• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.469-477
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• 1995

Drosophila lacertosa and D. sordidula are members of the robusta species group in virilis section of Drosophila. The mtDNA of both species was analyzed, using 10 restriction endonucleases. The mtDNA genome size of D. lacertosa and D. sordidula was 15.7 kbp, altogether, and the numbers of mtDNA fragment were 26 and 32, respectively. Restriction cleavage map of mtDNA in these species was constructed. The patterns of cleavage map were very different between two species and it means that speciation was taken for a long time ago.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.17-22
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• 1992

The three yolk polypeptides have been isolated and partially characterized. Their molecular weights of YPI, YP2, and YP3 were 48, 000, 47, 000, and 46, 000, respectivelv, as judged by SDS-polyacrvlamide gel electrophoresis. They have different digestion products upon in situ peptide mapping by limited proteolysis. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis showed that their isoelectric points were heterogeneous from 5.92 to 6.54. And thew showed three different antigen-antibody reactions when each polvpeptides is reacted with antisera made to a mixture of all of three. These data reported here indicate that the yolk proteins are consisted of distinctive polypeptides in Drosophlla sp. (robusta species group).

• Proceedings of the Zoological Society Korea Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.42.1-42
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• 1999

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• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.271-276
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• 1992

20-hydroxvecdysone (20-HE) seems to be related in the regulation of vitellogenesis in Drosophifa sp. (robwta species sroup). Although yolk proteins (YPs) synthesis does not occur at a high rate in fat body cells of one daw-old female after eclosion, application of 20-HE to isolated abdomens deprived of anterior endocrine glands stimulated the synthesis and secretion of YPs into the hemolvmph. An injection of 0.3 $\mul$ of a 10-s M 20-HE was sufficient topromote synthesis and secretion of YPs in isolated abdomens. The response of isolated automens to hormones was first detected between 2 hr and 3 hr after treaDent of 10-s M 20-HE. Transcript analysis showed that the effect of 20-HE on yolk protein synthesis was mediated at the level of transcription.