There is evidence from gene expression patterns in deuterostome and protostomes larvae that the Bilateria may share developmental features and gene expression patterns (Arendt et al, 2001). The echinoderms, basal members of the Deuterostomia, are well known in an evo-devo context because of the presence of morphologically distinct larval forms in each echinoderm class [1, 2].In species with feeding larvae, metamorphic and post-settlement success may be highly dependent on larval nutrition and the accumulation of energetic lipids from the diet [3,4,5]. Dev Cell 9: 147–158. Balfour rejected Haeckel's theory on the evolution of echinoderms from bilateral ancestors, and he proposed that echinoderm larvae were acquired after the respective classes were established. These findings show dramatically that the features of direct-developing larvae are convergent in embryological and molecular features and have arisen independently with considerable frequency in asteroid and echinoid lineages (Emlet et al, 1987; Wray, 1996; Villinski et al, 2002; Raff et al, 2003; Hart et al, 2004). Department of Biology and Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, Indiana University, 150 Myers Hall, 915 E. Third St, Bloomington, 47401, IN, USA, Department of Anatomy and Histology, F-13, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006, NSW, Australia, You can also search for this author in Life history evolution of marine invertebrates: new views from phylogenetic systematics. Other evolutionary questions also have been addressed with cross species hybrids (Raff et al, 2003). CrossRef Google Scholar. This shows that use of hybrids to examine other taxa of echinoderms should be fruitful. One is the asterinid starfish genus Patiriella and its close relatives in the Asterinidae, a major family of sea stars (Figure 4). H. erythrogramma × H. tuberculata hybrids developed distinct pluteus features (notably arms, gut, and oral ectoderm) absent in H. erythrogramma. As echinoids produce a larval skeleton and starfish do not, their observation that a regulatory gene involved in skeletogenesis in the sea urchin is used differently in the starfish, in that it responds to endomesodermal inputs that do not affect it in the sea urchin embryo. Parvulastra exigua has a benthic ‘tripod’ larva. Fragmentation is a common method of reproduction used by some species of asteroids, ophiuroids, and holothurians, and in some of these species sexual reproduction is not known to occur. In these experiments, a large genetic perturbation is inflicted by mixing two disparate genomes in a single cytoplasm. Byrne M, Emlet R, Cerra A. In hybrids, gsc is expressed in the morphologically restored oral ectoderm, as in its indirect developer paternal parent, H. tuberculata, consistent with the dominance of the paternal pattern. Finally, although there are novel evolutionary features, there also are losses in developmental features and gene expression. Dev Growth Differ 43: 459–468. Origin and evolution of animal life cycles. Most phyla of animals are marine, and most of these animals, annelids, molluscs, echinoderms, hemichordates, brachiopods, phoronids, sipunculans, ascidians and others are benthic as adults, but have planktonic so called ‘primary’ larvae with different body plans than possessed by the adults. Echinoderms are a Phylum of Invertebrate Animals which live in the oceans. Evolution 51: 1846–1859. Henry JJ, Wray GA, Raff RA (1990). and JavaScript. (b) Interpolation of a facultative feature into early development (vertical dashes). Holothuroids, asteroids and ophiuroids have two larval stages and early larva (auricularia, bipinnaria and ophiopluteus, respectively) and late metamorphic settlement stage larva (doliolaria, brachiolaria and vitellaria, respectively). This one has done particularly well, scoring, We're also able to compare this research output to 19 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. (1994). Dev Genes Evol 209: 275–283. Nielsen MG, Wilson KA, Raff EC, Raff RA (2000). Evolution of development has clearly been a driving force in the rapid speciation in these sea stars. These larvae are transparent and so internal development is readily followed. Larval arms, mouth and gut will for by about four days of development. Their variation within a single genus shows that such apparent evolutionary stability does not preclude an inability to undergo rapid changes under selection. Pattern formation in a pentameral animal: induction of early adult rudiment development in sea urchins. Three-dimensional preservation of algae and animal embryos in a Neoproterozoic phosphate. Heredity CrossRef Google Scholar. Overall, the evolution of echinoderm larvae presents a rich mix of evolutionary-developmental phenomena that can be studied by use of the diverse and closely related species