Increase in plasma total antioxidant capacity of grazing Japanese Black heifers and cows in forestland in Japan     

Satoshi Haga  Hiroshi Ishizaki  Miwa Nakano  Seiji Nakao  Kiyoshi Hirano  Yoshito Yamamoto  Miya Kitagawa  Hiroyuki Sasaki  Yoshihiro Kariya 《Animal Science Journal》2014,85(2):135-142

Blood total antioxidant capacity (TAC) has become a key bio‐marker for animal health. Forest‐grazing cattle are known to forage various native plants that have high TAC. This study evaluated differences of plasma TAC between forest‐grazing (FG) and pasture‐grazing cattle (PG). Experiment 1 monitored the plasma TAC levels of 32 Japanese Black cattle. The level in PG did not change throughout the grazing period. However, that in FG, which increased from summer, was significantly higher than that in PG through fall (P < 0.05). In experiment 2, we used nine Japanese Black heifers and investigated their blood antioxidant parameters and the TAC in plants that the cattle consumed in late June and September. The plasma TAC levels in FG were significantly higher than those in PG in both periods (P < 0.05). Plasma levels of lipid peroxidation in FG tended to be lower than that in PG (P = 0.098). Furthermore, the TAC levels in various species of shrubs and trees consumed by FG were higher than those in pasture grasses. Results of this study show that plasma TAC of grazing Japanese Black cattle in forestland increase from summer through fall.  相似文献   

A comparative study of self-feeder and automatic feeder: effects on the growth performance of rainbow trout fry     

T Shima  N Suzuki  T Yamamoto  & H Furuita 《Aquaculture Research》2001,32(S1):142-146

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Genetic identification of native populations of fluvial white-spotted charr <Emphasis Type="Italic">Salvelinus leucomaenis</Emphasis> in the upper Tone River drainage     

Hitoshi Kubota  Takahide Doi  Shoichiro Yamamoto  Seiichi Watanabe 《Fisheries Science》2007,73(2):270-284

ABSTRACT:   Stocking of exogenous, hatchery-reared white-spotted charr Salvelinus leucomaenis has been conducted throughout much of their range in Honshu Island, Japan, to increase angling opportunities. Although the native charr populations are thought to have declined because of hybridization with introduced fish, their distribution and genetic status have been uncertain. Fine population structures of charr in the upper Tone River drainage were examined using mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite analyses so as to clarify the presence of native populations. One common mtDNA haplotype was detected in all populations in the Ohashi River and Watarase River, and four and one tributary populations were monomorphic for such haplotypes, respectively. However, several haplotypes, considered to have originated from stocked hatchery fish, were observed in the stocked and the remaining populations. Judging from the genetic integrity over a fine geographic scale, the former were considered as indicative of native populations and the latter as admixtures with hatchery fish. Comparisons of genetic diversity, deviations from the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, principal component analysis, and relatedness estimations based on microsatellite DNA can also provide evidence for distinguishing native populations from those influenced by hatchery fish.  相似文献   

Nutrient digestibility values of a test diet determined by manual feeding and self-feeding in rainbow trout and common carp     

Takeshi Yamamoto  Takao Shima  Hirofumi Furuita  Nobuhiro Suzuki  Manabu Shiraishi 《Fisheries Science》2001,67(2):355-357

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Dynamic protein expressions of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in developing rice seeds     

Naoki Yamamoto  Masayuki Shimada  Toshio Sugimoto  Yoshikiyo Oji  Takehiro Masumura 《Journal of Cereal Science》2014

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Effect of taurine supplemented practical diet on growth performance and taurine contents in whole body and tissues of juvenile Japanese flounder <Emphasis Type="Italic">Paralichthys olivaceus</Emphasis>     

Shin-Kwon?Kim  Toshio?TakeuchiEmail author  Atsushi?Akimoto  Hirofumi?Furuita  Takeshi?Yamamoto  Masahito?Yokoyama  Yuko?Murata 《Fisheries Science》2005,71(3):627-632

