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뒤영벌 인공수정기 개발 (Development of the Artificial Insemination Instrument of Bumblebee Queens)

  • 윤형주;조영희
    • 한국응용곤충학회지
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    • 제46권1호
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    • pp.123-129
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    • 2007
  • 뒤영벌 인공수정기를 본 연구에서 처음으로 개발하였다. 개발된 뒤영벌 인공수정기는 자리잡기용관, 이송용관, 고정관, 머리받침대, 생식기 탐침기 등으로 구성되어 있으며, 여왕벌의 인공수정에 따른 스트레스 및 생식기의 손상을 최소화하도록 고안되었다. 특히 인공수정기의 조정핸들은 지렛대 원리를 이용하여 미세하고, 정확하고, 신속하게 조작할 수 있다. 본 인공수정기를 이용하여 인공수정 시 수정 성공률은 90% 이상이었다. 따라서 이 인공수정기는 우량형질의 뒤영벌 육종 및 보존에 효율적으로 이용되어질 수 있을 것이다.

샛강 생태복원을 위한 해외 사례 연구의 고찰 (An Analytical Study of Foreign Researches and Examples on Ecological Restoration for the Small Stream)

  • 권태호;박재현;김동욱
    • 한국환경복원기술학회지
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    • 제7권5호
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    • pp.26-37
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    • 2004
  • Most domestic small rivers and streams due to industrialization and urbanization have managed by concrete structures. The environmental functions of the river and stream are disappearing and urban streams play only the role of drainage systems. Also, the researches to restore natural streams are something yet to develop and not established the restoration for ecological functions of a small stream. Therefore the researches are required to develop ecological engineering system for watershed management system to handle various pollutants with restoration for ecological functions of a small stream. To develop this, the ecological engineering system for watershed management system could be developed with ecological conservation. In addition, ecological engineering system for watershed management system should be prior to conserve the habitat of biological resources and water conservation and applied to the original shape of streams. Also, it should be designed to restore the micro-topography of stream, the habitat of plant population in watershed. It is needed to develop the integrated researches to restore a small stream ecosystem.

Trypanosoma brucei Infection in Asymptomatic Greater Kudus (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) on a Game Ranch in Zambia

  • Munang'andu, Hetron Mweemba;Siamudaala, Victor;Munyeme, Musso;Nambota, Andrew;Mutoloki, Stephen;Matandiko, Wigganson
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • 제48권1호
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    • pp.67-69
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    • 2010
  • Trypomastogotes of Trypanosoma brucei were detected from 4 asymptomatic kudus (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) on a game ranch located approximately 45 km north east of Lusaka, Zambia. Blood smears examined from 14 wildlife species comprising of the impala (Aepyceros melampus), Kafue lechwe (kobus leche kafuensis), sable antelope (Hippotragus niger), tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus), warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus), puku (Kobus vardoni), zebra (Equus burchelli), waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus), bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus), reedbuck (Redunca arundinum), wilderbeest (Connochaetes taurinus), hartebeest (Alcephelus lichtensteini), African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), and kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) showed that only the kudu had T. brucei. Although game ranching has emerged to be a successful ex-situ conservation strategy aimed at saving the declining wildlife population in the National Parks, our findings suggest that it has the potential of aiding the re-distribution of animal diseases. Hence, there is a need for augmenting wildlife conservation with disease control strategies aimed at reducing the risk of disease transmission between wildlife and domestic animals.

