• Animal cells and systems
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.91-96
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• 2009

The size of song repertoires mainly provides evidence for explaining sexual selection for female choice as well as male-male competition. We investigated the role of oriental great reed warbler songs (Acrocephalus orientalis) of breeding territorial males. Early arrived males possessed larger song repertoires, paired earlier, and tended to become polygynous. No correlation was found between arrival date and territory size, but polygynous males significantly occupied larger territories than non polygynous males. Song sharing was low among males and the degree of similarity did not relate with spatial distance. Our results suggest that song repertoire of the oriental great reed warbler males play a role in female choice, where territory quality may affect male pairing success.

• 한국동물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국동물학회 1997년도 공동 춘계학술대회
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• pp.76.2-76
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• 1997

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.163-177
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• 2001

Most, if not all, aphids harbor intracellular bacterial symbionts, called Buchnera, in their bacteriocytes, huge cells differentiated for this purpose. The association between Buchnera and aphids is so intimate, mutualistic and obligate that neither of them can any longer reproduce independently. Buchnera are vertically transmitted through generations of the host insects. Evidence suggests that Buchnera were acquired by a common ancestor of aphids 160-280 million years ago, and have been diversified, since then, in parallel with their aphid hosts. Molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate that Buchnera belong to the g subdivision of the Proteobacteria. Although Buchnera are close relatives of Escherichia coli, they contain move than 100 genomic copies per cell, and their genome size is only one seventh that of E. coli. The complete genome sequence of Buchnera revealed that their gene repertoire is quite different from those of parasitic bacteria such as Mycoplasma, Rickettsia and Chlamydia, though their genome sizes have been reduced to a similar extent. Whereas these parasitic bacteria have lost most genes for the biosynthesis of amino acids, Buchnera retain many of them. In particular, Buchnera's gene repertoire is characteristic in the richness of the genes for the biosynthesis of essential amino acids that the eukaryotic hosts are not able to synthesize, reflecting a nutritional role played by these symbionts. Buchnera, when housed in the bacteriocyte, selectively synthesize a large amount of symbionin, which is a homolog of GroEL, the major stress protein of E. coli. Symbionin not only functions as molecular chaperone, like GroEL, but also has evolutionarily acquired the phosphotransferase activity through amino acid substitutions. Aphids usually profit from Buchnera's fuction as a nutritional supplier and, when faced with an emergency, consume the biomass of Buchnera cells as nutrient reserves.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제36호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2003

In Korea, even though many aspects of medical care system for the elderly have been considered. Until now, most people have realized that the conceptualization range of geriatric hospital is the same as recuperation hospital. However the recent geriatric hospital includes a short term treatment like general hospitals, together with that it has a tendency to increase the propotion of rehabilitationby the Introduction of the concept of active rehabilitation treatment for returning to society. Unlike the general hospitals, geriatric hospital has got different characteristics in a managing and patient. However this is not a concrete standard of faacilities by the law of health welfare and medical. So these kinds of research will have to keep continuing. What I want to say In this study is that the prominence of information, which is based on the existing data analysis, is what forms my latest projects that engage with a wider repertoire of strategies and approaches toward architectural problem.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.219-225
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• 2006

노랑턱멧새의 테마송과 변이를 연구하기 위해서, 6개 도에 산재한 16개 활엽수림지대에서 번식하는 45개체의 노랑턱멧새 수컷에서 3,245개의 노랫소리를 녹음하였다. 노랫소리를 구성하는 주된 요소이며 대용문자가 부여된 640개 음절의 조합을 분석하여 164 테마송, 1,024 변이로 분류하였다. 수컷 개체는 각각 $1{\sim}6$ 테마송을 가졌고, 평균 3.5개 레퍼토리를 가지고 있었다. 수컷 개체 사이에서 노랫소리를 구성하는 음절의 순서와 배열이 완전히 동일한 테마송은 하나도 없었다. 수컷 개체의 노랫소리를 구성하고 있는 음절의 수는 $5{\sim}14$개(평균 9.4개)였다. 수컷은 하나의 테마송에 변이를 만들기 위해서 음절을 첨가, 삭제, 대체하여 레퍼토리 크기를 효과적으로 증가시켰다. 하나의 테마송이 갖는 변이의 수는 평균 5.1($1{\sim}31$)개였고, 개체 변이성은 노랫소리의 말단부의 구성 요소에서 가장 높았다. PCA 분석에서 공유하는 음절에 기초를 둔 요인 I과 고유한 음절에 기초를 둔 요인 II에 의해서 노랑턱멧새 16 개체군은 서로 다른 군집을 형성하였다. 공유한 음절의 수에 기초를 둔 유사성 측정은 지역과 일치하는 강한 형태를 나타냈다. 양방향 유사도를 분석한 결과 16 개체군은 UPGMA 군집 속으로 나누어졌으며, 지리적인 거리가 증가함에 따라 유사도는 감소하는 경향을 보였다.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.141-149
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• 1996

This study was to examine the occurrence of geographic song variation and its pattern of transitional direction among bush warbler populations distributed in Korea and Japan, Bush warbler songs (n=283) of 25 males from Cheongwon and Jeju, Korea, and from Chiba, Japan were analyzed. Chiba individuals had more song types and had the higher dominant frequency and longer duration of the introductory whistle portion than Cheongwon and Jeju individuals. In measure of eight song parameters, the parameters constantly showed a decreasing or increasing tendency. The constant tendency showed direction related with the geographic location from Chiba to Cheongwon. The difference in song parameters between Cheongwon and Chiba populations was the greatest in comparison to that of other sets of geographic populations. The degree of discrimination among the three populations was 92.00%. These results indicate that there is a geographic song variation between bush warblers of Japan and Korea, and that the song transition has been directed from Chiba (Japan) through Jeju to Cheongwon (Korea).

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.111-122
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• 1993

B 세포의 $V_H$ 유전자가 어떠한 기작으로 선택되어지는 지는 현재 명확히 밝혀져 있지 않다. 본 연구에서는 transformation 등의 방법에 의한 편향된 분석결과를 피하고자 in situ hybridization 기법을 이용하여 정상적인 single 세포가 발현한 $V_H$ 유전자를 분석하였다. $V_H$ 유전자간에 나타나는 DNA 배열의 유사성 때문에 in situ 기법에서 가장 중요한 것은 probe 농도와 세척 stringency의 결정이다. LPS-stimulated된 spleen B 세포에 대해서 $C{\mu}$와 $V_HJ558$ $^{35}S$-RNA probe는 $2{\sim}4{\times}106cpm$/slide의 농도에서 낮은 background와 적정수의 positive 세포를 관찰할 수 있었으며 세척조건으로서는 $54^{\circ}C$에서 40~50%의 formamide를 사용할때 최적이라는 것을 $C{\mu}$, $V_{H}S107$, 그리고 $V_{H}J558$ probe를 이용한 실험에서 결정하였다. 위의 조건하에서 spleen B 세포가 발현한 $V_H$ 유전자를 분석하여 본 결과 각각의 $V_H$ gene family 발현 빈도는 각각의 family 크기에 비례하여 결정된다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 결과들은 여러 다른 발달 단계에 있는 bone marrow B 세포에 대해서도 동일한 결과를 보여 주어 어떤 특수 $V_H$ gene family의 발현이 B 세포의 발달단계에 따라 특이하게 변화하는 것은 아니라는 것을 나타내 보여 주었다. 그러므로 $V_H$ 유전자의 이용은 B 세포가 differentiation하는 것과는 무관하게 무작위 적으로 선택되어 진다는 것을 밝혔다.