ABSTRACT:   The effect of dietary taurine on juvenile Japanese flounder was determined by feeding three taurine-supplemented experimental diets (TAU) and a commercial diet (CD) to evaluate a practical diet for juvenile Japanese flounder. Juvenile Japanese flounder were reared on the three experimental diets supplemented with taurine at 0, 0.5, 1.0% and CD. These diets were fed to juvenile Japanese flounder of an initial mean body weight of 0.2 g for 6 weeks at 20°C and the taurine contents of the whole body and tissues were analyzed. The final average body weight of juvenile Japanese flounder fed the 1.0% TAU was significantly higher than that of the other groups. Taurine contents in the whole body and tissues increased with the increase in dietary taurine level. These results indicate that juvenile Japanese flounder require at least 15 mg/g taurine in the diet, even though a combined mix of fish, krill and squid meal was the main protein source in the experimental diets.  相似文献   

Comparative study on thermal denaturation modes of myosin in walleye pollack and carp myofibrils as affected by salt concentration     

Masayuki?Takahashi  Takeshi?Yamamoto  Sanae?Kato  Kunihiko?KonnoEmail author 《Fisheries Science》2005,71(3):662-671

ABSTRACT:   The effect of salt concentration on the thermal denaturation profile of myosin in walleye pollack and carp myofibrils was compared by studying the subfragment-1 (S-1) and rod denaturation rates upon heating. Species-specific denaturation mode observed at 0.1 M KCl was no longer detected when samples were heated above 0.5 M KCl, where S-1 and rod denaturation rates were identical to each other. As the heating of the chymotryptic digest of myofibril formed practically no rod aggregates, S-1 denaturation in a form of myosin was the rate limiting step for rod aggregate formation. As the aggregate formation by rod was remarkably suppressed by lowering the temperature, the free movement of myosin tail upon heating was suggested to play an important role in the rod aggregate formation in a high salt medium.  相似文献   

DNA content of the cell nucleus in the macroalga <Emphasis Type="Italic">Porphyra yezoensis</Emphasis> (Rhodophyta)     

Kazuyo Matsuyama-Serisawa  Maki Yamamoto  Mariko Fujishita  Hirotoshi Endo  Yukihiko Serisawa  Satoshi Tabata  Shigeyuki Kawano  Naotsune Saga 《Fisheries Science》2007,73(3):738-740

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Interpopulation comparison of size and age at smolting of white-spotted charr, Salvelinus leucomaenis     

S. Yamamoto  K. Morita 《Ecology of Freshwater Fish》2002,11(4):281-284

Abstract – The relationships between size and age at smolting and juvenile growth rates were examined for 13 populations of white-spotted charr ( Salvelinus leucomaenis ). Mean smolt length (ranging 142–210 mm in fork length) and smolt age (2.4–3.7 years) varied significantly among populations and there was a significant negative relationship between smolt length and age. Mean smolt length was positively correlated with mean specific growth rate from age 0 to 1 year, whereas mean smolt age was negatively correlated with specific growth rate. The present study shows that the freshwater environment conditions operating on juvenile growth are important for moulding the phenotypic characteristics of size and age at smolting.  相似文献   

Two male sterility-inducing cytoplasms of beet (Beta vulgaris) are genetically distinct but have closely related mitochondrial genomes: implication of a substoichiometric mitochondrial DNA molecule in their evolution     

Yasuyuki Onodera  Takumi Arakawa  Rika Yui-Kurino  Masayuki P. Yamamoto  Kazuyoshi Kitazaki  Shigehiko Ebe  Muneyuki Matsunaga  Kazunori Taguchi  Yosuke Kuroda  Shiko Yamashita  Tomoyuki Sakai  Toshiro Kinoshita  Tetsuo Mikami  Tomohiko Kubo 《Euphytica》2015,206(2):365-379

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