The genetic structure of taro: a comparison of RAPD and isozyme markers

  • Sharma, Kamal;Mishra, Ajay Kumar;Misra, Raj Shekhar
    • Plant Biotechnology Reports
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    • 제2권3호
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    • pp.191-198
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    • 2008
  • Germplasm characterization and evolutionary process in viable populations are important links between the conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources. Here, an investigation is made, based on molecular and biochemical techniques for assessing and exploiting the genetic variability in germplasm characterization of taro, which would be useful in plant breeding and ex situ conservation of taro plant genetic resources. Geographical differentiation and phylogenetic relationships of Indian taro, Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott, were analyzed by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and isozyme of seven enzyme systems with specific reference to the Muktakeshi accession, which has been to be proved resistant to taro leaf blight caused by P. colocasiae. The significant differentiations in Indian taro cultivars were clearly demonstrated by RAPD and isozyme analysis. RAPD markers showed higher values for genetic differentiation among taro cultivars and lower coefficient of variation than those obtained from isozymes. Genetic differentiation was evident in the taro accessions collected from different regions of India. It appears that when taro cultivation was introduced to a new area, only a small fraction of genetic variability in heterogeneous taro populations was transferred, possibly causing random differentiation among locally adapted taro populations. The selected primers will be useful for future genetic analysis and provide taro breeders with a genetic basis for selection of parents for crop improvement. Polymorphic markers identified in the DNA fingerprinting study will be useful for screening a segregating population, which is being generated in our laboratory aimed at developing a taro genetic linkage map.

Comparison of environmental characteristics at Cicuta virosa habitats, an endangered species in South Korea

  • Shin, Cha Jeong;Nam, Jong Min;Kim, Jae Geun
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • 제36권1호
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    • pp.19-29
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    • 2013
  • Cicuta virosa is an endangered species in Korea, which is a southern marginal area. To conserve and restore habitats of this plant, we investigated water and soil environmental characteristics and vegetation at four habitats during the growing season. The C. virosa habitats differed in community structure, water and substrate properties, and water regime. Although the total distribution ranges of the water and soil environments for C. virosa were wide and overlapped with the optimal environmental range of distribution of accompanying species, the optimal water level range for C. virosa was defined as $7{\pm}3.5$ cm. Water level was adjusted by substrate structure such as a mound of P. japonica and a floating mat comprised of accompanying species. A floating mat was an aid to maintain an optimal and stable water level in deep or fluctuating water and to prevent strong competition with prolific macrophytes. The GS sampling site, which had floating mats, could be a good model for C. virosa conservation in a warm temperate region, whereas the PC sampling sites, which experienced a water shortage in spring, provided a clue about the decline in C. virosa population size.

도시지역 생태복원계획의 핵심토대로서 도시소생물권 도면화작업과 정보시스템 구축방법론 개발에 관한 연구 -대구시를 사례지로- (The urban biotope mapping and a building of biotope information system as a specialized tool of urban ecological landscape planning)

  • 나정화;박인환
    • 한국조경학회지
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    • 제26권2호
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    • pp.118-132
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    • 1998
  • There are numerous plant and animal species which are adapted to the conditioins of the urban environment. The objectie of landscape and nature conservation in cities can be considered as the perservation of these organisms as the basis for a direct contact between urban dwellers and the landscape elements. However, after 1980 in Korea, green and biotope oases started to develop in the center of the urban area, from which the surrounding population benefited, at least indirectly. Thus urban biotope mapping and biotope informatioin system as a specialized tool of urban ecological landscape planning will make clear the orientation for the preservation of species and renaturalizing measures. The results are as follows : 1) Biotope types in the study area were separated to 21 biotope. 2) The written description of the biotopes took place on the computerized forms. The basis for the uniform inclusion and description of all biotopes surveyed was a codeplan. Additional details were included on the urban biotope mapping. 3) The evaluation of the mapped biotopes was completed to the following aspect, namely " species diversity and biotope conservation value" and "nature experience value". 4) UBM and BIS represent an important basis for decision aid for the city administration within the context of the ecological urban and landscape planning process. 5) The methodology of UBM and BIS in this study area could be extended to whole urban area.to whole urban area.

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A Genetic Algorithm for Trip Distribution and Traffic Assignment from Traffic Counts in a Stochastic User Equilibrium

  • Sung, Ki-Seok;Rakha, Hesham
    • Management Science and Financial Engineering
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    • 제15권1호
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    • pp.51-69
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    • 2009
  • A network model and a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is proposed to solve the simultaneous estimation of the trip distribution and traffic assignment from traffic counts in the congested networks in a logit-based Stochastic User Equilibrium (SUE). The model is formulated as a problem of minimizing a non-linear objective function with the linear constraints. In the model, the flow-conservation constraints are utilized to restrict the solution space and to force the link flows become consistent to the traffic counts. The objective of the model is to minimize the discrepancies between two sets of link flows. One is the set of link flows satisfying the constraints of flow-conservation, trip production from origin, trip attraction to destination and traffic counts at observed links. The other is the set of link flows those are estimated through the trip distribution and traffic assignment using the path flow estimator in the logit-based SUE. In the proposed GA, a chromosome is defined as a real vector representing a set of Origin-Destination Matrix (ODM), link flows and route-choice dispersion coefficient. Each chromosome is evaluated by the corresponding discrepancies. The population of the chromosome is evolved by the concurrent simplex crossover and random mutation. To maintain the feasibility of solutions, a bounded vector shipment technique is used during the crossover and mutation.

