bis2c: lecture 29: triploblasts: protostomes: ecdysozoans i

Slides by Jonathan Eisen for BIS2C at UC Davis Spring 2016

Lecture 29:

Triploblasts: Protostomes:

Ecdysozoans I

BIS 002C Biodiversity & the Tree of Life

Spring 2016

Prof. Jonathan Eisen1


Where we are going and where we have been…

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•Previous lecture: •28: Triploblasts: Protostomes:

Lophotrochozonas

•Current Lecture: •29: Triploblasts: Protostomes:

Ecdysozoans I

•Next Lecture: •30: Triploblasts: Protostomes:

Ecdysozoans II


Animal Diversity Topics

• Major Groups

• Diversity within Groups

• Key Features of Groups !Body Plans, Forms and Symmetry !Reproduction and Life Cycles !Mobility !Feeding

• Examples

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Ecdysozoa

• Key Features of Ecdysozoa !Molting

• Major Groups

• Key Features of Key Groups

• Focus on !Nematodes !Tardigrades

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Animal Diversity

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Diploblasts

Triploblasts

Monoblasts


Animal Diversity

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Triploblasts


Animal Diversity

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Animal Diversity

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Ecdysozoans

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Ecdysozoan Feature #1: Cuticle and Molting

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• Ecdysozoans have a cuticle, secreted by the epidermis.

• For animal to grow, cuticle must be shed, or molted, and replaced with a larger one (a process known as ecdysis).

• Molting evolved ~500 mya, apparently only once. All ecdysozoans have a single common ancestor.

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• In some wormlike ecdysozoans, the cuticle is thin and flexible.

• A thin cuticle allows gas and water exchange but restricts animal to moist habitats.

• In arthropods, the cuticle is an exoskeleton, thickened by proteins and chitin, a waterproof polysaccharide.

• The exoskeleton restricts movement and gas exchange; new mechanisms for these functions evolved.

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A Few Summaries for Your Enjoyment …

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Ecdysozoans

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Ecdysozoans


Wormlike Marine Ecdysozoans

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Priapulids Kinorhynch Loriciferan


Wormlike Marine Ecdysozoans

• Priapulids: !Unsegmented, three-part body plan !Burrow in soft sediments !Capture prey with a toothed, muscular pharynx that is

everted through the mouth

• Kinorhynchs: !Microscopic !Body has 13 segments, with separate cuticular plates that

are molted !Feed by ingesting sediments through their retractable

proboscis

• Loriciferans: !Minute !Not discovered until 1983 !Body is covered by six plates (lorica = “corset”)

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Ecdysozoans

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Horsehair Worm Larvae Are Parasitic

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Horsehair Worms

• Horsehair worms: very thin; up to a meter in length; most are freshwater.

• Larvae are internal parasites of insects and crayfish.

• Adult has no mouth and a reduced gut. Some may feed only as larvae; others continue to grow and molt, and may be absorbing nutrients from the environment.

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Horsehair Worms

• Horsehair worms: very thin; up to a meter in length; most are freshwater.

• Larvae are internal parasites of insects and crayfish.

• Adult has no mouth and a reduced gut. Some may feed only as larvae; others continue to grow and molt, and may be absorbing nutrients from the environment.

• WHATEVER YOU DO - DO NOT - DO NOT GOOGLE “HORSEHAIR WORM VIDEO”

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Not Just for Your Enjoyment …

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Ecdysozoans

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Ecdysozoans

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Clicker

Which of the following would make the most sense to add to the UC Davis Department of Nematology and Entomology?

A: Plants

B: Vertebrates

C: Echinoderms D. Annelids

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Clicker

Which of the following would make the most sense to add to the UC Davis Department of Nematology and Entomology?

A: Plants

B: Vertebrates

C: Echinoderms D. Annelids

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Animal Diversity

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Ecdysozoans

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Nematodes (roundworms)

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Name from Greek: nematos (thread) eidos (form)



Thick, multilayered cuticle



Pharynx, a muscular organ at the anterior end, moves materials through the gut.



