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Finet C, Marlétaz F. Old hypotheses and theories at the heart of current evo-devo research. Evol Dev 2024; 26:e12487. [PMID: 38924664 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/14/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
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- Cédric Finet
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution, University College London, London, UK
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Slyusarev GS, Skalon EK, Starunov VV. Evolution of Orthonectida body plan. Evol Dev 2024; 26:e12462. [PMID: 37889073 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
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Orthonectida is an enigmatic group of animals with still uncertain phylogenetic position. Orthonectids parasitize various marine invertebrates. Their life cycle comprises a parasitic plasmodium and free-living males and females. Sexual individuals develop inside the plasmodium; after egress from the host they copulate in the external environment, and the larva, which has developed inside the female infects a new host. In a series of studied orthonectid species simplification of free-living sexual individuals can be clearly traced. The number of longitudinal and transverse muscle fibers is gradually reduced. In the nervous system, simplification is even more pronounced. The number of neurons constituting the ganglion is dramatically reduced from 200 in Rhopalura ophiocomae to 4-6 in Intoshia variabili. The peripheral nervous system undergoes gradual simplification as well. The morphological simplification is accompanied with genome reduction. However, not only genes are lost from the genome, it also undergoes compactization ensured by extreme reduction of intergenic distances, short intron sizes, and elimination of repetitive elements. The main trend in orthonectid evolution is simplification and miniaturization of free-living sexual individuals coupled with reduction and compactization of the genome.
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- George S Slyusarev
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Saint-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Saint-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Saint-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg, Russia
- Zoological Institute RAS, St-Petersburg, Russia
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Skalon EK, Starunov VV, Slyusarev GS. RNA-seq analysis of parasitism by Intoshia linei (Orthonectida) reveals protein effectors of defence, communication, feeding and growth. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY. PART B, MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2024; 342:398-405. [PMID: 38369898 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.23247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Revised: 01/22/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
Abstract
Orthonectida is a group of multicellular endoparasites of a wide range of marine invertebrates. Their parasitic stage is a multinuclear shapeless plasmodium infiltrating host tissues. The development of the following worm-like sexual generation takes place within the cytoplasm of the plasmodium. The existence of the plasmodial stage and the development of a sexual stage within the plasmodium are unique features to Bilateria. However, the molecular mechanisms that maintain this peculiar organism, and hence enable parasitism in orthonectids, are unknown. Here, we present the first-ever RNA-seq analysis of the plasmodium, aimed at the identification and characterization of the plasmodium-specific protein-coding genes and corresponding hypothetical proteins that distinguish the parasitic plasmodium stage from the sexual stage of the orthonectid Intoshia linei Giard, 1877, parasite of nemertean Lineus ruber Müller, 1774. We discovered 119 plasmodium-specific proteins, 82 of which have inferred functions based on known domains. Thirty-five of the detected proteins are orphans, at least part of which may reflect the unique evolutionary adaptations of orthonectids to parasitism. Some of the identified proteins are known effector molecules of other endoparasites suggesting convergence. Our data indicate that the plasmodium-specific proteins might be involved in the plasmodium defense against the host, host-parasite communication, feeding and nutrient uptake, growth within the host, and support of the sexual stage development. These molecular processes in orthonectids have not been described before, and the particular protein effectors remained unknown until now.
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- Elizaveta K Skalon
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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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]
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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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- Ludwik Gąsiorowski
- Department of Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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Gąsiorowski L, Dittmann IL, Brand JN, Ruhwedel T, Möbius W, Egger B, Rink JC. Convergent evolution of the sensory pits in and within flatworms. BMC Biol 2023; 21:266. [PMID: 37993917 PMCID: PMC10664644 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01768-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Unlike most free-living platyhelminths, catenulids, the sister group to all remaining flatworms, do not have eyes. Instead, the most prominent sensory structures in their heads are statocysts or sensory pits. The latter, found in the family Stenostomidae, are concave depressions located laterally on the head that represent one of the taxonomically important traits of the family. In the past, the sensory pits of flatworms have been homologized with the cephalic organs of nemerteans, a clade that occupies a sister position to platyhelminths in some recent phylogenies. To test for this homology, we studied morphology and gene expression in the sensory pits of the catenulid Stenostomum brevipharyngium. RESULTS We used confocal and electron microscopy to investigate the detailed morphology of the sensory pits, as well as their formation during regeneration and asexual reproduction. The most prevalent cell type within the organ is epidermally-derived neuron-like cells that have cell bodies embedded deeply in the brain lobes and long neurite-like processes extending to the bottom of the pit. Those elongated processes are adorned with extensive microvillar projections that fill up the cavity of the pit, but cilia are not associated with the sensory pit. We also studied the expression patterns of some of the transcription factors expressed in the nemertean cephalic organs during the development of the pits. Only a single gene, pax4/6, is expressed in both the cerebral organs of nemerteans and sensory pits of S. brevipharyngium, challenging the idea of their deep homology. CONCLUSIONS Since there is no morphological or molecular correspondence between the sensory pits of Stenostomum and the cerebral organs of nemerteans, we reject their homology. Interestingly, the major cell type contributing to the sensory pits of stenostomids shows ultrastructural similarities to the rhabdomeric photoreceptors of other flatworms and expresses ortholog of the gene pax4/6, the pan-bilaterian master regulator of eye development. We suggest that the sensory pits of stenostomids might have evolved from the ancestral rhabdomeric photoreceptors that lost their photosensitivity and evolved secondary function. The mapping of head sensory structures on plathelminth phylogeny indicates that sensory pit-like organs evolved many times independently in flatworms.