that have different developmental modes. Lecithotrophic brachiolaria have no traces of ciliary bands or the intricate bipinnaria nervous system (Byrne et al, 2001a). Evolution 51: 141–152. Application of clock times calibrated on the basis of timing of the closing of the Isthmus of Panama and the DNA sequences from sister species on both sides of it indicate that major changes in developmental mode from indirect feeding to non-feeding direct development took place within two living clades, about 4 mya in Heliocidaris erythrogramma (Zigler et al, 2003) and 4–7 mya in a second (Holopneustes) clade (Jeffery et al, 2003). Echinoderms that have small eggs develop through free-swimming planktotrophic (feeding on plankton) larvae (Figure 3). We focused on the oral ectoderm, which has important roles in the development of the oral–aboral axis and its influence on development of the pluteus skeleton. The lack of a distinct metamorphosis in sea cucumbers and the confluence of larval and adult body plans in these sea cucumbers suggest a paedomorphic condition (Semon, 1888; Mooi and David, 1998). Lessios HA, Garrido MJ, Kessing BD (2001). Evol Dev 7: 416–428. Two taxa of echinoderms have been extensively studied using this expanded comparative approach. Chia FS (1974). In the case of the echinoids, the study of developmental evolution rests on the great body of studies of the developmental biology of indirect-developing echinoids (see Davidson et al, 1998 for an introduction). Heredity 97: 244-252. Biological Bulletin 179: 121–133. Diversity of asterinid starfish adults and developmental stages. This structure includes three sticky arms (brachia) and an adhesive disc used for benthic attachment. The possibilities of continued work depend in the short run on funding agencies being willing to support research on non-model organisms. Echinoderms share a common dipleurula larva with hemichordates. Larvae of a brachiopod (left), a nemertean (center) and a bryozoan (right). This observation indicated that paternal factors were dominant in hybrid development, and offered practically useful information in the analysis of genes involved in evolution of the direct developer. Molecular phylogeny has provided a robust framework with which to assess pathways of developmental change (Byrne, 2006). Evol Dev 5: 435–446. Wray GA, Raff RA (1990). The term ‘secondary’ larvae is used to refer to larvae such as the tadpoles of frogs or the larvae of holometabolous insects that share the basic body plan of the adults and were clearly evolved following the evolution of the adult body plan. Garstang W (1894). There is no larva. Dev Biol 132: 458–470. J Exp Zoolog B Mol Dev Evol 304: 456–467. Tools from comparative embryology, molecular systematics, and developmental genetics allow penetrating studies of mechanisms to be made. Cohn MJ, Tickle C (1999). However, more than a single factor is involved. It is these recent evolutionary events that offer a window into processes of larval evolution operating at a micro-evolutionary level of evolution of discrete developmental mechanisms. Covariability of reproductive traits in marine invertebrates: implications for the phylogeny of the lower invertebrates. McHugh C, Rouse GW (1998). These are the subjects of the current studies summarized in this review. We review the evolution of the diverse larval forms of living echinoderms to outline the origins of echinoderm larval forms, their diversity among living echinoderms, molecular clocks and rates of larval evolution, and finally current studies on the roles of developmental regulatory mechanisms in the rapid and radical evolutionary changes observed between closely related congeneric species. Haszprunar G, Salvini-Plawen LV, Rieger RM (1995). Large animal body sizes appear in the fossil record in the latest Precambrian, and but became prevalent in the Cambrian radiation. The A–V axis in H. erythrogramma uses the same Wnt-8 signal transduction pathway as observed in indirect development (Angerer and Angerer, 2003; Kauffman and Raff, 2003). Hybridization of sympatric Patiriella species (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) in New South Wales. Although discussions on potential ‘indirect vs direct developing’ ancestral states continues for some taxa (Haszprunar et al, 1995; McHugh and Rouse, 1998), for modern Echinodermata, the feeding, planktotrophic larva is well supported as a plesiomorphic character (Strathmann, 1978; Raff, 1992, 1996; Wray, 1996; Smith, 1997; McEdward and Miner, 2001; but see Mooi and David, 1998). J Exp Zoolog B Mol Dev Evol 306: 45–48. Ideally, such clocks should tie the rate of evolution of a set of mitochondrial or nuclear genes to well dated biogeographic events, as done by Lessios et al (2001; Zigler et al, 2003). 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