• Title/Summary/Keyword: Numerical taxonomy

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Distribution of saprophytic bacteria and correlation-coefficient analysis in the seawater of Chungmu bay, Korea. (忠武灣 海水의 腐生細菌 分布와 相關係數 分析에 關하여)

  • Hong, Soon-Woo;Hah, Yung-Chil;Ahn, Tae-Young
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.62-69
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    • 1985
  • Comparision of the classical taxonomy and the numerical taxonomy was carried out on 108 strains isolated from Chung-mu bay and it was confirmed that correlation coefficient measured between strains represented similarities. Gram stain is the most important test in the classical taxonomy, while Gram positive and Gram negative strains were distributed evenly over the whole cluster and coccus and rod were separated in the numerical taxonomy. Both the numerical taxonomy and the classical taxonomy showed high similarity in the classification between the genera. The strains collected in bottom layer marked lower taxonomic similarity between strains than those in upper and middle strains. The distance between the inside (Group I) and the outside (Group II) strains of the bay was larger than that between the strains collected in high and low tide.

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Numerical Taxonomy of the Tribe Pterostichini Sloane from Korea(II) (한국산 길쭉먼지벌레족의 수리분류(II))

  • Park, Jong Kyun;Kwon, Young Jung
    • Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
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    • v.14
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 1996
  • A numerical taxonomy based on the phenetic characters of 59 Korean Pterostichini species is conducted to determine the effect on the assessment of the 7 different methods combined by 3 similarity or dissimilarity coefficients, using 87 morphological multistate characters.

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Isolation, Characterization and Numerical Taxonomy of Novel Oxalate-oxidizing Bacteria

  • Sahin, Nurettin;Gokler, Isa;Tamer, Abdurrahman
    • Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.109-118
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    • 2002
  • The present work is aimed at providing additional new pure cultures of oxalate utilizing bacteria and its preliminary characterization for further work in the field of oxalate-metabolism and taxonomic studies. The taxonomy of 14 mesophilic, aerobic oxalotrophic bacteria isolated by an enrichment culture technique from soils rhizosphers, and the juice of the petiole/stem tissue of plants was investigated. Isolates were characterized with 95 morphological, biochemical and physiological tests. Cellular lipid components and carotenoids of isolates were also studied as an aid to taxonomic characterization. All isolates were Gram-negative, oxidase and catalase positive and no growth factors were required. In addition to oxalates, some of the strains grow on methanol and/or formate. The taxonomic similarities among isolates, reference strains or previously reported oxalotrophic bacteria were analysed by using the Simple Matching (S/ sub SM/) and Jaccard (S$\_$J/) Coefficients. Clustering was performed by using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic averages (UPGMA) algorithm. The oxalotrophic strains formed five major and two single-member clusters at the 70-86% similarity level. Based on the numerical taxonomy, isolates were separated into three phenotypic groups. Pink-pigmented strains belonged to Methylobacterium extorquens, yellow-pigmented strains were most similar to Pseudomonas sp. YOx and Xanthobacter autorophicus, and heterogeneous non-pigmented strains were closely related to genera Azospirillum, Ancylobacter, Burkholderia and Pseudomonas. New strains belonged to the genera Pseudomonas, Azospirillum and Ancylobacter that differ taxonomically from other known oxalate oxidizers were obtained. Numerical analysis indicated that some strains of the yellow-pigmented and nonpigmented clusters might represent new species.

A Secure, Hierarchical and Clustered Multipath Routing Protocol for Homogenous Wireless Sensor Networks: Based on the Numerical Taxonomy Technique

  • Hossein Jadidoleslamy
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.8
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    • pp.121-136
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    • 2023
  • Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have many potential applications and unique challenges. Some problems of WSNs are: severe resources' constraints, low reliability and fault tolerant, low throughput, low scalability, low Quality of Service (QoS) and insecure operational environments. One significant solution against mentioned problems is hierarchical and clustering-based multipath routing. But, existent algorithms have many weaknesses such as: high overhead, security vulnerabilities, address-centric, low-scalability, permanent usage of optimal paths and severe resources' consumption. As a result, this paper is proposed an energy-aware, congestion-aware, location-based, data-centric, scalable, hierarchical and clustering-based multipath routing algorithm based on Numerical Taxonomy technique for homogenous WSNs. Finally, performance of the proposed algorithm has been compared with performance of LEACH routing algorithm; results of simulations and statistical-mathematical analysis are showing the proposed algorithm has been improved in terms of parameters like balanced resources' consumption such as energy and bandwidth, throughput, reliability and fault tolerant, accuracy, QoS such as average rate of packet delivery and WSNs' lifetime.

