The first comprehensive cladistic analysis of Miridae, the plant bugs, based on ~3000 base pairs of mitochondrial (COI, 16S) and nuclear (18S, 28SD3) genes, is presented. For 105 taxa (101 Mirid species in 7 subfamilies and 11 tribes, and 4 outgroups) in 7 subfamilies and 11 tribes of Miridae, the combined dataset was analyzed using ML (maximum likelihood), BC (bayesian criteria) and MP (maximum parsimony). Clades recovered in all analyses, comprise 6 main groups: Cimicomorpha and Miridae; Phylinae; Mirinae (Eurystylus + Polymerus + Proboscidocoris + Taylorilygus + Stenodemini); Orthotylinae; Mirini (Adelphocoris group except “Apolygus complex”); Apolygus complex; Deraecorinae; Bryocorinae + Isometopinae + Cylapinae. Our results indicate 1) the monophyletic relationships of two subfamilies Phylinae and Deraeocorinae within the family Miridae; 2) the paraphyly of subfamily Mirinae. Phylogenetic relationships at the tribal or subfamily level are provided in comparison with the prior studies based on morphological data.

The flower bugs (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) is usually known as biological control agents against various kinds of agricultural pests such as aphids, mites, thrips and so on. Since the classification of the family Anthocoridae has been controversial, the molecular phylogenetic study was conducted with 44 species including 6 outgroup taxa. Three genes, a total of 3277 bp of sequence data (nuclear 18S rDNA: 2022bp, 28S rDNA: 755bp, and mitochondrial 16S rDNA: 498bp), were analyzed using ML (maximum likelihood) and Bayesian methods, excluding MP (maximum parsimony) as the incongruence length difference (ILD) test has very low (0.001) P-values on all partition tests. Our results support the rank and monophyly of the family Lasiochilidae which was exclusively separated from the main clade of Anthocoridae proposed by Schuh and Stys (1991), and indicate the monophyletic relationships among tribes and genera within the family Anthocoridae. According to our results, the genus Amphiareus should be out of the tribe Dufourini and treated as the tribe level and The three genera, Blaptostethus, Scoloposcelis and Xylocoris should be placed to the family Lyctocoridae. We also propose the evolutionary theory of Anthocoridae based on their habitats, hunting behavior and the molecular phylogenetic results.

Multivariate morphomatric analyses were conducted to cluster the morphologically similar group using species units within the tribe Aphidini. Some species of the genus Aphis are morphologically very similar each other and, mentioned by aphid taxonomists as well, possibly grouped by some characteristics. To cluster the morphologically related groups and find some significant characteristics to define morphological groups for 59 Aphidini species, we perform two statistical analyses of 30 morphomatric characters, Principle Component Analysis (PCA; SAS Procedure PRINCOMP) and Canonical Discriminant Analysis (CDA; SAS Procedure CANDISC) using SAS/STAT version 9.1.3 (SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, North Carolina). The results of the morphological clustering analyses were compared with the molecular phylogeny of Aphidini obtained from the previous study using three molecular gene fragments: partial mitochondrial tRNA-leucine + cytochrome oxidase II (tRNA/COII), partial mitochondrial 12S + tRNA-valine + 16S (12S/16S), and nuclear elongation factor-1 alpha (EF1α) (total 3,289bp) for 37 representative species among them. The congruence or difference between morphological and molecular analyses is also discussed in Aphidini group

외부형태에 근거하여 한반도 시호속은 시호군(시호, 참시호), 등대시호, 그리고 개시호군(개시후, 섬시호)로 구분이 가능하다. 시호군은 경생엽이 선형 또는 선상 피침형으로 기저부가 줄기를 감싸지 않는 유저인 반면, 개시호군과 등대시호는 경생엽이 난상 피침형 또는 제금형으로 기저부를 완전히 감싸는 이저 또는 전저이다. 그리고 시호군과 개시호군은 정생하는 복산형화서를 중심으로 복잡한 취산배열을 하는 반면, 등대시호는 정생하는 복산형화서를 중심으로 단순 취산배열을 하고 있다. 한편, 등대시호는 식물체가 소형이고 소회경의 길이가 짧고 그 수가 20여개 이르는 반면, 개시호군과 시호군은 식물체가 대형이며 소화경이 길게 신장하고 그 수가 10여개에 불과하다. 화분의 특징으로 섬시호와 개시호는 화분의 공구가 미약하게 발달하는 반면, 참시호, 시호 및 등대시호는 화분의 공구가 뚜렷하게 발달한다. 염색체는 시호가 2n=20, 참시호와 개시호가 2n=12, 등대시호 및 섬시호가 2n=16으로 관찰되었지만, 등대시호와 섬시호의 핵형이 달라서 서로 유연관계가 없는 것으로 나타난다. 이상에서 섬시호는 개시호와 가장 유연관계가 깊은 것으로 보이지만, 분지 분석 결과 섬시호의 유연관계는 뚜렷하게 분석 되지는 않았지만, 오히려 러시아에 분포하는 B. bicaule와 가까운 것으로 나타나고 있다. 보전생물학적 측면에서 섬시호는 인위적 남획과 방목 염소가 최대 위협요인으로 판단된다.

