• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.201-206
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• 2008

This study was conducted to determine clutch size and habitat usage of Kentish plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus) breeding on Sinja-do lslet in the Nakdong Estuary from 22 April to 12 July in 1995 and from 21 April to 20 June in 1996. The Kentish plover preferred grasslands and damp sands to dry dunes as nesting sites. The difference in hatching success among these microhabitats was attributed to high tides, which washed away many nests on damp sands, and strong winds, which frequently shifted the sand to bury eggs on dry dunes. The main mortality factor in grasslands was predation by magpies Pica pica. Each clutch contained one to four eggs, with a mode of three eggs. Hatching success was highest in two-egg clutches and lowest in one- and four-egg clutches. The mean interval for egg laying was 1.8 days between the first and second eggs and 2.1 days between the second and third eggs. The average incubation period was about 24.2 days.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.75-81
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• 1994

To elucidate the relationship between steroidogenesis and sex differentiation in the duck, plasma, testicular and ovarian testosterone, estradiol-$17{\beta}$ and progesterone concentration in male and female embryo of day 11 to 27 (just before hatching) of incubation and in 1- to 7-day-old male and female duckling were investigated by radioimmunoassays. Plasma estradiol-$17{\beta}$ concentration in female embryos declined from very high at days 11 and 15 of incubation and remained at low levels after hatching. Male plasma estradiol-$17{\beta}$ concentration were always lower than those of the female throughout this period. Plasma testosterone and progesterone concentrations in both sexes were low during the embryonic stage, but then increased to peaks 3 days and 1 day after hatching, respectively. Estradiol-$17{\beta}$ contents were much higher in the left ovary than the right ovary or testes throughout the experimental period. The estradiol-$17{\beta}$ content of the left ovary was very high at day 15 of incubation, and decreased gradually thereafter. Both in right ovary and testes, estradiol-$17{\beta}$ contents were always low. Testosterone and progesterone contents in the left ovary were low from day 11 to 23 of incubation, and reached a peak 1 day after hatching. Progesterone content in the right ovary and testes were low levels over time period examined. Testosterone and progesterone contents were much higher in the left ovary than the right ovary and testes. The present results clearly demonstrate that the capacity of the embryonic left ovary of duck to synthesize estradiol-$17{\beta}$ and testosterone is much higher than that of the embryonic testis. It is suggested that estrogen secreted from the embryonic ovary earlier than day 15 of incubation has an important role in female sexual differentiation in the duck, and the sex of the avian species is basically male with homozygous sex chromosome (ZZ).

• 한국양식학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 1996

본 연구는 수정난에서 부터 부화후 60일 까지 황복의 배발생 및 자치어의 발달에 관한 형태적 특징을 조사하였다. 배발생 단계는 융합기, 난할기, 포배기, 낭배기, 체절형성기, 인두형성기 및 부화기 등 7가지로 구분하였다. 황복의 난은 분리부착 침성난으로 구형이며, 난황은 작고 많은 유구를 갖고 있다. 수정후 약 170시간 경에 난황 주위에 흑색소포가 출현되기 시작했다. 수온 $17.0{\pm}1.0^{\circ}C$에서 수정후 280시간에 부화되며, 부화된 자어는 큰 난황을 달고 있으며, 그 크기는 $3.00\~3.54\;mm$이고 $25\~26$개의 체절이 형성되었다. 부화후 7일에는 난황과 유구가 완전히 흡수되고 자어기에 도달했다. 부화후 60일에 자치어의 전장은 $23.54\~30.12\;mm$로 성장되며, 모든 지느러미가 형성되었다.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.425-430
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• 2012

The southwestern Australian frog Crinia georgiana (Anura; Myobatrachidae) inhabits ephemeral pools in which the tadpoles often face desiccation. Under these conditions selection on tadpoles can be severe and can directly affect fitness during the aquatic as well as the terrestrial developmental stages. A quantitative genetic study using a half-sib breeding design was conducted to understand the genetic effects on larval life-history traits. We found no significant additive genetic variance in any of larval traits. Except for hatching period, heritability estimates based on females were high in egg size, larval period, snout-vent length, and weight at metamorphosis, suggesting non-additive genetic effects. These results indicate that any response to selection during hatching and larval periods should be predominately governed by non-additive genetic effects in C. georgiana.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.207-213
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• 2011

