Project description:Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) is the only extant species of the genus Crocuta, which once occupied a much wider range during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. However, its origin and evolutionary history is somewhat contentious due to discordances being found between morphological, nuclear, and mitochondrial data. Due to the limited molecular data from east Asian Crocuta, and the difficulty of extracting ancient DNA from this area, here we present proteomic analysis of cave hyenas from three locations in northern China. This marks the first proteomic data generated from cave hyenas, adding new molecular data to the east Asian populations. Phylogenetic analysis based on these protein sequences reveals two different groups of cave hyenas in east Asia, one of which could not be distinguished from modern spotted hyenas from northern Africa, tentatively the result of previously suggested gene flow between these lineages. With developments of instrumentation and analytical methods, proteomics holds promising potential for the phylogenetic reconstruction of ancient fauna previously thought to be unreachable using ancient DNA.
2020-10-19 | PXD020530 | Pride
Project description:Epigenetic signatures of social status in spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)
Project description:Proteomics using Draft Genomes: a Case Study in Spotted Hyena
Crocuta crocuta, or spotted hyena, are one of four remaining hyena species, notable for its preference for hunting rather than scavenging. Until 2020, no annotated genome had been published for the species; by 2023, three had been published. These bottom-up proteomes, measured in 2020, were used to evaluate the quality of these three genomes for C. crocuta, establishing that the genome annotation featured by UniProt and NCBI lags behind the alternatives in identification sensitivity.
Sample handling and mass spectrometry are detailed in 1330MASS_ANALYTICALREPORT.pdf. Notably, these data were produced with Cys alkylated by MMTS rather than iodoacetamide. The search results come from FragPipe 23, using the "Shao.faa" fasta plus contaminants and decoys.
These shotgun proteomes were collected in roughly three sets. The three "Test" experiments (March and July 2020) established the amount of peptides loaded on column and asked how peptide diverse the samples were. The 13 RPLC experiments (August 2020) represented peripheral, head, abdominal, or thoracic lymph nodes (PL, HL, AL, or TL) from three different animals (571, 572, and 575) plus a few liver and lung samples. The 12 "Fraction" RAWs (September 2020) represent ten bRPLC fractions of a head lymph node pool. See the QuaMeter.tsv table for more details.
These animals are the same as were used for RNA-Seq in NCBI PRJNA658551.