• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.21-28
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• 1983

The relationship of Paramecium bursaria with its symbiiotic Chlorella was studied in the view-point of photosynthesis and its product movement. The following results were obtained. In 1/10 dilution of bacterized medium green Paramecium grew and survived better than colorless Paramecium. P. bursaria was competitively related to its symbiotic algae as far as the change of total chlorophyll contents was concerned. Therefore, in continuous darkness total chlorophyll contents of green Paramecia decreased proportionally to the time course. Under the condition, on the other hand, that the bacterized medium was not replenished over 10 days, total chlorophyll contents in P. bursaria increased by over 2 times as much as those in normal condition. By means of Oxygen Diometer it was assured that green Paramecium was able to utilize thoitic the great part of oxygen evolved photosynthetically by its symbiotic algae. Also when was given many starch grains were found in symbiotic chlorella through electron micrography. These data suggested that P. bursaria was photosynthetically given lots of benifit by its symbiotic chlorella.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.145-156
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• 1986

The excretion of ammonia and glutamine synthetase activities were measured in aposymbiotic Paramecium and symbiotic Paramecium. The uptake of nitrate and ammonia, and specific enzyme activities of nitrate reductase, glutamate dehydrogenase and glutamine synthetase were investigated in symbiotic Chlorella from Paramecium bursaria and Chlorella ellipsoidea. The ammonia concentration in the culture media of aposymbiotic Paramecium was increased according to the growth of the Paramecium but it was not changed in symbiotic Paramecium. Nitrate, the major nitrogen source, was taken up at a rate of 0.635 nmol/ 106 Chlorella/hr in Chlorella ellipsoidea. Most of ammonia was assimilated to glutamine by glutamine synthetase, of which acitivty was 1,467 $\mu$mol/mg protein/min in Chlorella elliposidea. Contrary to Chlorella ellipsoidea, ammonia and glutamine transported from the Paramecium were the nitrogen source of symbiotic Chlorella and ammonia was taken up at a rate of 3.854 nmo./106 Chlorella/hr into synmbiotic Chlorella. Most of ammonia were assimilated to glutamate by glutamate dehydrogenase in symbiotic Chlorella. The glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH/NADH) activity was 0.851 $\mu$mol/mg protein/min.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.375-382
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• 2015

We discovered three soil ciliates of the class Colpodea-Colpoda henneguyi Fabre-Domergue, 1889; C. lucida Greeff, 1888; and Bursaria truncatella $M{\ddot{u}}ller$, 1773 from Obong-ri, Ayajin-ri and Elwang-ri (Korea), respectively. Colpoda henneguyi had the following features: often wider preorally than postorally, size in vivo $60-80{\mu}m{\times}50-70{\mu}m$; extrusomes indistinct in vivo, cylindroid approximately $1{\mu}m$ long; notches caused by deep diagonal groove; yellowish globules on the cortex of the cell; 10-12 postoral kineties; silverline system aspera-type. Colpoda lucida exhibited the following features: broadly reniform, size in vivo $70-90{\mu}m{\times}50-70{\mu}m$; conspicuous extrusomes, $3.5-5{\mu}m$ long in vivo, cylindroid to fusiform; 13-16 postoral kineties; silverline system cucullus-type. Bursaria truncatella had the following features: bursiform, size in vivo $300-470{\mu}m{\times}120-260{\mu}m$; macronucleus coiled with highly variable shapes, $600-1100{\mu}m{\times}30-40{\mu}m$ long in vivo; micronuclei 16-25 in number, approximately $4{\mu}m$ in diameter; extrusomes cylindroid, $3-4{\mu}m$ long in vivo. This is the first report of colpodean ciliates from Korea, and we describe these species based on observations of live and impregnated (protargol and silver nitrate impregnation) specimens.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.141-160
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• 1992

The systematic study on the bryozoans from the South SEa in Korea was done with the materials collected at 49 localities from 1965 to 1991. As a result, 57 species in two suborders of cheilostomaous bryozoans were identified, which seven species, Electra tenella, Labioporella bursaria, Dendrobeania longispinosa, Sinupetraliella gigantea, Cryptosula pallasiana, Hippopodina feegeensis and Durystomella bilabiata were new to Korean fauna. The unrecorded species and the species which need remarking were described with plates.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.18-22
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• 1962

Ten species of paramecia have been recorded up to the present , but there has been no report on paramecium in Korea. With the purpose of taxonomical study, paramecia were collected as materials at the several areas(ponds and streams) in Seoul from the first of March to the late of October , 1962. From the characteristics of the body-shape and the type and number of micronuclei, the six unrecorded species are identified on this paper as follows : Paramecium caudatum P.aurelia P.multimicromucleaturm P.bursaria P.trichium P.calkinsi