The divergence between amphibians and amniotes, based on a large data set of proteins 81, amino acids , approached the maximum constraint of MYA. When this maximum constraint was removed, the divergence time was estimated at — MYA.
A total of shared proteins , amino acids were recovered from the complete genomes of a limited number of vertebrates and were used to estimate divergence times see also Supplementary Fig.
The recent completion of the chicken genome sequence allowed for its use as a minimum fossil constraint MYA , and the divergence time between birds and mammals was estimated at — MYA. For comparison, multigene global clock analyses were also performed. The use of multiple fossil constraints may explain why those times estimated with a Bayesian local clock methods were younger than those estimated with a single global evolutionary rate.
The presence of fossil urochordates Chen et al. What explains the apparent Myr gap in the deuterostome fossil record? Stem lineages could have originated and persisted for long periods of time before the diversification of modern groups Hedges Also, recent geochemical studies have suggested that major shifts in seawater ion concentration, particularly an increase in calcium, occurred approximately MYA Brennan, Lowenstein, and Horita The increased availability of calcium may have spurned the evolution of biocalcification in different animal lineages that had originated much earlier.
As many as three major glacial cycles have been suggested between approximately and MYA see Hoffmann et al. In contrast, the extent of glaciation into the tropics has been questioned by simulation studies Hyde et al. If large areas of open water existed during the Neoproterozoic, long periods of glaciation, even as long as 12 Myr Bodiselitsch et al.
Many eukaryotic lineages certainly must have survived major changes in global climate, and fossil evidence has suggested that complex microbiota may have even flourished in some areas during Snowball Earth times Corsetti, Awramik, and Pierce Here we have addressed some specific phylogenetic questions within deuterostomes and estimated a molecular timescale for the divergences among major lineages.
We have shown that the traditional basal placement of urochordates observed in previous molecular studies may be an artifact of long-branch attraction. The finding of a close relationship between urochordates and vertebrates suggests that some interpretations of morphological evolution among chordates require reevaluation.
Our results also support the pairing of echinoderms with hemichordates as Ambulacraria, corroborating morphological interpretations of larval similarities between these two groups.
Within vertebrates, lampreys and hagfish were confirmed to be closely related Cyclostomata and the closest relatives of gnathostomes. Our analyses suggest that the coelacanth and lungfish form a group that is the closest living relative of tetrapods and that cartilaginous fish are the most basal gnathostomes. Both of these results, however, did not receive unambiguous support and will require further analysis with larger molecular data sets.
Our Bayesian timescale suggests that deuterostomes originated in the Proterozoic and that the major lineages had diverged prior to global glaciation events and the Cambrian Explosion of fossils. By establishing well-supported phylogenies and evolutionary timescales, the interplay between geological events and biological innovations can be examined. We thank David Geiser and two anonymous reviewers for critically reading an earlier version of this manuscript.
We also thank Fabia Battistuzzi and Jennifer Sander for assistance with data collection. This work was supported by grants to S. Adams, M. Celniker, R. Holt et al. The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster. Science : — Ahlberg, P.
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While the scenario woven concerning the function and dynamics of the pores in feeding is internally consistent with the observed morphology, this does not necessarily make it the only or even the most likely interpretation.
Comparative anatomy of living deuterostomes suggests that pharyngeal gill slits first evolved to cope with excess water intake associated with ciliary-driven feeding [ 4 ]. The proposed feeding mechanism of active pumping in vetulicolians is distinctly different from that in all other deuterostomes except tunicates and hinges partially on observation that there are fine tissue strands internally rung longitudinally and vertically that are interpreted as muscle fibers, but which could just as easily be pharyngeal mesh.
Unfortunately there is no current way of determining the kind of soft tissue from the nature of the faint dark stains in the rock. While Ou et al. Speculation of course has its place, but, as paleontologists before have found to their cost, detailed scenarios can easily build to become a house of cards. The second deduction made, that vetulicolians are stem group deuterostomes, is an even bolder claim as it carries far-reaching implications.
