Judul: Mitochondrial DNA Gene Organization and Phylogenetic Relationship of Naja siamensis
Abstrak: Naja siamensis is one of Asiatic cobra in the Family of Elapidae, known as a cryptic snake. It has many morphological variations that lead to misidentification. Misidentification can cause the wrong concept in developing antivenom types due to high snakebite cases occur in Thailand. Thus, an accurate species identification using a molecular approach is crucially required. Mitochondrial DNA has been used widely in snake molecular studies. These studies were aimed to determine the arrangement of the N. siamensis partial mitochondrial genes using reptile-oriented primers and to reveal the phylogenetic relationship among other species of Asian cobra. DNA extraction was carried out based on the standard DNA salting-out protocol and was conducted by bioinformatics analysis using BLASTn and MEGA 6 software. Gene annotation was performed against N. kaouthia complete genome. A total of 3121 bp of N. siamensis mtDNA genes were sequenced consisting of partial of six regions: 16S rRNA, ND1, tRNA-Ile, CRII region, tRNA-Leu, tRNA-Gln, and COI genes. The mtDNA gene organization of N. siamensis was predicted to has a similar pattern with the common Elapidae mtDNA gene organization. This study showed that there is a monophyletic form in Naja genus and N. kaouthia is the closest species with N. siamensis based on partial 16S rRNA and ND1 gene.
Keyword: 16S rRNA, Elapidae, ND1, phylogenetic relationship

Judul: Tata Niaga, Parameter Demografi, Morfometri, Panenan dan Karakteristik Habitat Ular Sendok Naja sputatrix (Boie, 1827) di Provinis Jawa Timur.
Abstrak: Spitting cobra (Naja sputatrix Boie 1827) has been harvested and traded in local and international market, yet there was still no suficient data concerning its population and habitat. The main purposes of this research was to analyze the trading system, demographic parameters, morphometry and habitat characteristics of spitting cobra in East Java Province. The actors involved in the trading systems functioning as harvesters, collector, sub agen, agents, and also domestic users which likely had no allegiance between them and very much influenced by the market. Morphometrics measurement of the speciments, showed that male snakes had a longer bodysize compare to females, SVL were 999,2 cm and 998,9 cm respectively,which 81,90% of total harvested speciments were adult spitting cobras. The females dominated the harvested population of all trade actors, up to 90,54%, this might be an effect of harvesting pattern where the harvesters conducted catching outside the nests. Such pattern would be a threat for the population of the snake. Spitting cobras had no habitat preference and could easily adapted with different kinds of environment.
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Judul: Kinerja model pengering bangunan tembus cahaya dari plastik tahan UV untuk pengeringan buah kopi
Abstrak: Kopi merupakan komoditas ekspor yang memerlukan pengeringan sebelum dikonsumsi, sehingga kemampuannya dapat disimpan dalam waktu lama sangat menentukan mutu dan nilai ekonominya. Penyediaan sarana pengeringan yang memadai sangat dibutuhkan untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut. Sebuah model bangunan tembus cahaya untuk pengeringan kopi skala 1.5 ton sudah dirancang dan diuji coba. Bangunan tersebut berukuran 6 m x3 m, tinggi 2.46 m terbagi menjadi dua. yaitu atap 0.56 m dengan sudut kemiringan 32.4" dan dinding 1.9 m membentuk sudut kemiringan 85.6" terhadap lantai. Plastik tahan UV menutupi atap dan dindingnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan menguji kinerja model pengering bangunan tembus cahaya pada kapasitas maksimum. Percobaan dilakukan dengan mengeringkan kopi pada ketebalan 30 cm dan 40 cm (kapasitas penuh) dibantu blower 0.5 11P, 220 volt untuk mengalirkan udara pengering di dalam bangunan tembus cahaya dan mengeluarkan uap air bahan yang telah diuapkan dari bangunan tersebut. Hasil percobaan memperlihatkan bahwa penutup transparan mampu memanfaatkan 70% radiasi matahari yang jatuh di permukaannya. Pada kondisi radiasi termanfaatkan rata-rata sebesar 435.1 W/m². laju aliran udara sebesar 2520...
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