is concluded that (1) excess thyroid hormone induces cancellous bone loss associated with high bone turnover in the rat, and (2) this bone loss can be prevented by alendronate through the inhibition of osteoclastic activity.
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    Mycopathologia 123 (1993), S. 149-154 
    ISSN: 1573-0832
    Keywords: Ascending pyelonephritis ; Candida albicans ; Experimental model ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract We developed a new experimental model of ascendingCandida pyelonephritis in female rats with leukopenia and vesicoureteral reflux. Rats were treated transperitoneally with cyclophosphamide (200 mg/kg) to induce leukopenia 3 days before and transurethrally with diluted acetic acid solution to induce vesicoureteral reflux 1 day before inoculation ofCandida albicans strain, ATCC 10259 (containing 107 cells). Microscopy revealed acute pyelonephritis in whichCandida cells invaded from the fornix and/or papilla into the medulla within 3 days after inoculation. Between 7 and 28 days after inoculation, chronic pyelonephritis reached the cortex. The incidence of pyelonephritis increased gradually and was approximately 80% after 7 days.Candida colony counts of bladder urine specimens obtained by direct puncture were significantly greater in rats with pyelonephritis extending into the parenchyma than in those with pyelonephritis located along the pelvis (p〈0.01). These results suggest that this rat model shows the characteristic feature of ascending pyelonephritis due toC. albicans and that the severity ofCandida pyelonephritis can be estimated fromCandida counts of bladder urine.
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    Current genetics 23 (1993), S. 15-18 
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Keywords: Yeast ; Rat ; Ribosomal protein ; 60S Ribosomal subunit
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary This communication reports on a single-copy gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae which is homologous to the rat ribosomal protein gene L21. The yeast and the rat genes show 59% identity in DNA sequences and in the predicted protein sequences. This yeast gene is, therefore, assumed to code for an as yet unassigned ribosomal protein (URP1). The URP1 open reading frame is 480 nucleotides long and can encode a protein of about Mr 18 200. Like most of the other known ribosomal protein genes, URP1 is interrupted by an intron in its 5′ terminal part and it is preceeded by upstream sequence elements which usually regulate transcription of these genes. Northern blot analysis reveals that the URP1 gene is actually expressed in vivo.
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    Theoretical and applied genetics 86 (1993), S. 598-604 
    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: Maize-Sorghum-Restriction fragment length polymorphism ; Genetic maps ; Inversion ; Translocation ; Duplication
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    Notes: Abstract Cloned maize genes and random maize genomic fragments were used to construct a genetic map of sorghum and to compare the structure of the maize and sorghum genomes. Most (266/280) of the maize DNA fragments hybridized to sorghum DNA and 145 of them detected polymorphisms. The segregation of 111 markers was analyzed in 55 F2 progeny. A genetic map was generated with 96 loci arranged in 15 linkage groups spanning 709 map units. Comparative genetic mapping of sorghum and maize is complicated by the fact that many loci are duplicated, often making the identification of orthologous sequences ambiguous. Relative map positions of probes which detect only a single locus in both species indicated that multiple rearrangements have occurred since their divergence, but that many chromosomal segments have conserved synteny. Some sorghum linkage groups were found to be composed of sequences that detect loci on two different maize chromosomes. The two maize chromosomes to which these loci mapped were generally those which commonly share duplicated sequences. Evolutionary models and implications are discussed.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Spinal cord ; Motoneurones ; Dorsal horn ; Neurofilament ; Phosphorylation ; Immunocytochemistry ; Rat ; Cat
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    Notes: Abstract Neurofilament immunoreactivity was examined in spinal cords of rats and cats with antibodies to all three subunits (68 kD, 155 kD and 200 kD) and to different phosphorylation states of 200 kD. NFHP-, an antibody against non-phosphorylated 200 kD, labelled all rat neuronal perikarya but failed to labet cat neurofilaments. In both species, the perikarya and processes of motoneurones were immunoreactive for all three subunits but most dorsal horn neuronal perikarya were not immunoreactive for 68 kD and 155 kD. Motoneuronal perikarya and proximal processes showed filamentous labelling for 68 kD but not for 155 kD in the rat, while in neither species did these show labelling with RT97, an antibody against a highly phosphorylated form of 200 kD; immunoreactivity for 200 kD was present in both filamentous (probably partially phosphorylated) and non-filamentous (non-phosphorylated) forms, but in dorsal horn neurones only the latter was present. Interpretations consistent with this data are: in rat and possibly also cat, motoneuronal neurofilaments consist of a 68 kD backbone with partially phosphorylated 200 kD sidearms, with both 155 kD and 200 kD (non-phosphorylated) subunits in a non-filamentous form; this neurofilament becomes more highly phosphorylated along the proximal processes. The dorsal horn neurones probably contain 200 kD in a non-filamentous form but may lack the other subunits.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Endocrine pancreas ; IGF-1 ; IGF-2 ; Insulin ; Glucagon ; Somatostatin ; Pancreatic polypeptide ; Man ; Dog ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Immunohistochemical techniques were used to study the occurrence and distribution of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and IGF-2 in the pancreas of man, dog, and rat and their possible coexistence with insulin (INS), glucagon (GLUC), somatostatin (SOM) and pancreatic polypeptide (PP). All control experiments, including pre-absorption of the antisera with synthetic peptide hormones, indicated the specificity of the immunoreactions obtained. In all species investigated, IGF-2-immunoreactivity occurred exclusively in INS-immunoreactive cells as was found by the use of consecutive sections and double immunofluorescence on identical sections. In contrast, IGF-1-immunoreactivity co-existed with GLUC-immunoreactivity. In man, singular SOM-immunoreactive cells also contained IGF-1-immunoreactivity. Thus, IGF-1 and IGF-2 can be localized by means of immunohistochemistry in the mammalian pancreas, and can be shown to occur in different islet cell populations. It is presumed that IGF-1 derived from A-cells and/or D-cells acts on the B-cells in a paracrine manner. The co-existence of IGF-2-immunoreactivity and INS-immunoreactivity in the human, rat, and dog endocrine pancreas indicates that mammalian IGF-2 and INS genes are regulated simultaneously.
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    Cell & tissue research 272 (1993), S. 391-394 
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    Keywords: ANP binding ; Yolk sac ; Decidua ; Maternal placental vessels ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Using in vitro autoradiography, binding sites of 125I-ANP (atrial natriuretic peptide) were localized in the rat placenta, visceral yolk sac, and decidua at 16, 18, and 20 days of gestation. There was diffuse binding over the labyrinthine region of the placenta and an intense binding over the decidual gland and visceral yolk sac. In the yolk sac, ANP localized over the cores of the villi where it may be involved with the regulation of transport across the membranes or the flow of blood through the vitelline vessels. Of particular interest was binding over the maternal blood vessels supplying the decidual region and placenta. Receptors were located on the endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells of the arteries and veins, indicating that ANP may be involved with regional regulation of blood flow to the placenta.
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    Keywords: Ascites hepatoma ; Adhesive factor ; Monoclonal antibody ; Cell membrane polarity ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract A cell surface-associated adhesive factor (AF) separated from differentiated rat ascites hepatoma AH136B cells (forming cell islands in vivo) has been highly purified by chromatography. AF is assumed to mediate the cell-cell adhesion essential to island formation of the hepatoma cells. A substance, immunologically crossreactive with AF, is present in the ascites fluid or culture medium of the AH136B cells. Because the substance is almost identical to AF in molecular weight and aggregation-promoting activity, it has been concluded that AF is released into the ascites fluid where it is concentrated. Monoclonal antibodies have been raised against AF purified from ascites fluid of AH136B cells. We have obtained a monoclonal antibody, coded MoAF-6D6, that strongly abolishes the aggregation-promoting activity of AF. When AH136B cell islands are incubated in the presence of Fab fragments of MoAF-6D6, cell detachment from the islands is evident within 24 h. Cell islands following 36-h culture show a distinct dissociation and islands completely lose their organization 48 h after culture. The dissociating effect of MoAF-6D6 is neutralized by the addition of AF. These results suggest that AF plays a significant role in the maintenance of cell islands.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 184 (1993), S. 41-76 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Steroids ; sterols ; ecdysones ; brassicanolides ; sapogenins ; saponins ; withanolides ; pregnanes ; cardenolides ; bufodienolides ; oxidation state ; skeletal specialization ; Sporne indices ; herbacity indices ; evolutionary steroid indices
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    Notes: Abstract The use of steroids as taxonomic markers of the angiosperms was evaluated. To this end evolutionary advancement parameters, based on oxidation state and skeletal specialization of each steroid were calculated. The averages of these values for the steroids registered for a particular plant group were assumed to represent the evolutionary parameters of the plant group. Positive correlations of these chemical parameters and of morphological Sporne indices, as well as of herbacity indices, were observed to constitute a general trend. Furthermore, steroids are not uniformly distributed within a morphologically homogeneous plant group, but are replacement characters. Thus, in spite of their functional importance, steroids can be considered, analogously to many other classes of secondary metabolites, for chemosystematic purposes.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 184 (1993), S. 207-231 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Ericales ; Cladistics ; phylogeny ; taxonomy
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    Notes: Abstract A cladistic analysis of theEricales based on morphological, anatomical, embryological, and phytochemical data has been undertaken. Resulting from the analysis, 56 equally parsimonious cladograms were obtained. The tribeEnkiantheae was found to be the sister-group of the rest of theEricaceae, in which theEmpetraceae, theEpacridaceae, Pyrolaceae, andMonotropaceae are forming derived ingroups. It is thus concluded that theEricaceae are a paraphyletic assemblage as presently circumscribed, and thatEmpetraceae andEpacridaceae are better treated as members of theEricaceae.
