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Bilaterian Origins: Significance of New Experimental Observations
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Several recent laboratory observations that bear on the origin of the Bilateria are reviewed and interpreted in light of our set-aside cell theory for bilaterian origins. We first discuss new data concerning the phylogeny of bilaterian phyla. Next, we use systematic, molecular, and paleontological lines of evidence to argue that the latest common ancestor of echinoderms plus hemichordates used a maximal indirect mode of development. Furthermore, the latest common ancestor of molluscs and annelids was also indirectly developing. Finally, we discuss new data on Hox gene expression patterns which suggest that both sea urchins and polychaete annelids use Hox genes in a very similar fashion. Neither utilizes the complete Hox complex in the development of the larva per se, while the Hox complex is expressed in the set-aside cells from which the adult body plan is formed. Our current views on the ancestry of the bilaterians are summarized in phylogenetic terms, incorporating the characters discussed in this paper.
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“We showed that the larva develops exactly the same structures whether or not it contains the rudiment from which the adult derives (Davidson et al., 1995).”
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“(A) The CH-Hox2 expression pattern in a L1-stage larva (see Irvine et al., 1999) seen in longitudinal section with the anterior end upward.The cells expressing the gene are in the posterior region occupied by the teloblasts, which generate the segmental tissues of the adult body.”
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“More importantly, all of those Hox cluster genes so far investigated by in situ hybridization are indeed expressed in the progeny of the set-side cells, i.e., as elements that will give rise to structures of the juvenile”
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“(B) CH-Hox4 expression in an L2 larval stage.The plane of section is slightly oblique to the longitudinal axis and the gut appears almost in cross section.Like CH-Hox2, the cells expressing the Chv-Hox4 gene product are the progeny of the teloblastic set-aside cells.”
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“Expression of five different Hox genes in embryonic Chaetopterus, two of which are shown, occurs in the presumed germ band stem cells.”
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“All of the eight Hox genes so far examined are expressed copiously during adult body plan formation (Arenas-Mena et al., 1998).”
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“The progeny of those cells form the pentamerally symmetric mesodermal components of the juvenile.”
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“So far no real surprises: the more shocking observation that emerged from this study was that 6 of the 8 Hox cluster genes examined by Arenas-Mena et al. (1998) are not significantly expressed at all until embryogenesis is complete.”
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“So far at least, a correct statement is that in echinoids the Hox gene cluster is expressed in set-aside cell progeny during the early phases of adult body plan development.”
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“At the end of embryogenesis the set-aside cells are located in two prominent pouches of about 10 cells each, protruding on either side of the foregut.”
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“It is immediately apparent that while maximal indirect development is conspicuously absent in ecdysozoans, it occurs in most deuterostome and lophotrochozoan clades.”
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“One gene is also expressed in the gut, and another in the protonephridia, but for the other three the locus of expression is exclusively in the set-aside cells and not in any cells constituting the bilateral structures of the feeding larva.”
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“As in amphioxus (Garcı ´a-Fernandez and Holland, 1994), there is a single Hox cluster, which includes at least 10 genes.”
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“A second very important point for our present purposes, which is illustrated in Fig. 1, is that the Bilateria are monophyletic, the sister group of Cnidaria”
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“In this case, however, numerous transitions to direct development must have occurred, since most of the clades marked on Fig. 1 also contain some direct developing forms.”
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“As this mode of early development is found in all invertebrate deuterostomes (including invertebrate chordates), and also in most protostome clades, it is concluded to be primitive for Bilateria.”
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“Finally, we discuss new data on Hox gene expression patterns which suggest that both sea urchins and polychaete annelids use Hox genes in a very similar fashion.Neither utilizes the complete Hox complex in the development of the larva per se, while the Hox complex is expressed in the set-aside cells from which the adult body plan is formed.”
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“For present concerns the main point of Fig. 1 is that Lophotrochozoa, Ecdysozoa, and Deuterostomia are each monophyletic clades.”
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“The only monophyletic group of genera that is entirely direct developing is the echinothuroids.To a greater or lesser extent all other clades include species that utilize planktotrophic larvae, which is to say they develop by maximal indirect processes.”
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“Significantly, H. erythrogramma shows vestiges of the larval skeleton and epaulettes (Emlet, 1995), as well as retaining some of the larval ectoderm cell lineage assignments of its relatives (Wray and Raff, 1990).”
