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A Short History of Nearly Every Sense—The Evolutionary History of Vertebrate Sensory Cell Types

Schlosser, Gerhard·2018·Integrative and Comparative Biology

Abstract

Evolving from filter feeding chordate ancestors, vertebrates adopted a more active life style. These ecological and behavioral changes went along with an elaboration of the vertebrate head including novel complex paired sense organs such as the eyes, inner ears, and olfactory epithelia. However, the photoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, and chemoreceptors used in these sense organs have a long evolutionary history and homologous cell types can be recognized in many other bilaterians or even cnidarians. After briefly introducing some of the major sensory cell types found in vertebrates, this review summarizes the phylogenetic distribution of sensory cell types in metazoans and presents a scenario for the evolutionary history of various sensory cell types involving several cell type diversification and fusion events. It is proposed that the evolution of novel cranial sense organs in vertebrates involved the redeployment of evolutionarily ancient sensory cell types for building larger and more complex sense organs.

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Authors
Schlosser, G.
Affiliations
National University of Ireland (IE)
Corresponding author
Schlosser, Gerhard
Venue
Integrative and Comparative Biology
Published
2018-06-01
Volume
58
Issue
2
Pages
301-316
ISSN
  • 1540-7063 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7023
OpenAlex
W2800618514
Cited by
33
References
145
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2
FWCI
0.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Urology › Comparative Animal Anatomy Studies
Keywords
photoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, chemoreceptors, eye evolution, inner ear evolution, olfactory epithelium, homology, chordate evolution, metazoan phylogeny
MeSH terms
Animals, Biological Evolution, Phylogeny, Sensory Receptor Cells, Vertebrates

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