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BIODIVERSITY AND BIOPROSPECTING
Andrew Beattie Department of Biological Sciences
Macquarie UniversitySydney, Australia
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EucaryotesOnly!
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Tree of Life
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Example: Rarefaction curves for V6 hypervariable regions
of ribosomal RNAs from 8 deepsea water samples. (Sogin
et al. 2006. PNAS)
And they contain
many different
metabolic/bio
chemical
functions
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SO:
• Most species are (much) less than 1 cm in
length
• Any landscape harbours many more species
than meet the eye
Invertebrates
Microbes
Singlecell animals and plants
• We know remarkably little about them
• Their biology, their uses
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Biodiversity: The Resource
• NUMBERS:
• Approximately: 30m species (n genes),
2m described, 20,000 species utilized…
• ie the resource is littleknown/underused
• >1% of species have supported civilization so
far:
What about the other 99%?
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BIOPROSPECTING FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES eg WILD POLLINATORS
• Custard Apple Annona sp, Longan, Macadamia Plantations
• All need wild insects for pollination
• All show highest yields when near rain forest
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Worldwide landscape effects on Pollination Services. (Ricketts 2008. Ecology Letters 11)
• Native pollinator visitation vs. Distance from natural habitat. Note that native visitors drop to 50% at 660m.
• Interactions: farmers,ecologists and bioprospectors
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Increasing pollinator dependency worldwide (Aizen et al. Current Biology (2008) 18:1572-1575
dependent
non-dependent
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Pollinators
Farm Industries
Agricultural Industries
Transport and Distribution
Manufacturing and Processing
Wholesale and Retail
MoneyJOBS
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Biological control agents
Salvinia molesta
Cyrtobagous salviniae
Hostspecific from Brazil
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Brazilian wasp to control Cassava mealy-bug in Thailand
(Science (2010) Vol 329)
wasp: Anagyrus lopezi
Mealy bug: Phenacoccus manihoti
Khon Kaen province, Thailand
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Traditional Knowledge: mostly from
developing countries, mostly botanical
medicines
Evolutionary Ecology:
ecologicallydriven,
hypothesisdriven
Bioprospecting is the exploration of biodiversity for new biological resources of
social and/or commercial value**
**ecosystem
products, not
services
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Industries that carry out bioprospecting in a wide variety of environments
worldwide• Biomimetic Engineering• Biological Mining• BioMonitoring• BioRemediation• PhytoRemediation, Mycoremediation• Crop Protection• Commercial Pollination• Botanical Pharmaceuticals/Medicines
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MODERN BIOPROSPECTING IS LOOKING FOR MANY KINDS OF
PRODUCTS• Habitats• Species• Life-history traits
• Behaviours• Adaptations• Metabolic pathways
• MOST ECOSYSTEMS (terrestrial, freshwater and marine) ARE INVOLVED (all latitudes and altitudes)
• and
• MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF INDUSTRIES ARE ACTIVELY BIOPROSPECTING:
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For pharmaceuticals in general (Henkel et al.
1999,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 38:643)
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
molluscs (442)
insects/worms (244)
rare actinomycetes (1.915)
algae (1.276)
marine macroorganisms (2.959)
fungi (8.161)
plants (7.323)
bacteria (10.417)
BNPD total (29.432)
sugars
macrocycles
quinones
peptides
N-heterocycles
O-heterocycles
alicycles
arenes
aliphatics
others
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Major Taxa of Bioprospecting Interest
• Bacteria
• Fungi
• Algae
• Angiosperms
• Porifera
• Arthropoda
• Mollusca
• Crustacea
• Annelida
biodiversity pie-chart
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Enhancing the Science – Ecologically-Driven or Hypothesis-Driven Bioprospecting
Basic Question: Where would you expect the desired product to have evolved?
Natural History:A vast commercial database. key disciplines
-evolutionary biology, ecology, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology, natural products chemistry
Hypotheses: Bioprospecting driven by testing hypotheses
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BIOPROSPECTING
1. This method (hypothesis testing) will yield greater numbers and diversity of leads
2.Often a “front-end” for combinatorial chemistry
3.Chemists have the tools; biologists have the leads
4.An example of an hypothesis:
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Within-colony density
social
Within-colony genetic diversity
solitary
Disease Threat
Semi-social
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Ecologically-focused (hypothesis-driven) bioprospecting: Ants and antibiotics
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Bioprospecting and Ants: Summary
• Ants have twotier antimicrobial system:
• External antiseptics (→patents)
• Internal immune defence (→patents)
• Rather than screen thousands of insects, use biological knowledge to focus on likely groups/habitats
• Evolutionary biology and ecology are practical commercial tools and natural history is a vast database
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Bioprospecting and Ants
Ants are (novel) biological resources; in
each case in commercial use
**pharmaceuticals
**termiticide (pest control industry)
**biological control agents (agriculture)
**environmental monitoring (environment)
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Ecologically-Driven or Hypothesis-Driven Bioprospecting (Recall the Basic Question: Where would you expect the
desired product to have evolved?)
