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Klementz BC, Brenneis G, Hinne IA, Laumer EM, Neu SM, Hareid GM, Gainett G, Setton EVW, Simian C, Vrech DE, Joyce I, Barnett AA, Patel NH, Harvey MS, Peretti AV, Gulia-Nuss M, Sharma PP. A novel expression domain of extradenticle underlies the evolutionary developmental origin of the chelicerate patella. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.16.594547. [PMID: 38826321 PMCID: PMC11142128 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.16.594547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2024]
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Neofunctionalization of duplicated gene copies is thought to be an important process underlying the origin of evolutionary novelty and provides an elegant mechanism for the origin of new phenotypic traits. One putative case where a new gene copy has been linked to a novel morphological trait is the origin of the arachnid patella, a taxonomically restricted leg segment. In spiders, the origin of this segment has been linked to the origin of the paralog dachshund-2 , suggesting that a new gene facilitated the expression of a new trait. However, various arachnid groups that possess patellae do not have a copy of dachshund-2 , disfavoring the direct link between gene origin and trait origin. We investigated the developmental genetic basis for patellar patterning in the harvestman Phalangium opilio , which lacks dachshund-2 . Here, we show that the harvestman patella is established by a novel expression domain of the transcription factor extradenticle . Leveraging this definition of patellar identity, we surveyed targeted groups across chelicerate phylogeny to assess when this trait evolved. We show that a patellar homolog is present in Pycnogonida (sea spiders) and various arachnid orders, suggesting a single origin of the patella in the ancestor of Chelicerata. A potential loss of the patella is observed in Ixodida. Our results suggest that the modification of an ancient gene, rather than the neofunctionalization of a new gene copy, underlies the origin of the patella. Broadly, this work underscores the value of comparative data and broad taxonomic sampling when testing hypotheses in evolutionary developmental biology.
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Alexeeva N, Tamberg Y. Early lecithotrophic stages of Nymphon grossipes, and the role of larval appendages and glands in different larval types of pycnogonids. J Morphol 2022; 283:296-312. [PMID: 34993989 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2021] [Revised: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Nymphon grossipes is a common subtidal species belonging to a small and unique group of chelicerates, that is, the sea spiders. These animals have an anamorphic phase during post-embryonic development and often hatch as small, oligomeric and exotrophic larvae (protonymphons) with four postocular segments, cheliphores, and two pairs of larval legs. A common alternative to protonymphons is a large lecithotrophic larval type, where animals hatch at more advanced stages and have a foreshortened anamorphic development. Based on external morphology, N. grossipes was believed to be an intriguing intermediate between these two conditions and its hatchlings were called "lecithotrophic protonymphons." Here, we examine the anatomy and ultrastructure of instars I and II and review the variety of roles of larval appendages and associated glands in other sea spiders in order to correctly place the larva of this species among pycnogonid larval types. Compared to "typical protonymphons," N. grossipes young hatch with an advanced segmental and appendage composition: six postocular segments instead of four, buds of walking legs 1 and hidden buds of walking legs 2. This state corresponds to the instars II/III (rather than larvae) of Nymphon brevirostre and Pycnogonum litorale. Modifications of the larval appendages, chelar, and spinning glands are aligned with ecological needs of different larval types along a few typical dimensions: locomotion and feeding, dispersal, and attachment to the parent. Although the main challenge for N. grossipes young is secure attachment to the egg package while they growth, there are some discrepancies in their anatomy: N. grossipes retains an oyster basket, but an otherwise nonfunctional digestive system, and a strong silken thread for attachment, but no corresponding reduction of the larval legs. Thus, it is likely that the switch to lecithotrophy happened in the recent evolutionary history of this species.
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- Nina Alexeeva
- White Sea Biological Station, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Department of Marine Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Alexeeva N, Tamberg Y. Anatomical changes in postembryonic development of Pycnogonum litorale. J Morphol 2020; 282:329-354. [PMID: 33368492 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Revised: 11/28/2020] [Accepted: 12/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Sea spiders (Pycnogonida) are a small group of arthropods, sister to other chelicerates. They have an unusual adult bauplan, oligosegmented larvae, and a protracted postembryonic development. Pycnogonum litorale (Strøm, 1762) is an uncommonly long-lived sea spider with a distinctive protonymphon and adult anatomy. Although it was described ~250 years ago, little is known about its internal organization and development. We examined the anamorphic and early epimorphic development of this species using histology, light microscopy, and SEM, and provide the first comprehensive anatomical study of its many instars. Postembryonic development of P. litorale includes transformations typical of pycnogonids: reorganization of the larval organs (digestive, nervous, secretory), formation of the abdomen, trunk segments (+ appendages), primary body cavity and reproductive system. Specific traits include the accelerated articulation of the walking legs, formation of the subesophageal and posterior synganglia, and the system of twin midgut diverticula. In addition, P. litorale simultaneously lose the spinning apparatus and all larval appendages. We found that developmental changes occur in synchrony with changes in ecology and food sources. The transition from the anamorphic to the epimorphic period in particular is marked by considerable anatomical and lifestyle shifts. HIGHLIGHTS: Postembryonic development of P. litorale includes numerous anamorphic and epimorphic stages. The instars acquire abdomen, trunk segments, body cavity, and gonads, while losing all larval appendages. Developmental changes are synchronized with changes in lifestyle and food sources.
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- Nina Alexeeva
- White Sea Biological Station, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya quay 1, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Department of Marine Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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In many animals the head develops early, most of the body axis later. A larva composed mostly of the developing front end therefore can attain mobility and feeding earlier in development. Fossils, functional morphology, and inferred homologies indicate that feeding head larvae existed by the Early Cambrian in members of three major clades of animals: ecdysozoans, lophotrochozoans, and deuterostomes. Some of these early larval feeding mechanisms were also those of juveniles and adults (the lophophore of brachiopod larvae and possibly the ciliary band of the dipleurula of hemichordates and echinoderms); some were derived from structures that previously had other functions (appendages of the nauplius). Trochophores that swim with a preoral band of cilia, the prototroch, originated before divergence of annelids and molluscs, but evidence of larval growth and thus a prototrochal role in feeding is lacking for molluscs until the Ordovician. Feeding larvae that definitely originated much later, as in insects, teleost fish, and amphibians, develop all or nearly all of what will become the adult body axis before they begin feeding. On present evidence, head larvae, including feeding head larvae, evolved multiple times early in the evolution of bilaterian animals and never since.
