ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2010
The initiation of metamorphosis as an ancient polyphenic trait and its role in metazoan life-cycle evolution.
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- A transcription factor that enables metamorphosis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Dynamic changes in DNA methylation during seahorse (Hippocampus reidi) postnatal development and settlement.Frontiers in zoology · 2021Article
- Proteome of larval metamorphosis induced by epinephrine in the Fujian oyster Crassostrea angulata.BMC genomics · 2020Article
- Retinoic Acid Signaling Regulates the Metamorphosis of Feather Stars (Crinoidea, Echinodermata): Insight into the Evolution of the Animal Life Cycle.Biomolecules · 2019Article
- Proteomics Studies on the three Larval Stages of Development and Metamorphosis of Babylonia areolata.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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- An ancient role for nitric oxide in regulating the animal pelagobenthic life cycle: evidence from a marine sponge.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Developmental Transcriptome Analysis and Identification of Genes Involved in Larval Metamorphosis of the Razor Clam, Sinonovacula constricta.Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) · 2016Article
- Notch-Mediated Cell Adhesion.Biology · 2016Review
- Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals insights into the streamlined genomes of haplosclerid demosponges.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- The ontogeny of choanocyte chambers during metamorphosis in the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica.EvoDevo · 2016Article
- An option space for early neural evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
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- Transcriptome profiling of the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica reveals genome-wide events that accompany major life cycle transitions.BMC genomics · 2012Article
- Variation in rates of early development in Haliotis asinina generate competent larvae of different ages.Frontiers in zoology · 2012Article
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Abstract
Comparative genomics of representative basal metazoans leaves little doubt that the most recent common ancestor to all modern metazoans was morphogenetically complex. Here, we support this interpretation by demonstrating that the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica has a biphasic pelagobenthic life cycle resembling that present in a wide range of bilaterians and anthozoan cnidarians. The A. queenslandica life cycle includes a compulsory planktonic larval phase that can end only once the larva develops competence to respond to benthic signals that induce settlement and metamorphosis. The temporal onset of competence varies between individuals as revealed by idiosyncratic responses to inductive cues. Thus, the biphasic life cycle with a dispersing larval phase of variable length appears to be a metazoan synapomorphy and may be viewed as an ancestral polyphenic trait. Larvae of a particular age that are subjected to an inductive cue either maintain the larval form or metamorphose into the post-larval/juvenile form. Variance in the development of competence dictates that only a subset of a larval cohort will settle and undergo metamorphosis at a given time, which in turn leads to variation in dispersal distance and in location of settlement. Population divergence and allopatric speciation are likely outcomes of this conserved developmental polyphenic trait.
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