[KSCI] Korea Science Citation Index Service

http://dx.doi.org/10.5635/ASED.2013.29.2.136

Determining the Specific Status of Korean Collared Scops Owls

Hong, Yoon Jee (Conservation Genome Resource Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB), College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University)
Kim, Young Jun (Chungnam Wild Animal Rescue Center, Kongju University)
Murata, Koichi (Laboratory of Wildlife Science, College of Bioresource Science, Nihon University)
Lee, Hang (Conservation Genome Resource Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB), College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University)
Min, Mi-Sook (Conservation Genome Resource Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB), College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University)

Publication Information

Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity / v.29, no.2, 2013 , pp. 136-143 More about this Journal

Abstract

The collared scops owl that occurs in Korea is a protected species but its exact specific status has been questioned. To resolve the species status, a molecular phylogenetic analysis was conducted using two fragments of mitochondrial DNA, cytochrome b (cyt b, 891 bp) and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2, 627 bp) genes. Phylogenetic trees of cyt b revealed that all Korean specimens formed a monophyletic group with Japanese scops owl Otus semitorques with very low sequence divergence (d=0.008). We obtained a similar ND2 tree as well (d=0.003); however, the genetic distance between Korean individuals and O. lempiji from GenBank (AJ004026-7, EU348987, and EU601036) was very high and sufficient enough to separate them as species (cyt b, d=0.118; ND2, d=0.113). We also found that Korean species showed high differentiation from O. bakkamoena (AJ004018-20 and EU601034; cyt b, d=0.106; ND2, d=0.113) and O. lettia (EU601109 and EU601033, cyt b, d=0.110; ND2, d=0.117) as well. Therefore, we suggest that the Korean collared scops owl should be designated as Otus semitorques.

Keywords

collared scops owl; molecular phylogeny; taxonomy; mitochondrial DNA; Otus semitroques;

Citations & Related Records

Times Cited By KSCI : 1 (Citation Analysis)