The diapause of $Telegryllus$ $emma$, the Emma field cricket, was investigated to study the ecological characteristics of the species. Changes in the volume, oxygen consumption, and water content of T. emma eggs were followed from oviposition. An increase in volume, oxygen consumption and water uptake occurred from 7 to 8 days following oviposition. The oxygen consumption of the eggs increased slowly for 7 days following oviposition, but then decreased until 15 days following oviposition. These results showed that a physiological change at diapause initiation affected the volume, water content, and oxygen consumption of the $T.$ $emma$ eggs. An experimental investigation of egg hatching showed that the eggs could be stocked at $10^{\circ}C$ for 40 days with a 14 day pre-period after laying and yield, 62.1% hatchability under these conditions. Maintaining the temperature at approximately $10^{\circ}C$ was favorable for hatching. Another experiment on egg hatching showed that the storage of eggs at $10^{\circ}C$ from 40 to 180 days would ensure satisfactory, hatching capacity.

• 한국패류학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.47-51
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• 1996

Radix auricularia coreana, the intermediate host of Fasciola gigantica, is the most common pulmonate snail in Korea, This species is often found intermingled with Austropeplea ollula, the intermediate host of F. hepatica, in their natural habitats. In the present study. the life history of Radix auricularia coreana was examined under three different laboratory conditions. Egg-masses were taken from the field-collected adult R. auricularia coreana and incubated in the temperature ramges of 22-26$^{\circ}C$. The hatching began after 11 days from spawned eggs, and complete hatching took about 12 days. The hatching rate was about 88%. The juvenile snails were cultured at three different laboratory conditions. When the juvenile snails were cultured in the aquarium fed on lettuce leaves at 22-26$^{\circ}C$, the snails reached 20 mm in shell length at 86 days after hatching. The bottom of each aquarium was filled up with washed sand(1.5 cm) and decomposing ark shells were put on the sand. The aquarium was then filled with four litres of distilled water and continuously aerated. Most of snails (93%) survived until the experimenta period. The dggs are laid in 40 days after hatching; the averge number of eggs per egg-mass was 40.8.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.285-293
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• 2021

본 연구는 우리나라에 서식하는 쌀미꾸리(Lefua costata)의 산란기 특징 및 초기발달과정을 밝히고자 2018년 1월부터 12월까지 강원도 강릉시 옥계면 주수천 일대에서 수행되었다. 산란기는 생식소성숙도 변화와 당년생 치어 출현, 난경의 분포 등을 고려하여 5월부터 8월로 추정되었고, 다회 산란형이었다. 성비는 암컷 1,117개체, 수컷 879개체가 채집되어 1 : 0.79였다. 산란기 동안 확인된 난경은 0.24~0.93 mm로 성숙란과 미성숙란이 함께 확인되었다. 성숙란의 크기는 0.71±0.02 mm, 포란수는 평균 1,786±818 (n=31)개였다. 난 발달과정을 관찰한 결과 수정란은 점착성을 띤 회색의 분리침성난으로 난경은 0.76±0.03 mm였다. 25℃에서 수정 후 34시간(50%) 후에 부화하였으며, 부화직후 전기자어 크기는 전장 2.7±0.11 mm였다. 부화 후 4일에는 전장 4.5±0.16 mm로 난황이 모두 흡수되어 후기자어로 이행하였다. 부화 후 20일에는 전장 11.5±0.67 mm로 모든 지느러미 기조가 정수가 되어 치어기로 이행하였다. 부화 후 100일에는 전장 49.8±2.60 mm로 외형과 체측무늬는 성어와 비교적 유사하였다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.1702-1707
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• 2002