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Asteraceae ; Robinsonia ; Adaptive radiation ; chloroplast DNA ; ribosomal DNA
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    Notes: Abstract Restriction site mutations in the chloroplast (cpDNA) and ribosomal DNA (rDNA) were examined in 41 populations representing five of the seven recognized species of the genusRobinsonia, which is endemic to the Juan Fernandez Islands. No intraspecific variation was detected for cpDNA but one population of one of the species (R. evenia) had a restriction site mutation in rDNA not detected elsewhere. No restriction site mutations were unique to all species ofRobinsonia relative to the species ofSenecio used as outgroups. All 13 mutations (eight from cpDNA and five from rDNA) are restricted to single species, and thus provide no cladistically useful information within the genus. The distribution of mutations is concordant with the hypothesis of a rapid adaptive radiation ofRobinsonia subsequent to the dispersal of its ancestor to Masatierra.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 184 (1993), S. 259-283 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Asteraceae ; Astereae ; Cladistics ; evolution ; phylogeny ; classification
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    Notes: Abstract TheAstereae were surveyed and the genera arranged in 23 informal groups. The generic groups were used to sample representative genera for a cladistic analysis based on morphological characters. The resulting cladogram was used for discussion of evolution and subtribal classification within the tribe. The lower basic chromosome numbers x = 4, 5, 6, and 8 are interpreted as reductions from a primitive x = 9. The subtribeGrangeinae occupies a phylogenetically basal position as sister group to the rest of the tribe. This may be divided into two large groups, largely corresponding to the homochromousSolidagininae and to the heterochromousAsterinae sensu lato, i.e. including theBellidinae, Hinterhuberinae, Conyzinae, andBaccharidinae. The latter four subtribes are derived within theAsterinae, and hence reduced to synonymy. Several intercontinental relationships indicate that a geographical subdivision of the tribe should be avoided, although in our analysis most of the groups proved to be restricted to one of five major regions.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 185 (1993), S. 99-122 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Asclepiadaceae ; Periplocaceae ; Translator ultrastructure ; translator ontogenesis ; floral evolution
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    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Ein wesentlicher Unterschied zwischen den beiden FamilienPeriplocaceae undAsclepiadaceae besteht in der Ausbildung der Translatoren, mit deren Hilfe der Pollen von Insekten übertragen wird. Bei denPeriplocaceae kleben die Pollentetraden an dem Translator, dieser selbst haftet mit einer basalen Klebscheibe am Kopf des Pollinators. DieAsclepiadaceae verzichten demgegenüber auf den Klebstoff, die Pollinien sind durch zwei Caudiculae mit einem Klemmkörper verbunden, der am Insekt klemmt. Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht die Frage, ob sich zwischen beiden Translatorformen Homologien finden lassen, die eine gemeinsame stammesgeschichtliche Herkunft begründen. Der Translator derPeriplocaceae besteht aus den drei Elementen Klebscheibe (adhesive disc), Stipes (stipe) und Pollenschaufel (spoon). Im typischen Fall sitzt der Stipes dorsal der Klebscheibe an, wodurch die Klebfläche selbst wie ein Stempel nach unten bzw. schräg nach außen gerichtet ist. Demgegenüber ist die geradlinige Anordnung von Stipes und Klebscheibe beiPeriploca graeca eine Ausnahme, die nicht als Basis für den Vergleich mit dem Asclepiadaceen-Translator dienen kann. In der Ontogenese wird der feste Teil der Klebscheibe, das Scutellum, zuerst angelegt und durch basale Sekretaddition als etwa rechtwinklig zur Griffelkopfoberfläche stehende Scheibe hinausgeschoben. Die Bildung des Scutellums erfolgt also von seiner Schmalseite aus. Im nächsten Schritt wird der Stipes-Ansatz am Scutellumrücken gebildet, auf diese Weise entsteht die gewinkelte Verbindung von Klebscheibe und Stipes. Der Anschluß der Pollenschaufel erfolgt etwas später ebenso wie die basale Verlängerung der Klebscheibe. Die Ontogenese zeigt, daß das primäre Element des Periplocaceen-Translators der obere Teil der Klebscheibe mit dem ihm dorsal ansitzenden basalen Stipesabschnitt ist. Innerhalb derAsclepiadaceae bilden die GattungenSecamone undFockea von den übrigen Gattungen abweichend gestaltete Translatoren aus, bei denen die Pollinien nicht an seitlichen Caudiculae, sondern an einer dorsalen Platte befestigt sind. Der morphologische Vergleich ergibt, daß die Translatoren beider Gattungen ausgeprägt plesiomorphe Züge tragen und als Zwischenformen zwischen dem Periplocaceen-Translator und dem elaborierten Asclepiadaceen-Translator angesehen werden können. Der Translator vonSecamone läßt sich mit dem primären Scutellum-Stipes-Komplex derPeriplocaceae homologisieren. Der Klemmkörper selbst entspricht einem nach vorn zusammengeschlagenen Scutellum, der die Pollinien tragende Dorsalfortsatz dem basalen Stipes. Für diese Homologisierung spricht nicht nur die relative Lage der Elemente der verglichenen Translatoren, sondern insbesondere ihre in den Grundzügen übereinstimmende Ontogenese. Von ausschlaggebender Bedeutung ist dabei die von der Schmalseite her erfolgende Bildung des Scutellums, die in der von der Basis aus fortschreitenden Anlegung desSecamone-Klemmkörpers ihre Entsprechung findet. Der Translator der GattungFockea stellt im Sinn des Stetigkeitskriteriums eine Zwischenform zwischen denSecamoneae und den elaboriertenAsclepiadaceae dar. Ohne diese Zwischenform wäre der morphologische Zusammenhang der Translatoren beider Taxa kaum zu belegen.Fockea stimmt mitSecamone in der Ausbildung des dorsalen Fortsatzes zur Pollinienanheftung wie auch in der Anheftung des adulten Translators an die Leitschiene mit Hilfe basaler Klebflächen überein. Eine Weiterentwicklung zeigtFockea in der Verlängerung des Translators parallel zur Griffelkopfoberfläche, die mit einer anfänglichen neuen Bodenbildung einhergeht. Diese neue Längsachse wie auch eine ausgeprägte Bodenstruktur sind charakteristisch für die Translatoren höher entwickelter Asclepiadaceen. Als auffälligstes Unterscheidungsmerkmal kommt bei ihnen die Befestigung der Pollinien mit Hilfe zweier Caudiculae hinzu. Aufgrund fehlender Zwischenstufen ist die phylogenetische Herkunft der Caudiculae bisher nur hypothetisch lösbar. Eine Ableitung von basalen Klebflächen wie etwa beiFockea wird für wahrscheinlich gehalten. Damit sind im elaborierten Asclepiadaceen-Translator nur noch Andeutungen von Elementen zu finden, die mit dem Translator vonSecamone homologisiert werden könnten. Nach den vorliegenden Untersuchungen erscheint der Entwicklungsschritt von der Periplocaceen-Stufe zum einfachsten Klemmkörper derAsclepiadaceae beiSecamone wesentlich geringer als die Evolution des Translators innerhalb derAsclepiadaceae selbst.
    Notes: Abstract This paper deals with the problem of homology between the translators inPeriplocaceae andAsclepiadaceae. Since most differences between the flowers in both families are based on the functional differences in the pollination process, it seems that the question of common ancestry can best be solved by clarifying the problem of the evolution of the translator itself. Ontogenetic investigation has revealed that the central element of the periplocoid translator is the adhesive disc together with the base of the stipe. The translator inSecamoneae (the most primitive tribe inAsclepiadaceae) is homologous to this element, and inSecamone the adhesive disc is transformed into the corpusculum while the stipe is represented by the dorsal process to which the pollinia are attached. The translator in the genusFockea represents an intermediate stage in the further phylogenetic elaboration of the asclepiad translator. It corresponds toSecamone in the development of a dorsal process for the attachment of the pollinia and in the special mode by which the corpusculum is attached to the anther wings. On the other hand, the elongated shape and the formation of a floor in the corpusculum are derived traits pointing to the more highly evolvedAsclepiadaceae, such as theAsclepiadeae. The question of the derivation of the caudicles is discussed and a hypothesis concerning their development from pre-adaptive elements inFockea is put forward. General conclusions are 1. thatPeriplocaceae andAsclepiadaceae are sister groups and that the common ancestor possessed a primitive translator composed of at least the two elements adhesive disc and stipe; 2. that the morphological difference of the translators betweenPeriplocaceae andSecamone is smaller than betweenSecamone and the more advancedAsclepiadaceae.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 187 (1993), S. 1-28 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Rutaceae ; Cytoevolution ; chromosome base numbers ; dysploidy ; polyploidy ; cladistics ; gondwanan forests ; heathlands
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    Notes: Abstract Chromosome numbers for 9 tribes and 73 genera ofRutaceae are examined for the probable chromosome base numbers in these taxa. There is abundant dysploidy and infrageneric polyploidy in the largeRutoideae/Toddalioideae complex. We found that x = 18 was typical for the tribesZanthoxyleae andToddalieae; probably ancestral in theBoronieae and perhaps in theRuteae, Diosmieae, andCusparieae; and characteristic of subfamilyFlindersioideae. Considering the basic position of elements ofZanthoxyleae andToddalieae in the family it appears that diploid x = 18 is ancestral in theRutaceae. The morphologically advancedCitroideae are invariant for x = 9 and may be a product of dysploid reduction.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 187 (1993), S. 29-49 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Ranunculaceae ; Chloroplast DNA ; rearrangements ; mutation frequency ; phylogeny
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    Notes: Abstract Restriction site mapping of chloroplast DNA from 31 species representing 26 genera of theRanunculaceae was performed using eleven restriction endonucleases. The chloroplast genome varies in length from approximately 152 to 160 kb. Length variants are frequent in theRanunculaceae and range from usually less than 300 bp to rarely 1.5 kb. The inverted repeat is extended into the large single copy (LSC) region by 4–4.5 kb inAnemone, Clematis, Clematopsis, Hepatica, Knowltonia, andPulsatilla. Several inversions are present in the LSC-region of the cpDNA in all these genera and inAdonis. The frequency of restriction site mutations varies within the chloroplast genome in theRanunculaceae between 4 and 32 mutations per kilobase, and is lowest in the inverted repeat and the regions containing the ATPase-genes and the genespsaA, psaB, psbA, rpoB, andrbcL. A total of 547 phylogenetically informative restriction sites was utilized in cladistic analyses of the family using Wagner, Dollo, and weighted parsimony. These three parsimony analyses result in different tree topologies. Four, six, and one equally most parsimonious trees were obtained with Wagner, Dollo, and weighted parsimony, respectively. The amount of support for the monophyletic groups was evaluated using bootstrapping and decay analysis. All three parsimony methods suggest thatHydrastis is the sister group to the remainder of theRanunculaceae, and that theAnemone-Clematis group, which shares several derived cpDNA rearrangements, is monophyletic. Only a few of the traditional groups in theRanunculaceae are supported by cpDNA restriction side data. Only Dollo parsimony provides support for the hypothesis thatThalictroideae andRanunculoideae are monophyletic.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 188 (1993), S. 115-123 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Polygonaceae ; Rumex acetosella ; R. acetosella subsp.angiocarpus ; Vegetative growth ; seed size ; population differentiation ; phenotypic plasticity
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    Notes: Abstract Vegetative growth patterns ofRumex acetosella L. were investigated both in experimental conditions and in the field. Plants originating from geographically and ecologically contrasting areas expressed significant differentiation in height, weight, and leaf production, even at early stages. The plants belonging to subsp.angiocarpus grew thaller than other plants. The differences among populations grown in a uniform environment provide evidence for genetic differentiation in morphology. Plants in natural populations were considerably lighter than experimental plants, which intensively produced a large number of rosette leaves. These differences can be attributed to substantial phenotypic plasticity. When the correlation structure among the growth traits was analyzed, seed weight and early plant size appeared to influence future plant size.
