ArticleIntegrative and comparative biology2024
Evolution of Maternal Provisioning and Development in the Ophiuroidea: Egg Size, Larval Form, and Parental Care.
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The Ophiuroidea is the most speciose class of echinoderms and has the greatest diversity of larval forms, but we know less about the evolution of development (evo-devo) in this group than for the other echinoderm classes. As is typical of echinoderms, evo-devo in the Ophiuroidea resulted in the switch from production of small eggs and feeding (planktotrophic) larvae to large eggs and non-feeding (lecithotrophic) larvae. Parental care (ovoviviparity or viviparity/matrotrophy) is the most derived life history. Analysis of egg data for 140 species (excluding viviparity and facultative planktotrophy) indicated a bimodal distribution in egg volume corresponding to planktotrophy and lecithotrophy + ovoviviparity, with three significant egg size groups due to the very large eggs of the ovoviviparous species. The marked reduction in fecundity in species with extremely large eggs is exemplified by the ovoviviparous species. Egg size in the two species with facultative planktotrophy was intermediate with respect to the two modes. Identifying the ancestral larval life history pattern and the pathways in the switch from feeding to non-feeding larvae is complicated by the two patterns of metamorphosis seen in species with planktotrophic development: Type I (ophiopluteus only) and Type II (ophiopluteus + vitellaria larva). The variability in arm resorption at metamorphosis across ophiuroid families indicates that the Type I and II patterns may be two ends of a morphological continuum. This variability indicates ancestral morphological plasticity at metamorphosis, followed by canalization in some taxa to the vitellaria as the metamorphic larva. Vestigial ophiopluteal traits in lecithotrophic ophioplutei and vitellaria indicate evolution from the ancestral (feeding larva) state. Parental care has evolved many times from an ancestor that had a planktonic ophiopluteus or vitellaria and is often associated with hermaphroditism and paedomorphosis. A secondary reduction in egg size occurred in the viviparous species.
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