동해유입천에 서식하는 잔가시고기의 미토콘드리아 DNA를 이용한 계통분류학적 연구 (Molecular Phylogeny of Pungitius kaibarae from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences in Selected Streams Flowing into the East Sea)

  • 장민호;윤주덕;채병수;주기재
    • 생태와환경
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    • 제39권2호통권116호
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    • pp.265-270
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    • 2006
  • The nucleotide sequence variations of mitochondrial DNA were investigated to understand genetic differentiation for five different Pungitius kaibarae populations at five study sites from selected four streams flowing into the East Sea. The complete sequences of mtDNA control regions of them were determined the constant sites 342 bp and variable sites 183 bp including parsimony infromative sites 122 bp. Based on the phylogenetic tree, five populations were monophyletic unit (97% MPand 100% NJ) and separated two groups (Myongpa-Songhuen stream group and others group). The population of Baebong stream (82nd bp, G-A) consistently formed them of the Jasan stream into a monophyletic unit even though it is closer then Myongpa stream (99th bp, T-C) from the Baebong stream. Further studies on the molecular phylogeny for the primary freshwater fish are needed to establish for the fish biodiversity conservation in mountainous and upland streams.

Enthalpy Equation을 이용한 고층 건물의 제연해석 (Numerical Analysis of Smoke Control for high-rise Building Considering with the Enthalpy Equation)

  • 배승용;노경철;고권현;유홍선
    • 한국화재소방학회논문지
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    • 제24권4호
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2010
  • 최근 도시 중심의 산업화에 의한 도시 내 인구 밀도의 증가는 생활환경의 고밀화, 집적화를 초래하였다. 이에 따라 도시 내에는 다수의 인원을 수용할 수 있는 다수의 고층 건축물이 축조되고 있는 추세이다. 하지만 고층 건물은 건물의 구조적 특성에 의해 화재발생 시 수직적 통로를 통한 연기확산속도가 증가하게 되어 높은 인명피해를 야기하게 된다. 그러므로 본 연구에서는 고층건물의 제연해석을 위해 개발된 ASCOS 프로그램을 기반으로 엔탈피 보존방정식을 추가하여 에너지 전달을 고려한 제연해석 프로그램(CAU_ESCAP)을 개발하였다. CAU_ESCAP는 ASCOS의 제연해석결과와 비교를 통해 프로그램의 타당성을 검증을 하였으며, 건물 내 화재 발생에 대해 적용하여 건물 내 제연 특성을 분석하였다.

Isolation and characterization of EST-SSR markers for Astilboides tabularis (Saxifragaceae), endangered species in Korea

  • JUNG, Eui-Kwon;KANG, Dae-Hyun;YOO, Ki-Oug;KWAK, Myounghai;KIM, Young-Dong;KIM, Bo-Yun
    • 식물분류학회지
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    • 제48권3호
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    • pp.195-200
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    • 2018
  • Genetic assessments of rare and endangered species are among the first steps necessary to establish the proper management of natural populations. Transcriptome-derived single-sequence repeat markers were developed for the Korean endangered species Astilboides tabularis (Saxifragaceae) to assess its genetic diversity. A total of 96 candidate microsatellite loci were isolated based on transcriptome data using Illumina pair end sequencing. Of these, 26 were polymorphic, with one to five alleles per locus in 60 individuals from three populations of A. tabularis. The observed and expected heterozygosity per locus ranged from 0.000 to 0.950 and from 0.000 to 0.741, respectively. These polymorphic transcriptome-derived simple sequence repeat markers would be invaluable for future studies of population genetics and for ecological conservation of the endangered species A. tabularis.