Phylogeny drives large scale patterns in Australian marine bioactivity and provides a new chemical ecology rationale for future biodiscovery
| Autor: | Andrew Muirhead, Murray Logan, Phillip Kearns, Elizabeth Evans-Illidge, Stuart Kininmonth, Jason Doyle, Jane Fromont, Gavin Ericson, Christopher N. Battershill, David Abdo, Carsten Wolff, Lyndon E. Llewellyn |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Cell Survival
Science Biodiversity Marine Biology Microbial Sensitivity Tests Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I Biology Phaeophyta Calcium Channels N-Type Anti-Infective Agents Phylogenetics Cell Line Tumor Candida albicans Animals Cluster Analysis Humans Enzyme Inhibitors Chordata Organism Phylogeny Ecological niche Marine biology Biological Products Multidisciplinary Bacteria Ecology Geography Phylum Eleutherobin Australia Bayes Theorem Calcium Channel Blockers Biodiversity hotspot Rhodophyta Medicine Research Article |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 9, p e73800 (2013) PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | Twenty-five years of Australian marine bioresources collecting and research by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has explored the breadth of latitudinally and longitudinally diverse marine habitats that comprise Australia’s ocean territory. The resulting AIMS Bioresources Library and associated relational database integrate biodiversity with bioactivity data, and these resources were mined to retrospectively assess biogeographic, taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns in cytotoxic, antimicrobial, and central nervous system (CNS)-protective bioactivity. While the bioassays used were originally chosen to be indicative of pharmaceutically relevant bioactivity, the results have qualified ecological relevance regarding secondary metabolism. In general, metazoan phyla along the deuterostome phylogenetic pathway (eg to Chordata) and their ancestors (eg Porifera and Cnidaria) had higher percentages of bioactive samples in the assays examined. While taxonomy at the phylum level and higher-order phylogeny groupings helped account for observed trends, taxonomy to genus did not resolve the trends any further. In addition, the results did not identify any biogeographic bioactivity hotspots that correlated with biodiversity hotspots. We conclude with a hypothesis that high-level phylogeny, and therefore the metabolic machinery available to an organism, is a major determinant of bioactivity, while habitat diversity and ecological circumstance are possible drivers in the activation of this machinery and bioactive secondary metabolism. This study supports the strategy of targeting phyla from the deuterostome lineage (including ancestral phyla) from biodiverse marine habitats and ecological niches, in future biodiscovery, at least that which is focused on vertebrate (including human) health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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