NDLI: Modularity and heterochronies in the evolution of metazoa: Paleontological aspect

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Author	Rozhv, S. V.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	All organisms are formed of more or less independent elements, modules. Paleontology deals with morphological modules preserved in the fossil state and allows their evolution within taxa of different levels to be reconstructed. Modularity provides organisms with the ability to evolve, since changes in one module does not influence others, nor disturb the integrity of organism. Each organism may have unique modules represented by a single copy and serial modules developing according to a certain symmetry type. Serial terminal growth is characteristic of ambulacra of echinoderms, in which it is combined with alternating appearance of structures on the right and left of the symmetry plane. The morphology of the solute Maennilia estonica, which has been investigated in detail, shows that the growth model for the brachiola is similar to the model for ambulacra of sea urchins, but without an ocular plate. Probably, the hydrocoel initially induced the appearance of a skeleton necessary for its activity and organized its development according to its own model of terminal growth. Subsequently, the axial skeleton appearing following this pattern could have organized the growth of adjacent parts of the extraxial skeleton following the same model to form a united module. The fusion of modules could have resulted from heterochronies. Extant and extinct material connected with the change in the anteroposterior axis in evolutionary and ontogenetic development of echinoderms provides a prominent example of heterochronies. Heterochronies were the mechanism connecting characters into an integrated ensemble of the body plan. Archaic diversity reflects an attempt to create a new body plan. Various manifestations of archaic diversity show that the emergence of a new higher taxon is connected with the combination of a number of characters united in an integrated complex forming the body plan which is stable from the moment of appearance due to strict recursive relationships between its modules rather than with the acquisition of an individual character, even if it is very important.
Starting Page	1546
Ending Page	1560
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00310301
Journal	Paleontological Journal
Volume Number	49
Issue Number	14
e-ISSN	15556174
Language	English
Publisher	Pleiades Publishing
Publisher Date	2016-01-06
Publisher Place	Moscow
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Metazoa echinoderms body plan modularity heterochronies Paleontology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Paleontology

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