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New Record of the Delesseriacean Parasitic Red Alga, Asterocolax denticulatus in Korea

  • Kim, Chansong;Kim, Young Sik;Nam, Ki Wan
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.341-344
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    • 2017
  • The delesseriacean parasitic red algal Asterocolax species was collected from Jindo in the southern coast of Korea. This parasitic species found on Pseudopolyneura japonica. And it is distinct from other species of Asterocolax with more or less denticulate branches when matured. This Korean entity is identified as Asterocolax denticulatus (Tokida) Feldmann & Feldmann (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) based on these features. This is the first record of A. denticulatus in Korea.

Innate Immune Response of NNV Infection in Fish and Its Disease Prevention

  • Lu, Ming-Wei;Wu, Jen-Leih
    • Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.127-132
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    • 2007
  • The innate immune response which is seen as the initial defense mechanism induced upon foreign invasion has been well documented in higher vertebrates. This has also been observed in fish infected with NNV. However, the fish immune system based on fully established genome project has not been fully elucidated. Therefore, in this review, we hope to correlate NNV infection in fish that has devastated the aquaculture industry, to its host immune system. Further, we discuss the potential preventive measures in overcoming the widespread of this neurodisease.

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Dictyota bartayresiana, a Brown Algal Species Newly Recorded in Korea

  • Kang, Pil Joon;Nam, Ki Wan
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.335-340
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    • 2017
  • A marine brown alga was collected from Geoje, located on the southern coast of Korea. This species shares the generic features of Dictyota and is morphologically characterized by the combined features of erect or prostrate thallus with smooth margin, dichotomous to subdichotomous branches not twisted at the terminal part, absence of surface proliferations, 1-3 cell layered cortex and unilayered medulla, and lack of involucrum in sporangia subtended by a single stalk cell. In a phylogenetic tree based on rbcL sequences, this species nests in the same clade with Dictyota bartayresiana. The genetic distance between both sequences within the clade was calculated as 1.2%, considered to be within the intra-species range for the genus. Based on these morphological and molecular analyses, this Korean alga is identified as D. bartayresiana described originally from the West Indies. This is the first record of D. bartayresiana in Korea.

Evaluation of the treatability test for crude oil contaminated sand using $CO_2$ evolution method

  • Choi, Dong-Hyuk;Sim, Doo-Seup;Oh, Young-Sook;Kim, Sang-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 2000.05a
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    • pp.15-19
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    • 2000
  • 원유로 오염된 모래지역의 생물정화기술 적용을 위하여 인위적으로 오염시킨 해사를 이용한 타당성 연구를 수행함으로써, 오염 환경에 최적 적용방법을 검토하였다. 무기 영양염류, 인공계면활성제, 유류분해미생물의 적용성을 검토한 결과, 영양염류의 첨가가 효과적이며 외부로부터 미생물을 첨가할 경우 토착미생물보다 많은 양을 적용하는 것이 효과적임을 알 수 있었다. 계면활성제는 CMC와 동일 농도로 첨가할 때 높은 효과를 얻을 수 있었다 원유성분의 무기화에 의해 발생되는 이산화탄소량 측정이 타당성 평가의 유효한 도구임을 알 수 있었으며 미생물의 활성과 원유성분 변화로 이를 검증할 수 있었다.

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New Record of a Marine Algal Species, Ahnfeltiopsis linearis (Phyllophoraceae, Gigartinales), in Korea

  • Kang, Pil Joon;Nam, Ki Wan
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.521-525
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    • 2017
  • A marine algal species belonging to Gigartinales was collected from Geoje, Korea. This shares the generic features of Ahnfeltiopsis, such as multiaxial thalli with a compact and pseudoparenchymatous medulla, densely cytoplasmic secondary medullary cells around immersed cystocarps with a carpostome, and is distinct from similar species within the genus by a combined feature of small (up to 4 cm tall) and tuft thalli, compressed to subcompressed branches except for ultimate branchlets and base of main axes, cartilaginous in texture, dichotomous branches, rarely produced proliferations, absence of hypha-like filament in the medulla and internal cystocarps with a carpostome. In phylogenetic tree based on rbcL sequence, the Korean species nests in the same clade with Ahnfeltiopsis linearis. The genetic distance between both sequences within the clade was 1.5%, considered to be within the intra-species range for the genus. This morphological and molecular evidence confirms the Korean alga to be identified as A. linearis originally described from California. This is the first record of A. linearis in Korea.

Ecologically Sustainable Management of Short-necked Clam, Ruditapes philippinarum, on the Coast of Yeongi at Tongyeong, Korea (통영 연기해역의 바지락자원 적정관리에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Sang-Man;Jeong, Woo-Geon;Lee, Sang-Jun
    • The Korean Journal of Malacology
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.189-197
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    • 2008
  • In order to develop the sustainable ecological management, short-necked clams, Ruditapes philippinarum, were collected from Yoengi coast in Tongyoeng, Korea. The growth of the clam was estimated as: $L_f=68.08{\cdot}(1-e^{-0.145(t+0.324)})$ from ring radius composition of shell. Instantaneous co-efficiency of total mortality and natural mortality were calculated as: 0.991/year and 0.494/year, respectively. The age of the clams from the first capture was estimated to be 3.28. The total biomass was estimated to be 212 MT in the fisheries area (6.4 ha). Applied by these parameters, the annual recruit biomass and the current yield per recruit were calculated to be 649.5 individual/$m^2$ and $0.7\;g/m^2$, respectively. The current fishing intensity was much lower for maximum sustainable yield and acceptable biological catch. Although higher yield per recruit could be achieved by increasing fishing intensity, it is favorable to retain the current fishing intensity because of the unique fishing attitude on Yeongi coast in Tongyoeng, Korea.

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