지렁이과 (family Megascolecidae) 왕지렁이속 (genus Amynthas) 그룹을 rDNA ITS 유전자를 이용하여 계통 유연관계를 알아보고자 하였다. 2과 10속에서 26종의 DNA 염기서열을 이용하여 종간 계통적 유연관계를 MP (Maximum Parsimony), NJ (Neighbor Joining), QP (Quartet Puzzling)로 계통도를 작성하였다. 염기서열이 확보된 Megascolecidae (지렁이과)의 국내외

본 연구는 쥐노래미과(Hexagrammidae)에 속하고 양식산업에서 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있는 노래미, Hexagrammos otakii(Jordan et Starks)와 쥐노래미, H. agrammus(Temminck et Schlegel)의 미토콘드리아 cytochrome b(cyt b)유전자의 염기서열을 서로 비교 분석하였다. 총 489 bp크기의 cyt b 염기서열에서 종간의 변이는 거의 없었다(96%의 유사성).Neighbor-joining

대만산 과실파리과의 신종, Cornutrypeta taiwanensis를 그림과 함께 기재한다. 이 종은 대만에서 최초로 기록되는 Cornutrypeta 속이며, 노랑접시트랩을 사용하여 동일 지역에서 채집한 각각 2개체씩의 수컷과 암컷들을 모식표본으로 선정하였다. 이 종의 계통학적 유연관계는 분지학적인 방법론을 사용하여 추정하였다.

This study analyzed the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of the Red-spotted grouper, Epinephelus akaara (Perciformes, Serranidae), and used for construction of molecular phylogeny and for association between maternal haplotypes and phenotypic differences of F1 progeny. This study revealed phylogenetic position of the endangered red-spotted grouper, Epinephelus akaara (Perciformes, Serranidae) based on the nucleotide sequences of complete mt genome. Complete nucleotide sequences were determined from the mt genomes of two individuals of the red-spotted grouper caught in South Korea. The mitochondrial genome had 16,795 base pairs (bp) and 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNAs, 22 transfer RNAs, and a noncoding control region. The two mt genomes were highly homologous (99.71% similarity). The two mt genomes of E. akaara determined in this study were found in Clade I in the phylogenetic tree with those of E. awoara, E. fasciatomaculosus, E. sexfasciatus, E. diacanthus, E. sticus, and E. morio, suggesting that this may be helpful to understand phylogenetic position of Epinephelus species including red-spotted grouper. The genetic structure and phylogenetic relationship were investigated in the red-spotted grouper populations using the sequence polymorphisms of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I(COI) gene and variable number of tandem repeats (VNTRs) of the control region (CR). A total of forty-one COIhaplotypes were found from 174 COIsequences from East Asia. The Jeju Island population (n=5) had four haplotypes, and the South Sea population (n=105) had twenty-five haplotypes. The Hong Kong population had nineteen haplotypes from fifty-nine COIsequences determined in this study. Among the COIhaplotypes, EAC_03 is commonly found in all populations (Jeju Island and South Sea of Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan). In addition, there were four haplotypes (EAC_12, EAC_14, EAC_28 and EAC_35) also common among the populations tested in this study and collected from NCBI database. However, twenty haplotypes were specific in the Korean populations, and fifteen haplotypes were specific in the China and Hong Kong populations. The neighbor-joining (NJ) trees constructed from the phylogenetic analyses based on the polymorphisms of the COIhaplotypes showed the monophyletic branching pattern within the genus Epinephelus, indicating that the red spotted grouper populations had evolved from common maternal ancestors. Consequently, East Asian red-spotted grouper populations are maternally related at least in part, as well as sharing the same evolutionary history, and still affected by the East Asian ocean current (Kuroshio). From the haplotype analysis for mtDNA CR, we obtained VNTR polymor-phisms in all populations tested. We found five haplotypes for the CR VNTR patterns. The 133-bp repeat units were counted two to five. Using CR VNTR haplotypes, the statistical association was examined between mtDNA haplotypes and growth traits of aquafarming young fishes of the red-spotted grouper. A total of 386 F1 progeny, which were randomly selected from a progeny population produced by artificial insemination in the farm, were genotyped and statistically compared their body length (BL), body weights (BW) and length-weight indexes (LWI) at 11-months after hatching. There haplotypes H03, H04 and H05 were detected for CR in the parents and progeny populations. The significant difference was found in the BL values among three haplotypes (p<0.05). The F1 animals with haplotype H03 had freater level of BL (19.22±2.000 cm) than those of H04 (18.64±1.964 cm) and H05 (18.86±1.512 cm). There were no significant differences in BW and LWI among haplotypes (p<0.05). These results concluded that the maternal lineages affected the growth rates during early developmental stage in the red-spotted grouper. These findings suggested that the mitochondrial background of the fertilized eggs may play an important role in the early development, and the markerassisted selection system for broodstork animals may be helpful in improving performance traits for aquaculture industry as well as for conservation biology of the endangered red-spotted grouper. However, the results from the association analysis between haplotypes and phenotypes of F1 progeny (n=1,093) at 60-days after hatching showed that there were no significant difference (p>0.05). Consequently, the results of this study may be useful information for understanding the evolutionary relation with other species and may be good genetic markers for breeding management in the red-spotted grouper aquaculture system.