If Ou et al. But can we be sure that vetulicolians are stem group deuterostomes? Here we run into the problem of the phylogenetic resolution that can be achieved by reference to adult morphology alone. Until very recently relationships amongst the five major deuterostome phyla had proved impossible to resolve because adult morphological traits informative about basal deuterostome relationships simply do not exist, and even those from embryology are few [ 5 ]. Indeed, it was only with the advent of molecular data that satisfactory phylogenetic resolution of the deuterostome phyla was finally achieved.
To be identifiable as a member of the stem group of deuterostomes a fossil would have to show some but not all of the crown group synapomorphies Figure 1a. There remains a considerable degree of uncertainty about what characters the latest common ancestor to all deuterostomes would have displayed [ 5 ]. However, one generally accepted model is that the latest common ancestor of deuterostomes was a worm-like creature with pharyngeal gill slits, a terminal anus, a simple nerve plexus without regionalization, and well-developed circular and longitudinal muscles [ 6 ].
Vetulicolians apparently have pharyngeal gill slits, a terminal anus and possibly longitudinal and circular body wall musculature but other key aspects of their anatomy and embryology remain unknown. So the best we can say is that they belong to the total group Deuterostomia and lack clear synapomorphies with any crown phylum. An inability to find derived characters shared with any crown group deuterostome is insufficient argument to place them as stem group deuterostomes - it is even possible that they could be an early, extinct side-branch of one of the major deuterostome phyla.
When first described [ 7 ], a possible endostyle was identified in vetulicolians though the evidence for this is tenuous at best , which would place them on the chordate branch of deuterostomes.
As morphological data do not support the molecular tree Figure 1c , resolving the position of primitive fossil deuterostomes is fraught with difficulties. For example, the earliest echinoderms are believed to be bilaterally symmetrical with pharyngeal filtration feeding and gill slits [ 8 ], but we stand no chance of recognizing them as such until the first crown group synapomorphy - their calcitic skeleton of stereom - had evolved.
The ability to produce vast numbers of synchronously developing embryos using methods that are best developed with sea urchins facilitates a wide variety of biochemical and molecular biological approaches, from protein purification to complementary DNA cDNA library construction.
Genomic resources are being developed from a variety of these organisms because of the utility of invertebrate deuterostomes for developmental analysis and their close phylogenetic relationship to vertebrates.
The draft genomic sequences of two invertebrate deuterostomes, the related ascidians C. A useful feature of invertebrate deuterostome genomes is that many genes appear to be present in single copies that are found in multiple copies in vertebrate genomes. As a result, it seems that worm-like hemichordates are the best model for the ancestors of the next group, the chordates, rather than other hemichordates and echinoderms which have modified their ancestral worm-like body plan.
If echinoderms evolved from basal hemichordates, the presence of echinoderms in the Ediacaran fauna indicates that hemichordates must have existed before the Cambrian as well Cameron, Yunnanozoon lividum 3 cm is known from the Chengjiang fauna of China mya.
Although it was first classified as a chordate, some feel that a notochord is not present and it should be classified as a hemichordate based on its body structure proboscis, collar, and a trunk composed of gill and digestive regions , pharynx, branchial arches, and gonads. It may have had segmented muscles homologous to chordates Chen, ; Shu , Shankouclava , an early tunicate, is known from the Early Cambrian of China Chen, Other fossil urochordates are known from the Ordovician and another unclassified fossil may date from the Siluran Long, The Ediacaran fossil Ausia has been classified as a urochordate Xiao, Tunicates are classified as urochordates, the most primitive living chordates.
Even though their adults are seemingly unrelated to higher chordates, their larvae pictured in the following images possess a notochord. Deuterostomes There are two groups of coelomate animals: protostomes and deuterostomes. These groups include: eocrinoids: stalked animals which evolved in the early Cambrian and were the most diverse echinoderms of the Cambrian and became extinct in the Siluran. Below are images and fossils of extinct echinoderms Interestingly, when two species of modern sea urchin were hybridized, the larvae resembled the larvae of starfish and of Paleozoic fossils rather than the larvae of sea urchins Copley,
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