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- Richard R. Strathmann
- Friday Harbor Laboratories, 620 University Road, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
- Friday Harbor Laboratories, 620 University Road, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
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Postembryonic development of Nymphon australe Hodgson, 1902 (Pycnogonida, Nymphonidae) from Antarctica. Polar Biol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-020-02624-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Alexeeva N, Tamberg Y, Shunatova N. The (not very) typical protonymphons of
Pycnogonum litorale. J Morphol 2019; 280:1370-1392. [DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Revised: 06/12/2019] [Accepted: 06/16/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Nina Alexeeva
- Department of Invertebrate ZoologySt. Petersburg State University St. Petersburg Russian Federation
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- Department of Marine ScienceUniversity of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Invertebrate ZoologySt. Petersburg State University St. Petersburg Russian Federation
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Brenneis G, Arango CP. First description of epimorphic development in Antarctic Pallenopsidae (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) with insights into the evolution of the four-articled sea spider cheliphore. ZOOLOGICAL LETTERS 2019; 5:4. [PMID: 30656062 PMCID: PMC6330760 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-018-0118-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2018] [Accepted: 12/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Sea spiders (Pycnogonida) are an abundant faunal element of the Southern Ocean (SO). Several recent phylogeographical studies focused on the remarkably diverse SO pycnogonid fauna, resulting in the identification of new species in previously ill-defined species complexes, insights into their genetic population substructures, and hypotheses on glacial refugia and recolonization events after the last ice age. However, knowledge on the life history of many SO pycnogonids is fragmentary, and early ontogenetic stages often remain poorly documented. This impedes assessing the impact of different developmental pathways on pycnogonid dispersal and distributions and also hinders pycnogonid-wide comparison of developmental features from a phylogenetic-evolutionary angle. RESULTS Using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and fluorescent nuclear staining, we studied embryonic stages and postembryonic instars of three SO representatives of the taxon Pallenopsidae (Pallenopsis villosa, P. hodgsoni, P. vanhoeffeni), the development of which being largely unknown. The eggs are large and yolk-rich, and the hatching stage is an advanced lecithotrophic instar that stays attached to the father for additional molts. The first free-living instar is deduced to possess at least three functional walking leg pairs. Despite gross morphological similarities between the congeners, each instar can be reliably assigned to a species based on body size, shape of ocular tubercle and proboscis, structure of the attachment gland processes, and seta patterns on cheliphore and walking legs. CONCLUSIONS We encourage combination of SEM with fluorescent markers in developmental studies on ethanol-preserved and/or long term-stored pycnogonid material, as this reveals internal differentiation processes in addition to external morphology. Using this approach, we describe the first known cases of pallenopsid development with epimorphic tendencies, which stand in contrast to the small hatching larvae in other Pallenopsidae. Evaluation against current phylogenetic hypotheses indicates multiple gains of epimorphic development within Pycnogonida. Further, we suggest that the type of development may impact pycnogonid distribution ranges, since free-living larvae potentially have a better dispersal capability than lecithotrophic attaching instars. Finally, we discuss the bearing of pycnogonid cheliphore development on the evolution of the raptorial first limb pair in Chelicerata and support a multi-articled adult limb as the plesiomorphic state of the chelicerate crown group, arising ontogenetically via postembryonic segmentation of a three-articled embryonic limb.
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- Georg Brenneis
- Zoologisches Institut und Museum, Cytologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Universität Greifswald, Soldmannstraße 23, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
- Institut für Biologie, Vergleichende Zoologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstraße 13, Haus 2, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Queensland Museum, Biodiversity Program, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia
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- Joachim T. Haug
- Biocenter, Department of Biology II and GeoBio‐Center Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München Planegg‐Martinsried Germany
- GeoBio‐Center Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München Munich Germany
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Alexeeva N, Tamberg Y, Shunatova N. Postembryonic development of pycnogonids: A deeper look inside. ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT 2018. [PMID: 29524544 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2018.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Sea spiders form a small, enigmatic group of recent chelicerates, with an unusual bodyplan, oligosegmented larvae and a postembryonic development that is punctuated by many moults. To date, only a few papers examined the anatomical and ultrastructural modifications of the larvae and various instars. Here we traced both internal and external events of the whole postembryonic development in Nymphon brevirostre HODGE 1863 using histology, SEM, TEM and confocal microscopy. During postembryonic development, larvae of this species undergo massive reorganization: spinning apparatus and chelar glands disappear; larval legs redifferentiate; three new segments and the abdomen are formed with their corresponding internal organs and appendages; circulatory and reproductive systems develop anew and the digestive and the nervous systems change dramatically. The body cavity remains schizocoelic throughout development, and no traces of even transitory coeloms were found in any instar. In Nymphon brevirostre, just like in Artemia salina LINNAEUS 1758 the heart arises through differentiation of the already existing schizocoel, and thus the circulatory systems of arthropods and annelids are not homologous. We found that classical chelicerate tagmata, prosoma and opisthosoma, are inapplicable to adult pycnogonids, with the most striking difference being the fate and structure of the seventh appendage-bearing segment.
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- Nina Alexeeva
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation.
