Identification of a crustacean β-1,3-glucanase related protein as a pattern recognition protein in antibacterial response.

Prophenoloxidase (proPO) activating system is an important immune response for arthropods. β-1, 3-glucanase related protein (previously named as lipopolysaccharide and β-1, 3-glucan binding protein (LGBP) in crustaceans) is a typical pattern recognition receptor family involved in the proPO activation by recognizing the invading microbes. In this study, we pay special attention to a bacteria-induced β-1,3-glucanase related protein from red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii, an important aquaculture specie in China.

[Instant response of individual size inequality indices to thinning regimes in plantation].

Four kinds of thinning treatments were designed including thinning from below, thinning from above, mechanical thinning and crop tree release with the same thinning intensity on the 14-year-old pure Cunninghamia laceolata and Pinus massoniana plantations in Guangxi, and 6 kinds of size inequality indices were applied including stand deviation, variation coefficient, skewness, Gini coefficient, Kuznetz coefficient and Lorenz asymmetry coefficient to evaluate the change of individual volume inequality after the 4 kinds of thinning regimes applied. The results showed that stand deviation, variation coefficient, Gini coefficient and Kuznetz coefficient decreased and skewness increased after thinning from below or above compared with before thinning, while after crop tree release these four indices increased and skewness was uncertain. Lorenz asymmetry coefficient increased after thinning from below while it decreased after thinning from above or crop tree release compared with before thinning.