• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2010

작물의 화분매개를 위해 사용되고 있는 뒤영벌 종 토종 호박벌에 적합한 전기를 이용한 산란유도장치를 본 연구에서 처음으로 개발하였다. 개발된 산란유도장치는 여왕벌의 산란이 이루어지는 산란상자, 산란상자의 온도 유지를 위한 온도제어장치, 열전도부 및 이를 지탱할 수 있는 이동형 선반 등으로 구성되어 있다. 개발된 산란유도장치와 기존의 온수 보일러 장치를 이용하여 토종 호박벌의 산란성과 봉세발달을 조사한 결과, 개발된 산란유도장치에서 산란율이 3.9% 높고, 봉군형성율도 5.2% 높은 것으로 확인되었다. 특히 개발된 산란유도장치는 기존의 장치보다 설치비용을 75% 줄일 수 있었고, 에너지 절감이 가능하여 유지비용에 있어서도 효과적이었다. 이러한 결과들로 볼 때, 본 연구에서 새롭게 개발된 전기 산란유도장치는 비용절감과 함께 효과적인 산란유도에 따른 호박벌의 대량생산에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2013

Paralytic peptide binding proteins (PP-BP) are 30KP proteins that show similarity to ENF binding proteins. The ENF-BP act as active regulators of ENF peptides. ENF peptides are multifunctional insect cytokines. The comparison of gene expression in diapause induced and non-diapause eggs at different time intervals after oviposition showed an upregulation of PP at 18h as well as PP-BP at 12 and 18h after oviposition along with few other genes. The current study has been taken up to investigate the role of PP as well as PP-BP in diapause induction in polyvoltine silkworms and to study the multigene organization of PP-BP in the Bombyx mori genome. The tissue specific expression analysis revealed that, PP-BP is highly expressed in fat body followed by egg and brain while no expression was observed in midgut. The expression levels of PP and PP-BP in diapause and non-diapause eggs from 0h to 48h after oviposition, validated through realtime PCR revealed that PP is highly expressed at 18 and 24h while PP-BP expression is higher at 12 and 18h time intervals suggesting their possible role in diapause induction. The whole genome survey of the PP-BP paralogous sequences revealed a total of 46 B. mori PP-BP homologs that are classified into 3 categories viz., ENF-BP, Typical 30KPs and serine/threonine rich 30KPs. These paralogous sequences are distributed on chromosomes 7, 20, 22 and 24, all 30KP and S/T rich 30KP proteins are present in the same locus of chromosome 20.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2014

Bumblebees are important pollinators of crops and wildflowers. The Korean native bumblebee, Bombus ignitus, undergoes one generation per year, and induction of artificial hibernation is essential for year-round rearing of the bumblebee. Keeping queens under cold treatment conditions for several mo is an effective method for terminating their diapause and promoting colony development. In the present study, we investigated how the timing and duration of chilling affect the artificial hibernation of B. ignitus queens. In the timing assessment, cold treatment was instituted at 12 d, 40 d, or 100 d after eclosion under a constant temperature of $5^{\circ}C$ and 80% humidity. The queens that entered cold treatment at 12 d after emergence evidenced the highest survival rates: 86.7% at two mo, 73.3% at three mo, and 46.4% at 4 mo. Survival rates were reduced under storage conditions at 12 d, 40 d, and 100 d after emergence. When queens were subjected to chilling at 8 d, 12 d, or 16 d after eclosion with constant 80% humidity, the queens stored at 12 d after eclosion exhibited the highest survival rates, which were 84.6 at one mo, 25.0% at two mo, and 7.9% at three mo. In regards to the duration of the cold period, the queens that hibernated for at least two mo evidenced optimal colony development rates. The rates of oviposition, colony foundation, and progeny-queen production of queens hibernated for two mo were 60.0%, 30.0%, and 13.3%, respectively. These values were 6.0 to 13.3 times higher than those in the queens that hibernated for 15 d. Therefore, a cold period of at least 2 mo applied 12 d after emergence were found to be the most favorable conditions for diapause break in B. ignitus queens.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.173-181
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• 1992

Duck is an important domestic animal, especially in Asia. Eighty five percent of ducks in the world are kept in Asia, especially in the East and South Asia regions. The ancestor of domesticated ducks was mallard (Anas platylhynchos), which are still migrating between north and southern parts in Eurasia. Ducks have been domesticated in China for at least 3000 years ago. Phylogenetic studies on ducks, employing electrophoresis of blood proteins, indicate a marked difference of genetic constitution between duck breeds in southeast Asia and those in northeast Asia. Duck embryonic ovary is much more active in secretion of sex steroid hormones especially estradiol than the embryonic testes. Estradiol secreted by the embryonic left ovary has an important role in female sexual differentiation in ducks. In the female ducks, plasma LH, estradiol and testosterone levels increase and reach peaks shortly before the first egg, while progesterone level reach a peak shortly after the first egg. In laying ducks oviposition mostly occurs in the last 3 hr of darkness and first hr of light ranging 02:00-06:00 under 14 hr light (05:00-19:00) and 10 hr darkness photoperiodic condition. Measurements of plasma hormone levels reveal that onset of darkness is a major signal for LH release from the pituitary and the subsequent release of progesterone from ovary, and for induction of ovulation in the female duck.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.42-48
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• 1984

복숭아 심식나방의 발생생태를 구명하기 위하여 휴면 유기 및 종료시간, 휴면타파에 미치는 저온의 영향, 휴면후 월동유충의 용화시간 및 이에 대한 강우조건의 영향 등을 조사하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 복숭아심식나방의 휴면은 최초 7월하순에 탈과하는 유충부터 시작되었으며, 8월중순에 약 $50\%$가 휴면하였고, 9월 상순 이후 탈과하는 유충은 모두 휴면하였다. 2. 휴면유기는 산란시기와 관계가 있어서 6월하순$\~$7월하순에 산란되어 발육한 유충부터 휴면하기 시작하나, 년도별 발육시간중의 온도에 따라서 차이가 있었다. 3. 휴면이 종료되는 시기는 12월상순 경이었으며, 1월이후에 가온하는 개체는 거의 모두 용화하였다. 4. 휴면타파에는 5, $10^{\circ}C$의 저온이 효과적이었으며 저온요구기간은 약 1개월이상이었다. 그러나 $0^{\circ}C$ 이하의 저온은 휴면타파를 억제하였다. 5. 포장에서 월동후 유충의 5월중${\cdot}$하순에 시작되었으나, 온도조건 외에도 5월$\~$7월의 강우가 월동유충의 발육에 중요한 요인으로 토양이 심히 건조한 경우 용화가 지연되었으며 유충의 사망률도 높았다.