The effects of dark-control (D) and continuous green light (GL) exposure of incubated meat-type breeder eggs (Hybro) on embryonic growth from 5 to 15 days of age, hatching time, hatchability per cent and chick hatching weight were investigated in three consecutive experiments at 33, 38, and 41 weeks of age. A total of 798 eggs were used in this study. Eggs were set in an incubator on trays either in the D or under two tubes of 20-watt green fluorescent light during the first 18 days of incubation. Eggs from both treatments were transferred to the dark hatching compartment at 19 days of incubation. The light intensity was in the range of 1,340 to 1,730 lux at the surface of the eggs. GL incubation of eggs significantly (p<0.01) increased weight (expressed as an absolute value) and daily weight gain of embryos at 11 and continued to 15 days of age, hatchability per cent by 4.8%, reduced dead embryos per cent and chick weight at hatch by 37 and 2%, respectively and accelerated hatching time by about 24 h when compared with the D-control incubation. Chicks hatched at 504 h of incubation had significantly (p<0.01) higher body weight, expressed as an absolute value or as a percentage of egg weight, than those hatched earlier at 456 h of incubation. It was concluded that the GL incubation of meat breeder eggs reduced incubation period and chick weight at hatch and increased embryonic growth and hatchability per cent.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.169-174
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• 1994

An experiment was conducted to establish a large scale production method of anti-serum against chicken IgA and to profile the developmental changes of serum IgA levels during the feeding period(from hatching to 7 weeks of age) in broiler chicks. Blood samples were taken from Hubbard chicken at the age of hatching, 3 days of age, and weekly thereafter till to 7 weeks of age. The pure IgA was isolated from ammonium sulfate treated chicken bile juice by gel filtration chromatography ( Sepharose GL-6B) - The quantitative assay of serum IgA were carried by RID method. Developmental changes of serum IgA concentrations were 0.42 mg /mL at hatching, thereafter dicreased gradually, lowest at 1 week of age(0.17 mg /mL), and gradually increased to 7 weeks of age(2.73 mg /mL). There was no sexual difference in serum IgA level, but female chicks showed higher IgA levels than male chicks during the experimental period.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.144-149
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• 2018

인공부화기 내에 종란이 입란하여 18일간 발생기를 거쳐 발육기로 이란을 한다. 발생기 동안 계태아 무게 손실은 곧 기실형성과 상관되며 적당한 기실 형성은 곧 건강한 초생추와 입란 대비 부화율과도 연결된다. 그러나 국내 부화장의 부화기에는 현재 무게를 측정하는 장치 없이 부화실장과 관계자의 경험과 발육기로 이란시 표준 무게 측정으로 결과적 측면을 습득하는 것이 현실이다. 그로 인하여 부화 중 조기 폐사, 약추, 병약한 초생추 발생이 빈번한 실정이다. 종란 중량 감소를 모니터링하는 것은 발육장치기 안에서의 무게 변화에 따른 병아리 품질과 부화율 성과를 얻는 데에 절대적으로 중요하다. 종란의 크기와 난각질, 노계 군에 따라 수분 손실은 각기 다르다. 발육기 안에서 무게 변화를 실시간 측정하고 그에 따른 환기 변화를 최적화하여 부화율의 증가를 기대할 수 있으며 부화 시 전체 무게의 10~13% 감소를 컨트롤할 수 있는 실시간 측정 시스템의 개발 필요성이 대두된다. 본 연구를 통한 시스템은 기존의 입란과 이란시 직접적으로 일회성을 체크하는 방식으로 발육 기간 내에는 계태아 수분 증발 측정 제어가 불가능하여 부화율에 영향을 못 미치는 시스템과 달리 아두이노 스케치 보드에 로드셀 4개를 병렬로 연결하고 실시간으로 휴대폰, 컴퓨터를 연결하기 위해 Hyper-terminal 프로그램을 이용하여 AT-command 명령어를 활용하여 정상적으로 연동하였다. 블루투스의 통신속도는 15200으로 설정하여 아두이노와 Hyper-terminal 프로그램의 통신 속도를 맞춰주었다. 실시간 모니터링을 하여 인공부화기 내의 계태아 무게의 변화를 육안으로 확인할 수 있도록 시스템을 설계하였다. 이와 같은 방법으로 종란의 부화율 상승 및 건강상태의 향상을 목표로 하였으며 실시간 모니터링으로 인하여 사용자의 편의성을 확대하고자 하였다.