• 제목/요약/키워드: Mollusk

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홍합 [Mytilus coruscus]으로부터 항균활성 펩타이드의 정제 (Purification of a Antimicrobial Peptide from the Marine Mussel, Mytilus coruscus)

  • 김인혜;김진욱;이재화
    • 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
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    • 제26권1호
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    • pp.25-29
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    • 2006
  • 흥합 (Mytilus coruscus) 추출물 RM 60을 사용하여 E. coli D31을 대상으로 항균활성 펩타이드를 분리 정제하였다. 정제한 펩타이드는 MALDI-TOF Mass spectrometry를 사용하여 분자량을 측정한 결과, 1464.92 Da로 나타났으며 Edman 분해법을 이용한 peptide sequencer를 사용하여 일차구조를 분석 중에 있다.

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A Revisit on Zonal Macrobenthic Communities in Chokchon Tidal Elat, Incheon, Korea, After the Survey in 1986

  • Hong, Jae-Sang;Yoo, Jae-Won
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • 제36권3호
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2001
  • An investigation on the zonal communities in Chokchon macrotidal flat, Incheon, Korea, was carried out on July 1994, eight years after the initial survey done by Frey et al. (1987a and b). A survey transect (4 km long) was established with 41 stations having an equi-interval of 100 m. Macrofaunas were sampled in July 1994. R-mode cluster analysis and ordination analysis (detrended correspondence analysis or DCA) were performed. The aims of the investigation were to: (1) observe the distribution and abundance patterns, including zonation of benthic macrofaunal communities in the area; and (2) gain information about faunal changes between two different periods. The primary feature of distribution was corresponded with Frey's zonation, and this was shaped by three level-specific species groups. Significant changes in dominant species were detected when compared with the faunal assemblages of 1986. The bivalve mollusk, Meretrix petechialis, seemed to have disappeared. Two newly arrived organic pollution indicator species, Theora fragilis and Capitella capitata, were regarded as impregnable proof of response to eutrophication, although the concrete evidence on the eutrophication source was not found.

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First record of Hirtomurex nakamurai (Muricidae: Gastropoda) from Korean waters

  • Lee, Sang-Hwa;Kil, Hyun-Jong;Park, Taeseo
    • Journal of Species Research
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    • 제5권3호
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    • pp.530-532
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    • 2016
  • A single specimen in the subfamily Coralliophilinae in Family Muricidae was collected from Jeju-do by SCUBA diving survey. It was identified as Hirtomurex nakamurai Kosuge, 1985 based on external morphological characteristics. The Coralliophilinae species, commonly known as coral snails, are broadly distributed in tropical and temperate oceans from shallow subtidal zones up to 1,000 m in depth. To date, only four Coralliophila species in the subfamily Coralliophilinae have been reported from Korean waters. Prior to this report, Hirtomurex species has not been reported from Korean waters yet. As a result of this study, a total of five species in two genera of subfamily Coralliophilinae are recorded as Korean mollusk fauna.

REPORT OF Malleus regula (FORSSKÅL IN NIEBUHR, 1775) (BIVALVIA: MALLEIDAE) IN KOREA

  • Noseworthy, Ronald G.;Waki, Tsukasa;Nobuhisa, Kajino;Choi, Kwang-Sik
    • 한국패류학회지
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    • 제32권4호
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    • pp.329-333
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    • 2016
  • The bivalve Malleus regula ($Forssk{\aa}l$ in Niebuhr, 1775) is reported for the first time from Korea. This is the second species of Malleidae reported from this country. Since the species is quite variable, comparisons were made with the original description and descriptions in the literature; some taxonomic comments were also made. Global warming and possible changes in the northward-flowing Tsushima Current may account for the addition of new mollusk species to the island's fauna.

제주도 해빈퇴적물의 구성성분 (Compositional Variations of the Beach Sediments in Cheju Island)

