This study was conducted to analyze the difference of body types within and between wild and farmed populations of olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus using measured records of morphological traits. The results showed that surveyed traits and standard deviation were of body weight, of total length, and of body length. Also body height, body shape index and condition factor were , and , respectively. As result of least squares mean and standard error for each trait assumed in this study, those of farmed population showed significantly higher than those of wild population in all traits, exclusively in total length and body length (p<0.01). Particularly, the values of the body height and the body weight of the farmed population were higher than those of the wild population in the same total length. And the phenotypic correlation coefficients of the body weight, the total length, the body length and the body height showed strong positive correlation in all populations. These result suggested that morphological differences exist in farmed and wild flounder. Therefore, introduction of wild flounder is essential for the future production to improve the body type of farmed flounder, and parental fish should be chosen by considering selection of commercially important traits in the production process.

Olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus is one of the most widely cultured fish species in Korea. Although olive flounder receive attention from aquaculture and fisheries and extensive research has been conducted eye morphological change in metamorphosis, but little information was known to molecular mechanism and gene expression of eye development- related genes during the early part of eye formation period. For the reason of eyesight is the most important sense in flounder larvae to search prey, the screening and identification of expressed genes in the eye will provide useful insight into the molecular regulation mechanism of eye development in olive flounder. Through the search of an olive flounder DNA database of expressed sequence tags (EST), we found a partial sequence that was similar to crystallin beta A1 and gamma S. Microscopic observation of retinal formation correspond with the time of expression of the crystallin beta A1 and gamma S gene in the developmental stage, these result suggesting that beta A1 and gamma S play a vital role in the remodeling of the retina during eye development. The expression of crystallin beta A1 and gamma S were obviously strong in eye at all tested developing stage, it is also hypothesized that crystallin acts as a molecular chaperone to prevent protein aggregation during maturation and aging in the eye.

To investigate the involvement of prepro-proopiomelanocortins (POMCs) with hypermelanosi on the blind side of olive flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus, we surveyed tissue sites in which the three POMCs genes are expressed, and compared pituitary-ofPOMCs (ofPOMC-Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ) mRNA activities between the normal and the hypermelano flounders. For the studies, we refereed to the information of ofPOMC-Ⅰ and Ⅱ genes in NCBI, but we try to newly discover ofPOMC-Ⅲ sequence. At first, we cloned and characterized cDNA encoding its ofPOMC-Ⅲ from the pituitary of olive flounder The ofPOMC-Ⅲ cDNA consists of 1,258 bp nucleotides and 7 peptides (Signal peptide, N-POMC, α-MSH, CLIP, N-β-LPH, β-MSH and β-END-like peptide) encoded in 231 amino acids. In the test of tissue distribution of ofPOMCs in olive flounder, we found that ofPOMC-Ⅰ is expressed in pitutary only, but ofPOMC-Ⅱ and Ⅲ are expressed in all tissues examined. In the comparison of ofPOMCs mRNA expression between the normal and the hypermelano fish, expression of ofPOMC-Ⅰ, Ⅱ mRNA was significantly higher in the hypermelano group than in normal group, but ofPOMC-Ⅲ was not significantly different between two groups.

This expe끼ment was conducted to evaluate the effect of two different organic acid products as antibiotic replacement in olive flounder paralichthys olivaceus . Fish averaging 3.5 ::!:: 0.05 g(mean ::!:: SD) were fed one of the ten semi-purified diets : Diet 1 ; Control , Diet 2 ; add antibiotics - 50mg OTC / kg body weight / day(OTC), Diet 3; Add organic acid bland A(OABA) - 4g/kg diet, Diet 4 ; add organic acid bland B(OABB) - 4g/kg diet for 10 weeks. Total gut microflora counts were significantly higher in the control group compared to the OTC and organic acid groups(P <0.05). Fish fed OABA, 。ABB and OTC had lower gut Vibrio counts compared to the control, but were not significantly different. Results from the challenge study indicate that mortality in the different treatment groups (50%) was significantly lower than those observed for the control group (100%). There were no differences in mortality between the OTC and organic acid groups. Overall findings from this study indicate that the organic acid blends A and B were as effective as oxytetracycline, an antibiotic, in regulating total gut bacterial numbers, Vibrio counts and providing protection against a pathogen such as Edwardsiella tarda.