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- Ludwik Gąsiorowski
- Department of Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
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- Institut Für Zoologie, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Electron Microscopy Facility, Department of Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, 37075, Göttingen, Germany
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- Electron Microscopy Facility, Department of Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, 37075, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut Für Zoologie, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
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Liao IJY, Lu TM, Chen ME, Luo YJ. Spiralian genomics and the evolution of animal genome architecture. Brief Funct Genomics 2023; 22:498-508. [PMID: 37507111 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elad029] [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: 05/05/2023] [Revised: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Recent developments in sequencing technologies have greatly improved our knowledge of phylogenetic relationships and genomic architectures throughout the tree of life. Spiralia, a diverse clade within Protostomia, is essential for understanding the evolutionary history of parasitism, gene conversion, nervous systems and animal body plans. In this review, we focus on the current hypotheses of spiralian phylogeny and investigate the impact of long-read sequencing on the quality of genome assemblies. We examine chromosome-level assemblies to highlight key genomic features that have driven spiralian evolution, including karyotype, synteny and the Hox gene organization. In addition, we show how chromosome rearrangement has influenced spiralian genomic structures. Although spiralian genomes have undergone substantial changes, they exhibit both conserved and lineage-specific features. We recommend increasing sequencing efforts and expanding functional genomics research to deepen insights into spiralian biology.
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Rogers TF, Simakov O. Emerging questions on the mechanisms and dynamics of 3D genome evolution in spiralians. Brief Funct Genomics 2023; 22:533-542. [PMID: 37815133 PMCID: PMC10658181 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elad043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2023] [Revised: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/11/2023] Open
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Information on how 3D genome topology emerged in animal evolution, how stable it is during development, its role in the evolution of phenotypic novelties and how exactly it affects gene expression is highly debated. So far, data to address these questions are lacking with the exception of a few key model species. Several gene regulatory mechanisms have been proposed, including scenarios where genome topology has little to no impact on gene expression, and vice versa. The ancient and diverse clade of spiralians may provide a crucial testing ground for such mechanisms. Sprialians have followed distinct evolutionary trajectories, with some clades experiencing genome expansions and/or large-scale genome rearrangements, and others undergoing genome contraction, substantially impacting their size and organisation. These changes have been associated with many phenotypic innovations in this clade. In this review, we describe how emerging genome topology data, along with functional tools, allow for testing these scenarios and discuss their predicted outcomes.
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- Thea F Rogers
- Department of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology, Division of Molecular Evolution and Development, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology, Division of Molecular Evolution and Development, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Skalon EK, Starunov VV, Bondarenko NI, Slyusarev GS. Plasmodium structure of Intoshia linei (Orthonectida). J Morphol 2023; 284:e21602. [PMID: 37313769 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Orthonectids are enigmatic parasitic bilaterians whose exact position on the phylogenetic tree is still uncertain. Despite ongoing debate about their phylogenetic position, the parasitic stage of orthonectids known as "plasmodium" remains underexplored. There is still no consensus on the origin of the plasmodium: whether it is an altered host cell or a parasitic organism that develops in the host extracellular environment. To determine the origin of the orthonectid parasitic stage, we studied in detail the fine structure of the Intoshia linei orthonectid plasmodium using a variety of morphological methods. The orthonectid plasmodium is a shapeless multinucleated organism separated from host tissues by a double membrane envelope. Besides numerous nuclei, its cytoplasm contains organelles typical for other bilaterians, reproductive cells, and maturing sexual specimens. Reproductive cells, as well as developing orthonectid males and females, are covered by an additional membrane. The plasmodium forms protrusions directed to the surface of the host body and used by mature individuals for egress from the host. The obtained results indicate that the orthonectid plasmodium is an extracellular parasite. A possible mechanism for its formation might involve spreading parasitic larva cells across the host tissues with subsequent generation of a cell-within-cell complex. The cytoplasm of the plasmodium originates from the outer cell, which undergoes multiple nuclear divisions without cytokinesis, while the inner cell divides, giving rise to reproductive cells and embryos. The term "plasmodium" should be avoided and the term "orthonectid plasmodium" could be temporarily used instead.
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- Elizaveta K Skalon
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Lee Y, Cho CH, Noh C, Yang JH, Park SI, Lee YM, West JA, Bhattacharya D, Jo K, Yoon HS. Origin of minicircular mitochondrial genomes in red algae. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3363. [PMID: 37291154 PMCID: PMC10250338 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39084-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/10/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic organelle genomes are generally of conserved size and gene content within phylogenetic groups. However, significant variation in genome structure may occur. Here, we report that the Stylonematophyceae red algae contain multipartite circular mitochondrial genomes (i.e., minicircles) which encode one or two genes bounded by a specific cassette and a conserved constant region. These minicircles are visualized using fluorescence microscope and scanning electron microscope, proving the circularity. Mitochondrial gene sets are reduced in these highly divergent mitogenomes. Newly generated chromosome-level nuclear genome assembly of Rhodosorus marinus reveals that most mitochondrial ribosomal subunit genes are transferred to the nuclear genome. Hetero-concatemers that resulted from recombination between minicircles and unique gene inventory that is responsible for mitochondrial genome stability may explain how the transition from typical mitochondrial genome to minicircles occurs. Our results offer inspiration on minicircular organelle genome formation and highlight an extreme case of mitochondrial gene inventory reduction.
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- Yongsung Lee
- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul, 04107, Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Korea
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- School of Biosciences 2, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 08901, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul, 04107, Korea.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Korea.