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- Department of Marine Science, University of Otago, 310 Castle Street, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
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Brenneis G, Scholtz G, Beltz BS. Comparison of ventral organ development across Pycnogonida (Arthropoda, Chelicerata) provides evidence for a plesiomorphic mode of late neurogenesis in sea spiders and myriapods. BMC Evol Biol 2018; 18:47. [PMID: 29621973 PMCID: PMC5887176 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1150-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2017] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Comparative studies of neuroanatomy and neurodevelopment provide valuable information for phylogenetic inference. Beyond that, they reveal transformations of neuroanatomical structures during animal evolution and modifications in the developmental processes that have shaped these structures. In the extremely diverse Arthropoda, such comparative studies contribute with ever-increasing structural resolution and taxon coverage to our understanding of nervous system evolution. However, at the neurodevelopmental level, in-depth data remain still largely confined to comparably few laboratory model organisms. Therefore, we studied postembryonic neurogenesis in six species of the bizarre Pycnogonida (sea spiders), which - as the likely sister group of all remaining chelicerates - promise to illuminate neurodevelopmental changes in the chelicerate lineage. RESULTS We performed in vivo cell proliferation experiments with the thymidine analogs 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine and 5-ethynl-2'-deoxyuridine coupled to fluorescent histochemical staining and immunolabeling, in order to compare ventral nerve cord anatomy and to localize and characterize centers of postembryonic neurogenesis. We report interspecific differences in the architecture of the subesophageal ganglion (SEG) and show the presence of segmental "ventral organs" (VOs) that act as centers of neural cell production during gangliogenesis. These VOs are either incorporated into the ganglionic soma cortex or found on the external ganglion surface. Despite this difference, several shared features support homology of the two VO types, including (1) a specific arrangement of the cells around a small central cavity, (2) the presence of asymmetrically dividing neural stem cell-like precursors, (3) the migration of newborn cells along corresponding pathways into the cortex, and (4) the same VO origin and formation earlier in development. CONCLUSIONS Evaluation of our findings relative to current hypotheses on pycnogonid phylogeny resolves a bipartite SEG and internal VOs as plesiomorphic conditions in pycnogonids. Although chelicerate taxa other than Pycnogonida lack comparable VOs, they are a characteristic feature of myriapod gangliogenesis. Accordingly, we propose internal VOs with neurogenic function to be part of the ground pattern of Arthropoda. Further, our findings illustrate the importance of dense sampling in old arthropod lineages - even if as gross-anatomically uniform as Pycnogonida - in order to reliably differentiate plesiomorphic from apomorphic neurodevelopmental characteristics prior to outgroup comparison.
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- Georg Brenneis
- Wellesley College, Neuroscience Program, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA, 02481, USA. .,Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Vergleichende Zoologie, Philippstraße 13, Haus 2, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Vergleichende Zoologie, Philippstraße 13, Haus 2, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Wellesley College, Neuroscience Program, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA, 02481, USA
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Alexeeva N, Bogomolova E, Tamberg Y, Shunatova N. Oligomeric larvae of the pycnogonids revisited. J Morphol 2017; 278:1284-1304. [DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2016] [Revised: 05/05/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Nina Alexeeva
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology; St. Petersburg State University; Universitetskaja nab. 7/9 St. Petersburg 199034 Russian Federation
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology; Moscow State University; Leninskie gory, 1, 12 Moscow 119234 Russian Federation
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology; St. Petersburg State University; Universitetskaja nab. 7/9 St. Petersburg 199034 Russian Federation
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology; St. Petersburg State University; Universitetskaja nab. 7/9 St. Petersburg 199034 Russian Federation
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Dunlop JA, Lamsdell JC. Segmentation and tagmosis in Chelicerata. ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT 2017; 46:395-418. [PMID: 27240897 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2016.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2016] [Revised: 05/17/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Patterns of segmentation and tagmosis are reviewed for Chelicerata. Depending on the outgroup, chelicerate origins are either among taxa with an anterior tagma of six somites, or taxa in which the appendages of somite I became increasingly raptorial. All Chelicerata have appendage I as a chelate or clasp-knife chelicera. The basic trend has obviously been to consolidate food-gathering and walking limbs as a prosoma and respiratory appendages on the opisthosoma. However, the boundary of the prosoma is debatable in that some taxa have functionally incorporated somite VII and/or its appendages into the prosoma. Euchelicerata can be defined on having plate-like opisthosomal appendages, further modified within Arachnida. Total somite counts for Chelicerata range from a maximum of nineteen in groups like Scorpiones and the extinct Eurypterida down to seven in modern Pycnogonida. Mites may also show reduced somite counts, but reconstructing segmentation in these animals remains challenging. Several innovations relating to tagmosis or the appendages borne on particular somites are summarised here as putative apomorphies of individual higher taxa. We also present our observations within the concept of pseudotagma, whereby the true tagmata - the prosoma and opisthosoma - can be defined on a fundamental change in the limb series while pseudotagmata, such as the cephalosoma/proterosoma, are expressed as divisions in sclerites covering the body without an accompanying change in the appendages.
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- Jason A Dunlop
- Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany.
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- American Museum of Natural History, Division of Paleontology, Central Park West at 79th St, New York, NY 10024, USA.
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Mochizuki Y, Miyazaki K. Postembryonic development of the sea spider Ammothella biunguiculata (Pycnogonida, Ammotheidae) endoparasitic to an actinian Entacmaea quadricolor (Anthozoa, Stichodactylidae) in Izu Peninsula, Japan. INVERTEBR REPROD DEV 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/07924259.2017.1291452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Yuichi Mochizuki
- Department of Zoology, Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Wakayama, Japan
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- Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Wakayama, Japan
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Brenneis G, Bogomolova EV, Arango CP, Krapp F. From egg to "no-body": an overview and revision of developmental pathways in the ancient arthropod lineage Pycnogonida. Front Zool 2017; 14:6. [PMID: 28191025 PMCID: PMC5297176 DOI: 10.1186/s12983-017-0192-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Accepted: 01/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Arthropod diversity is unparalleled in the animal kingdom. The study of ontogeny is pivotal to understand which developmental processes underlie the incredible morphological disparity of arthropods and thus to eventually unravel evolutionary transformations leading to their success. Work on laboratory model organisms has yielded in-depth data on numerous developmental mechanisms in arthropods. Yet, although the range of studied taxa has increased noticeably since the advent of comparative evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), several smaller groups remain understudied. This includes the bizarre Pycnogonida (sea spiders) or "no-bodies", a taxon occupying a crucial phylogenetic position for the interpretation of arthropod development and evolution. RESULTS Pycnogonid development is variable at familial and generic levels and sometimes even congeneric species exhibit different developmental modes. Here, we summarize the available data since the late 19th century. We clarify and resolve terminological issues persisting in the pycnogonid literature and distinguish five developmental pathways, based on (1) type of the hatching stage, (2) developmental-morphological features during postembryonic development and (3) selected life history characteristics. Based on phylogenetic analyses and the fossil record, we discuss plausible plesiomorphic features of pycnogonid development that allow comparison to other arthropods. These features include (1) a holoblastic, irregular cleavage with equal-sized blastomeres, (2) initiation of gastrulation by a single bottle-shaped cell, (3) the lack of a morphologically distinct germ band during embryogenesis, (4) a parasitic free-living protonymphon larva as hatching stage and (5) a hemianamorphic development during the postlarval and juvenile phases. Further, we propose evolutionary developmental trajectories within crown-group Pycnogonida. CONCLUSIONS A resurgence of studies on pycnogonid postembryonic development has provided various new insights in the last decades. However, the scarcity of modern-day embryonic data - including the virtual lack of gene expression and functional studies - needs to be addressed in future investigations to strengthen comparisons to other arthropods and arthropod outgroups in the framework of evo-devo. Our review may serve as a basis for an informed choice of target species for such studies, which will not only shed light on chelicerate development and evolution but furthermore hold the potential to contribute important insights into the anamorphic development of the arthropod ancestor.