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    Medical & biological engineering & computing 31 (1993), S. 340-342 
    ISSN: 1741-0444
    Keywords: Doppler radar ; Liveliness ; Motion quantifier ; Rat
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The Doppler radar device which is described here is shown to be a reliable and accurate device to quantify the liveliness of an experimental rat. During recording the animal did not seem to be disturbed in any way by the device. It could stay in its normal cage, move freely, walk around and eat and drink ad libitum. Measurement did not require extra light, sound or other stimuli. Interpretation of the data was easy. The computer which samples the Doppler radar output signal generates activity curves which were easily interpreted for different ranges of vitality, varying between high liveliness and apnoea or cardiac arrest. The apparatus is low priced, and simple to build and use.
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    Calcified tissue international 50 (1992), S. 524-526 
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Verapamil ; Bone ; Osteopenia ; Rat ; Female ; Intestinal calcium absorption
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    Notes: Summary Verapamil inhibits the intestinal absorption of calcium (Ca) and increases serum parathyroid hormone in rats. The effects of verapamil on bone tissue after long-term treatment is, however, not well described. Adult female and male Sprague-Dawley rats received verapamil in their drinking water at a dosage of 0.075 mg/ml (low dose) or 0.75 mg/ml (high dose) for 12 weeks; control rats received only drinking water. All rats were fed a diet containing 0.1% Ca and 0.5% P. In female rats, the amount of bone ash per volume was significantly reduced from 0.742 g/ml in controls to 0.713 g/ml after low-dose treatment of verapamil, and to 0.667 g/ml following high-dose treatment (P〈0.01). The tibial length was increased from 39.7 mm in controls to 40.3 mm or to 40.7 mm after low or high doses (P〈0.01). The tibial volume increased from 0.385 ml in controls to 0.397 ml after low doses and to 0.429 ml after high doses (P〈0.01). In contrast, in male rats the amount of bone ash per volume was significantly increased from 0.578 g/ml in controls to 0.580 g/ml after low doses and to 0.620 g/ml after high doses of verapamil (P〈0.01). The tibial bone volume in males as decreased from 0.633 ml in controls to 0.641 ml after low doses and to 0.583 ml after high doses (P〈0.05). The tibial length in the males was not changed by verapamil. The intestinal absorption of Ca was reduced in male rats from 5.28 in controls to 4.03 (serosa/mucosa) after low-dose treatment and to 2.46 after high-dose treatment with verapamil (P〈0.05). In female rats, the intestinal absorption of Ca did not change after verapamil treatment. Thus, chronic treatment with verapamil in female rats induced osteopenia whereas in male rats bone growth was inhibited.
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    Keywords: Rat ; Osteoblast-like culture ; Ovariectomy ; Estrogens ; Bone blood supply
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    Notes: Summary Ovariectomy in the rat induces a rapid osteopenia associated with an elevated bone turnover. One hundred and twenty-day-old rats were ovariectomized (OVX) or sham-operated (n=6–8 per group and per time period studied). 45Ca accretion rate and bone blood flow (microspheres trapping technique) in the femurs were determined at 28, 42, 84, and 119 days after ovariectomy. Both parameters were markedly increased by 84 days and subsided thereafter. At the 42nd day, when bone turnover was maximal, bone marrow and trabecular bone cultures were obtained from shamoperated and ovariectomized animals (n=10/group). Proliferation rate of bone marrow cells and trabecular osteoblast-like cells estimated by fibroblast colony-forming units (FCFU) efficiency and cell counting was markedly increased in primary and secondary cultures in ovariectomy. These data fitted well with the enhanced number of osteoblasts observed in situ in the long bone metaphyses of estrogen-depleted animals. As estrogens were shown in the literature to inhibit proliferation of the red cell line and of other hemopoietic lines, it is possible that estrogens, through a general mechanism, inhibit hemopoietic and stromal lines and also the proliferation of bone marrow-derived trabecular bone cells.
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    Journal of comparative physiology 170 (1992), S. 645-650 
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    Keywords: Milk ejection reflex ; Positive pressure oscillations ; Motor activity of pups ; Tactile stimulation of nipples ; Rat
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    Notes: Summary Changes of positive pressure exerted by pups on nipples during sucking were investigated using anesthetized, lactating dams. It was found that, every 50–60 s, individual pups performed bouts of pressure oscillations (3/s) of high amplitude which lasted about 10–12 s and coincided with periods of increased motor activity. During the intervals, when pups were quiet, series of low-amplitude oscillations (3/s) were also observed. Using a strain measuring method to record the activity of sucking pups, synchronization of activity of two or more pups was found to occur periodically every 25–30 s and, most frequently, 10–30 s before the reflex increase of milk pressure. In further experiments, artificial tactile stimulation was applied to the dam's nipples using the joint action of suction and positive pressure. Following a short-term (10–20 s) increase in frequency and amplitude of artificial nipple stimulation, 60%–80% of all reflexive peaks of milk pressure were elicited with a latency of 19 ± 5 s. This suggests that there are specific conditions under which the stimulation of nipples by pups may trigger the formation of the milk ejection reflex in the rat.
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    Journal of comparative physiology 171 (1992), S. 657-664 
    ISSN: 1432-1351
    Keywords: Inferior olivary complex ; Cerebellum ; 3-acetylpyridine ; Harmaline ; Learning ; Memory ; Rat
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    Notes: Summary DA/HAN-strained male rats (pigmented rats) were submitted to two experimental tasks consisting of spatial learning (water-escape) and a passive avoidance conditioning. Both these tasks were performed by different animals. In order to destroy the inferior olivary complex, the animals were injected with 3-acetylpyridine either 9 days prior to the initial learning session or 24 h after completion of the learning task. They were retested (retrieval test) 10 days after the initial learning was achieved. Learning and retention were compared to those noted in control rats. Administration of 3-acetylpyridine before the initial learning did not prevent the spatial learning but the scores were greatly altered and the number of trials needed to reach the fixed learning criterion was much greater than in controls. However, 10 days later the animals had memorized their initial experience. Injection of 3-acetylpyridine after the initial learning session impaired memory: the animals had completely forgotten their initial learning. It can therefore be concluded that lesion of the afferent climbing fibres to the cerebellar cortex alters learning and retention of a spatial task. Such a lesion does not interfere with learning and retention of a passive avoidance conditioning, since in this condition the experimental animals injected with 3-acetylpyridine either before or after the initial learning behave similarly to controls. The effects of the inferior olivary complex lesion are obviously different according to the task to be learnt, suggesting that these two tasks do not require the integrity of the same nervous structures.
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    Calcified tissue international 51 (1992), S. 137-142 
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Swimming exercise ; Bone histomorphometry ; Rat
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    Notes: Summary To specify the exercise-induced changes on different skeletal sites, the effect of a 5-week endurance swin training was studied in rats. Eighteen Lyon strain (Sprague-Dawley) 5-week old female rats were divided into nine sedentary and nine swimming rats. Each swim training session was increased by 15 minutes from 2–6 hours per day. A histomorphometric study was performed at the primary and secondary spongiosa of the distal femur and at the secondary spongiosa of lumbar and thoracic vertebral bodies. After training, bone loss was observed in the secondary spongiosa of lumbar vertebral bodies (24.7%) and in the primary spongiosa of distal femur (15.2%). A tendency to bone loss was also detected in the secondary spongiosa of distal femur (10.8%), whereas no change was detected in thoracic vertebral bodies. In secondary spongiosa, bone loss was accompanied with a thinning of trabeculae. Total eroded surfaces and osteoid surfaces were significantly decreased in the three studied skeletal sites, suggesting a decreased bone turnover. The decreased thickness of osteoid seams in both lumbar vertebrae and distal femur could mean that the osteoblastic activity has also been altered at the cell level, leading to thinning of trabeculae. Five-week swim training with such duration and intensity of exercise appears unable to increase bone volume in rats and, therefore, causes adverse effects. The three studied bones seemed to adapt differently to experimental conditions. The lack of ground reaction forces induced by water immersion might have contributed to the observed bone loss. “Normal” gravity would be an important cofactor in the osteogenic effects of exercise.