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Temereva EN, Isaeva MA, Kosevich IA. Unusual lophophore innervation in ctenostome Flustrellidra hispida (Bryozoa). JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY. PART B, MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2023; 340:245-258. [PMID: 35662417 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.23164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Since ctenostomes are traditionally regarded as an ancestral clade to some other bryozoan groups, the study of additional species may help to clarify questions on bryozoan evolution and phylogeny. One of these questions is the bryozoan lophophore evolution: whether it occurred through simplification or complication. The morphology and innervation of the ctenostome Flustrellidra hispida (Fabricius, 1780) lophophore have been studied with electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry with confocal laser scanning microscopy. Lophophore nervous system of F. hispida consists of several main nerve elements: cerebral ganglion, circumoral nerve ring, and the outer nerve ring. Serotonin-like immunoreactive perikarya, which connect with the circumoral nerve ring, bear the cilium that directs to the abfrontal side of the lophophore and extends between tentacle bases. The circumoral nerve ring gives rise to the intertentacular and frontal tentacle nerves. The outer nerve ring gives rise to the abfrontal neurites, which connect to the outer groups of perikarya and contribute to the formation of the abfrontal tentacle nerve. The outer nerve ring has been described before in other bryozoans, but it never contributes to the innervation of tentacles. The presence of the outer nerve ring participating in the innervation of tentacles makes the F. hispida lophophore nervous system particularly similar to the lophophore nervous system of phoronids. This similarity allows to suggest that organization of the F. hispida lophophore nervous system may reflect the ancestral state for all bryozoans. The possible scenario of evolutionary transformation of the lophophore nervous system within bryozoans is suggested.
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- Elena N Temereva
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Stick R, Peter A. CaaX-less lamins: Lophotrochozoa provide a glance at the playground of evolution. PROTOPLASMA 2023; 260:741-756. [PMID: 36102949 PMCID: PMC10125929 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-022-01809-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Nuclear lamins are the main components of the nuclear lamina in many eukaryotes. They are members of the intermediate filament (IF) protein family. Lamins differ from cytoplasmic IF proteins by the presence of a nuclear localisation sequence (NLS) and a C-terminal tetrapeptide, the CaaX motif. The CaaX motif is target of post-translational modifications including isoprenylation, proteolytic processing, and carboxyl-methylation. These modifications, in conjunction with the NLS, direct lamins to the inner nuclear membrane where they assemble into filaments. Lamins lacking a CaaX motif are unable to associate independently with nuclear membranes and remain in the nucleoplasm. So far, three species have been reported to exclusively express CaaX-less lamins. All three belong to the lophotrochozoan lineage. To find out whether they represent rare exceptions, we analysed lamins of representatives of 17 lophotrochozoan phyla. Here we report that all four clades of Rotifera as well as individual taxa of Mollusca and Annelida lack CaaX-lamins, but express lamins with alternative C-termini. Of note, the respective mollusc and annelid groups occupy very different phylogenetic ranks. Most of these alternative C-termini are rich in aromatic residues. A possible function of these residues in membrane association is discussed. Alternative splicing of terebellid lamin transcripts gives rise to two lamin variants, one with a CaaX motif and one with an alternative C-terminus. A similar situation is found in Arenicolidae, Opheliidae, Capitellidae, and Echiura. This points a way, how the switch from lamins carrying a CaaX motif to lamins with alternative C-termini may have occurred.
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- Reimer Stick
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Bremen, P.O. Box 330440, 28334, Bremen, Germany.
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Bremen, P.O. Box 330440, 28334, Bremen, Germany
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Lucas SAM, Graham AM, Presnell JS, Clark NL. Highly Dynamic Gene Family Evolution Suggests Changing Roles for PON Genes Within Metazoa. Genome Biol Evol 2023; 15:evad011. [PMID: 36718542 PMCID: PMC9937041 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Revised: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Change in gene family size has been shown to facilitate adaptation to different selective pressures. This includes gene duplication to increase dosage or diversification of enzymatic substrates and gene deletion due to relaxed selection. We recently found that the PON1 gene, an enzyme with arylesterase and lactonase activity, was lost repeatedly in different aquatic mammalian lineages, suggesting that the PON gene family is responsive to environmental change. We further investigated if these fluctuations in gene family size were restricted to mammals and approximately when this gene family was expanded within mammals. Using 112 metazoan protein models, we explored the evolutionary history of the PON family to characterize the dynamic evolution of this gene family. We found that there have been multiple, independent expansion events in tardigrades, cephalochordates, and echinoderms. In addition, there have been partial gene loss events in monotremes and sea cucumbers and what appears to be complete loss in arthropods, urochordates, platyhelminths, ctenophores, and placozoans. In addition, we show the mammalian expansion to three PON paralogs occurred in the ancestor of all mammals after the divergence of sauropsida but before the divergence of monotremes from therians. We also provide evidence of a novel PON expansion within the brushtail possum. In the face of repeated expansions and deletions in the context of changing environments, we suggest a range of selective pressures, including pathogen infection and mitigation of oxidative damage, are likely influencing the diversification of this dynamic gene family across metazoa.
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Alaminos M, Campos A. The origin of human epithelial tissue. Histol Histopathol 2023; 38:127-138. [PMID: 35762521 DOI: 10.14670/hh-18-485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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The histological structure of human epithelial tissue is complex, but all epithelia share three major features: cohesion, polarity and attachment. These functions are mainly achieved by the presence of specialized structures such as intercellular junctions, polarity protein complexes and basement membranes. In the present review, we have analyzed the presence of each of these structures in several groups of animals that are considered to be at the base of the animal evolution tree. Interestingly, these characters seem to have evolved independently, and a careful histological and structural analysis of the phylogenetic tree shows different groups of animals in which epithelia are absent and groups in which cells show only some of the specialized structures found in differentiated epithelia. These findings could contribute to understand how epithelial tissues evolved and determine their current protective functions.