Examples of Hypotheses: 1. Stow et al. 2007. Biology Letters
(social evolution theory)2. Coley et al. 2003. Frontiers of
Ecology (plant defence theory)3. Clarke 2007 PhD Thesis Macquarie Uni
(foraging theory)
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Modern Bioprospecting• E.G. Industrial Biomimetics
“Nature is the world’s foremost designer. With billions of years of experience and boasting the most extensive laboratory available, it conducts research in every branch of engineering and science”
(J. BarCohen (2007) Biomimetics, Lavoisier, France)
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Bioprospecting is also carried out by many other industries: 1Manufacturing
• The Lotus Effect
• Biomimetic selfcleaning surfaces
• Patents for building paints (indoor/outdoor)
• Pipeline interiors
• Automobiles?
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Engineering• Longdistance fire
detection (50km)
• FireLoving beetles (Melanophila)
• Infrared Sensing Systems, University of Bonn
• PLoS One (2012)
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0
037627.
• Klocke et al (2011) Infrared receptors in fire-loving insects as models for new un-cooled infrared sensors.
• Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2:186-197
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Dewan et al. (2012)Nanostructured nipple
arrays of moth eye facets helps to design better thin film solar
cells. Doi: 10.1088/1748-
3182/7/1/016003
Journal of Bioinspiration
and Biomimetics
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• Ww
• Wasps as drug/chemical sensors
• Pure: Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata (2007) 122
• Applied: Biotechnology Progress (2008) 22
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Adhesion technologies
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Bioprospecting among the microbes• Medicine: Penicillium sp, Streptomyces sp, Bacillus
thuringiensis• Pollution control:Cyanobacterial/Microalgal
Consortia Biotech Advances (2011 29: 896-907
• Pestalotiopsis First fungus to survive only on polyurethane (plastic) waste (Tarantola (2012) Science 105:217)
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Bioprospecting the Microbes
• Deinococcus. Bacteria widely used for the bioremediation of radioactive waste sites. (McFarlan et al. (2000) Nature Biotechnology 18:85-90)
• Hymenoscyphus, Rhizopogon Two kinds of soil fungi that break down depleted uranium in war-contaminated soils. (Fomina et al. (2008) Current Biology 18:R375-R377)
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Bioprospecting the Microbes
• Escherichia coli Bacteria formed into ‘biopixels’ for low cost pollution and contamination biosensors. (Prindle et al. (2012) Science 481:39-44)
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Bioprospecting the Microbes
• Leptospirillum sp., Ferroplasma sp. Two groups of bacteria used for bio-mining: the recovery of precious and base metals from ores and tailings.(Ruder (2007) Microbiology 153:315-324).
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Biodiversity-based industries• Established:
agriculture, forestry, fisheries, tourism
• Established but benefiting from biodiversity exploration:pharmaceuticals, crop protection,
botanical medicines, cosmetics• Novel and Relatively novel:biomining, biomonitoring, bioremediation, ecological restoration, industrial biomimetics, ecotourism
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What is important to modern bioprospecting?
• Taxa Products and industries have been derived
from an immense variety of plant, animal and microbial species.
• Environments Polar, temperate, tropical, desert,
freshwater and marine ecosystems all being actively explored.
• Adaptations These are the commodities in
demand by many industries, especially with the advent of applied ecology and evolution.
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Which taxa and what habitats should be conserved?
It is not possible to predict which genes, species or
ecosystems will be valuable for future bioprospecting
• Products of major commercial value have been derived from plants, animals and microbes from polar, temperate, tropical, freshwater and marine ecosystems: SO
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Looking forward…
• Bioprospecting is diverse but focused as researchers ask: Where is the desired product likely to have evolved naturally:
• Exploration driven by ecology/evolution
Thus, exploration takes place where the adaptations have
evolved; not just where there are more species
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Because bioprospecting is carried out by many kinds of industries
• The conservation of its resource –biodiversity- is in the interest of industry as well as conservationists
• So Biodiversity is very significant to Brazil´s economy (pollinators, crop protection agents, biomining, pharmaceuticals, bioremediation, industrial biomimicry etc etc
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Social Benefits from Bioprospecting
Enhances local science, scientists, funding
Enhances investment, employment
Supports environmental protection and
management
• Encourages conservation in sectors not normally associated with it such as business, industry and economic development departments
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CULTURAL WEALTH
• MINERAL WEALTH
• LIVING WEALTH
• IMAGINATION, AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE RESOURCE (biodiversity) IS CRITICAL TO BIOPROSPECTING
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Biodiversity and Conservation 2008
Bioprospecting and the Future
• “All we have yet discovered is but a trifle in comparison with what lies hid in the great treasury of nature”
• Antonie van Leewenhoek (1680)
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