Abstract
The prawn Palaemon serratus exhibits a large distribution (occurring along the Northeastern Atlantic coast to the Mediterranean), and has thus been found suitable as model organism valuable for various ecotoxicological studies. However, little is still known about the potential input of its metabolome and particularly concerning a potential molecular sexual dimorphism observable in the different tissues of this organism. In an ecotoxicological point of view, inter-sex and inter-organ differences of the metabolomes may introduce analytical bias and impact the robustness of the analysis and its interpretation. To explore such possibilities, we obtained qualitative metabolomic data from the analysis of different organs of mature male and female Palaemon serratus. We used ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-high resolution tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-ESI-HRMS on positive mode) to characterize the 75%-extracted metabolome of both gills, hepatopancreas, nervous gland, muscle and gonads. The data were dereplicated using specific metabolomic software (MetaboScape 4) and 2,782 features were extracted, 1,720 of them being also analysed on MS/MS mode, supporting molecular networking investigations with Metgem 1.3.6. These metabolites were thus putatively identified using GNPS (Global Natural Product Social) Molecular Networking databases for de-novo annotation followed by manual curation of 84 metabolites. This data provides essential information on the important sexual dimorphism occurring at the molecular level in the different organs and supports further research on physiology and ecotoxicology in common European prawn.