Reference
Cited By KSCI

1	Allendorf FW, Luikart G, 2007. Conservation and the genetics of populations. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp. 6-14.
2	Austin OL Jr, 1948. The birds of Korea. Bulletin of Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 101:1-301.
3	Brito PH, 2005. The influence of Pleistocene glacial refugis on tawny owl genetic diversity and phylogeography in Western Europe. Molecular Ecology, 14:3077-3094. DOI ScienceOn
4	Clements JF, 2007. The Clements checklist of the birds of the world. 6th ed. Christopher Helm, London, p. 163.
5	Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA), 2010. A review of designating cultural monument animals (species) and preparation for effective management strategy. Cultural Heritage Administration, Daejeon, p. 326.
6	Cumming DJ, 1933. Notes on Korean birds. Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, 22:1-94.
7	Deignan HG, 1950. The races of the collared Scops owl, Otus bakkamoena pennant. Auk, 67:189-201. DOI
8	del Hoyo J, Elliott A, Sargatal J, 1999. Barn owls to hummingbirds. In: Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 5 (Eds., Marks JS, Cannings RJ, Mikkola H). Lynx Edicion, Barcelona, pp. 76-243.
9	Dickinson EC, 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3rd ed. Christopher Helm, London, pp. 1-1040.
10	Drummond AJ, Ashton B, Buxton S, Cheung M, Cooper A, Heled J, Kearse M, Moir R, Stones-Havas S, Sturrock S, Thierer T, Wilson A, 2009. Geneious v4.7 [Internet]. Biomatters Ltd., Auckland, Accessed 21 Sep 2012, .
11	Fennell CM, 1952. Some observations on the birds of southern Korea. Condor, 54:101-110. DOI ScienceOn
12	Fuchs J, Pons JM, Goodman SM, Bretagnolle V, Melo M, Bowie RCK, Currie D, Safford R, Virani MZ, Thomsett S, Hija A, Cruaud C, Pasquet E, 2008. Tracing the colonization history of the Indian Ocean scops-owls (Strigiformes: Otus) with further insight into the spatio-temporal origin of the Malagasy avifauna. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8:197. DOI ScienceOn
13	Griffiths CS, 1997. Correlation of functional domains and rates of nucleotide substitution in cytochrome b. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 7:352-365. DOI ScienceOn
14	Heidrich P, Konig C, Wink M, 1995. Molecular phylogeny of South American Screech owls of the Otus atricapillus complex (Aves: Strigidae) inferred from nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Zeitschrift Fur Naturforschung, Section C, Biosciences, 50:294-302.
15	Hekstra GP, 1982. Description of twenty-four new subspecies of American Otus (Aves, Strigidae). Bulletin of Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, 9:49-63.
16	Hodgson BH, 1836. Scops lettia. Asiatic Research, 19:176-177.
17	Kim YJ, 2006. Pattern analysis of the wildlife casualties in Korea. MS thesis, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, pp. 13-76.
18	Kimura M, 1980. A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through the comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 16:111-120. DOI ScienceOn
19	Konig C, 1991. Zur Taxonomie und Okologie der Sperlingskauze (Glaucidium spp.) des Andenraumes. Okologie der Vogel, 13:15-76.
20	Kocher TD, Thomas WK, Meyer A, Edwards SV, Paabo S, Villablanca FX, Wilson AC, 1989. Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 86:6196-6200. DOI ScienceOn
21	Konig C, 1994. Lautausserungen als interspezifische Isolationsmechanismen bei Eulen der Gattung Otus (Aves: Strigidae) aus dem sudlichen Sudamerika. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie), 511:1-35.
22	Konig C, Weick F, 2008. Owls of the world. 2nd ed. Helm Identification Guides, London, pp. 1-528.
23	Konig C, Weick F, Becking JH, 1999. Owls: a guide to the owls of the worlds. Pica Press, Sussex, pp. 39-42.
24	Lee WS, Koo TH, Park JY, 2000. A field guide to the birds of Korea. LG Evergreen Foundations, Seoul, p. 184.
25	Lok AFSL, Lee TK, Lim KC, 2009. The biology of Otus lempiji cnephaues Deignan, the Sunda scops-owl in Singapore. Nature in Singapore, 2:31-38.
26	Mace GM, 2004. The role of taxonomy in species conservation. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Socciety of London B, Biological Sciences, 359:711-719. DOI ScienceOn
27	Meng Y, Dai B, Ran JH, Li J, Yue B, 2008. Phylogenetic position of the genus Tetraophasis (Aves, Galliformes, Phasianidae) as inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear sequences. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 36:626-637. DOI ScienceOn
28	Mindell DP, Sorenson MD, Huddleston CJ, Miranda HCJ, Knight A, Sawchuk SJ, Yuri T, 1997. Phylogenetic relationships among and within select avian orders based on mitochondrial DNA. In: Avian molecular evolution and systematics (Ed., Mindell DP). Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 213-247.
29	Posada D, Crandall KA, 1998. MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution. Bioinformatics, 14:817-818. DOI ScienceOn
30	Nam TK, 1950. A hand-list of the Korean birds. MS thesis, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, p. 103.
31	Proudfoot GA, Gehlbach FR, Honeycutt RL, 2007. Mitochondrial DNA variation and phylogeography of the Eastern and Western Screech-Owls. Condor, 109:617-627. DOI ScienceOn
32	Rozas J, Sanchez-DelBarrio JC, Messeguer X, Rozas R, 2003. DnaSP, DNA polymorphism analyses by the coalescent and other methods. Bioinformatics, 19:2496-2497. DOI ScienceOn
33	Ryu SH, Park HC, 2003. Molecular phylogeny of the Family Strigidae (Aves) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology, 19:297-304.
34	Swofford R, 2001. PAUP*: Phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (and other methods) 4.0 Beta [Internet]. Sinauer Associates, MA, Accessed 21 Sep 2012, .
35	Tamura K, Dudley J, Nei M, Kumar S, 2007. MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24:1596-1599. DOI ScienceOn
36	The Korean Association for Bird Protection. Accessed 12 Aug 2012, .
37	The Ornithological Society of Korea, 2009. Checklist of the birds of Korea. Ornithological Society of Korea, Seoul, pp. 39-40.
38	Thompson JD, Gibson TJ, Plewniak F, Jeanmougin F, Higgins DG, 1997. The Clustal_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools. Nucleic Acids Research, 24:4876-4882.
39	Tomek T, 1999. The birds of North Korea. Non-Passeriformes. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 42:1-217.
40	Valdecasas AG, Camacho AI, 2003. Conservation to the rescue of taxonomy. Biodiversity and Conservation, 12:1113-1117. DOI ScienceOn
41	Vaurie C, 1965. The birds of the Palearctic fauna: Non-Passeriformes. H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd., London, pp. 603-604.
42	Weick F, 2006. Owls (Strigiforms). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 67-68.
43	Wink M, Heidrich P, 2000. Molecular systematics of owls (Strigiforms) based on DNA sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. In: Raptors at risk (Eds., Chancellor RD, Meyburg BU). WWGBP/Hancock House, London, pp. 819-828.
44	Wink M, Sauer-Gurth H, Fuchs M, 2004. Phyogenetic relationships in owls based on nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial and nuclear marker genes. In: Raptors worldwide (Eds., Chancellor RD, Meyburg BU). WWWGBP/MME, Budapest, pp. 517-526.