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- Miguel Alaminos
- Tissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs. GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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- Tissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs. GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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Brachiopod and mollusc biomineralisation is a conserved process that was lost in the phoronid-bryozoan stem lineage. EvoDevo 2022; 13:17. [PMID: 36123753 PMCID: PMC9484238 DOI: 10.1186/s13227-022-00202-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Brachiopods and molluscs are lophotrochozoans with hard external shells which are often believed to have evolved convergently. While palaeontological data indicate that both groups are descended from biomineralising Cambrian ancestors, the closest relatives of brachiopods, phoronids and bryozoans, are mineralised to a much lower extent and are comparatively poorly represented in the Palaeozoic fossil record. Although brachiopod and mollusc shells are structurally analogous, genomic and proteomic evidence indicates that their formation involves a complement of conserved, orthologous genes. Here, we study a set of genes comprised of 3 homeodomain transcription factors, one signalling molecule and 6 structural proteins which are implicated in mollusc and brachiopod shell formation, search for their orthologs in transcriptomes or genomes of brachiopods, phoronids and bryozoans, and present expression patterns of 8 of the genes in postmetamorphic juveniles of the rhynchonelliform brachiopod T. transversa. RESULTS Transcriptome and genome searches for the 10 target genes in the brachiopods Terebratalia transversa, Lingula anatina, Novocrania anomala, the bryozoans Bugula neritina and Membranipora membranacea, and the phoronids Phoronis australis and Phoronopsis harmeri resulted in the recovery of orthologs of the majority of the genes in all taxa. While the full complement of genes was present in all brachiopods with a single exception in L. anatina, a bloc of four genes could consistently not be retrieved from bryozoans and phoronids. The genes engrailed, distal-less, ferritin, perlucin, sp1 and sp2 were shown to be expressed in the biomineralising mantle margin of T. transversa juveniles. CONCLUSIONS The gene expression patterns we recovered indicate that while mineralised shells in brachiopods and molluscs are structurally analogous, their formation builds on a homologous process that involves a conserved complement of orthologous genes. Losses of some of the genes related to biomineralisation in bryozoans and phoronids indicate that loss of the capacity to form mineralised structures occurred already in the phoronid-bryozoan stem group and supports the idea that mineralised skeletons evolved secondarily in some of the bryozoan subclades.
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Drábková M, Kocot KM, Halanych KM, Oakley TH, Moroz LL, Cannon JT, Kuris A, Garcia-Vedrenne AE, Pankey MS, Ellis EA, Varney R, Štefka J, Zrzavý J. Different phylogenomic methods support monophyly of enigmatic 'Mesozoa' (Dicyemida + Orthonectida, Lophotrochozoa). Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20220683. [PMID: 35858055 PMCID: PMC9257288 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Dicyemids and orthonectids were traditionally classified in a group called Mesozoa, but their placement in a single clade has been contested and their position(s) within Metazoa is uncertain. Here, we assembled a comprehensive matrix of Lophotrochozoa (Metazoa) and investigated the position of Dicyemida (= Rhombozoa) and Orthonectida, employing multiple phylogenomic approaches. We sequenced seven new transcriptomes and one draft genome from dicyemids (Dicyema, Dicyemennea) and two transcriptomes from orthonectids (Rhopalura). Using these and published data, we assembled and analysed contamination-filtered datasets with up to 987 genes. Our results recover Mesozoa monophyletic and as a close relative of Platyhelminthes or Gnathifera. Because of the tendency of the long-branch mesozoans to group with other long-branch taxa in our analyses, we explored the impact of approaches purported to help alleviate long-branch attraction (e.g. taxon removal, coalescent inference, gene targeting). None of these were able to break the association of Orthonectida with Dicyemida in the maximum-likelihood trees. Contrastingly, the Bayesian analysis and site-specific frequency model in maximum-likelihood did not recover a monophyletic Mesozoa (but only when using a specific 50 gene matrix). The classic hypothesis on monophyletic Mesozoa is possibly reborn and should be further tested.
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- Marie Drábková
- Department of Parasitology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice 37005, Czech Republic,Laboratory of Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice 37005, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Campus Box 870344, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
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- The Centre for Marine Science, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, 57000 Marvin K. Moss Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, and the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, 9505 Ocean Shore Boulevard, St Augustine, FL 32080, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Campus Box 870344, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA,Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Parasitology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice 37005, Czech Republic,Laboratory of Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice 37005, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice 37005, Czech Republic
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Minelli A, Valero-Gracia A. Spatially and Temporally Distributed Complexity-A Refreshed Framework for the Study of GRN Evolution. Cells 2022; 11:cells11111790. [PMID: 35681485 PMCID: PMC9179533 DOI: 10.3390/cells11111790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 05/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Irrespective of the heuristic value of interpretations of developmental processes in terms of gene regulatory networks (GRNs), larger-angle views often suffer from: (i) an inadequate understanding of the relationship between genotype and phenotype; (ii) a predominantly zoocentric vision; and (iii) overconfidence in a putatively hierarchical organization of animal body plans. Here, we constructively criticize these assumptions. First, developmental biology is pervaded by adultocentrism, but development is not necessarily egg to adult. Second, during development, many unicells undergo transcriptomic profile transitions that are comparable to those recorded in pluricellular organisms; thus, their study should not be neglected from the GRN perspective. Third, the putatively hierarchical nature of the animal body is mirrored in the GRN logic, but in relating genotype to phenotype, independent assessments of the dynamics of the regulatory machinery and the animal’s architecture are required, better served by a combinatorial than by a hierarchical approach. The trade-offs between spatial and temporal aspects of regulation, as well as their evolutionary consequences, are also discussed. Multicellularity may derive from a unicell’s sequential phenotypes turned into different but coexisting, spatially arranged cell types. In turn, polyphenism may have been a crucial mechanism involved in the origin of complex life cycles.