Gas and nutrient exchange occurs through the cuticle and the gut wall, which is only one cell thick.



Mouthparts modified for specialized tasks



Brain


• Extremely abundant and universally distributed.

• >25,000 species described.

• Includes scavengers, parasites, predators

• Many are microscopic; the largest is 9 meters long—a parasite in placentas of female sperm whales.

• Reduced musculature and digestive system (pseudocoelom)

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Nematode Features


• Caenorhabitis elegans is used as a model organism in genetics and developmental biology research.

• It is easy to cultivate, matures in three days, and has a fixed number of body cells.

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Nematode Example: C. elegans


Clicker

From an evolutionary point of view, which of the following is the best candidate for a model organism to compare with humans

A. C. elegans (Nematode)

B. Fruit fly (Arthropod)

C. Giant squid (Cephalopod) D. Earthworm (Annelid)

E. All are equally good

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Clicker

From an evolutionary point of view, which of the following is the best candidate for a model organism to compare with humans

A. C. elegans (Nematode)

B. Fruit fly (Arthropod)

C. Giant squid (Cephalopod) D. Earthworm (Annelid)

E. All are equally good

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Animal Diversity

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Triploblasts


• Whatever you do DO NOT - I REPEAT DO NOT- GOOGLE - GIANT NEMATODE SLITHERING DEAD SPIDER

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Root-Knot Nematodes

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• Meloidogynes nematodes infect root systems of plants • The nematodes cause galls where juvenile worms develop


• WARNING THE NEXT FEW SLIDES COULD GROSS PEOPLE OUT

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Nematode Example: Filarial Diseases

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• Caused by several different parasitic nematodes and transmitted by mosquitoes • Infect lymph nodes, which can then get blocked. This leads to edema (swelling) and other problems.


Nematode Example: Filarial Diseases

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HOW CAN WE TREAT THESE DISEASES?

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Humans & Nematodes Much Closer than Humans and Fungi


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http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/video/2014/06/30/treating-river-blindness-and-other-neglected-tropical-diseases

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/video/2014/06/30/treating-river-blindness-and-other-neglected-tropical-diseases


2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine

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But …

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Wolbachia

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http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/ivermectin-nobel-drugs-elephantiasis-filariasis-nematodes-wolbachia/409306/

Ed Yong



The avermectins that Campbell and Ōmura discovered, and especially their most potent member ivermectin, can control the symptoms of these diseases by killing the larval nematodes. But they aren’t cures, because they don’t damage the astonishingly sturdy adults. And since these worms can live for a decade, and can release thousands of new larvae every day, their hosts must resign themselves to years of regular treatments.http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/ivermectin-nobel-drugs-elephantiasis-filariasis-nematodes-wolbachia/409306/



Filarial Nematodes Permanently House Wolbachia

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And unfortunately, this means that killing the worms would make everything much worse, because they’d release all their Wolbachia in their death throes. “You get exploding nodules, and scrotal inflammation,” he told me. “You don’t want that. You want to kill the worms slowly, and it’s hard to think how you’d do that with an anti-nematode drug.”


What Would You Use to Kill Wolbachia?

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Ecdysozoa

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Tardigrades

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Tardigrades (aka water bears)

• Fleshy, unjointed legs

• Use a fluid-filled body cavity as a hydrostatic skeleton

• Extremely small

• No circulatory or gas exchange systems

• Live in marine sands and on water films on plants

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• When water films dry up, tardigrades lose water and shrink to form a dormant state that can last at least a decade.

• Tardigrades have been found at densities as high as 2 million / m^2 of moss.

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Tardigrades


Velvet worm

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Onychophorans (velvet worms)

• Live in leaf litter in the humid tropics

• Thin, flexible cuticle

• Use fluid-filled body cavity as a hydrostatic skeleton

• May look similar to arthropod ancestors

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Figure 32.19 A Trilobite Fossil

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