%0 Journal Article
%T Determining the Specific Status of Korean Collared Scops Owls
%A Yoon Jee Hong
%A Young Jun Kim
%A Koichi Murata
%A Hang Lee
%J Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
%D 2013
%I Korean Society of Systematic Zoology
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.5635/ased.2013.29.2.136
%X The collared scops owl that occurs in Korea is a protected species but its exact specific status has been questioned. To resolve the species status, a molecular phylogenetic analysis was conducted using two fragments of mitochondrial DNA, cytochrome b (cyt b, 891 bp) and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2, 627 bp) genes. Phylogenetic trees of cyt b revealed that all Korean specimens formed a monophyletic group with Japanese scops owl Otus semitorques with very low sequence divergence (d=0.008). We obtained a similar ND2 tree as well (d=0.003); however, the genetic distance between Korean individuals and O. lempiji from GenBank (AJ004026-7, EU348987, and EU601036) was very high and sufficient enough to separate them as species (cyt b, d=0.118; ND2, d=0.113). We also found that Korean species showed high differentiation from O. bakkamoena (AJ004018-20 and EU601034; cyt b, d=0.106; ND2, d=0.113) and O. lettia (EU601109 and EU601033, cyt b, d=0.110; ND2, d=0.117) as well. Therefore, we suggest that the Korean collared scops owl should be designated as Otus semitorques.
%K collared scops owl
%K molecular phylogeny
%K taxonomy
%K mitochondrial DNA
%K Otus semitroques
%U http://www.e-ased.org/Upload/files/e-ased.org/04-Deter0071(dh)¨¬£¿£¿£¿£¿£¿.163153.pdf