  • 지옥미;우경식
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • 제30권5호
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    • pp.480-492
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    • 1995
  • 제주도 해안을 따라 협재, 애월, 이호, 삼양, 함덕, 세화, 표선, 중문, 화순지역 에 분포하는 해빈퇴적물의 구성성분과 그들을 조절하는 요인들을 알아보기 위하여 이 들 퇴적물에 대한 암석학적인 조사를 실시하였다. 각 지역 퇴적물의 평균입도는 각각 협재 2.2$\psi$, 애월 0.8$\psi$, 이호 1.4$\psi$, 삼양 2.4$\psi$, 함덕 1.6$\psi$, 세화 $1.5\psi$, 표선 2.1 $\psi$, 중문 0.4, 화순 0.9$\psi$로 대개 0.4-2.4$\psi$정도이며, 분급도는 표선과 화순지역의 퇴 적물만이 불량하고 애월과 중문지역은 보통이며 나머지 지역은 비교적 양호하다. 각 지역별로 퇴적물을 이루는 주 구성성분들을 살펴 보면, 백색을 띠는 협재, 애월, 함 덕, 세화, 표선지역의 해빈 퇴적물은 탄산염광물로 각질을 이루고 있는 연체동물 (mollusk)과 홍조류(red algae)의 각질파편들이 85%이상으로 포함되며, 흑색을 띠는 이호, 삼양, 화순지역은 화산암암편(rock fragment)이 우세하게 나타난다. 특히, 해빈 퇴적물이 비교적 백색을 띠는 탄산염입자가 우세한 지역 중에서 중문지역의 해빈퇴적 물내에는 화산암 암편의 함량이 다른 지역들 보다 더 높게 나타나며 요선지역에서는 탄산염입자의 암편(intraclast)이 우세하게 나타난다. 입자의 크기에 따른 생물들의 퇴적물에 대한 기여도를 살펴 보면 1-2$\psi$의 크기를 가진 입자들은 주로 석회조류로 이 루어져 있으면, 2-3$\psi$의 입자들은 주로 연체동물의 파편으로 구성된다. 특히, 삼양지 역은 0-1$\psi$를 이루는 구성성분 중 태선류(bryozoan)가 거의 48%를 구성하고 있는 것이 특징이다. 해빈퇴적물의 구성성분을 조절하는 요인들은 하천에 의한 화산암암편의 공 급량, 제주도 해안에 따라 해빈 주변에 분포하는 주변암의 암질(lithology), 연안류 (longshore current)의 방향 및 폭풍의 영향들이 있다. 이호와 삼양지역은 주변에 많 이 분포하는 하천의 발달로 하천을 통하여 공급된 화산암암편의 양이 다른 지역보다 상대적으로 많아 해빈퇴적물이 흑색도 띠며, 그 외의 지역에서는 화산암암편의 공급이 상대적으로 적고 탄산염입자의 공급이 활발하여 해빈퇴적물이 백색을 띠는 것으로 생 각된다. 특히, 중문지역에서는 화산암암편이 주변 하천으로부터 공급되었을 뿐만 아니 라, 이 지역들의 주변에 분포하는 응회암으로부터 폭풍의 영향에 의한 일부 공급되었 을 것으로 생각된다. 또한 표선지역의 해빈퇴적물에 많이 포함되어 있는 탄산염입자의 암편은 천해 교질작용에 의한 고화된 퇴적물이 침식되어 생성된 것으로서, 이는 표선 부근의 천해에서 활발한 천해교질작용이 일어나고 있음을 시사한다.

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Stable Isotope Profiles of the Fossil Mollusks from Marginal Marine Environment: Is Carbon from the Seasonal Methanogenesis?

  • Khim, Boo-Keun;Bock, Kathy-W.;Krantz, David-E.
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • 제32권2호
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 1997
  • Stable isotope profiles with fine-scale resolution were constructed from the fossil mollusk shells, Mercernaria mercernaria, obtained from the late Pleistocene transgressive deposits of Gomez Pit, Virginia, USA. Incremental sampling were made along the axis of maximum growth to provide high-resolution ${\delta}^{18}$O and ${\delta}^{13}$C records. The ${\delta}^{18}$O shell profiles exhibit a series of pronounced cycles in the overall amplitude, corresponding to strong seasonal variations in temperature, which is apparently positive environmental variable. Contrasts between the patterns of ${\delta}^{18}$O and ${\delta}^{13}$C profiles reflect the relationship influencing the seasonal carbon cycling in the shallow marine environment. Positive anomalies of the ${\delta}^{13}$C values during the summer were observed to be out of phase with the ${\delta}^{18}$O profile. Such relatively heavier carbon source may be alternated due to seasonal methanogenesis during the summer. A hypothesized methane-based system may be operated in the shallow and marginal marine environment, resulting in a ${\delta}^{13}$C enriched bicarbonate pool, in which the heavier isotope seems to be incorporated to the shell carbonate.

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"임원십육지(林園十六誌)"에 수록된 어패류의 향약성(鄕藥性)에 관한 연구 (The Medicinal Effects of Seafoods in ${\ulcorner}$Lim-Won-Sib-Rheuk-Ji${\lrcorner}$)

