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Gąsiorowski L. Phoronida-A small clade with a big role in understanding the evolution of lophophorates. Evol Dev 2024; 26:e12437. [PMID: 37119003 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2023] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
Abstract
Phoronids, together with brachiopods and bryozoans, form the animal clade Lophophorata. Modern lophophorates are quite diverse-some can biomineralize while others are soft-bodied, they could be either solitary or colonial, and they develop through various eccentric larval stages that undergo different types of metamorphoses. The diversity of this clade is further enriched by numerous extinct fossil lineages with their own distinct body plans and life histories. In this review, I discuss how data on phoronid development, genetics, and morphology can inform our understanding of lophophorate evolution. The actinotrocha larvae of phoronids is a well documented example of intercalation of the new larval body plan, which can be used to study how new life stages emerge in animals with biphasic life cycle. The genomic and embryonic data from phoronids, in concert with studies of the fossil lophophorates, allow the more precise reconstruction of the evolution of lophophorate biomineralization. Finally, the regenerative and asexual abilities of phoronids can shed new light on the evolution of coloniality in lophophorates. As evident from those examples, Phoronida occupies a central role in the discussion of the evolution of lophophorate body plans and life histories.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ludwik Gąsiorowski
- Department of Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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The goal of comparative developmental biology is identifying mechanistic differences in embryonic development between different taxa and how these evolutionary changes have led to morphological and organizational differences in adult body plans. Much of this work has focused on direct-developing species in which the adult forms straight from the embryo and embryonic modifications have direct effects on the adult. However, most animal lineages are defined by indirect development, in which the embryo gives rise to a larval body plan and the adult forms by transformation of the larva. Historically, much of our understanding of complex life cycles is viewed through the lenses of ecology and zoology. In this review, we discuss the importance of establishing developmental rather than morphological or ecological criteria for defining developmental mode and explicitly considering the evolutionary implications of incorporating complex life cycles into broad developmental comparisons of embryos across metazoans.
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- Laurent Formery
- Department of Biology, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, USA;
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Biology, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, USA;
- Chan Zuckerberg BioHub, San Francisco, California, USA
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Martín-Zamora FM, Liang Y, Guynes K, Carrillo-Baltodano AM, Davies BE, Donnellan RD, Tan Y, Moggioli G, Seudre O, Tran M, Mortimer K, Luscombe NM, Hejnol A, Marlétaz F, Martín-Durán JM. Annelid functional genomics reveal the origins of bilaterian life cycles. Nature 2023; 615:105-110. [PMID: 36697830 PMCID: PMC9977687 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05636-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Indirect development with an intermediate larva exists in all major animal lineages1, which makes larvae central to most scenarios of animal evolution2-11. Yet how larvae evolved remains disputed. Here we show that temporal shifts (that is, heterochronies) in trunk formation underpin the diversification of larvae and bilaterian life cycles. We performed chromosome-scale genome sequencing in the annelid Owenia fusiformis with transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling during the life cycles of this and two other annelids. We found that trunk development is deferred to pre-metamorphic stages in the feeding larva of O. fusiformis but starts after gastrulation in the non-feeding larva with gradual metamorphosis of Capitella teleta and the direct developing embryo of Dimorphilus gyrociliatus. Accordingly, the embryos of O. fusiformis develop first into an enlarged anterior domain that forms larval tissues and the adult head12. Notably, this also occurs in the so-called 'head larvae' of other bilaterians13-17, with which the O. fusiformis larva shows extensive transcriptomic similarities. Together, our findings suggest that the temporal decoupling of head and trunk formation, as maximally observed in head larvae, facilitated larval evolution in Bilateria. This diverges from prevailing scenarios that propose either co-option9,10 or innovation11 of gene regulatory programmes to explain larva and adult origins.
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK
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- Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK.
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
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Nanglu K, Cole SR, Wright DF, Souto C. Worms and gills, plates and spines: the evolutionary origins and incredible disparity of deuterostomes revealed by fossils, genes, and development. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2023; 98:316-351. [PMID: 36257784 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Revised: 09/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Deuterostomes are the major division of animal life which includes sea stars, acorn worms, and humans, among a wide variety of ecologically and morphologically disparate taxa. However, their early evolution is poorly understood, due in part to their disparity, which makes identifying commonalities difficult, as well as their relatively poor early fossil record. Here, we review the available morphological, palaeontological, developmental, and molecular data to establish a framework for exploring the origins of this important and enigmatic group. Recent fossil discoveries strongly support a vermiform ancestor to the group Hemichordata, and a fusiform active swimmer as ancestor to Chordata. The diverse and anatomically bewildering variety of forms among the early echinoderms show evidence of both bilateral and radial symmetry. We consider four characteristics most critical for understanding the form and function of the last common ancestor to Deuterostomia: Hox gene expression patterns, larval morphology, the capacity for biomineralization, and the morphology of the pharyngeal region. We posit a deuterostome last common ancestor with a similar antero-posterior gene regulatory system to that found in modern acorn worms and cephalochordates, a simple planktonic larval form, which was later elaborated in the ambulacrarian lineage, the ability to secrete calcium minerals in a limited fashion, and a pharyngeal respiratory region composed of simple pores. This animal was likely to be motile in adult form, as opposed to the sessile origins that have been historically suggested. Recent debates regarding deuterostome monophyly as well as the wide array of deuterostome-affiliated problematica further suggest the possibility that those features were not only present in the last common ancestor of Deuterostomia, but potentially in the ur-bilaterian. The morphology and development of the early deuterostomes, therefore, underpin some of the most significant questions in the study of metazoan evolution.
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- Karma Nanglu
- Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th & Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20560, USA.,Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, Norman, OK, 73072, USA.,School of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, 100 E Boyd Street, Norman, OK, 73019, USA
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- Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th & Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20560, USA.,Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, Norman, OK, 73072, USA.,School of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, 100 E Boyd Street, Norman, OK, 73019, USA
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- Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th & Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20560, USA.,School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Stockton University, 101 Vera King Farris Dr, Galloway, NJ, 08205, USA
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Lacalli T. Innovation Through Heterochrony: An Amphioxus Perspective on Telencephalon Origin and Function. Front Ecol Evol 2021. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.666722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Heterochrony has played a key role in the evolution of invertebrate larval types, producing “head larvae” in diverse taxa, where anterior structures are accelerated and specialized at the expense of more caudal ones. For chordates, judging from amphioxus, the pattern has been more one of repeated acceleration of adult features so that they function earlier in development, thus converting the ancestral larva, whether it was a head larva or not, into something progressively more chordate-like. Recent molecular data on gene expression patterns in the anterior nerve cord of amphioxus point to a similar process being involved in the origin of the telencephalon. As vertebrates evolved, a combination of acceleration and increasing egg size appears here to have allowed the development of a structure that would originally have emerged only gradually in the post-embryonic phase of the life history to be compressed into embryogenesis. The question then is what, in functional terms, makes the telencephalon so important to the survival of post-embryonic ancestral vertebrates that this was adaptively advantageous. A better understanding of the function this brain region performs in amphioxus may help provide the answer.
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