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- Georg Brenneis
- Wellesley College, Neuroscience Program, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 USA
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- Queensland Museum, Biodiversity Program, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia
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- Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum A. Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
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Hübner J, Wagner P, Lehmann T, Melzer RR. Testing species delimitation with larval morphology: scanning electron microscopy analysis of protonymphon larvae of two closely related sea spiders, Pallenopsis patagonica (Hoek) and Pallenopsis yepayekae Weis. INVERTEBR SYST 2017. [DOI: 10.1071/is16050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We used scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to establish species-specific sets of characters for protonymphon larvae of two representatives of the ‘patagonica’ species group of Pallenopsis, P. patagonica and P. yepayekae. The larvae of both species are ‘typical’ protonymphon larvae sensu Bain (2003). Despite the close relationship of the two species, we observed numerous features that allow for differential diagnosis, e.g. general habitus, the number, arrangement and branching type of setules, the armature of the movable and immovable chelifore fingers, and the shape of the dactylus and setules of appendages II and III. SEM is particularly suitable for visualising these features. Our results further support the idea that protonymphon larvae can be identified to species level when adequate imaging techniques are used, as is also the case for larvae of other arthropods. Moreover, the status of the two studied species of Pallenopsis is fully supported by protonymphon larval morphology.
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Scholtz G, Brenneis G. The pattern of a specimen of Pycnogonum litorale (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) with a supernumerary leg can be explained with the "boundary model" of appendage formation. Naturwissenschaften 2016; 103:13. [PMID: 26830781 PMCID: PMC4735254 DOI: 10.1007/s00114-016-1333-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2015] [Revised: 01/07/2016] [Accepted: 01/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A malformed adult female specimen of Pycnogonum litorale (Pycnogonida) with a supernumerary leg in the right body half is described concerning external and internal structures. The specimen was maintained in our laboratory culture after an injury in the right trunk region during a late postembryonic stage. The supernumerary leg is located between the second and third walking legs. The lateral processes connecting to these walking legs are fused to one large structure. Likewise, the coxae 1 of the second and third walking legs and of the supernumerary leg are fused to different degrees. The supernumerary leg is a complete walking leg with mirror image symmetry as evidenced by the position of joints and muscles. It is slightly smaller than the normal legs, but internally, it contains a branch of the ovary and a gut diverticulum as the other legs. The causes for this malformation pattern found in the Pycnogonum individual are reconstructed in the light of extirpation experiments in insects, which led to supernumerary mirror image legs, and the “boundary model” for appendage differentiation.
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- Gerhard Scholtz
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Vergleichende Zoologie, Philippstr. 13, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Vergleichende Zoologie, Philippstr. 13, 10115, Berlin, Germany.,Neuroscience Program, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA, 02481, USA
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Lamsdell JC, Briggs DEG, Liu HP, Witzke BJ, McKay RM. The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa. BMC Evol Biol 2015; 15:169. [PMID: 26324341 PMCID: PMC4556007 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0443-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Eurypterids are a diverse group of chelicerates known from ~250 species with a sparse Ordovician record currently comprising 11 species; the oldest fully documented example is from the Sandbian of Avalonia. The Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) fauna of the Winneshiek Lagerstätte includes a new eurypterid species represented by more than 150 specimens, including some juveniles, preserved as carbonaceous cuticular remains. This taxon represents the oldest described eurypterid, extending the documented range of the group back some 9 million years. RESULTS The new eurypterid species is described as Pentecopterus decorahensis gen. et sp. nov.. Phylogenetic analysis places Pentecopterus at the base of the Megalograptidae, united with the two genera previously assigned to this family by the shared possession of two or more pairs of spines per podomere on prosomal appendage IV, a reduction of all spines except the pair on the penultimate podomere of appendage V, and an ornamentation of guttalate scales, including angular scales along the posterior margin of the dorsal tergites and in longitudinal rows along the tergites. The morphology of Pentecopterus reveals that the Megalograptidae are representatives of the derived carcinosomatoid clade and not basal eurypterids as previously interpreted. CONCLUSIONS The relatively derived position of megalograptids within the eurypterids indicates that most eurypterid clades were present by the Middle Ordovician. Eurypterids either underwent an explosive radiation soon after their origination, or earlier representatives, perhaps Cambrian in age, remain to be discovered. The available instars of Pentecopterus decorahensis suggest that eurypterids underwent extreme appendage differentiation during development, a potentially unique condition among chelicerates. The high degree of appendage specialization in eurypterids is only matched by arachnids within chelicerates, supporting a sister taxon relationship between them.