New Antibiotics Produced by SEreptomyces mekmosporofaciens I. Taxonomy of the producing microorganism (Streptomyces melanosporofaciens가 생산하는 새로운 항생물질 I. 생산균의 분류 . 동정)

  • 김시관;김상석;김창한
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.624-632
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    • 1990
  • Strain 88-GT-161 producing new phthalic acid derivative and basic macrolide antibiotics was identified as being S. melanosporofuciens based on numerical taxonomic data. However, 4 unit characters among 139 units were clearly different from the common properties of 6 strains belonging to cluster No. 32 represented by the name of S. violaceoniger or S. violaceusniger, leading us to designate as a variety of S. melunosporofaciens. This paper describes the taxonomic characteristics of the strain. Isolation and chemical structures, including biological activities of the active compounds produced by this strain will be presented elsewhere.

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A numerical taxonomic study on heterophyid trematodes (Heterophyidae에 관한 수리분류학적 연구)

  • 김기홍;윤영한
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 1991
  • A numerical taxonomy was studied on a group of heterophyid trematodes and analysis was made on the following species: Metagonimus yokogawai (3 OTU, Operational Taxonomic Unit) , Metagcnimus Miyata Type (3 OTU), Metagonimus takahashii (2 OTU), Heterophyes dispar (2 OTU), Heterephyes heterophyes (1 OTU), Heterophyes nocens (2 OTV), Heterophyopsis continua (1 OTU), Pygidiopsis summa (3 OTU), Stellantchasmus falcatus (2 OTU) and Stictodora sari (2 OTU). Twenty-six morphological characters were measured and their values were expressed as relative ratios. Similarity and correlation matrix among each individuals were calculated. Clustering analysis by Ward's method and factor analysis were performed using the SAS (Statistical Analysis System) package. As a results, the groups belonging to the genus of Metegenimus were divided into three phonons (Awetegonimus yokogawai, Metegcnimus Miyata Type, M. takahashii) , and Metagonimus Miyata Type was classified as the level of subspecies of M. takahashii. The groups belonging to the genus Heterophyes were clearly divided into three phonons (Heterophyes dispar, H. heterephyes, H. nocens), and H. nccens was classified as not a subspecies level of H. heterophyes but a distinct species. Other species were classified as distinct phonons. From these results, the appllcr lion of numerical taxonomy on trematode classification is considered to be a great aid to determine the limit of taxa.

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Taxonomic implications of multivariate analyses of Egyptian Ononis L. (Fabaceae) based on morphological traits

  • FAYED, Abdel Aziz A.;EL-HADIDY, Azza M.H.;FARIED, Ahmed M.;OLWEY, Asmaa O.
    • Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.13-27
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    • 2019
  • Numerical taxonomy is employed to determine the phenetic proximity of the Egyptian taxa belonging to the genus Ononis L. A classical clustering analysis and a principal component analysis (PCA) were used to separate 57 macro- and micromorphological characters in order to circumscribe 11 taxa of Ononis. A clustering analysis using the unweighted pair-group method with the arithmetic means (UPGMA) method gives the highest co-phenetic correlation. Results from clustering and PCA revealed the segregation of five groups. Our results are in line, to some certain degree, with the traditional sub-sectional concept, as can be seen in the grouping of the representative members of the subsections Diffusae and Mittisimae together and the representative members of the subsections Viscosae and Natrix. The phenetic uniqueness of Ononis variegata and O. reclinata subsp. mollis was formally established. However, our findings contradict the classic sectional concept; this opinion was suggested earlier in previous phylogenetic circumscriptions of the genus. The most useful characters that provide taxonomic clarity were discussed.

Characteristics and Numerical Taxonomy of Aeromonas spp. Isolated from Naktong Estuary (낙동강 하구에서 분리한 Aeromonas spp.의 수리학적 분류 및 특성)

  • 전도용;하영칠
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.385-390
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    • 1989
  • One hundred and sixty one strains of Aeromonas were isolated at three sites from August, 1986 to December, 1986 in Naktong Estuary. Cluster analysis was performed on total of 42 morphological and biochemical characteristics of the isolated strains. At the level of 85% and 84% similarity, three major clusters and two minor clusters had been identified: the first three clusters were different one another from MR reaction and gas production utilizing glucose. The five clusters were classified as two serotypes on the basis of serotyping, which was consistent with the result of cytotoxicity test.

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