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    Keywords: Cortisol ; Cortical bone ; Bone biomechanics ; Rat ; Femur
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    Notes: Summary Doses of 8, 16 (low), 32, 48, 64 (medium), and 150 (high) mg/kg/day of cortisol were administered to groups of 8 growing rats each during 16 days, and their femurs were then submitted to 3-point bending tests at low strain rate. Low doses had no effect. Medium doses, previously shown to improve calcium (Ca) balance and weight gain in the species, augmented diaphyseal elastic and ultimate strength, stiffness, and plastic-to-elastic deformation ratio with respect to untreated controls. This effect was achieved either by enhancing bone mass (volume, sectional moment of inertia, wall/lumen ratio) without changes in material quality parameters (32 mg/kg/day) or, conversely, by increasing bone tissue mechanical properties (stress, modulus of elasticity) not affecting bone geometry (48 and 64 mg/kg/day). The highest dose, known to depress Ca balance and weight gain, impaired diaphyseal mechanical performance in controls by substantially reducing bone mass without major variation in bone material properties, that is, developing a true osteopenic state in mechanical terms. The energy elastically absorbed per unit volume (proportional to the risk of comminute fractures) was greater with the highest dose because of enhanced deformability and diminished bone mass. The biphasic dose-response curves obtained, grossly parallel to those previously demonstrated for metabolic actions of cortisol in the same species, showed that biomechanical repercussion of this treatment on bone depends on different, dose-dependent effects which vary independently in temporal course, intensity, and sign.
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    Keywords: Bone alkaline phosphatase ; Rat ; Vitamin D ; Sorbitol
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    Notes: Summary In the femoral extremities of the adult rat containing the metaphysis, the epiphyseal cartilage, and the epiphysis, four alkaline phosphatase (AP) forms were distinguished on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Two soluble forms were present in the 160,000 g supernatant: one of Mr 165 kDa and another of Mr 110–115 kDa, which exhibited a strong catalytical activity. Moreover, from the pellet, three membrane-bound forms of Mr 130, 110–115, and 100 kDa could be extacted with sodium deoxycholate. When denaturated AP was visualized by postelectrophoretic autoradiography of the phosphorylated intermediates, subunits always appeared as three monomers of Mr 75–80, 60–70, and 50–60 kDa. As four native forms but only three types of subunits were found to be present in the femur, it seems that, apart from homodimers, some heterodimers could also occur. Three types of diets were administered to three groups of rats for 5 weeks. Two are known to disturb bone mineralization: (1) a vitamin D3-deficient diet, and (2) the same as (1) but enriched with 12% sorbitol. The third was a normal diet containing vitamin D3. Concerning the effects on AP of dietary sorbitol and the vitamin D3-deficient diet, it was found that rats receiving the diet supplemented with sorbitol showed a substantial rise in the activity of the Mr 165 kDa form with the concomitant appearance of a new monomer of Mr 100 kDa. In contrast, rats fed the vitamin D3-deficient diet always displayed an increase in enzyme activity, principally of the Mr 100 and 110 kDa forms. In conclusion, the femur extracts of normal rats contained different forms of AP: either soluble 110–115 and 165 kDa forms or membrane-bound 130, 110–115, and 100 kDa forms. The administration of sorbitol-enriched diet induced a marked increase of the 165 kDa form whereas the administration of vitamin D3-deficient diet increased the 100 and 110 kDa forms.
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    Calcified tissue international 51 (1992), S. 30-34 
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    Keywords: PTHRP ; Anabolic ; Rat ; Bone ; Potency
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    Notes: Summary Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHRP) has recently been purified from human tumors associated with the syndrome of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy. The gene encoding PTHRP has been cloned, and based on predicted amino acid sequence, polypeptides comprising the first 36 [36Tyr(1–36) PTHRP amide] and 74 [(1–74)PTHRP] amino acids have been synthesized. Human (h) PTHRP (1–36) and (1–74) are potent bone-resorbing agents, and are catabolic for bone in vivo when given continuously at high doses. Bovine parathyroid hormone (bPTH) (1–34) is also catabolic for bone at high dose levels, but when given in low doses for weeks to months, it is anabolic. Although PTHRP possess several PTH-like properties in bone, hPTHRP (1–34) is reported to be only weakly anabolic in vivo. As polypeptide length influences PTHRP action, we evaluated hPTHRP(1–74) as an anabolic agent for bone in vivo. Twenty-four 4-week-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were given daily subcutaneous injections of hPTHRP(1–74) (1 and 2 nmol/100 g body weight, bw), bPTH(1–34) (4 nmol/100 g bw) or vehicle. Rats were sacrificed on day 12, and serum calcium, phosphorus, and 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D and femoral bone dry weight, calcium content, and hydroxyproline content were measured. Serum calcium and phosphorus were equivalent in all groups. A significant increase in dry bone weight was observed in both PTHRP-treated groups compared with controls. PTHRP also caused a significant, dose-dependent increase in bone calcium and hydroxypro-line content. Results of these studies indicate that PTHRP (1–74) is anabolic for bone in vivo when administered at low-dosage levels for a prolonged period.
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    Sexual plant reproduction 5 (1992), S. 86-88 
    ISSN: 1432-2145
    Keywords: Sex chromosome markers ; Y-chromosome ; Angiosperms ; Silene latifolia ; Melandrium album
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    Notes: Summary In order to obtain markers for the Y chromosome ofSilene latifolia, we pooled equal weights of leaf tissue from 18 female siblings into one sample and repeated the process with 18 male siblings. Pooling was intended to provide a common genetic background for each sample, leaving the absence or presence of the Y chromosome as the primary difference between the two samples. DNA was extracted from each sample and subjected to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification with arbitrary 10 bp primers. Four of 60 primers used gave an amplification with the male DNA not found among those from the female DNA. Each of these was subsequently shown to provide a reliable marker for the Y chromosome.
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    The visual computer 8 (1992), S. 233-240 
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    Keywords: Computer art ; Inversion ; Osculation transformation circle packing
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    Notes: Abstract The goal of this article is to present an informal introduction and tutorial on certain graphical aspects of inversion and osculation for the non-mathematician and to present artistic renditions using these methods.
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    ISSN: 1432-2242
    Keywords: DNA fingerprinting ; Repetitive DNA ; Genotype identification ; Angiosperms
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    Notes: Summary Oligonucleotides hybridizing to simple repetitive DNA patterns are highly informative as probes for DNA fingerprinting in all investigated animal species, including man. Here we demonstrate the applicability of this technique in higher plants. The oligonucleotide probes (GTG)5 and (GATA)4 were used to investigate the differences in DNA fingerprint patterns of the following angiosperm species: Triticum aestivum, Secale cereale, Hordeum vulgare, Beta vulgaris, Petunia hybrida, Brassica oleracea, and Nicotiana tabacum. Two species, Hordeum vulgare as a monocot and Beta vulgaris as a dicot, were analyzed in more detail. Their genomes differ considerably in both amount and organization of the simple repetitive sequences (GATA)n, (GACA)n, (GTG)n, and (CT)n due to the evolutionary distance of these two species. Furthermore, several lines and cultivars of Beta vulgaris and Hordeum vulgare can clearly be distinguished on the basis of their highly polymorphic patterns of these repetitive sequences.
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    Keywords: Testis ; Endocytosis ; Spermatogenesis ; Spermatogonia ; Spermatocytes ; Spermatids ; Transferrin ; Ferritin ; Sertoli cells ; Mouse ; Rat ; Monkey, Macaca fascicularis (Primates)
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    Notes: Summary The routes for adsorptive and receptor-mediated endocytosis were studied in vivo after microinjection of tracers into the lumen of the seminiferous tubules, and in vitro in isolated germ cells of different mammals. Cationic ferritin was located on the plasma membrane, in vesicles, in tubules, in multivesicular bodies and in lysosome-like granules of mouse spermatocytes. In these cells the number of multivesicular bodies varied during spermatogenesis. Spermatids and to a lesser extent residual bodies also performed adsorptive endocytosis. In the rat and monkey (Macaca fascicularis) diferric transferrin was specifically taken up by germ cells via receptor-mediated endocytosis. The labelling was observed subsequently in membrane pits, vesicles, endosome-like bodies and pale multivesicular bodies. A progressive decrease in the frequency of the labelling of the germ cells by transferrin-gold particles was observed from spermatogonia to spermatocytes and to early spermatids, which could indicate that iron is particularly required by germ cells during the mitotic and meiotic processes. Adsorptive and receptor-mediated endocytosis therefore occurs in all classes of germ cells. These endocytic processes are most probably required for germ cell division, differentiation and metabolism.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 1-18 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Asteraceae ; Centaurea ; Acrocentron ; Karyology ; biogeography
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    Notes: Abstract The karyology ofCentaurea sect.Acrocentron is surveyed. 19 chromosome counts on 8 species are reported; those onC. acaulis, C. crocata, C. galianoi, C. pubescens, andC. malinvaldiana are new. The basic chromosome numbers of the section are x = 11 and x = 10. Karyological arguments have been used to show that evolution was from x = 11 to x = 10. This is supported by biogeographical data. Two main centres of diversification of sect.Acrocentron were studied from that point of view: the East and the Southwest Mediterranean region.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 182 (1992), S. 71-106 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; dicotyledons ; Polygonaceae ; Polygonum ; Crystals ; extrafloral nectaries ; leaf anatomy ; secretory structures ; stomata ; subepidermal fibers ; trichomes
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    Notes: Abstract Several anatomical characters in leaves were described, and their distribution determined, for 153 species ofPolygonum, mostly from herbarium specimens. Structures surveyed were epidermal (glandular and nonglandular trichomes, nodules, specialized parenchyma, stomatal apparatus) and internal (cavities, crystals, laticifer-like cells, nodules, subepidermal fibers). Cleared leaves were supplemented by resin-embedded sections and SEM preparations of selected species. No feature defines any taxonomic section, but some features occur only within one section. Laticifer-like cells, epidermal and internal nodules, resin cups, and unique epidermal and subepidermal cavities seem to be unknown elsewhere; other features (invaginated epidermal cells; enlarged crystal cells confined to paraveinal layer) are rare among angiosperms.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 182 (1992), S. 107-119 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Piperaceae ; Peperomia ; Flavonoids ; cytology ; phenetics ; cladistics ; Flora of the Juan Fernandez Islands ; Chile
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    Notes: Abstract Four species ofPeperomia (Piperaceae) occur in the Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile:P. berteroana, P. margaritifera, P. skottsbergii, andP. fernandeziana. The last species is found also in continental Chile, whereas the other three are endemic to the archipelago.Peperomia margaritifera is found only on the older island of Masatierra, whereasP. skottsbergii is confined to the younger island of Masafuera, andP. berteroana occurs on both islands. Phenetic analyses of mainland taxa suggest thatP. fernandeziana belongs to subg.Sphaerocarpidium whereas the endemic taxa form their own subg.Tildenidium connecting to subg.Tildenia. Cladistic analyses indicate thatP. margaritifera is the most primitive species in the archipelago and thatP. berteroana is the most derived, especially patristically. Chromosomally, the four species are all n = 22, which may be tetraploid on a base of x = 11. Sulfated flavones occur only inP. berteroana andP. skottsbergii, which are otherwise unknown for the family. Dispersal of propagules to the islands from the continent and between islands is believed to have been accomplished by birds.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 29-52 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Polygonaceae ; Fallopia ; Reynoutria ; Chromosome number ; microdensitometry ; meiosis ; hybridisation ; dioecism ; alien plants
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    Notes: Abstract The taxa in this study have in the past been treated together in sect.Tiniaria Meissner ofPolygonum L. s.l., and more recently the large erect rhizomatous herbaceous perennials have been separated from the twining annuals and perennials as the generaReynoutria andFallopia respectively. These taxa range in ploidy level from diploid to octoploid, with base numbers of both 10 and 11 present. The plants are primarily Asiatic in distribution, although many of the large erect perennials are now naturalized in many parts of Europe. Cytological examination has revealed the presence of a number of previously unknown hybrid taxa in the British Isles. The readiness with which hybridisation occurs between taxa of differing base number and ploidy level, and similarities revealed in chromosome morphology, meiotic pairing and in DNA C-value, suggest to the authors that these two genera are best amalgamated underFallopia.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 15-28 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Cruciferae ; Erysimum ; Multivariate analysis ; cladistics
