https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/403237
標題: | On the origin of leeches by evolution of development | 作者: | DIAN-HAN KUO Lai, Yi-Te |
關鍵字: | Evo-Devo; body plan evolution; leech; posterior growth zone; teloblasts | 公開日期: | 2019 | 卷: | 61 | 期: | 1 | 起(迄)頁: | 39 | 來源出版物: | Development, growth & differentiation | 摘要: | Leeches are a unique group of annelids arising from an ancestor that would be characterized as a freshwater oligochaete worm. Comparative biology of the oligochaetes and the leeches reveals that body plan changes in the oligochaete-to-leech transition probably occurred by addition or modification of the terminal steps in embryonic development and that they were likely driven by a change in the feeding behavior in the ancestor of leeches. In this review article, developmental changes that are associated with the evolution of several leech-specific traits are discussed. These include (1) the evolution of suckers, (2) the loss of chaetae, (3) the loss of septa, and (4) a fixed number of segments. An altered developmental fate of the teloblast is further proposed to be a key factor contributing to the fixation of the segment number, and the evolutionary change in teloblast development may also account for the loss of the ability to regenerate the lost body segments in the leech. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/403237 | ISSN: | 00121592 | DOI: | 10.1111/dgd.12573 |
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