Identifying biochemical phenotypic differences between cryptic species
| Autor: | Elma Lahive, Claus Svendsen, Gabriela A. Pinto-Juma, A. John Morgan, Jacob G. Bundy, Robert K. Donnelly, Michael William Bruford, David J. Spurgeon, Jie Hao, Peter Kille, Manuel Liebeke, Rachael M. Madison, Timothy M. D. Ebbels |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Genetics
Species complex Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy biology Lysine Metabolite Lineage (evolution) Lumbricus Lumbricus rubellus biology.organism_classification Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Phenotype DNA sequencing chemistry.chemical_compound Metabolomics Species Specificity chemistry Multivariate Analysis Animals Population Ecology Oligochaeta General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Biology Letters. 10:20140615 |
| ISSN: | 1744-957X 1744-9561 |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0615 |
| Popis: | Molecular genetic methods can distinguish divergent evolutionary lineages in what previously appeared to be single species, but it is not always clear what functional differences exist between such cryptic species. We used a metabolomic approach to profile biochemical phenotype (metabotype) differences between two putative cryptic species of the earthwormLumbricus rubellus. There were no straightforward metabolite biomarkers of lineage, i.e. no metabolites that were always at higher concentration in one lineage. Multivariate methods, however, identified a small number of metabolites that together helped distinguish the lineages, including uncommon metabolites such asNε-trimethyllysine, which is not usually found at high concentrations. This approach could be useful for characterizing functional trait differences, especially as it is applicable to essentially any species group, irrespective of its genome sequencing status. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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