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    Notes: Abstract A taxonomically difficult purple-flowered group within the genusErysimum, restricted to the Iberian Peninsula, is analyzed by multivariate and cladistic analyses. 51 specimens have been scored for 14 characters. Both principal components and discriminant analyses provide support to the recognition of the five species considered by the author, namelyE. linifolium, E. lagascae, E. baeticum, E. popovii, andE. cazorlense. Cladistic analysis, using 7 characters resulted in a single most parsimonious cladogram containing no homoplasies. The pattern of morphologic divergence follows a clear NW.-SE. trend, which is congruent with the topology of the cladogram. This trend significantly affects growth-form as well as fruit characters, both providing the main grounds for species recognition. The different behavior and significance of several characters in both kinds of analysis is discussed. The co-occurrence of morphologically similar individuals differing in the flower color is discussed, too. Possible explanations for this phenomenon involve hybridization in a wide sense or, alternatively, rejecting the assumption of monophyly for the group.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 1-13 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Poaceae ; Triticeae ; Elymus ; Genome analysis ; morphology ; taxonomy
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    Notes: Abstract Seven tetraploid species ofElymus, viz.E. sibiricus, E. caninus, E. gmelinii, E. semicostatus, E. caucasicus, E. parviglume, andE. longearistatus subsp.canaliculatus, representing five sections were studied morphologically and used in interspecific hybridizations. The aim was to investigate whether the present sectional delimitation of the genus was in agreement with genomic data and if there was a correlation between genome constitution and morphology. The study revealed: (i) further information on the genomic affinities between the different species, (ii) that there is no congruence between genome constitution of the species and current sectional delimitation, and (iii) that there is a correlation between genome constitution and morphology in the palea apex shape and in the size of cilia of the palea.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 53-64 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Euphorbiaceae ; Macaranga ; Ant-plant interactions ; domatia ; evolution ; myrmecophytism ; Flora of Malaysia
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    Notes: Abstract The paleotropical tree genusMacaranga (Euphorbiaceae) comprises all stages of interaction with ants, from facultative associations to obligate myrmecophytes. In SE.-Asia food availability does not seem to be the limiting factor for the development of a close relationship since all species provide food for ants in form of extrafloral nectar and/or food bodies. Only myrmecophyticMacaranga species offer nesting space for ants (domatia) inside internodes which become hollow due to degeneration of the pith. Non-myrmecophytic species have a solid stem with a compact and wet pith and many resin ducts. The stem interior of some transitional species remains solid, but the soft pith can be excavated. The role of different ant-attracting attributes for the development of obligate ant-plant interactions is discussed. In the genusMacaranga, the provision of nesting space seems to be the most important factor for the evolution of obligate myrmecophytism.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 105-114 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Poaceae ; Aegilops comosa subsp.comosa var.comosa ; C-banding pattern polymorphism
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    Notes: Abstract The Giemsa C-banding pattern of the chromosomes of the native self-pollinatedAegilops comosa subsp.comosa var.comosa was studied. Six of the seven chromosomes of the haploid genome were found to be polymorphic for C-banding patterns. Chromosome A had four variants, chromosome E three variants and each of the chromosomes B, D, and F two variants. Chromosomes E and G were polymorphic for arm length and arm ratio.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 137-156 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; evolution ; origin ; ancestral angiosperm ; morphology
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    Notes: Abstract The ancestral angiosperm is commonly interpreted as an arborescent to shrubby magnolialean with large, multiparted, complex flowers. We examined this hypothesis using a phylogenetic analysis of new and reevaluated characters polarizabled with outgroup comparison. Our cladistic analysis of basal angiosperms placed the nonmagnolialeanChloranthaceae andPiperaceae at the bottom of the tree. We further inferred the probable ancestral states of characters not polarizable with outgroup comparison by examining their distribution among taxa at the base of our cladogram. The sum of ancestral character states suggests that the protoangiosperm was a diminutive, rhizomatous to scrambling perennial herb, with small, simple flowers.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 157-180 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Caryophyllaceae ; Scleranthus annuus ; Floral morphology ; numerical analysis
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    Notes: Abstract The variation in two sets of morphological characters of the flowers of the highly inbreedingScleranthus annuus (Caryophyllaceae) was assessed using 15–20 plants from each of 20 natural populations from the southernmost region of Sweden. The stamen fertility data set consisted of 10 characters describing the degree of fertility of the ten stamens/staminoids, while the sepal/gynoecium data set comprised 10 sepal characters, together with style and stigma length. Substantial variation was found in both the degree of development and the fertility of the stamens, the degree of variability in stamen fertility being related to stamen position within the flower. Considerable variation was found in the characters of the sepal and the gynoecium. Hierarchical analyses of variance indicated that 29% of the variation in total male reproductive effort was distributed among populations, 28% among plants within populations and 43% represented within-plant variation. The corresponding averages for the characters from the sepal/gynoecium data set are 26, 38, and 35%: a greater proportion of the total variance in female reproductive characters is accounted for by among individual variation than is the case with the male reproductive characters. Significance tests of Mahalanobis’ distances derived by canonical variate analyses indicated that all populations were significantly separated using the sepal/gynoecium data set, while only 50% of the pairwise comparisons on the basis of the stamen fertility data set were significant. Cluster analysis did not reveal any aggregation of the populations. The incongruence of the two data sets and their ability to discriminate between the populations is discussed.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 221-225 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Acanthaceae ; Ruellia ; Speciation over short distances ; endemism ; taxonomy ; Flora of Mexico
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    Notes: Abstract A new section in MexicanRuellia, R. sect.Urceolata comprising three species (includingR. cedilloi, spec. nova), endemic to Mexico, is described and illustrated. The taxonomic relationship and differentiation of the species are discussed. Evolution in Mexican Ruellas seems to be occurring at the diploid level.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 205-219 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Lemnaceae ; Lemna minor ; Phenotypic plasticity ; clonal plant ; genotypic variation ; fitness ; origin effect ; duckweed
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    Notes: Abstract Eight genotypes ofLemna minor, originating from four continents, were grown for 15 days in eight different environmental treatments. Fronds under each treatment were then transferred into each of the eight environmental conditions for 15 days. The rate of frond production (relative growth rate) and mean frond biomass were recorded for each pre- and post-transfer treatment and root length was measured for each pre-transfer treatment. For all the traits, the levels of response varied significantly between genotypes (G) and between environmental conditions (E). G × E interaction effect was significant for all traits under pre-transfer treatments and some post-transfer treatments. Both pattern and amount of plasticity were genotypically variable but the amount of variation depended on the trait. The trait representing the best estimate of fitness, growth rate, exhibited the least amount of plasticity and on average, showed the most conservative pattern of plasticity. In contrast, the trait least related to fitness, root length, was the most plastic and showed the most divergent pattern of plasticity. Under some post-transfer treatments, growth rate and mean frond biomass were affected by origin (initial treatment) effect. Pattern and amount of plasticity were also influenced by initial treatments. Since some genotypes may be more affected than others by environmental conditions, origin effect may accentuate G × E interaction and therefore, modify the pattern and amount of plasticity. Comparison between dendrograms based on genetic and phenotypic similarities suggested that there is no relationship between genetic and phenotypic divergence. This lack of relationship may be due to the fact that plasticity is not necessarily adaptive.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 235-242 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Geraniales ; Irvingiaceae ; Desbordesia ; Irvingia ; Klainedoxa ; diptera ; Floral disc nectaries ; secretory tissue ; stomata ; pollination
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    Notes: Abstract TheIrvingiaceae generally possess large intrastaminal receptacular disc nectaries of the mesenchymatic histo-type, which receive numerous small phloematic bundles directly from the central stele. The non-glandular epidermis bears some 10 to 15 strictly localized stomata that are deeply sunken in the parenchyma. The nectar is assumed to be exposed on the disc surface. Flowers are of simple construction, lacking specialized organs to attract pollinators. A wide range of pollinators is thus expected. TheIrvingiaceae have more characters in common withSimaroubaceae thanIxonanthaceae and should therefore be retransferred as a family of their own next toSimaroubaceae.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 227-233 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Menyanthaceae ; Villarsia lasiosperma ; Breeding system ; heterostyly ; distyly
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    Notes: Abstract The restricted perennial diploid herb,Villarsia lasiosperma, of southwestern Western Australia has distylous flowers with dimorphism in style and stamen length, stigma morphology, and pollen size. In order to assess the presence and nature of an incompatibility system in this species, a crossing program was carried out using 17 plants grown from seeds collected in two field populations. Pollen stainabilities of these plants mostly exceeded 95%. Mean seed-set of Longs following intermorph pollinations was c. 24 seeds per pollination and for Shorts was c. 16 seeds per pollination. Approximately three-quarters of the Longs and Shorts produced no seeds after self-pollination; the remainder produced very few seeds following such pollinations. No Shorts produced seeds after intramorph cross-pollinations. However, about half the Longs exhibited various levels of weakened intramorph incompatibility, with mean seed-sets following intramorph cross-pollinations up to half the mean seed-sets following intermorph pollinations. In the behavior of Longs, the incompatibility system ofV. lasiosperma differs from the idealized distylous breeding system, but resembles that of a purported close relative,V. exaltata of eastern and southeastern Australia.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 180 (1992), S. 243-259 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Convolvulaceae ; Systematics ; phylogeny ; chloroplast DNA ; homoplasy
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    Notes: Abstract Chloroplast DNA restriction site variation was studied in 31 New World species ofIpomoea, representing a majority of the New World sections and series within the genus. Using 14 endonucleases, a total of 124 phylogenetically informative restriction sites was detected. Dollo parsimony, Wagner parsimony, and bootstrap methods were employed to construct phylogenetic trees and evaluate confidence intervals of monophyletic groups. With a few exceptions, groups circumscribed on the basis of morphological variation are in agreement with groupings based on restriction site variation. Relationships between subgeneric groupings, however, disagree substantially with those proposed in the past. Although conflicting hypotheses for some intersectional relationships are not presently resolvable, cpDNA restriction site analyses propose the following refinements of existing classification schemes.Ipomoea ser.Setosae is divided into distantly related groups, as is sect.Pharbitis. SeriesTyrianthinae, a proposed segregate of sect.Pharbitis, is associated with sect.Calonyction and the Tricolor complex (subg.Quamoclit).Ipomoea sect.Batatas is segregated from other herbaceous groups of the heterogeneous subg.Quamoclit sensu lato and aligned as a derivative ofI. setosa, subg.Eriospermum. To test for homology of key characters weighted in traditional schemes, morphological features were studied with respect to their distribution on lineages defined by restriction site data. Characters such as setose sepals, foliose-pubescent sepals, and erect growth habit, among others, are interpreted as having multiple origins, while 3-locular ovaries, 4-locular ovaries, and long-haired seeds have evolved only once.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 1-9 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Plantaginaceae ; Plantago ; Breeding system ; floral features ; male and female investment ; meiotic system
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    Notes: Abstract Investigation of the genetic system of six species ofPlantago has revealed striking differences in their breeding and meiotic systems.Plantago patagonica is an inbreeder on account of preanthesis cleistogamy, whereasP. lanceolata is an obligate outbreeder, as it is self-incompatible.Plantago drummondii, P. lagopus, P. ovata, andP. major show mixed mating but in varying proportions. In terms of their energy budgets, outbreeding species invest more in floral advertisement and male function, while inbreeders invest more in female function. The contribution of the meiotic system to genetic variability, as revealed through recombination index, is more important in the inbreeding species.