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- Alessandro Minelli
- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via U. Bassi 58B, 35132 Padova, Italy
- Correspondence:
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- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Blindern, P.O. Box 1172, 0318 Oslo, Norway;
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Temereva E. First Modern Data on the Lophophore Nervous System in Adult Novocrania anomala and a Current Assessment of Brachiopod Phylogeny. BIOLOGY 2022; 11:biology11030406. [PMID: 35336780 PMCID: PMC8945433 DOI: 10.3390/biology11030406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Revised: 03/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Simple Summary The nervous system of Novocrania anomala adults is described for the first time. A table containing data on the lophophore innervation in species from three brachiopod subphyla is presented. A comparative analysis suggests a close relationship between the Craniiformea and the Rhynchonelliformea, and thereby supports the “Calciata” hypothesis of brachiopod phylogeny. Abstract Although the lophophore is regarded as the main synapomorphy of all lophophorates, the evolution of the lophophore in certain groups of lophophorates remains unclear. To date, the innervation of the lophophore has been studied with modern methods only for three brachiopod species belonging to two subphyla: Linguliformea and Rhynchonelliformea. In the third subphylum, the Craniiformea, there are data for juveniles but not for adults. In the current research, the innervation of the lophophore in Novocrania anomala adults was studied by immunocytochemistry and confocal laser scanning microscopy. In the spiral lophophore of adults of the craniiform N. anomala, each arm is innervated by six brachial nerves: main, additional main, accessory, second accessory, additional lower, and lower brachial nerves. Compared with other brachiopod species, this complex innervation of the lophophore correlates with the presence of many lophophoral muscles. The general anatomy of the lophophore nervous system and the peculiarities of the organization of the subenteric ganglion of the craniiform N. anomala have a lot in common with those of rhynchonelliforms but not with those of linguliforms. These findings are consistent with the “Calciata” hypothesis of the brachiopod phylogeny and are inconsistent with the inference that the Craniiformea and Linguliformea are closely related.
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- Elena Temereva
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia; ; Tel.: +7-(909)-9764434
- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 101000 Moscow, Russia
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Slyusarev GS, Bondarenko NI, Skalon EK, Rappoport AK, Radchenko D, Starunov VV. The structure of the muscular and nervous systems of the orthonectid Rhopalura litoralis (Orthonectida) or what parasitism can do to an annelid. ORG DIVERS EVOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s13127-021-00519-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Gąsiorowski L, Børve A, Cherneva IA, Orús-Alcalde A, Hejnol A. Molecular and morphological analysis of the developing nemertean brain indicates convergent evolution of complex brains in Spiralia. BMC Biol 2021; 19:175. [PMID: 34452633 PMCID: PMC8400761 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01113-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The brain anatomy in the clade Spiralia can vary from simple, commissural brains (e.g., gastrotrichs, rotifers) to rather complex, partitioned structures (e.g., in cephalopods and annelids). How often and in which lineages complex brains evolved still remains unclear. Nemerteans are a clade of worm-like spiralians, which possess a complex central nervous system (CNS) with a prominent brain, and elaborated chemosensory and neuroglandular cerebral organs, which have been previously suggested as homologs to the annelid mushroom bodies. To understand the developmental and evolutionary origins of the complex brain in nemerteans and spiralians in general, we investigated details of the neuroanatomy and gene expression in the brain and cerebral organs of the juveniles of nemertean Lineus ruber. RESULTS In the juveniles, the CNS is already composed of all major elements present in the adults, including the brain, paired longitudinal lateral nerve cords, and an unpaired dorsal nerve cord, which suggests that further neural development is mostly related with increase in the size but not in complexity. The ultrastructure of the juvenile cerebral organ revealed that it is composed of several distinct cell types present also in the adults. The 12 transcription factors commonly used as brain cell type markers in bilaterians show region-specific expression in the nemertean brain and divide the entire organ into several molecularly distinct areas, partially overlapping with the morphological compartments. Additionally, several of the mushroom body-specific genes are expressed in the developing cerebral organs. CONCLUSIONS The dissimilar expression of molecular brain markers between L. ruber and the annelid Platynereis dumerilii indicates that the complex brains present in those two species evolved convergently by independent expansions of non-homologous regions of a simpler brain present in their last common ancestor. Although the same genes are expressed in mushroom bodies and cerebral organs, their spatial expression within organs shows apparent differences between annelids and nemerteans, indicating convergent recruitment of the same genes into patterning of non-homologous organs or hint toward a more complicated evolutionary process, in which conserved and novel cell types contribute to the non-homologous structures.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Biological Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
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Hernandez AM, Ryan JF. Six-state Amino Acid Recoding is not an Effective Strategy to Offset Compositional Heterogeneity and Saturation in Phylogenetic Analyses. Syst Biol 2021; 70:1200-1212. [PMID: 33837789 PMCID: PMC8513762 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syab027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2019] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Six-state amino acid recoding strategies are commonly applied to combat the effects of compositional heterogeneity and substitution saturation in phylogenetic analyses. While these methods have been endorsed from a theoretical perspective, their performance has never been extensively tested. Here, we test the effectiveness of six-state recoding approaches by comparing the performance of analyses on recoded and non-recoded data sets that have been simulated under gradients of compositional heterogeneity or saturation. In our simulation analyses, non-recoding approaches consistently outperform six-state recoding approaches. Our results suggest that six-state recoding strategies are not effective in the face of high saturation. Furthermore, while recoding strategies do buffer the effects of compositional heterogeneity, the loss of information that accompanies six-state recoding outweighs its benefits. In addition, we evaluate recoding schemes with 9, 12, 15, and 18 states and show that these consistently outperform six-state recoding. Our analyses of other recoding schemes suggest that under conditions of very high compositional heterogeneity, it may be advantageous to apply recoding using more than six states, but we caution that applying any recoding should include sufficient justification. Our results have important implications for the more than 90 published papers that have incorporated six-state recoding, many of which have significant bearing on relationships across the tree of life. [Compositional heterogeneity; Dayhoff 6-state recoding; S&R 6-state recoding; six-state amino acid recoding; substitution saturation.]