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- James C Lamsdell
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
- Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
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- Iowa Geological Survey, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, University of Iowa, 340 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
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- Iowa Geological Survey, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, University of Iowa, 340 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
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Brenneis G, Scholtz G. Serotonin-immunoreactivity in the ventral nerve cord of Pycnogonida--support for individually identifiable neurons as ancestral feature of the arthropod nervous system. BMC Evol Biol 2015; 15:136. [PMID: 26156705 PMCID: PMC4496856 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0422-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The arthropod ventral nerve cord features a comparably low number of serotonin-immunoreactive neurons, occurring in segmentally repeated arrays. In different crustaceans and hexapods, these neurons have been individually identified and even inter-specifically homologized, based on their soma positions and neurite morphologies. Stereotypic sets of serotonin-immunoreactive neurons are also present in myriapods, whereas in the investigated chelicerates segmental neuron clusters with higher and variable cell numbers have been reported. This led to the suggestion that individually identifiable serotonin-immunoreactive neurons are an apomorphic feature of the Mandibulata. To test the validity of this neurophylogenetic hypothesis, we studied serotonin-immunoreactivity in three species of Pycnogonida (sea spiders). This group of marine arthropods is nowadays most plausibly resolved as sister group to all other extant chelicerates, rendering its investigation crucial for a reliable reconstruction of arthropod nervous system evolution. RESULTS In all three investigated pycnogonids, the ventral walking leg ganglia contain different types of serotonin-immunoreactive neurons, the somata of which occurring mostly singly or in pairs within the ganglionic cortex. Several of these neurons are readily and consistently identifiable due to their stereotypic soma position and characteristic neurite morphology. They can be clearly homologized across different ganglia and different specimens as well as across the three species. Based on these homologous neurons, we reconstruct for their last common ancestor (presumably the pycnogonid stem species) a minimal repertoire of at least seven identified serotonin-immunoreactive neurons per hemiganglion. Beyond that, each studied species features specific pattern variations, which include also some neurons that were not reliably labeled in all specimens. CONCLUSIONS Our results unequivocally demonstrate the presence of individually identifiable serotonin-immunoreactive neurons in the pycnogonid ventral nerve cord. Accordingly, the validity of this neuroanatomical feature as apomorphy of Mandibulata is questioned and we suggest it to be ancestral for arthropods instead. The pronounced disparities between the segmental pattern in pycnogonids and the one of studied euchelicerates call for denser sampling within the latter taxon. By contrast, overall similarities between the pycnogonid and myriapod patterns may be indicative of single cell homologies in these two taxa. This notion awaits further substantiation from future studies.
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- Georg Brenneis
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie/Vergleichende Zoologie, Philippstraße 13, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie/Vergleichende Zoologie, Philippstraße 13, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
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Brenneis G, Stollewerk A, Scholtz G. Embryonic neurogenesis in Pseudopallene sp. (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) includes two subsequent phases with similarities to different arthropod groups. EvoDevo 2013; 4:32. [PMID: 24289241 PMCID: PMC3879066 DOI: 10.1186/2041-9139-4-32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2013] [Accepted: 10/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Studies on early neurogenesis have had considerable impact on the discussion of the phylogenetic relationships of arthropods, having revealed striking similarities and differences between the major lineages. In Hexapoda and crustaceans, neurogenesis involves the neuroblast, a type of neural stem cell. In each hemi-segment, a set of neuroblasts produces neural cells by repeated asymmetrical and interiorly directed divisions. In Euchelicerata and Myriapoda, neurogenesis lacks neural stem cells, featuring instead direct immigration of neural cell groups from fixed sites in the neuroectoderm. Accordingly, neural stem cells were hitherto assumed to be an evolutionary novelty of the Tetraconata (Hexapoda + crustaceans). To further test this hypothesis, we investigated neurogenesis in Pycnogonida, or sea spiders, a group of marine arthropods with close affinities to euchelicerates. RESULTS We studied neurogenesis during embryonic development of Pseudopallene sp. (Callipallenidae), using fluorescent histochemical staining and immunolabelling. Embryonic neurogenesis has two phases. The first phase shows notable similarities to euchelicerates and myriapods. These include i) the lack of morphologically different cell types in the neuroectoderm; ii) the formation of transiently identifiable, stereotypically arranged cell internalization sites; iii) immigration of predominantly post-mitotic ganglion cells; and iv) restriction of tangentially oriented cell proliferation to the apical cell layer. However, in the second phase, the formation of a central invagination in each hemi-neuromere is accompanied by the differentiation of apical neural stem cells. The latter grow in size, show high mitotic activity and an asymmetrical division mode. A marked increase of ganglion cell numbers follows their differentiation. Directly basal to the neural stem cells, an additional type of intermediate neural precursor is found. CONCLUSIONS Embryonic neurogenesis of Pseudopallene sp. combines features of central nervous system development that have been hitherto described separately in different arthropod taxa. The two-phase character of pycnogonid neurogenesis calls for a thorough reinvestigation of other non-model arthropods over the entire course of neurogenesis. With the currently available data, a common origin of pycnogonid neural stem cells and tetraconate neuroblasts remains unresolved. To acknowledge this, we present two possible scenarios on the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis, whereby Myriapoda play a key role in the resolution of this issue.
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- Georg Brenneis
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie/Vergleichende Zoologie, Philippstraße 13, Berlin 10115, Germany
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie/Vergleichende Zoologie, Philippstraße 13, Berlin 10115, Germany
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Ou Q, Shu D, Mayer G. Cambrian lobopodians and extant onychophorans provide new insights into early cephalization in Panarthropoda. Nat Commun 2013; 3:1261. [PMID: 23232391 PMCID: PMC3535342 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2012] [Accepted: 11/08/2012] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Cambrian lobopodians are important for understanding the evolution of arthropods, but despite their soft-bodied preservation, the organization of the cephalic region remains obscure. Here we describe new material of the early Cambrian lobopodian Onychodictyon ferox from southern China, which reveals hitherto unknown head structures. These include a proboscis with a terminal mouth, an anterior arcuate sclerite, a pair of ocellus-like eyes and branched, antenniform appendages associated with this ocular segment. These findings, combined with a comparison with other lobopodians, suggest that the head of the last common ancestor of fossil lobopodians and extant panarthropods comprized a single ocular segment with a proboscis and terminal mouth. The lack of specialized mouthparts in O. ferox and the involvement of non-homologous mouthparts in onychophorans, tardigrades and arthropods argue against a common origin of definitive mouth openings among panarthropods, whereas the embryonic stomodaeum might well be homologous at least in Onychophora and Arthropoda. Lobopodians include stem-group arthropods and panarthropods, and date back to the early Cambrian. Ou et al. describe specimens of the early Cambrian lobopodian Onychodictyon ferox, revealing new head structures such as modified appendages, eyes, a terminal mouth and a sucking pharynx.
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- Qiang Ou
- Early Life Evolution Laboratory, School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China.