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Asteraceae ; Artemisia norvegica ; Populations ; chemometry ; lipids ; morphometry ; principal component analysis
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    Notes: Abstract Specimens from Scotland, S. and C. Norway were grown in the botanical garden of Bergen, Norway. Some of the Scottish specimens came from a meristem tissue culture. The specimens were compared by a principal component analysis of lipids and related compounds, and of morphological characters from leaves and flowers. The populations differed from each other, but some overlap was found in leaf characters. The results are discussed in relation to distribution and immigration history, and it is argued that the differences among the populations may have evolved in postglacial time.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 33-43 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Fabaceae ; Medicago murex ; M. lesinsii ; Systematics ; evolution ; isozymes ; chromosomes
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    Notes: Abstract Chromosomal studies ofMedicago lesinsii (n = 8) and its close relativeM. murex (n = 7) have led to the competing hypotheses that the latter is derived directly from the former, or that both originated from a common ancestor. In contrast to the relatively variableM. murex, M. lesinsii proved to be almost uniform isozymically, except that most populations of Greece differed by one allele from plants of the remainder of the range. This Greek variant ofM. lesinsii was indistinguishable from one of the isozyme variants ofM. murex. The greater level of allozyme variation inM. murex was consistent with its greater ecological amplitude and competitive ability. Also, this suggests thatM. murex is unlikely to have originated directly from the less variableM. lesinsii. The data suggest that either both species originated from a common ancestor, or that the n = 8 species evolved from the n = 7 species, a mode of chromosome evolution not previously hypothesized for the genus.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 57-76 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Poaceae ; Poa labradorica ; Poa eminens ; Dupontia fisheri ; Hybridization ; isozymes ; DNA characters ; restriction site analysis
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    Notes: Abstract Phytogeographic, ecological, morphological, anatomical, cytological, isozyme, and endonuclease restriction site evidence is presented demonstrating thatPoa labradorica is of intergeneric hybrid origin betweenDupontia fisheri subsp.psilosantha (pistillate parent) andPoa eminens (staminate parent).Poa labradorica is endemic to recently deglaciated areas of northern Quebec and Labrador which are within the overlapping range of the putative parents. Incapable of sexual reproduction,P. labradorica dominates large areas of coastal marsh through vigorous production of rhizomes. Most morphological, anatomical, cytological, isozyme, and DNA characters studied inP. labradorica showed states intermediate or additive to those of the putative parents.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 45-55 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Alliaceae ; Allium ; Chloroplast DNA ; ribosomal DNA ; phylogeny ; bulb onion ; bunching onion ; chive ; garlic ; leek
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    Notes: Abstract Estimates of the phylogenetic relationships among cultivated and wildAllium species would benefit from identification of objective molecular characters. Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the nuclear 45s ribosomal DNA (rDNA) were identified among two of five accessions of each of six cultivated Alliums. Restriction enzyme sites forBamHI,DraI,EcoRI,EcoRV,SacI, andXbaI were mapped. Different lengths of the rDNA repeat unit among the cultivated Alliums were due to sizes of the intergenic spacer. Nineteen polymorphic restriction enzyme sites were discovered and used to estimate phylogenetic relationships. Cladistic analyses based on Wagner parsimony were completed without an outgroup and resulted in two equally most parsimonious trees of 22 steps. A combined analysis of differences at RE sites in the ribosomal (19 characters) and chloroplast (15 characters) DNA generated a single most parsimonious tree of 39 steps. Single trichotomies were observed at 40 and 41 steps. Strict consensus of the three trees of 41 or fewer steps consisted of a lineage forA. tuberosum, a second forA. ampeloprasum andA. sativum, and a third forA. cepa, A. fistulosum, andA. schoenoprasum. Estimates of phylogenetic relationships based on variability at restriction enzyme sites in the rDNA and chloroplast DNA agree with the classification scheme ofTraub. Because of the predominance of autapomorphies, restriction enzyme analysis of the nuclear 45s rDNA is of limited use in estimating phylogenies amongAllium sections. However it is useful in the establishment of interspecific hybridity.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 97-108 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Campanula ; Pollination biology ; pollen germinability ; pollen collecting hairs ; self-compatibility
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    Notes: Abstract Pollination mechanisms within the genusCampanula were studied. Tests were undertaken to examine whether in vitro culture of pollen grains can serve as a useful tool for understanding the self- and cross-pollination mechanisms among species. Characteristics of pollen germination were interpreted in relation to mating system and floral biology. Four annual species (Campanula kremeri, C. dichotoma, C. afra, C. lusitanica), and two perennial species (C. rotundifolia andC. persicifolia) were investigated. In the annual species pollen germinability is controlled by (1) the age of pollen and/or (2) in what position pollen is deposited around the style. Correlations were found between pollen germinability and mating system in three of the four annual species. No correlations were found either between germinability and age of pollen or position on the style in the perennial species. Pollen germinability reached its maximum in the middle of the male phase in all species, except forC. dichotoma, which had a decreasing germinability throughout anthesis. The germinability was lowest at the time of stigma receptivity for all species except forC. persicifolia, where the stigma did not develop as long as pollen remained on the style. The pollen collecting hairs and pollen removal have been found to play an important role controlling the stigma development, thus affecting self-pollination. This was especially pronounced inC. persicifolia. Further studies will be undertaken to elucidate factors influencing pollination within the genusCampanula.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 133-141 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Thymelaeaceae ; Thymelaea hirsuta ; Dioecy ; heterodichogamy ; sex ratio ; breeding system
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    Notes: Abstract The sex expression inThymelaea hirsuta was assessed in five habitats in the western Mediterranean desert of Egypt. The survey over two main flowering periods indicated that the sexual expression of this plant is complex and labile. Beside the dioecious male and female states, five monoecious states were detected. The dioecious states are more abundant and less labile. There is a clear shift from monoecious towards dioecious states and in general favour of males from the first (late autumn) to the second (late winter) flowering period. These results are discussed in view of the adaptive theories and evolution.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 121-132 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Datiscaceae ; Datisca ; Chloroplast DNA ; polymerase chain reaction ; restriction-site variation ; interspecific variation ; disjunct distributions ; biogeography
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    Notes: Abstract Datisca (Datiscaceae) is a ditypic genus with an intercontinentally disjunct distribution. Chloroplast DNA restriction site data was obtained from 23 populations and four 10–20 year old herbarium specimens ofD. glomerata and three populations ofD. cannabina from throughout their geographic ranges in western North America and southwest-central Asia, respectively. InD. glomerata, plastome diversity is partitioned geographically. All populations from southern California have a common plastome, while most populations north of this region share a relatively divergent plastome (0.49% sequence divergence). Likewise, these plastomes are highly divergent (0.87% mean sequence divergence) from those found inD. cannabina. Biogeographic processes dating to the Pleistocene and Late Miocene may be responsible for these intra- and interspecific patterns of chloroplast DNA divergence.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 171-178 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Palynology ; pollen grain wall ; cell wall strength ; functional morphology
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    Notes: Abstract 50% breaking point pressures of pollen grain walls of eleven species were determined. The breaking point pressures of most pollen grain walls are equivalent to those reported in the literature for other types of living cell walls such as bacterial spore coats, algal cell walls, mold sporophyte cells, and dicot suspension culture cells. The strongest pollen grain walls are two or three orders of magnitude stronger, however. Pollen grain walls are proportionately very thick in comparison to other types of cell walls. It is this thickness, not the construction or physical properties of the pollen grain wall, that most probably accounts for their strength.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 143-169 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Rubiaceae ; Tocoyena ; Hybridization ; differentiation ; speciation ; homogamic complex ; tropical woody plants ; taxonomy ; Flora of South America
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    Notes: Abstract The variation pattern of a large population ofTocoyena formosa in Botucatu, state of São Paulo, Brazil, and of other samples throughout the species area was analysed by morphometrical, statistical, ecological, and phytogeographical methods. Excessive variation and the remarkable coherence of two different character syndromes within this species strongly suggest that it has originated as a homogamic (diploid) hybrid complex. Possible parental species areT. brasiliensis, mainly from the Amazon region, andT. viscidula from the dry caatinga region of NE. Brazil.T. formosa has a much more extensive geographical range and greater ecological plasticity, ranging from the Amazon basin and the Guyanas throughout the Central Brazilian Plateau and from NE. to S. Brazil and Paraguay. Three (partly sympatric) varieties are distinguished withinT. formosa, i.e. var.formosa, var.pseudobrasiliensis (var. nov.), and var.microdon (comb. et stat. nov.). A provisional taxonomic revision, key, and conspectus covers the 12 accepted species ofTocoyena with blunt flower buds and ovate obtuse corolla lobes (group A, includingT. formosa); their distribution is shown in a map.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 203-216 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Saxifragaceae ; Tiarella trifoliata ; Intraspecific cpDNA variation ; biogeography ; phylogeography