배합사료를 공급한 양식 넙치와 생사료를 공급한 양식넙치의 핵산 관련 물질 및 유리아미노산 측정을 통한 품질의 차이를 비교하였다. 넙치 등근육의 핵산관련물질은 모든 실험사료구에서 공통적으로 AMP 함량이 가장 높았고 그 다음으로 IMP의 함량이 높았다. 공급한 사료에 따라서 HxR의 성분에는 유의적인 차이(p

본 연구에서는 단백질(51~5%) 및 지질(9~15%) 함량이 다른 배합사료(EP)와 생사료(MP)를 공급하면서 사육한 양식넙치의 육질을 비교해 보고자 하였다. 사육실험은평균체 중 106g의 넙치를 원형수조에 40마리씩 실험구별로 2반복으로 수용하면서, 단백질 및 지질 함량이 서로 다른 실험 배합사료(EP1, EP2, EP3)와 수입산 상품 배합사료(EP4) 및 MP를 16주간 공급하면서 사육하였다. 수분함량은 생사료(MP)를 공급한 넙치의 등근

이 연구는 양식산 넙치의 성장단계별 및 계절에 따른 생리학적 반응과 혈액학적 요소들을 파악하고자 하였으며, 분석된 항목으로는 hematocrit, red blood cell, hemoglobin, 글루코스, 콜레스테롤, 총단백질, AST, ALT, , osmolality, 코티졸 및 였다. 성장단계별 혈액학적 성상에 있어 는 어류의 크기가 클수록 증가하는 경향을 나타내었다. 반면, 콜레스테롤은 어체의 크기가 클수록 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 계절별 혈액학

The olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) is one of the most widely cultured flatfish in Korea and Japan. During development, in a process known as metamorphosis, this fish reorients itself to lie on one side, the body flattens, and the eye migrates to the other side of the body. However, few studies have focused on molecule regulation mechanism of eye development in olive flounder. To reveal the molecular mechanism of eye development, we performed the studies on identification of genes expressed in the eye of olive flounder using EST and RT-PCR strategy. A total of 270 ESTs were sequenced, and 178 (65.9%) clones were identified as known genes and 92 (34.1%) as unknown genes. Among the 178 EST clones, 29 (16.3%) clones were representing 9 unique genes identified as homologous to the previously reported olive flounder ESTs, 131 (73.6%) clones representing 107 unique genes were identified as orthologs of known genes from other organisms. We also identified a kind of eye development associated proteins, indicating EST as a powerful method for identifying eye development-related genes of fish as well as identifying novel genes. Further functional studies on these genes will provide more information on molecule regulation mechanism of eye development in olive flounder.

넙치 수정란의 발생에 미치는 수온의 영향을 조사하였다. 실험에 사용된 수정란은 실내 사육수조에서 자연산란된 것으로서, 6개의 수온별 실험구(5, 10, 15, 20, 25 및 )에 수용하여 발생과정을 관찰하였다. 수정란은 10, 15, 20 및 에서 부화 가능하였으며, 부화율은 각각 3, 12, 25 및 50%였다. 발생단계별 수온(T, )과 소요 시간(1/t, hour)과의 상관관계식은 다음과 같다. 포배기: 1/t=0.0208T-0.0951 (=0.

속성장 육종 넙치(selected line of olive flounder cultured, SF)의 수정란의 부화율 및 기형률, 자치어의 성장을 일반 넙치(unselected line of olive flounder cultured, UF)와 비교하였다. 동일한 날에 획득한 SF구 및 UF구 수정란의 부화율은 SF구가 96.21.7%, UF구는 90.42.1%로 SF구가 높았으며, 기형률은 UF가 유의하게 높았다. 이들 수정란으로부터 부화한 자어를 8