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New data concerning postembryonic development in Antarctic Ammothea species (Pycnogonida: Ammotheidae). Polar Biol 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-013-1338-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lamsdell JC, Selden PA. Babes in the wood--a unique window into sea scorpion ontogeny. BMC Evol Biol 2013; 13:98. [PMID: 23663507 PMCID: PMC3679797 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-98] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2012] [Accepted: 04/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Few studies on eurypterids have taken into account morphological changes that occur throughout postembryonic development. Here two species of eurypterid are described from the Pragian Beartooth Butte Formation of Cottonwood Canyon in Wyoming and included in a phylogenetic analysis. Both species comprise individuals from a number of instars, and this allows for changes that occur throughout their ontogeny to be documented, and how ontogenetically variable characters can influence phylogenetic analysis to be tested. RESULTS The two species of eurypterid are described as Jaekelopterus howelli (Kjellesvig-Waering and Størmer, 1952) and Strobilopterus proteus sp. nov. Phylogenetic analysis places them within the Pterygotidae and Strobilopteridae respectively, both families within the Eurypterina. Jaekelopterus howelli shows positive allometry of the cheliceral denticles throughout ontogeny, while a number of characteristics including prosomal appendage length, carapace shape, lateral eye position, and relative breadth all vary during the growth of Strobilopterus proteus. CONCLUSIONS The ontogeny of Strobilopterus proteus shares much in common with that of modern xiphosurans, however certain characteristics including apparent true direct development suggest a closer affinity to arachnids. The ontogenetic development of the genital appendage also supports the hypothesis that the structure is homologous to the endopods of the trunk limbs of other arthropods. Including earlier instars in the phylogenetic analysis is shown to destabilise the retrieved topology. Therefore, coding juveniles as individual taxa in an analysis is shown to be actively detrimental and alternative ways of coding ontogenetic data into phylogenetic analyses should be explored.
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- James C Lamsdell
- Paleontological Institute and Department of Geology, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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- Paleontological Institute and Department of Geology, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
- Palaeontology Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7, 5BD, UK
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Ortega-Hernández J, Legg DA, Braddy SJ. The phylogeny of aglaspidid arthropods and the internal relationships within Artiopoda. Cladistics 2012; 29:15-45. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00413.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Brenneis G, Arango CP, Scholtz G. Morphogenesis of Pseudopallene sp. (Pycnogonida, Callipallenidae) II: postembryonic development. Dev Genes Evol 2011; 221:329-50. [DOI: 10.1007/s00427-011-0381-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2011] [Accepted: 11/08/2011] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Morphogenesis of Pseudopallene sp. (Pycnogonida, Callipallenidae) I: embryonic development. Dev Genes Evol 2011; 221:309-28. [DOI: 10.1007/s00427-011-0382-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2011] [Accepted: 11/08/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Haug JT, Haug C, Kutschera V, Mayer G, Maas A, Liebau S, Castellani C, Wolfram U, Clarkson ENK, Waloszek D. Autofluorescence imaging, an excellent tool for comparative morphology. J Microsc 2011; 244:259-72. [PMID: 21883208 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2011.03534.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Here we present a set of methods for documenting (exo-)morphology by applying autofluorescence imaging. For arthropods, but also for other taxa, autofluorescence imaging combined with composite imaging is a fast documentation method with high-resolution capacities. Compared to conventional micro- and macrophotography, the illumination is much more homogenous, and structures are often better contrasted. Applying different wavelengths to the same object can additionally be used to enhance distinct structures. Autofluorescence imaging can be applied to dried and embedded specimens, but also directly on specimens within their storage liquid. This has an enormous potential for the documentation of rare specimens and especially type specimens without the need of preparation. Also for various fossils, autofluorescence can be used to enhance the contrast between the fossil and the matrix significantly, making even smallest details visible. 'Life-colour' fluorescence especially is identified as a technique with great potential. It provides additional information for which otherwise more complex methods would have to be applied. The complete range of differences and variations between fluorescence macrophotography and different types of fluorescence microscopy techniques are here explored and evaluated in detail. Also future improvements are suggested. In summary, autofluorescence imaging is a powerful, easy and fast-to-apply tool for morphological studies.
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- Joachim T Haug
- Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
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Machner J, Scholtz G. A scanning electron microscopy study of the embryonic development of Pycnogonum litorale (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida). J Morphol 2010; 271:1306-18. [DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Postembryonic development of Nymphon unguiculatum Hodgson 1915 (Pycnogonida, Nymphonidae) from the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica). Polar Biol 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0810-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Liu Y, Maas A, Waloszek D. Early development of the anterior body region of the grey widow spider Latrodectus geometricus Koch, 1841 (Theridiidae, Araneae). ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT 2009; 38:401-16. [PMID: 19374954 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2009.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2008] [Revised: 03/26/2009] [Accepted: 04/01/2009] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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We document the early morphogenesis of Latrodectus geometricus, particularly of the anterior body region. Significant changes in the development of the external prosomal structures revealed with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images include: (1) reorganisation of each pre-cheliceral lobe by subdivision and internalisation of its central area; (2) shortening of the ventro-median bridge connecting the pre-cheliceral lobes and its eventual disappearance; (3) appearance and expansion of a prospective mouth region between the pre-cheliceral lobes with a recessed median area surrounded by lip-like borders, the anterior lip-part developing into the hypostome; (4) reduction of the mouth region to an area around the hypostome and the lip-like latero-posterior border of the mouth opening; (5) change of the position of the mouth region from anterior to the insertions of the chelicerae to posterior to them; (6) eventual shortening of the mouth opening to a slit overhung by the hypostome; (7) origination of the prosomal shield from the anterior margin of the pre-cheliceral lobes and the tergal portions of the four posterior-most prosomal segments; and (8) expansion of a 'ventral sulcus' from the cheliceral to the fifth opisthosomal segment separating the sides of these segments. Embryonic features are compared across the Chelicerata and discussed briefly in a phylogenetic context.
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- Yu Liu
- University of Ulm, Germany.