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    Notes: Abstract Tiarella trifoliata comprises varietieslaciniata, trifoliata, andunifoliata, and is distributed from southeastern Alaska to northern California. We analyzed restriction site variation of chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) using 23 endonucleases in 76 populations representing the entire geographic range of the species and the three recognized varieties. We also employed comparative restriction site mapping of PCR-amplified chloroplast DNA fragments using 16 restriction endonucleases. This species exhibits low cpDNA restriction site variation. No differentiation is evident among varieties of this species based on cpDNA data; some plants of each variety were characterized by each of the two major cpDNA types detected. The two major cpDNA clades, which differ by only a single restriction site mutation, are geographically structured. A northern clade comprises populations from Alaska to central Oregon; most populations analyzed from southern Oregon and California form a southern clade. Populations that possess the typical northern cpDNA type also occur disjunctly to the south at high elevations in the Siskiyou—Klamath Mountain area of southern Oregon and northern California. Conversely, the southern cpDNA type is found disjunctly to the north in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Both geographic areas characterized by disjunct cytoplasms are considered glacial refugia.Tiarella trifoliata joins two other species,Tolmiea menziesii andTellima grandiflora, in having well-demarcated northern and southern cpDNA lineages. All three species have similar life-history traits and geographic distributions. We suggest that glaciation may have played a major role in the formation of the cpDNA discontinuities present in these three taxa. The pronounced relationship between cpDNA variation and geographic distribution suggests the potential applicability of “intraspecific phylogeography” to plants via the analysis of intraspecific cpDNA variation. These three examples also join a rapidly growing data base which indicates that cytoplasms are often geographically structured within species and species complexes.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 227-232 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Magnoliidae ; Monimiaceae ; Daphnandra ; Hortonia ; Protogyny
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    Notes: Abstract Among theMonimiaceae only five relatively primitive genera belonging toHortonioideae andAtherospermoideae have regularly bisexual flowers. Three species of two genera (Hortonia, Daphnandra), one of each subfamily, were studied for the occurrence of dichogamy. In all of them protogyny occurs.Monimiaceae are, thus, a further example for the preponderant protogyny inMagnoliidae.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 181 (1992), S. 245-254 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Brassicaceae ; Goodeniaceae ; Melastomataceae ; Pentadiplandraceae ; Resedaceae ; Salvadoraceae ; Computerized image analysis ; numerical key ; multivariate analysis ; pollen sculpture ; pollen terminology ; systematics
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    Notes: Abstract We present a key synthesizing pollen-sculpture terminology for grains having perforations or lumina of any size and spatial distribution. The key uses quantitative criteria to distinguish five non-overlapping qualitative terms (reticulate, microreticulate, foveolate, scrobiculate, and punctate). In addition, the range of quantitative variation encompassed by these qualitative terms is highlighted, including ways to express and compare that variation using computerized image analysis of SEM micrographs. Finally, a mathematical analysis combined with image-analysis measurements is used to explore the relationships between the terms outlined above and two closely related terms, tectate and semitectate.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 183 (1992), S. 51-65 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Melittophily ; flower colour ; colour signal ; UV-pattern ; spectral purity ; colour saturation
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    Notes: Abstract In melittophilous plants the colour pattern of the flowers, as perceived by bumblebees, is a gradient of centripetally increasing spectral purity. This pattern serves as a signal for innate flower recognition in naive bumblebees permitting orientation to flowers and landing on flowers. Structures which make up the total signal pattern can include the background (e.g., green leaves), corollas, and stamens or floral guides. How various colour parameters, such as dominant wavelength, intensity, and spectral purity influence the colour signal pattern of flowers is analyzed. The process of strong absorption of ultraviolet light is shown to be a mechanism for the enhancement of spectral purity in flower guides. The importance of other mechanisms is also demonstrated. The presence of a gradient of centripetally increasing spectral purity in floral colour patterns as perceived by a bumblebee's eyes is demonstrated by a comparison of the spectral reflectance in different parts of the flower and a representation of colour loci in the colour triangle.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 183 (1992), S. 169-181 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Plant 5S DNA ; spacer variation ; sequence conservation
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    Notes: Abstract The DNA sequence properties of 5S DNA (5S RNA gene plus spacer) from a wide range of families of plants is reviewed with particular reference to the possibility of using the information for phylogenetic inference. Although the data-base is extremely limited, the available evidence suggests that within a subclass or tribe phylogenetic inference can be made, provided that a knowledge about the number of chromosomal locations of the gene loci (5S Dna loci) is available. The evidence suggests little, if any, exchange occurs between the 5S DNA units at different chromosomal loci and the available data favour a mechanism involving amplification/deletion processes for creating structural changes at the5S Dna loci. Sequences originating from species in the familiesRosaceae, Poaceae, andBrassicaceae tended to group together in cladistic analyses but with low confidence limits. Surprisingly little of the spacer region showed conservation of sequence that may relate to a function in the control of transcription by RNA polymerase III.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 183 (1992), S. 235-247 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Mimosaceae ; Acacia ; 5S DNA ; evolution ; phylogeny ; chromosomal lineages
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    Notes: Abstract The DNA sequence structure of 5S DNA units inAcacia species, including representatives from the three subgenera ofAcacia, have been determined. The data was interpreted to suggest that at least three lineages of 5S DNA sequences exist inAcacia and the proposal was made that the lineages be named5S Dna-1, 5S Dna-2, and5S Dna-3. The5S Dna-1 lineage was represented by units fromA. boliviana andA. bidwilli, the5S Dna-2 lineage by units fromA. melanoxylon, A. pycnantha, A. ulicifolia, A. boliviana, A. bidwillii, andA. albida, and the5S Dna-3 lineage by units fromA. bidwillii, A. boliviana, andA. senegal. Based on this interpretation of the sequence data, the Australian species of subg.Phyllodineae grouped together as a cluster, quite separate from the subgeneraAculeiferum andAcacia. As expected from the analyses of morphological characters, the 5S DNA units fromAcacia albida (syn.Faidherbia albida) were quite separate from the otherAcacia spp.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 43-58 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Orchidaceae ; Orchis morio subsp.morio ; O. morio subsp.picta ; O. longicornu ; Multilocus electrophoresis ; genetic variation ; gene flow ; morphology ; Flora of Italy
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    Notes: Abstract Data are presented on genetic variation at 27 enzyme loci of the Green-Winged orchid,Orchis morio, in 18 population samples from Italy. The existence in Italy of two subspecies, i.e. subspp.morio andpicta, is not supported by allozyme data. No genetic heterogeneity was found betweenmorio-like andpicta-like samples and specimens. Moreover, morphological transition between the two forms was observed in different Italian populations. The parameters of genetic variability estimated forO. morio populations are consistent with those found among monocotyledon plants, and among those outcrossing, animal-pollinated and with wind-dispersed seeds. Genetic diversity of ItalianO. morio is mostly within populations. Correspondingly, low values of interpopulational genetic distance were found. This appears to be due to high levels of gene flow, which were estimated with different methods. The lack ofO. longicornu from Italian samples, as well as of any hybrid withO. morio (F1, backcrossed or recombinant individuals) is demonstrated on the basis of genetic data. It is concluded that recurrent reports ofO. longicornu from Italy are due to confusion withO. morio or with otherOrchis species.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 89-93 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Rhamnaceae ; Condalia microphylla f.melanocarpa ; C. microphylla f.erythrocarpa ; C. microphylla f.xanthocarpa ; C. buxifolia ; C. montana ; Fatty acids ; alkanes ; chemotaxonomy
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    Notes: Abstract The alkane and fatty acid composition of the lipid extracts from leaves of 14 populations ofCondalia: C. microphylla f.xanthocarpa, C. microphylla f.erythrocarpa, C. microphylla f.melanocarpa, C. montana, andC. buxifolia, were determined by gas chromatography. Seventeen alkanes and 14 fatty acids were investigated and a predominance of nonacosane, hentriacontane, palmitic and linoleic acids in all species was found.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 107-113 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Plantago sect.Coronopus ; Hair morphology ; bottle-like hairs
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    Notes: Abstract The presence of bottle-like hairs has been described in four hitherto uninvestigated taxa ofPlantago sect.Coronopus sensuDietrich. This hair type is a feature characteristic of sect.Coronopus.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 95-105 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Orchidaceae ; Epidendreae ; Malaxidinae ; Malaxis saprophyta ; Embryology ; systematics
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    Notes: Abstract InMalaxis saprophyta, anther wall development corresponds to the Monocotyledonous type. The uninucleate tapetum is of secretory type and the endothecium develops U- and V-shaped thickenings on the inner tangential and radial walls. Cytokinesis is simultaneous; tetrahedral, isobilateral and T-shaped tetrads are formed which are compactly aggregated in pollinia. At anthesis the microspore tetrads are 2-celled. The ovule is anatropous, bitegmic and both integuments are dermal in origin. A single hypodermal cell develops directly into a megaspore mother cell. Embryo sac development is predominantly monosporic and less often bisporic. Irrespective of the type of development, the mature embryo sac is 6-nucleate. Although double fertilization occurs, the primary endosperm nucleus degenerates. Embryogeny is of the Onagrad type. The mature embryo lacks differentiation into cotyledon, plumule and radicle. The reticulate seed coat is formed entirely by the outer layer of outer integument. There are three sterile and three fertile valves in the ovary. Although initially parenchymatous, the entire three sterile valves in the ovary and the upper half of the three fertile valves become sclerified after fertilization. The embryological characters support the disputed systematic position ofMalaxis within subtribeMalaxidinae ofEpidendreae.