한국산 옻나무속 6종에 대하여 분자식물학적 방법으로 계통유연관계를 확인하기 위하여, nrDNA의 ITS 구간과 cpDNA rbcL 염기서열을 사용하여 계통분석한 결과 ITS 1의 길이는 246~253 bp이었고, ITS 2는 234~244 bp이었다. ITS 1의 길이는 Rhus sylvestris와 R. succedanea에서 246 bp로 가장 작았으며, R. verniciflua에서 253 bp로 가장 긴 것으로 나타났다. ITS 2의 길이는 R. verniciflua가 234 bp로 가장 짧았으며, R. trichocarpr가 244 bp로 가장 길게 나타났다. 이들 분류군의 G+C Content는 ITS 1에서는 58.0~68.13%의 범위를 나타냈고, ITS 2에서는 59.75~68.46%로 나타나 두 구간이 비슷한 비율을 보이고 있었다. ITS 1에서의 G+C content는 R. sylvestris가 58.0%로 가장 낮았으며, 가장 높은 값은 R. ambigua가 68.13%로 확인되었다. ITS 2에서는 외군인 Cotinus coggygria가 59.75%로 가장 낮았으며, R. ambigua가 68.46%로 가장 높게 나타났다. 한국산 옻나무 속에서 ITS 염기서열은 일반적으로 피자식물이 갖는 G+C content 범위 안에 포함되는 것으로 확인되었다. 한편, rbcL의 길이는 1,428 bp로 모든 종에서 동일하였다. 또한 rbcL의 G+C content는 43.56%~43.77%로 나타나 종간에 거의 차이가 없음을 확인하였다. 연구결과 rbcL gene은 옻나무속의 종간 계통유연관계를 해석하는데 유용하지 않았으며, ITS 1 구간의 염기서열 변이는 향후 옻나무속을 분류할 때 신속하게 분류할 수 있는 분류 marker로 이용할 수 있다고 판단되었다.

This study characterized the genetic variations of 13 populations of Asplenium antiquum and its relative species using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. A total 88 scorable RAPD bands were generated by the 12 random oligo primers and were analyzed by Nei and Li's genetic distance. High genetic variability was detected between A. antiquum and A. nidus, with the range from 0.568 to 0.682. And slightly low genetic variations showed within the populations of same species. Seven populations of A. antiquum showed slight differences (0.000-0.216), and five populations of A. nidus showed similar low genetic variations (0.114 to 0.171). Two individuals from Sup-seom Island which are growing in might be the regenerated one from abroad. A. antiquum were clustered as two groups (Group I, Group II) by UPGMA phenogram. And five populations of A. nidus were clustered as two groups correlated with geographical distribution. The RAPD data was very useful to define the genetic variations and to discuss the phylogenetic relationships among A. antiquum and the related species..

Wood and bark structure of Laurus, which is considered as an important spice resources was characterized by several transitional and advanced features. Annual rings are distinct: vessel elements are moderately short and narrow, both simple and sealariform perforation plates. alternate intervascular pitting; irregularly septate fiber are present; parenchyma strands are scanty paratracheal: rays are both homogeneous and heterogeneous with multiseriate: phloem rays are dilated. Comparisons with other genera of Lauraceae suggest that Laurus is transitional and advanced state in evolutionary trends in the family.