• Journal of Species Research
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2013

During a systematic study on Korean nudibranchs, two phyllidiid and two polycerid species were collected and identified with examination of their external morphological characters. As a result of the study, two phyllidiid species, Phyllidia ocellata Cuvier, 1804 and Phyllidiella pustulosa (Cuvier, 1804) were redescribed since there was no descriptions of these species with Korean specimens. And two polycerid species, Thecacera pennigera (Montagu, 1815) and Triopha catalinae (Cooper, 1863) were described as new to Korean fauna. Diagnostic characters of these species are described with illustrations in this study. DNA barcode data from three species examined were also provided for a supplement to morphological identifications.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.259-266
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• 1996

형태학적 제3군 가시아메바의 taxonomic validity는 아직 확실하지 않다. 이번 연구에서 제3군에 속하는 6종의 가시 아메바 즉 A. culbertsoni A. healyi A. palestinensis. A. pustulosa, A. royreba 및 A. lenticulata의 type strain들의 동위효소. 미토콘트리아 DNA 및 small subunit(ssu) rDNA의 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism(RFLP) 양상을 비교하여 이들의 taxonomic validity를 검토하였다. 미토콘드리아 DNA의 RFLP 양상은 분리주간에 서로 심한 차이를 보였다. A. palestinensis와 A. pustulosc는 거의 동일한 rDNA RFLP(추정 염기 치환율 2.6%) 및 동위효소의 양상을 보여 A. palestinensis와 A. pustulosc는 같은 종으로 판단되었다. 그외의 종들은 서로 아주 다양한 rDNA RFLP 및 동위효소의 양상을 나타내어 독립종으로 인정되었다.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.181-188
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• 1999

We investigated the value of mitochondrial small subunit rRNA gene (mt SSU rDNA) PCR-RFLP as a taxonomic tool for Acanthamoeba isolates with close inter-relationships. Twenty-five isolates representing 20 species were included in the analysis. As in nuclear 18s rDNA analysis, two type strains (A. astronyxis and A. tubiashi) of morphological group 1 diverged earliest from the other strains, but the divergence between them was less than in 18s riboprinting. Acanthamoeba griffini of morhological group 2 branched between pathogenic (A. culbertsoni A-1 and A. healyi OC-3A) and nonpathogenic (A.palestinensis Reich, A. pustulosa GE-3a, A. royreba Oak Ridge, and A lenticulata PD2S) strains of morphological group 3. Among the remaining isolates of morphological group 2, the Chang strain had the identical mitochondrial riboprints as the type strain of A. hatchetti. AA2 and AA1, the type strains of A. divionensis and A. paradivionensis, respectively, had the identical riboprints as A. quina Vil3 and A. castellanii Ma. Although the branching orders of A. castellanii Neff, A. polyphaga P23, A. triangularis SH621, and A. lugdunensis L3a were different from those in 18S riboprinting analysis, the results obtained from this study generally coincided well with those from 18S riboprinting. Mitochondrial riboprinting may have an advantage over nuclear 18S rDNA riboprinting beacuse the mt SSU rDNAs do not seem to have introns that are found in the 18S genes of Acanthamoeba and that distort phylogenetic analyses.