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Labiatae ; Teucrium marum ; Teucrium subspinosum ; Trichomes ; volatile compounds ; Flora of Italy ; Flora of the Balearic Islands
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    Notes: Abstract Micromorphology and distribution of trichomes in different plant parts ofTeucrium marum andTeucrium subspinosum from Sardinia and the Balearic Islands are described. The composition of volatile compounds in the same plants has also been studied. The occurrence in Sardinia of two differentT. marum entities is evidenced. One of them, growing in the NW. part of the island, is very similar toT. marum from Minorca.T. subspinosum from Sardinia and Majorca differ for the presence in the last one of short capitate hairs and for a higher ratio of dolichodial/teucrein. While the degree of variability of all the characters is very high, there is a good homogeneity between all the taxa, due to the presence of monoterpene cyclopentanoids not found until now in other species.
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Poaceae ; Aegilops ; Genome D cluster ; alpha-gliadins ; storage proteins ; phylogeny ; introgression ; electrophoresis ; restriction enzyme analysis
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    Notes: Abstract The D genome cluster includes six allopolyploidAegilops species having as pivotal genome that ofAegilops squarrosa. Alpha-gliadins, endosperm proteins coded by multigenic families, have been analyzed in the D genome species cluster and in their putative progenitors. They can be present or weakly expressed when analyzed in acid polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Molecular analysis has shown the possibility to distinguish subsp.strangulata from subsp.eusquarrosa and to confirm the presence ofAe. caudata and ofAe. umbellulata in the polyploidsAe. cylindrica andAe. juvenalis, respectively. Finally, introgression fromAe. longissima orAe. searsii in tetraploid and hexaploidAe. crassa, Ae. juvenalis, andAe. vavilovii is supposed.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 155-165 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Poaceae ; millets ; Homogeneous/heterogeneous repeat families ; fossil repeats ; genome turnover
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    Notes: Abstract Based on optical reassociation studies of total nuclear DNAs at 55°C, 62°C, 69°C, and 75°C, it is concluded that repeat families in great millet, little millet, barn yard millet and finger millet are heterogeneous while those of fox tail millet are homogeneous. In great millet, almost one third of the sequences that behave as single copy at standard conditions are actually fossil repeats. Such “fossil” repeats are not a prominent feature of the genomes of the other four millets. The ratios of sequence complexities of repeats isolated at 75°C to those isolated at 55°C are 2.2, 3.5, 81, and 0.3 in case of little millet, finger millet, fox tail millet, and great millet respectively. On the basis of the above three observations, it is suggested that among these millets, the rate of turnover of the genome of fox tail millet is the slowest while that of great millet is the fastest. Such comparative estimates of differences in the turnover rates of genomes of related species are expected to generate useful data about the evolution of genomes.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 167-174 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Compositae ; Senecio vulgaris ; S. vernalis ; S. squalidus ; Ancestry ; autopolyploidy ; allopolyploidy ; isozyme variation
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    Notes: Abstract An electrophoretic survey of isozyme variation was conducted to test the hypothesis thatSenecio vulgaris L. (2n = 40) is of autotetraploid origin fromS. vernalis Waldst. & Kit. (2n = 20). It was established thatS. vulgaris exhibited fixed heterozygosity at three loci examined, showed disomic inheritance at all polymorphic loci, and contained a gene (αEst-1) and an allele (Aat-3b) which were not present in the single population ofS. vernalis surveyed. From this it is concluded thatS. vulgaris is not of autotetraploid origin. Instead, the genetic evidence is in keeping with an allopolyploid origin ofS. vulgaris with the possibility thatS. vernalis acted as one of its two parents.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 175-185 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Gramineae ; Deschampsia cespitosa ; Zinc tolerance ; heavy metal ; tolerant populations ; genetic basis ; heritability
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    Notes: Abstract Patterns of zinc tolerance were examined in eightDeschampsia cespitosa (L.)Beauv. populations from normal and zinc-contaminated soils, using solution culture methods. Zinc-tolerant populations have evolved beneath pylons, and their tolerance patterns (degree, variance, heritability) vary. Tolerance is genetically based in all of them. In contrast to the cases of other species previously reported, some within-population differences are considerable, and may be due to both heterogeneity of the soils zinc contents, various gene combinations and gene recombinations between genotypes. One control population contains many tolerant plants, an original result which is discussed.
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Ericaceae ; Arctostaphylos ; Meiotic pairing patterns ; polyphyletic allopolyploidy ; morphometrics
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    Notes: Abstract The central Sierran tetraploidArctostaphylos mewukka Merriam has been reported to be an allopolyploid originating from the diploid species,A. patula Greene and eitherA. viscida subsp.viscida Parry orA. viscida subsp.mariposa (Dudley)P. V. Wells, although without conclusive evidence. Morphometrics and the verification and determination of chromosome numbers were used to substantiate the evolutionary relationships among these species. A closely related species,Arctostaphylos truei Knight, was also examined using these methods to determine its separability fromA. mewukka. The morphometric analyses support a hypothesis for a polyphyletic origin ofA. mewukka from different races ofA. viscida andA. patula. The chromosomal data, although inclusive, also support this hypothesis. The data do not support the recognition ofA. truei as a taxonomic entity separate fromA. mewukka at the species level.
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Eriotheca ; Bombacaceae ; Anthophoridae ; Neotropical savanna ; bee pollination ; polyembryony ; apomixis ; polyploidy
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    Notes: Abstract The pollination biology and breeding systems ofEriotheca pubescens andE. gracilipes have been studied. These two species occur as trees in cerrado vegetation, the neotropical savannas of Central Brazil, with partially sympatric distributions. They have similar phenology and floral structure, although the flowers ofE. pubescens are larger. Both species have nectar flowers pollinated by largeAnthophoridae bees but the main pollinators of each species differ in size. The species have markedly different breeding systems: late-acting self-incompatibility inE. gracilipes and apomixis stimulated by pollination inE. pubescens.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 235-243 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Geraniales ; Limnanthaceae ; Caryophyllaceae ; Floerkea ; Limnanthes ; Floral nectaries ; secretory tissue ; stomata ; diplostemony ; pollination ; bees
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    Notes: Abstract Floral nectaries in theLimnanthaceae are established as exoscopic basal bulges of the episepalous stamens. Their nectariferous tissues include the epidermis and hypodermal parenchyma and inLimnanthes are vascularized by phloematic branches of the staminal bundles. Secretion occurs mainly through anomocytic stomata but, in addition, probably through the outer cuticularized thin walls of the epidermal cells. The flower structure is comparatively simple. The nectar is often slightly concealed. A wide range of pollinators can be expected, but bees are observed to be the dominant ones. The systematic position of the family is still obscure. Taxonomic placement near to any other geranialian families or to theCaryophyllaceae is only weakly justified.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 221-233 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Asteraceae ; Microseris ; Phylogeny ; RAPDs ; DNA fingerprinting ; isoenzymes ; dispersal ; distribution
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    Notes: Abstract The genetic relationships among 10 inbred lines representing 10 populations of the autogamous annualMicroseris elegans from throughout California has been determined using random amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs). Seventeen arbitrary 10 base pair primers produced 134 amplification products; 81 of these were shared by two or more strains. The 3 genotypes from Northern California are closely related as are 3 genotypes from Middle Californian populations which are not nearest neighbors. DNA fingerprinting with the oligonucleotide (GATA)4 gave compatible results, but the comparison was limited to samples run on one gel. Isoenzyme patterns are compatible with the DNA results, but limited by the very low number of informative polymorphisms. The clustered relationship among genotypes within a species and their geographic distribution suggests very restricted genetic recombination and an origin of new populations from randomly dispersed achenes within the range of the species.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 19-25 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Fabaceae ; Ulex ; Isoenzymes ; crossed immunoelectrophoresis ; seed proteins ; hybridization
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    Notes: Abstract Prostrate ecotypes ofUlex gallii, an atlantic species with autumnal flowering, grow on capes in Brittany (France).U. europaeus, a widespread species, has winter and spring flowering, but some plants can precociously flower in autumn, so that hybridization can be possible between these two species in areas where their ranges overlap. By using different isoenzyme systems and crossed immunoelectrophoresis obtained with seed proteins, it is possible to consider plants with intermediate morphological characters betweenU. gallii andU. europaeus as natural hybrids.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 179 (1992), S. 27-41 
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    Keywords: Angiosperms ; Liliaceae ; Tulipa ; sect.Eriostemones ; subsect.Australes ; Biflores ; Saxatiles ; Morphology ; crossability ; chromosome numbers ; numerical taxonomy ; phylogeny ; biogeography
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    Notes: Abstract Evolutionary relationships and infra- and interspecific variability within the species ofTulipa sect.Eriostemones Boissier were studied. Measurements of 35 morphological characters were used for principal component and canonical variate analyses. Crossing experiments and chromosome counts were carried out. Two axes of morphological variation were encountered within the principal component plot. Variation of subsect.Biflores was traced along one axis, the species of subsect.Australes as well asSaxatiles were found along the other axis. The nomenclature of names of subsect.Biflores was considered on the basis of their geography, specific morphological characteristics and polyploidy. Conspecificity of names of all species was tested based on both morphology and crossability.
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