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- Alexandra M Hernandez
- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, 9505 Ocean Shore Boulevard, St. Augustine, FL, 32080, USA.,Department of Biology, University of Florida, 220 Bartram Hall, P.O. Box 118525, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, 9505 Ocean Shore Boulevard, St. Augustine, FL, 32080, USA.,Department of Biology, University of Florida, 220 Bartram Hall, P.O. Box 118525, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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Moroz LL, Romanova DY, Kohn AB. Neural versus alternative integrative systems: molecular insights into origins of neurotransmitters. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2021; 376:20190762. [PMID: 33550949 PMCID: PMC7935107 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Transmitter signalling is the universal chemical language of any nervous system, but little is known about its early evolution. Here, we summarize data about the distribution and functions of neurotransmitter systems in basal metazoans as well as outline hypotheses of their origins. We explore the scenario that neurons arose from genetically different populations of secretory cells capable of volume chemical transmission and integration of behaviours without canonical synapses. The closest representation of this primordial organization is currently found in Placozoa, disk-like animals with the simplest known cell composition but complex behaviours. We propose that injury-related signalling was the evolutionary predecessor for integrative functions of early transmitters such as nitric oxide, ATP, protons, glutamate and small peptides. By contrast, acetylcholine, dopamine, noradrenaline, octopamine, serotonin and histamine were recruited as canonical neurotransmitters relatively later in animal evolution, only in bilaterians. Ligand-gated ion channels often preceded the establishment of novel neurotransmitter systems. Moreover, lineage-specific diversification of neurotransmitter receptors occurred in parallel within Cnidaria and several bilaterian lineages, including acoels. In summary, ancestral diversification of secretory signal molecules provides unique chemical microenvironments for behaviour-driven innovations that pave the way to complex brain functions and elementary cognition. This article is part of the theme issue 'Basal cognition: multicellularity, neurons and the cognitive lens'.
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- Leonid L. Moroz
- Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute and Whitney laboratory, University of Florida, 9505 Ocean shore Blvd, St Augustine, FL 32080, USA
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- Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology of Learning, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of RAS, 5A Butlerova Street, Moscow 117485, Russia
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- Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute and Whitney laboratory, University of Florida, 9505 Ocean shore Blvd, St Augustine, FL 32080, USA
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Isaeva MA, Kosevich IA, Temereva EN. Peculiarities of Tentacle Innervation of Flustrellidra hispida and Evolution of Lophophore in Bryozoa. DOKLADY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES : PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE USSR, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES SECTIONS 2021; 496:30-33. [PMID: 33635487 DOI: 10.1134/s0012496621010038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2020] [Revised: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The study of the lophophore organization is of great importance for the reconstruction of lophophorate phylogeny and for understanding the evolutionary transformation in each phylum of Lophophorata. The innervation of the lophophore in ctenostome bryozoan Flustrellidra hispida was studied using immunocytochemistry and confocal laser scanning microscopy. It has been demonstrated that this species has an outer nerve ring giving rise to the tentacle nerves. The outer nerve ring was earlier described in some ctenostomates and cyclostomates, but not as connected with nerves. The discovered feature of lophophore innervation in F. hispida suggests the evolutionary transformation from a hypothetical phoronida-like ancestor lophophore bearing a prominent outer nerve ring with numerous tentacle nerves emanating from it, to the complex bell-shaped lophophore of F. hispida with a well-pronounced outer nervous ring bearing a few tentacle nerves. The next one in this hypothetical row is the lophophore of the other ctenostomates and some cyclostomates with no ring-nerve connection and cheilostomates lophophore with no outer nerve ring at all.
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- M A Isaeva
- Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
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In this review, we consider transformations of axial symmetry in metazoan evolution and development, the genetic basis, and phenotypic expressions of different axial body plans. In addition to the main symmetry types in metazoan body plans, such as rotation (radial symmetry), reflection (mirror and glide reflection symmetry), and translation (metamerism), many biological objects show scale (fractal) symmetry as well as some symmetry-type combinations. Some genetic mechanisms of axial pattern establishment, creating a coordinate system of a metazoan body plan, bilaterian segmentation, and left–right symmetry/asymmetry, are analysed. Data on the crucial contribution of coupled functions of the Wnt, BMP, Notch, and Hedgehog signaling pathways (all pathways are designated according to the abbreviated or full names of genes or their protein products; for details, see below) and the axial Hox-code in the formation and maintenance of metazoan body plans are necessary for an understanding of the evolutionary diversification and phenotypic expression of various types of axial symmetry. The lost body plans of some extinct Ediacaran and early Cambrian metazoans are also considered in comparison with axial body plans and posterior growth in living animals.
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Novel data on the innervation of the lophophore in adult phoronids (Lophophorata, Phoronida). ZOOLOGY 2020; 143:125832. [PMID: 32971479 DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2020.125832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2020] [Revised: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The structure of the lophophore nervous system may help clarify the status of the clade Lophophorata, whose monophyly is debated. In the current study, antibody labeling and confocal laser scanning microscopy revealed previously undescribed main nerve elements in the lophophore in adult phoronids: Phoronis australis and Phoronopsis harmeri. In both species, the nervous system includes a dorsal ganglion, a tentacle nerve ring, an inner nerve ring, intertentacular groups of perikarya, and tentacle nerves. The dorsal ganglion and tentacle nerve ring contain many serotonin-like immunoreactive perikarya of different sizes. The inner nerve ring is described for the first time in adult phoronids with complex lophophore. It contains a thin bundle of serotonin-like immunoreactive neurites. The tentacles possess abfrontal, frontal, and laterofrontal nerves. The abfrontal nerves originate from the tentacle nerve ring; the frontal tentacle nerves extend from the inner nerve ring in P. harmeri and from the intertentacular frontal nerves in P. australis. The intertentacular groups of perikarya are found in phoronids for the first time. These small nerve centers connect with neither the tentacle nerve ring nor the inner nerve ring, giving rise to the laterofrontal tentacle nerves. The discovery of the inner nerve ring in adult phoronids makes the architecture of the lophophore nervous system similar in all lophophorates and thereby supports the monophyly of this group. The presence of intertentacular nerves, perikarya, and groups of perikarya is a typical feature of the nervous system in lophophorate presumably coordinating movements of the tentacles and thereby increasing the efficiency of lophophore functioning.
