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BMC BIOINFORMATICS
卷 22, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-021-04152-1
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Invertebrate development; Aquatic embryo; Energy proxy traits; High dimensional organismal phenotyping
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- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship [MR/T01962X/1]
- NERC POC Technology [NE/P003796/1]
- UoP PhD studentship
This study tested the biological significance of Energy Proxy Traits (EPTs) in the embryonic development of Radix balthica at different temperatures, finding that EPTs are thermally sensitive and enable effective high-dimensional treatment clustering throughout organismal development. Results suggest that EPTs can capture aspects predictive of biological outcomes, potentially reflecting levels of energy turnover within the phenotype.
Background Energy proxy traits (EPTs) are a novel approach to high dimensional organismal phenotyping that quantify the spectrum of energy levels within different temporal frequencies associated with mean pixel value fluctuations from video. They offer significant potential in addressing the phenotyping bottleneck in biology and are effective at identifying lethal endpoints and measuring specific functional traits, but the extent to which they might contribute additional understanding of the phenotype remains unknown. Consequently, here we test the biological significance of EPTs and their responses relative to fundamental thermodynamic principles. We achieve this using the entire embryonic development of Radix balthica, a freshwater pond snail, at different temperatures (20, 25 & 30 degrees C) and comparing responses against predictions from Arrhenius' equation (Q(10) = 2). Results We find that EPTs are thermally sensitive and their spectra of frequency response enable effective high-dimensional treatment clustering throughout organismal development. Temperature-specific deviation in EPTs from thermodynamic predictions were evident and indicative of physiological mitigation, although they differed markedly in their responses from manual measures. The EPT spectrum was effective in capturing aspects of the phenotype predictive of biological outcomes, and suggest that EPTs themselves may reflect levels of energy turnover. Conclusions Whole-organismal biology is incredibly complex, and this contributes to the challenge of developing universal phenotyping approaches. Here, we demonstrate the biological relevance of a new holistic approach to phenotyping that is not constrained by preconceived notions of biological importance. Furthermore, we find that EPTs are an effective approach to measuring even the most dynamic life history stages.
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