§ Bilaterian Origins: Significance of New Experimental Observations > FIG. 1.
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“In maximal indirect development, as defined earlier (Davidson et al., 1995;Peterson et al., 1997), the embryo gives rise to a larva that bears little relation to the adult body plan, and the latter is formed by a separate postembryonic developmental process.”
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“The key difference between maximal indirect development and direct development is that in direct development regional specification processes are telescoped immediately onto Type 1 embryogenesis so that assembly of the adult body plan begins at once.”
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“Hence, the trochoblasts of annelid and molluscan embryos express the same lineage-specific gene, and expression is driven by the same set of transcription factors.”
§ Bilaterian Origins: Significance of New Experimental Observations > FIG. 1.
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“Hence trochophore and trochophore-like larvae must be primitive for at least spiralians if not for all lophotrochozoans.”
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“Finally, both use set-aside cells for the construction of the adult body plan.”
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“In order to position the origin of the vectorial Hox gene regulatory system in early bilaterian evolution, we point out that it must have arisen following the appearance of set-aside cells (internode 2 of Fig. 4), since it would not have been useful before this, i.e., in the context of purely Type 1 embryonic process.”
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“In this sense their development could now be termed indirect, because the adult forms were produced indirectly, and what had been the adult form after internode 1 has now become merely a developmental platform.”
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“Thus the ecdysozoan common ancestor per se must have lost the larval “form,” which was still preserved in the ancestor of all protostomes.”
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“But they fly in the face of the assumption that development of all bilaterian animal forms depends on Hox cluster function, since the free-living echinoid larva is such a form.”
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“This process involved gene duplication and genomic organization, but above all the making and breaking of thousands upon thousands of intergenic regulatory connections.”
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“There can now be no question that the primitive echinoid condition was indirect development and that the polarity of the transitions which have frequently and independently occurred during echinoid evolution is always toward direct development.”
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“and in mammals even to provide a temporal rather than spatial regulatory sequence in hematopoietic differentiation (Care ` et al., 1994).”
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“and thus they deployed vectorial mechanisms in their spatial development, including organizer systems that secrete diffusible signaling factors, and also the Hox gene complex.”
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“This was established by measurements of Hox gene mRNA content per embryo, measurements which far exceed the sensitivity of in situ hybridization for this material and which detect transcripts down to the level of a few tenths of a molecule per average embryo cell.”
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“The animals utilizing these mechanisms built mesodermal layers and some form of CNS, at least in their adult phases.”
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“for which we conclude indirect development is primitive.”
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“Both utilize Type 1 embryogenesis (see Davidson, 1991;Davidson et al., 1995; and the data discussed above), which divides the cleavage-stage embryo into a set of polyclonal territories.”
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“Moreover, the expression of one of these genes (Cnox1-Pc, a posterior-type gene; Martinez et al., 1998) is limited to a single cell type (Aerne et al., 1995), unlike Hox gene expression in bilaterians.”
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The Hox complex is a vectorial patterning system composed of a linked set of genes encoding similar transcription factors.
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The developmental expression of Hox regulators in a linear positional array depends on their chromosomal order.
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Hox complex function is always to specify regulatory states in populations of growing cells.
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“Many lines of evidence show that for deuterostomes and lophotrochozoans maximal indirect development is primitive, and direct development is derived (36–38).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Peterson, K. J., Cameron, R. A., & Davidson, E. H.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- ORCID
- Cameron, R.Andrew
- Venue
- Developmental Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2000-03
- Volume
- 219
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-17
- ISSN
- 0012-1606 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2022880235
- Cited by
- 133
- References
- 131
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Developmental Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (9604454)
- Yale University
- California Institute of Technology
- State University of New York
- University of Washington
- National Institutes of Health
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD05753)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
- Keywords
- bilaterian origin, indirect development, Echinodermata, hemichordates, Mollusca, Annelida, Hox genes, sea urchins, Polychaeta, larval development, body plan evolution, common ancestor
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Annelida, Chordata, Nonvertebrate, Echinodermata, Biological Evolution, Genes, Homeobox, Multigene Family, Invertebrates, Models, Biological, Mollusca, Phylogeny, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
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