期刊
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
卷 46, 期 10, 页码 997-1009出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-020-01217-y
关键词
Biotoxin; Bufadienolide; Bufo; Japanese toads; Parotoid gland; Hierarchical cluster analysis; Predator-prey; Chemical defense
资金
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [31411140033]
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP26440213, JP17H03719, JP18KK0205]
- Utah State University
Toads of the genusBufosynthesize and accumulate bufadienolides (BDs) in their parotoid glands. BDs are cardiotonic steroids that play an important role in defense against the toads' predators. Three bufonid taxa occur in mainland Japan,Bufo japonicus formosus,B. j. japonicus, andB. torrenticola. The chemical structures of BDs isolated fromB. j. formosuswere studied several decades ago, but there is no further information on the toxic components of Japanese toads and their metabolism. In this study, we analyzed BDs of toads from throughout Japan and compared the BD profiles by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA). We observed BDs in three taxa of Japanese toads, and identified five of the most common BDs by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analyses. Of the five BDs, only bufalin was detected in all individuals. HCA of individual BD profiles divided the three taxa into five primary clusters and several subclusters. This result indicates that BD profiles differ both among and within the taxa. The clustering pattern of BDs is generally concordant with a phylogenetic tree reconstructed from the mitochondrial cytochromebgene of Japanese toads. Our results suggest that the BDs of Japanese toads have diversified not in response to specific selective pressures, but simply due to population structuring over evolutionary time.
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