Lecture 10: Introduction to animal evolution Flashcards

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Elements of biodiversity:

3 types and similarities

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  • Ecological Diversity
  • Genetic Diversity
  • Organismal Diversity
    • all only linked by populations –
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Features of animalia:

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  • eukaryote
  • multicellular, held together by collagen
  • heterotrophic, feed by ingestion (usually)
  • muscle & nervous tissue unique to animals
  • lack cell walls
  • unique cell junctions:
    • tight junctions
    • desmosomes
    • gap junctions
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3 types of junction:

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  • tight junctions (between plasma membrane of adjacent cells, between space)
  • desmosome (anchoring junction)
  • gap junctions (communicating junction)
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life-history features of animals

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  • most reproduce sexually
  • life cycle dominated by the diploid stage
  • small flagellate sperm fertilises a non-motile egg (heterogamete)
  • blastula in early development
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early embryonic development:

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zygote –cleavage–> eight cell stage –cleavage–> blastula –Gastrulation–>Gastrula

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Blastula:

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hollow ball of cells.

inside = blastocoel

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Gastrulation:

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pinching inwards on itself

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Gastrula:

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  • Endoderm inside
  • Blastocoel middle layer
  • ectoderm outside
  • blastopore-‘entrance’
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Hox genes:

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special genes that regulate development in animals

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Number of hox genes is correlated with

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the complexity of the animal body plan

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Variation in when and where Hox genes are expressed in the developing embryo is the basis

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of the diversity of animal body plans

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Origin of animals thoughts? brief

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colonial heterotrophic flagellate similar to a choanoflagellate protozoan.

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Reasons why to origin of animals

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  • single flagella surrounded by a collar of microvillae used for filter feeding
  • single flagella consistent with the monociliate condition believed to be primitive in animals
  • flagella base structure closely resembles cilia base in animals
  • similar mitochondrial structure
  • DNA evidence
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ontogeny reflects

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phylogeny

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how have evolutionary relationships among animals been concluded?

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-Paleontological evidence
appearance in the fossil record
-Anatomical similarity
shared, derived homologous structures
-Developmental similarity
patterns of cell division and embryonic stages
-Biochemical similarity
DNA, RNA and protein similarity
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Traditional view of animal evolution is based on..

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BODY PLANS

  • True tissues formed following gastrulation
  • Symmetry
  • Presence of a body cavity or coelom
  • Pattern of coelom development
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Gastrulation results in

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..at least two tissue layers (endoderm and ectoderm)

  • Separates Parazoa (inc. sponges) from Eumetazoa
  • True tissues enable specialisation and organ development
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Radial and bilateral symmetry:

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Separates Radiata (jellyfishes) from Bilateria

  • Radiata have a top/bottom or oral/aboral side, bilateria have anterior/posterior and dorsal/ventral sides
  • Radiata are diploblastic, Bilateria triploblastic
  • Bilateral symmetry associated with cephalisation and active lifestyle
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Evolution of body cavities:

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Acoelomate
pseudocoelomate
coelomate

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coelomate

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(e.g. earthworms Annelida)

coelom lined with mesoderm

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Acoelomate

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(e.g. flatworms Platyhelmithes)
solid body between digestive tract and outer body wall
lack digestive tract or incomplete without anus

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pseudocoelomate

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(e.g. roundworms Nematoda)

coelom not completely lined with mesoderm

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Functions of the body cavity:

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protection
allows organ growth
allows movement (hydrostatic skeleton)

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Coelom development in protostomes:

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(Mollusks, annelids, arthropods)

  • eight cell stage: spiral & determinate
  • Schizocoelous: solid masses of mesoderm split to form coelom
  • mouth develops from blastopore
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Coelom development in Deuterostomes:

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(echinoderms, chordates)

  • radial and indeterminate
  • Enterocoelous: folds of archenteron form coelom
  • Anus develops from blastopore
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NEW PHYLOGENY BASED ON MOLECULAR GENETICS:

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compared to traditional:

  • Parazoa and Radiata branches supported
  • Monophyly of Deuterostomes supported
  • Two Protostome clades
  • -Lophotrochozoa – annelids and molluscs - named for a crown of cilia on the larva (“lophophore”)
  • -Ecdysozoa – arthropods and nematodes - named for shedding of exoskeleton (“ecdysis”)

-Platyhelminthes – thought to have had, then lost coelom