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Cleavage and gastrulation in Pycnogonum litorale (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida): morphological support for the Ecdysozoa? ZOOMORPHOLOGY 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s00435-009-0091-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Brenneis G, Ungerer P, Scholtz G. The chelifores of sea spiders (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) are the appendages of the deutocerebral segment. Evol Dev 2008; 10:717-24. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142x.2008.00285.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Charbonnier S, Vannier J, Riou B. New sea spiders from the Jurassic La Voulte-sur-Rhône Lagerstätte. Proc Biol Sci 2007; 274:2555-61. [PMID: 17698484 PMCID: PMC2275891 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2007] [Revised: 07/17/2007] [Accepted: 07/18/2007] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The diverse and exceptionally well-preserved pycnogonids described herein from the Middle Jurassic La Voulte Lagerstätte fill a 400 Myr gap of knowledge in the evolutionary history of this enigmatic group of marine arthropods. They reveal very close morphological and functional (locomotion, feeding) similarities with present-day pycnogonids and, by contrast, marked differences with all Palaeozoic representatives of the group. This suggests a relatively recent, possibly Mesozoic origin for at least three major extant lineages of pycnogonids (Ammotheidae, Colossendeidae, Endeidae). Combined evidence from depositional environment, faunal associates and recent analogues indicate that the La Voulte pycnogonids probably lived in the upper bathyal zone (ca 200 m). Our results point to a remarkable morphological and ecological stability of this arthropod group over at least 160 Myr and suggest that the colonization of the deep sea by pycnogonids occurred before the Jurassic.
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- S Charbonnier
- UMR 5125 PEPS, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Campus de la Doua, Bâtiment Géode, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
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Arango CP, Wheeler WC. Phylogeny of the sea spiders (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) based on direct optimization of six loci and morphology. Cladistics 2007; 23:255-293. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00143.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Bitsch J, Bitsch C. The segmental organization of the head region in Chelicerata: a critical review of recent studies and hypotheses. ACTA ZOOL-STOCKHOLM 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2007.00284.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Manuel M, Jager M, Murienne J, Clabaut C, Le Guyader H. Hox genes in sea spiders (Pycnogonida) and the homology of arthropod head segments. Dev Genes Evol 2006; 216:481-91. [PMID: 16820954 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-006-0095-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2006] [Accepted: 05/23/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The pycnogonids (or sea spiders) are an enigmatic group of arthropods, classified in recent phylogenies as a sister-group of either euchelicerates (horseshoe crabs and arachnids), or all other extant arthropods. Because of their bizarre morpho-anatomy, homologies with other arthropod taxa have been difficult to assess. We review the main morphology-based hypotheses of correspondence between anterior segments of pycnogonids, arachnids and mandibulates. In an attempt to provide new relevant data to these controversial issues, we performed a PCR survey of Hox genes in two pycnogonid species, Endeis spinosa and Nymphon gracile, from which we could recover nine and six Hox genes, respectively. Phylogenetic analyses allowed to identify their orthology relationships. The Deformed gene from E. spinosa and the abdominal-A gene from N. gracile exhibit unusual sequence divergence in their homeodomains, which, in the latter case, may be correlated with the extreme reduction of the posterior region in pycnogonids. Expression patterns of two Hox genes (labial and Deformed) in the E. spinosa protonymphon larva are discussed. The anterior boundaries of their expression domains favour homology between sea spider chelifores, euchelicerates chelicerae and mandibulate (first) antennae, in contradistinction with previously proposed alternative schemes such as the protocerebral identity of sea spider chelifores or the absence of a deutocerebrum in chelicerates. In addition, while anatomical and embryological evidences suggest the possibility that the ovigers of sea spiders could be a duplicated pair of pedipalps, the Hox data support them as modified anterior walking legs, consistent with the classical views.
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- Michaël Manuel
- UMR 7138 "SAE" CNRS UPMC MNHN ENS IRD, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, Case 05, 9 Quai St Bernard, 75005 Paris, France.
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Scholtz G, Edgecombe GD. The evolution of arthropod heads: reconciling morphological, developmental and palaeontological evidence. Dev Genes Evol 2006; 216:395-415. [PMID: 16816969 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-006-0085-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2005] [Accepted: 05/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Understanding the head is one of the great challenges in the fields of comparative anatomy, developmental biology, and palaeontology of arthropods. Numerous conflicting views and interpretations are based on an enormous variety of descriptive and experimental approaches. The interpretation of the head influences views on phylogenetic relationships within the Arthropoda as well as outgroup relationships. Here, we review current hypotheses about head segmentation and the nature of head structures from various perspectives, which we try to combine to gain a deeper understanding of the arthropod head. Though discussion about arthropod heads shows some progress, unquestioned concepts (e.g., a presegmental acron) are still a source of bias. Several interpretations are no longer tenable based on recent results from comparative molecular developmental studies, improved morphological investigations, and new fossils. Current data indicate that the anterior arthropod head comprises three elements: the protocerebral/ocular region, the deutocerebral/antennal/cheliceral segment, and the tritocerebral/pedipalpal/second antennal/intercalary segment. The labrum and the mouth are part of the protocerebral/ocular region. Whether the labrum derives from a former pair of limbs remains an open question, but a majority of data support its broad homology across the Euarthropoda. From the alignment of head segments between onychophorans and euarthropods, we develop the concept of "primary" and "secondary antennae" in Recent and fossil arthropods, posit that "primary antennae" are retained in some fossil euarthropods below the crown group level, and propose that Trilobita are stem lineage representatives of the Mandibulata.
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- Gerhard Scholtz
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie/Vergleichende Zoologie, Philippstrasse 13, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
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The evolution of segmentation in Crustacea, that is, the formation of sclerotized and jointed body somites and arrangement of somites into tagmata, is viewed in light of historical traits and functional constraints. The set of Early to Late Cambrian 'Orsten' arthropods have informed our current views of crustacean evolution considerably. These three-dimensionally preserved fossils document ancient morphologies, as opposed to purely hypothetical models and, because of the unusual preservation of larval stages, provide us with unparalleled insight into the morphogenesis of body somites and their structural equipment. The variety of evolutionary levels represented in the 'Orsten' including lobopodians, tardigrades, and pentastomids also allows phylogenetic interpretations far beyond the Crustacea. The 'Orsten' evidence and data from representatives of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota in southwestern China, including phylogenetically earlier forms, form the major source of our morphology-based review of structural and functional developments that led toward the Crustacea. The principal strategy of arthropods is the simultaneous development of head somites, as expressed in a basal "head larva," and a successive addition of postcephalic somites from a preterminal budding zone with progressive maturation of metameric structures. This can be recognized in the developmental patterns of extant and fossil representatives of several euarthropod taxa, particularly crustaceans, trilobites, and chelicerates (at least basally). The development of these taxa points to an early somite-poor and free-living hatching stage. Embryonic development to a late stage within an egg, as occurring in recent onychophorans and certain in-group euarthropods, is regarded as achieved several times convergently.