  • 최영진;백숙은
    • 동아시아식생활학회지
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    • 제14권3호
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    • pp.187-195
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    • 2004
  • This study was conducted to figure out the nutritional nature of seafoods categorized according to the medicinal effects and the usages introduced in Lim-Won-Sib-Rheuk.-Ji, one of the well-known encyclopedias published during the Chosun Dynasty. They were compared with those introduced in other cooking books in order to find out how they were used in the diet of real-life. The seafoods of the book were first categorized into the fish 20, the mollusk 5, the crustacea 4, and the shellfish 7, and reptile according to the biological taxonomy, and then each one was reviewed in terms of the taste and the food-nature. Generally, the fishes had the sweet taste; the crustacea and the shellfish the salty or sour in addition to the sweet taste; none of them were bitter or hot. Most of them had the mild nature; seven of them were regarded as warm; four as cool; one as cold from the standpoint of the traditional medicine. The food-nature of seafoods was closely related with the medicinal effects on the human body. These seafoods were characteristically used in daily dietary life as well as the medical applications; used as the side-dishes rather than the main-dishes. The cooking methods of boiling, steaming, and baking were preferred to drying and stewing. The preservation methods favored were the fermentation, drying and salting. These cooking and preservation methods were believed to reflect the nature of the seafoods to manifest the medicinal effects.

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Spatial Heterogeneity and Long-term Changes in Bivalve Anadara broughtoni Population: Influence of River Run-off and Fishery

  • Silina, Alla V.
    • Ocean Science Journal
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    • 제41권4호
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    • pp.211-219
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    • 2006
  • A comparison was made of population of the economically important cockle Anadara (=Scapharca) broughtoni (Bivalvia, Arcidae) inhabiting different areas of the Razdolnaya River estuary at the head of Amurskii Bay (Peter the Great Gulf, East Sea). Also, changes in cockle population density and structure, as well as in cockle growth rates during the last 20 years were studied. In all years of investigation, the morphometrical parameters and growth rates of cockles were smaller at the sites located close to the River mouth than farther down-estuary. The differences can be attributed to higher concentration of suspended particulate matter, decreased salinity and water temperature, as well as a longer exposure to these unfavorable environmental factors at sites located close to the River mouth, compared to farther sites. For two decades, cockle population density had decreased by almost 30 times at some sites in the River estuary. The main reason for this population decline is commercial over-fishing of the cockle. Besides, for the last 20 years, linear parameters of the cockles in the population decreased approximately by 30% and weight parameters, almost two times. Cockle growth rates also decreased for this period. Evidently, these facts are due to the damaging effect of dredging.

Mactra veneriformis, an Intertidal Clam, as a New Second Intermediate Host for Acanthoparyphium marilae (Digenea: Echinostomatidae)

  • Han, Eun-Taek;Chai, Jong-Yil
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • 제46권2호
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    • pp.101-104
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    • 2008
  • Metacercariae of Acanthoparyphium marilae Yamaguti, 1934 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) were discovered in an intertidal clam, Mactra veneriformis, in a southwestern coastal area of the Republic of Korea. A total of 128 metacercariae were detected from 10 clams examined. They were round, 320 m in average diameter, with 23 collar spines. They were fed experimentally to chicks, and 10 days later adult flukes were obtained. The adults were morphologically characterized by the head collar with a single row of 23 dorsally uninterrupted spines, without special end group spines, a round ventral sucker, 2 round and tandem testes, and vitellaria extending at lateral fields from the posterior extremity not beyond the middle level of the posterior testis. The most characteristic feature of this species was the limited distribution of vitellaria, which differs from Acanthoparyphium tyosenense Yamaguti, 1939, the metacercariae of which are encysted in the same mollusk species. This is the first report in which the metacercariae of this species were detected, and the intertidal bivalve, M. veneriformis, has been identified as a second intermediate host for A. marilae.

Diversification and domain evolution of molluskan metallothioneins: a mini review

  • Nam, Yoon Kwon;Kim, Eun Jeong
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • 제20권6호
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    • pp.8.1-8.18
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    • 2017
  • Background: Metallothionein (MT) is a multifunctional protein playing important roles in homeostatic regulation and detoxification of metals. Mollusk species have been considered as useful sentinel platforms for MT-based biomarker approaches, and they have been reported to display an extraordinary structural diversity of MT proteins. However, potential diversity of molluskan MTs has not been fully explored and recent updates have suggested the need of revision of evolutionary hypothesis for molluskan MTs. Results: Based on bioinformatic analysis and phylogenetic evidences, novel divergence mechanisms and paths were hypothesized in both gastropod and bivalve MT groups. Our analyses are suggestive of the taxon- or lineage-specific domain multiplication/duplication from the ancestral or prototypic MT. Diversification and selection of molluskan MTs might be driven by the needs for acquiring metal selectiveness, specialized novel function, and improved capacity of metal detoxification under environmentally stressed conditions. Conclusion: The structural diversity and variations of molluskan MTs are significantly larger than previously understood. Undoubtedly, molluskan MTs have undergone dynamic divergent processes in their evolutionary histories, giving rise to the great diversity of domain structures in extant MT isoforms. Novel evolutionary paths for molluskan MTs newly proposed in this review could shed additional light onto the revision of the hypothesis for evolutionary differentiation of MTs in the molluskan lineage.