Metabolomic Profiles of Squid Chromatophores Across Red, Yellow, and Brown Colors

Metabolomic data from manually isolated squid chromatophores reveals biochemical differences underlying color. The dataset contains over 4,000 compounds detected via untargeted LC–MS/MS, with differential abundance patterns identified across yellow, red, and brown color types. It was authored by Ketki Bagwe and uploaded to figshare on 2026-05-26.

Use Cases

• Identify metabolic pathway enrichment based on chromatophore color type mentioned in the description.
• Compare differential abundance of pigment-related metabolites across red, yellow, and brown chromatophores.
• Investigate the biochemical continuum hypothesis for color identity in cephalopod camouflage systems.

Strengths

• Contains data on over 4,000 detected compounds.
• Provides direct pairwise comparisons of metabolic activity across three distinct chromatophore colors.
• Data is available in an accessible XLSX format with a size of 2.3 MB.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description notes that future targeted biochemical studies are required to connect findings to functional contributions.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Untargeted LC–MS/MS metabolomics performed on manually isolated chromatophores.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 06:14:03; freshness should be verified.