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- Dieter Waloszek
- Section for Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm, Helmholtzstrasse 20, D-89081 Ulm, Germany.
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Dallai R, Lupetti P, Mencarelli C. Unusual Axonemes of Hexapod Spermatozoa. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2006; 254:45-99. [PMID: 17147997 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(06)54002-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Hexapod spermatozoa exhibit a great variation in their axoneme structure. The 9+2 pattern organization is present in a few basal taxa and in some derived groups. In most hexapods, a crown of nine accessory microtubules surrounds the 9+2 array, giving rise to the so-called 9+9+2 pattern. This general organization, however, displays a number of modifications in several taxa. In this review, the main variations concerning the number and localization of the accessory tubules, microtubular doublets, central microtubules, dynein arms, and axonemal length are summarized. We discuss the phylogenetic significance of all this structural information as well as the current hypotheses relating the sperm size and sperm polymorphism with reproductive success of some hexapod species. Also described are the biochemical data and the motility patterns which are currently known on some peculiar aberrant axonemes, in light of the contribution these models may give to the comprehension of the general functioning of the conventional 9+2 axoneme. Finally, we summarize methodological developments for the study of axoneme ultrastructure and the new opportunities for the molecular analysis of hexapod axonemes.
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- Romano Dallai
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Siena, Via A Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
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Maxmen A, Browne WE, Martindale MQ, Giribet G. Neuroanatomy of sea spiders implies an appendicular origin of the protocerebral segment. Nature 2005; 437:1144-8. [PMID: 16237442 DOI: 10.1038/nature03984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2005] [Accepted: 06/30/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Independent specialization of arthropod body segments has led to more than a century of debate on the homology of morphologically diverse segments, each defined by a lateral appendage and a ganglion of the central nervous system. The plesiomorphic composition of the arthropod head remains enigmatic because variation in segments and corresponding appendages is extreme. Within extant arthropod classes (Chelicerata, Myriapoda, Crustacea and Hexapoda--including the insects), correspondences between the appendage-bearing second (deutocerebral) and third (tritocerebral) cephalic neuromeres have been recently resolved on the basis of immunohistochemistry and Hox gene expression patterns. However, no appendage targets the first ganglion, the protocerebrum, and the corresponding segmental identity of this anterior region remains unclear. Reconstructions of stem-group arthropods indicate that the anteriormost region originally might have borne an ocular apparatus and a frontal appendage innervated by the protocerebrum. However, no study of the central nervous system in extant arthropods has been able to corroborate this idea directly, although recent analyses of cephalic gene expression patterns in insects suggest a segmental status for the protocerebral region. Here we investigate the developmental neuroanatomy of a putative basal arthropod, the pycnogonid sea spider, with immunohistochemical techniques. We show that the first pair of appendages, the chelifores, are innervated at an anterior position on the protocerebrum. This is the first true appendage shown to be innervated by the protocerebrum, and thus pycnogonid chelifores are not positionally homologous to appendages of extant arthropods but might, in fact, be homologous to the 'great appendages' of certain Cambrian stem-group arthropods.
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- Amy Maxmen
- Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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Regier JC, Shultz JW, Kambic RE. Pancrustacean phylogeny: hexapods are terrestrial crustaceans and maxillopods are not monophyletic. Proc Biol Sci 2005; 272:395-401. [PMID: 15734694 PMCID: PMC1634985 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2004] [Accepted: 08/26/2004] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Recent molecular analyses indicate that crustaceans and hexapods form a clade (Pancrustacea or Tetraconata), but relationships among its constituent lineages, including monophyly of crustaceans, are controversial. Our phylogenetic analysis of three protein-coding nuclear genes from 62 arthropods and lobopods (Onychophora and Tardigrada) demonstrates that Hexapoda is most closely related to the crustaceans Branchiopoda (fairy shrimp, water fleas, etc.) and Cephalocarida + Remipedia, thereby making hexapods terrestrial crustaceans and the traditionally defined Crustacea paraphyletic. Additional findings are that Malacostraca (crabs, isopods, etc.) unites with Cirripedia (barnacles, etc.) and they, in turn, with Copepoda, making the traditional crustacean class Maxillopoda paraphyletic. Ostracoda (seed shrimp)--either all or a subgroup--is associated with Branchiura (fish lice) and likely to be basal to all other pancrustaceans. A Bayesian statistical (non-clock) estimate of divergence times suggests a Precambrian origin for Pancrustacea (600 Myr ago or more), which precedes the first unambiguous arthropod fossils by over 60 Myr.
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- Jerome C. Regier
- Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
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- Department of Entomology, University of MarylandCollege Park, MD 20742USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of MarylandCollege Park, MD 20742USA
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Siveter DJ, Sutton MD, Briggs DEG, Siveter DJ. A Silurian sea spider. Nature 2004; 431:978-80. [PMID: 15496921 DOI: 10.1038/nature02928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2004] [Accepted: 08/12/2004] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Pycnogonids (sea spiders) are marine arthropods numbering some 1,160 extant species. They are globally distributed in depths of up to 6,000 metres, and locally abundant; however, their typically delicate form and non-biomineralized cuticle has resulted in an extremely sparse fossil record that is not accepted universally. There are two opposing views of their phylogenetic position: either within Chelicerata as sister group to the euchelicerates, or as a sister taxon to all other euarthropods. The Silurian Herefordshire Konservat-Lagerstatte in England (approximately 425 million years (Myr) bp) yields exceptionally preserved three-dimensional fossils that provide unrivalled insights into the palaeobiology of a variety of invertebrates. The fossils are preserved as calcitic void in-fills in carbonate concretions within a volcaniclastic horizon, and are reconstructed digitally. Here we describe a new pycnogonid from this deposit, which is the oldest adult sea spider by approximately 35 Myr and the most completely known fossil species. The large chelate first appendage is consistent with a chelicerate affinity for the pycnogonids. Cladistic analyses place the new species near the base of the pycnogonid crown group, implying that the latter had arisen by the Silurian period.
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- Derek J Siveter
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
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- Steffen Harzsch
- Universität Ulm, Abteilung Neurobiologie and Sektion Biosystematische Dokumentation, D-89081 Ulm, Germany.
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