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First data on the organization of the nervous system in juveniles of Novocrania anomala (Brachiopoda, Craniiformea). Sci Rep 2020; 10:9295. [PMID: 32518307 PMCID: PMC7283359 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66014-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The organization and development of the nervous system are traditionally used for phylogenetic analysis and may be useful for clarification of evolution and phylogeny of some poor studied groups. One of these groups is brachiopods: most data on their nervous system organization were obtained in 19th century. In this research, antibody staining and confocal laser scanning microscopy were used to study the nervous system of early ontogenetic stages of the brachiopod Novocrania anomala. Although N. anomala adults are thought to lack a supraenteric ganglion, a large supraenteric ganglion exists in N. anomala juveniles with either a trocholophe or a schizolophe. During ontogenesis, the supraenteric ganglion in the juvenile changes its shape: the commissure between the two lobes of the ganglion extends. This commissure possibly gives rise to the main brachial nerve in adults. The supraenteric ganglion gives rise to the cross (transversal) nerves that extend to the accessory brachial nerve, which gives rise to the tentacular nerves. In juveniles with a trocholophe, the accessory brachial nerve gives rise to the frontal and intertentacular nerves of tentacles that form a single row. When the trocholophe transforms into the schizolophe, the second row of tentacles appears and the innervation of the tentacles changes. The intertentacular nerves disappear and the second accessory nerve forms and gives rise to the laterofrontal tentacular nerves of the inner and outer tentacles and to the abfrontal nerves of the inner tentacles. The so-called subenteric ganglion, which was described as a ganglion in N. anomala adults, is represented by a large circumvisceral nerve in N. anomala juveniles.The results suggest that ‘phoronid-like’ non-specialized tentacles may be regarded as the ancestral type of tentacles for brachiopods and probably for all lophophorates. The presence of intertentacular nerves is the ancestral feature of all lophophorates. The transformation of the juvenile supraenteric ganglion into the main brachial nerve of N. anomala adults suggests that research is needed on the development and organization of the supraenteric ganglion and the main brachial nerve in other brachiopods, whose adults have a prominent supraenteric ganglion.
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Giribet G. Genomes: Miniaturization Taken to Extremes. Curr Biol 2020; 30:R314-R316. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Slyusarev GS, Starunov VV, Bondarenko AS, Zorina NA, Bondarenko NI. Extreme Genome and Nervous System Streamlining in the Invertebrate Parasite Intoshia variabili. Curr Biol 2020; 30:1292-1298.e3. [PMID: 32084405 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Revised: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Orthonectida is a small, rare, and in many aspects enigmatic group of organisms with a unique life cycle and a highly simplified adult free-living stage parasitizing various marine invertebrates [1, 2]. Phylogenetic relationships of Orthonectida have remained controversial for a long time. According to recent data, they are close to Annelida, specifically to Clitellata [3-5]. Several studies have shown that parasitism can not only lead to a dramatic reduction of the body plan and morphological structures but also affect organisms at the genomic level [6, 7]. Comparative studies of parasites and closely related non-parasitic species could clarify the genome reduction degree and evolution of parasitism. Here, we report on the morphology, genome structure, and content of the smallest known Orthonectida species Intoshia variabili, inhabiting the flatworm Graffiellus croceus. This orthonectid with an extremely simplified nervous system demonstrates the smallest known genome (15.3 Mbp) and one of the lowest reported so far gene numbers (5,120 protein-coding genes) among metazoans. The genome is extremely compact, due to a significant reduction of gene number, intergenic regions, intron length, and repetitive elements. The small genome size is probably a result of extreme genome reduction due to their parasitic lifestyle, as well as of simplification and miniaturization of the free-living stages. Our data could provide further insights into the evolution of parasitism and could help to define a minimal bilaterian gene set.
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- George S Slyusarev
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia; Zoological Institute RAS, Universitetskaya nab. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Faculty of Physics, Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Gąsiorowski L, Hejnol A. Hox gene expression during development of the phoronid Phoronopsis harmeri. EvoDevo 2020; 11:2. [PMID: 32064072 PMCID: PMC7011278 DOI: 10.1186/s13227-020-0148-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background Phoronida is a small group of marine worm-like suspension feeders, which together with brachiopods and bryozoans form the clade Lophophorata. Although their development is well studied on the morphological level, data regarding gene expression during this process are scarce and restricted to the analysis of relatively few transcription factors. Here, we present a description of the expression patterns of Hox genes during the embryonic and larval development of the phoronid Phoronopsis harmeri. Results We identified sequences of eight Hox genes in the transcriptome of Ph. harmeri and determined their expression pattern during embryonic and larval development using whole mount in situ hybridization. We found that none of the Hox genes is expressed during embryonic development. Instead their expression is initiated in the later developmental stages, when the larval body is already formed. In the investigated initial larval stages the Hox genes are expressed in the non-collinear manner in the posterior body of the larvae: in the telotroch and the structures that represent rudiments of the adult worm. Additionally, we found that certain head-specific transcription factors are expressed in the oral hood, apical organ, preoral coelom, digestive system and developing larval tentacles, anterior to the Hox-expressing territories. Conclusions The lack of Hox gene expression during early development of Ph. harmeri indicates that the larval body develops without positional information from the Hox patterning system. Such phenomenon might be a consequence of the evolutionary intercalation of the larval form into an ancestral life cycle of phoronids. The observed Hox gene expression can also be a consequence of the actinotrocha representing a “head larva”, which is composed of the most anterior body region that is devoid of Hox gene expression. Such interpretation is further supported by the expression of head-specific transcription factors. This implies that the Hox patterning system is used for the positional information of the trunk rudiments and is, therefore, delayed to the later larval stages. We propose that a new body form was intercalated to the phoronid life cycle by precocious development of the anterior structures or by delayed development of the trunk rudiment in the ancestral phoronid larva.
