Towards understanding the origin of animal development

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Almost all animals undergo embryonic development, going from a single-celled zygote to a complex multicellular adult. We know that the patterning and morphogenetic processes involved in development are deeply conserved within the animal kingdom. However, the origins of these developmental processes are just beginning to be unveiled. Here, we focus on how the protist lineages sister to animals are reshaping our view of animal development. Most intriguingly, many of these protistan lineages display transient multicellular structures, which are governed by similar morphogenetic and gene regulatory processes as animal development. We discuss here two potential alternative scenarios to explain the origin of animal embryonic development: either it originated concomitantly at the onset of animals or it evolved from morphogenetic processes already present in their unicellular ancestors. We propose that an integrative study of several unicellular taxa closely related to animals will allow a more refined picture of how the last common ancestor of animals underwent embryonic development.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:147

Enthalten in:

Development (Cambridge, England) - 147(2020), 23 vom: 03. Dez.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ruiz-Trillo, Iñaki [VerfasserIn]
de Mendoza, Alex [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Choanoflagellates
Evolution
Filasterea
Ichthyosporea
Journal Article
Multicellularity
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 26.01.2021

Date Revised 26.01.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1242/dev.192575

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318389681