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Maldonado E, Rangel-Huerta E, González-Gómez R, Fajardo-Alvarado G, Morillo-Velarde PS. Octopus insularis as a new marine model for evolutionary developmental biology. Biol Open 2019; 8:bio046086. [PMID: 31666222 PMCID: PMC6899024 DOI: 10.1242/bio.046086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Accepted: 10/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Octopuses are intriguing organisms that, together with squids and cuttlefishes, form the extant coleoid cephalopods. This group includes many species that can potentially be used as models in the fields of biomedicine, developmental biology, evolution, neuroscience and even for robotics research. The purpose of this work is to first present a simple method for maintaining Octopus insularis embryos under a laboratory setup. Second, we show that these embryos are suitable for detailed analyses of specific traits that appear during developmental stages, including the eyes, hearts, arms, suckers, chromatophores and Kölliker's organs. Similar complex traits between cephalopods and vertebrates such as the visual, cardiovascular, neural and pigmentation systems are generally considered to be a result of parallel evolution. We propose that O. insularis embryos could be used as a model for evolutionary developmental biology (or EvoDevo) research, where comparisons of the morphogenetic steps in the building of equivalent organs between cephalopods and known vertebrate model systems could shed light on evolutionary convergences and deep homologies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ernesto Maldonado
- EvoDevo Research Group, Unidad de Sistemas Arrecifales, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, México 77580
| | - Emma Rangel-Huerta
- EvoDevo Research Group, Unidad de Sistemas Arrecifales, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, México 77580
- Doctorado en Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, México 77580
| | - Roberto González-Gómez
- Posgrado en Ecología y Pesquerías, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río, Veracruz, México 94290
- Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Pesquerías, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río, Veracruz, México 94290
| | - Gabriel Fajardo-Alvarado
- Posgrado en Ecología y Pesquerías, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río, Veracruz, México 94290
- Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Pesquerías, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río, Veracruz, México 94290
| | - Piedad S Morillo-Velarde
- Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Pesquerías, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río, Veracruz, México 94290
- CONACyT-Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Pesquerías, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río, Veracruz, México 94290
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