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- Ludwik Gąsiorowski
- 1Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Thormøhlensgate 55, 5006 Bergen, Norway.,2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Thormøhlensgate 55, 5006 Bergen, Norway
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- 1Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Thormøhlensgate 55, 5006 Bergen, Norway.,2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Thormøhlensgate 55, 5006 Bergen, Norway
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Temereva EN. Myoanatomy of the Lophophore in Adult Phoronids and the Evolution of the Phoronid Lophophore. THE BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN 2019; 237:270-282. [PMID: 31922911 DOI: 10.1086/705424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Confocal laser scanning microscopy was used to study the myoanatomy of the lophophore of three phoronids with different types of lophophore: Phoronis ijimai, Phoronis australis, and Phoronopsis harmeri. A four-part ground plan of the lophophoral musculature was detected in all three species and was previously reported for Phoronis ovalis. The ground plan includes (i) a circular muscle, (ii) longitudinal muscles of the tentacular lamina, (iii) groups of paired distal muscles of the tentacular lamina, and (iv) frontal and abfrontal muscles of the tentacles. In P. australis, the tentacular lamina contains strong abfrontal and numerous frontal muscles. Phoronis harmeri has an inner circular muscle and arch-like muscles. Among all studied phoronids, the four-part ground plan of the lophophoral musculature is least complex in P. ijimai, which has a horseshoe-shaped lophophore. The results suggest two possible scenarios by which the morphology of the phoronid lophophore has transformed over evolutionary time. According to the first scenario, the morphology of the ancestral horseshoe-shaped lophophore became more complicated in the case of most phoronids but became simplified in the case of P. ovalis and bryozoans. According to the second scenario, the lophophore gradually transformed from a simple oval shape to a horseshoe shape and then to a spiral shape. The four-part ground plan of the lophophoral musculature is also present in bryozoans, which is consistent with the view that the lophophorates are monophyletic.
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Lu TM, Furuya H, Satoh N. Gene expression profiles of dicyemid life-cycle stages may explain how dispersing larvae locate new hosts. ZOOLOGICAL LETTERS 2019; 5:32. [PMID: 31754455 PMCID: PMC6854800 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-019-0146-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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UNLABELLED Metazoans have evolved a great variety of life histories in response to environmental conditions. A unique example is encountered in dicyemid mesozoans. In addition to a highly simplified adult body comprising only ~ 30 cells, dicyemids exhibit a parasitic lifestyle that includes nematogens (asexual reproductive adults), rhombogens (sexual reproductive adults), vermiform larvae generated by nematogens, and infusoriform larvae generated by rhombogens. However, due to the difficulties of observing microscopic endoparasites, the complex life cycle and biological functions of life-cycle stages of dicyemids have remained mysterious. Taking advantage of the recently decoded genome of Dicyema japonicum, we examined genes that undergird this lifestyle. Using stage-specific gene expression profiles, we found that biological processes associated with molecular transport, developmental regulation, and sensory response are specified at different stages. Together with the expression of potential neurotransmitters, we further suggest that apical cells in infusoriform larva probably serve sensory functions, although dicyemids have no nervous system. Gene expression profiles show that more genes are expressed in free-living infusoriform larvae than in the other three stages, and that some of these genes are likely involved in locating new hosts. These data provide molecular information about the unique lifestyle of dicyemids and illustrate how an extremely simplified endoparasite adapted and retained gene sets and morphological characters to complete its life cycle. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary information accompanies this paper at 10.1186/s40851-019-0146-y.
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- Tsai-Ming Lu
- Marine Genomics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, 904-0495 Japan
- Present address: Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, 5008 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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- Marine Genomics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, 904-0495 Japan
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Gąsiorowski L, Furu A, Hejnol A. Morphology of the nervous system of monogonont rotifer Epiphanes senta with a focus on sexual dimorphism between feeding females and dwarf males. Front Zool 2019; 16:33. [PMID: 31406495 PMCID: PMC6686465 DOI: 10.1186/s12983-019-0334-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Monogononta is a large clade of rotifers comprised of diverse morphological forms found in a wide range of ecological habitats. Most monogonont species display cyclical parthenogenesis, where generations of asexually reproducing females are interspaced by mixis events when sexual reproduction occurs between mictic females and dwarf, haploid males. The morphology of monogonont feeding females is relatively well described, however data on male anatomy are very limited. Thus far, male musculature of only two species has been described with confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and it remains unknown how dwarfism influences the neuroanatomy of males on detailed level. Results Here, we provide a CLSM-based description of the nervous system of both sexes of Epiphanes senta, a freshwater monogonont rotifer. The general nervous system architecture is similar between males and females and shows a similar level of complexity. However, the nervous system in males is more compact and lacks a stomatogastric part. Conclusion Comparison of the neuroanatomy between male and normal-sized feeding females provides a better understanding of the nature of male dwarfism in Monogononta. We propose that dwarfism of monogonont non-feeding males is the result of a specific case of heterochrony, called “proportional dwarfism” as they, due to their inability to feed, retain a juvenile body size, but still develop a complex neural architecture comparable to adult females. Reduction of the stomatogastric nervous system in the males correlates with the loss of the entire digestive tract and associated morphological structures. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12983-019-0334-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Ludwik Gąsiorowski
- Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Thormøhlens Gate 55, N-5006 Bergen, Norway
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- Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Thormøhlens Gate 55, N-5006 Bergen, Norway
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- Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Thormøhlens Gate 55, N-5006 Bergen, Norway
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