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Journal Article
Insights from Amphioxus into the Evolution of Vertebrate Cartilage
2007
Overview
Central to the story of vertebrate evolution is the origin of the vertebrate head, a problem difficult to approach using paleontology and comparative morphology due to a lack of unambiguous intermediate forms. Embryologically, much of the vertebrate head is derived from two ectodermal tissues, the neural crest and cranial placodes. Recent work in protochordates suggests the first chordates possessed migratory neural tube cells with some features of neural crest cells. However, it is unclear how and when these cells acquired the ability to form cellular cartilage, a cell type unique to vertebrates. It has been variously proposed that the neural crest acquired chondrogenic ability by recruiting proto-chondrogenic gene programs deployed in the neural tube, pharynx, and notochord. To test these hypotheses we examined the expression of 11 amphioxus orthologs of genes involved in neural crest chondrogenesis. Consistent with cellular cartilage as a vertebrate novelty, we find that no single amphioxus tissue co-expresses all or most of these genes. However, most are variously co-expressed in mesodermal derivatives. Our results suggest that neural crest-derived cartilage evolved by serial cooption of genes which functioned primitively in mesoderm.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Collagen
/ Developmental Biology/Developmental Evolution
/ Developmental Biology/Developmental Molecular Mechanisms
/ Evolutionary Biology/Developmental Evolution
/ Evolutionary Biology/Developmental Molecular Mechanisms
/ Evolutionary Biology/Genomics
/ Evolutionary Biology/Morphogenesis and Cell Biology
/ Genes
/ Mesoderm
/ Pharynx
/ Skull
/ Tissues
