Contributions The of dorso-ventral improbability axis 29-36 (2002) The Hague evolution, E. Biggelaar¹ Edsinger-Gonzales den van & F.R. Schram³ ¹,², 1 Faculty of Biology, Dept, of Experimental Zoology, Netherlands, tion, sity 701 and e-mail: e-mail: [email protected]; 34949■ FL Seaway Drive, Fort Pierce, Ecosystem Dynamics, University of schram@science. Keywords: amphistomy, uva. axis e-mail: the in as vertebrates, lution from that dorsal, inversion, deuterostomes, noted in in such as same in and ventral. a the result in deuterostomes. in the axis to cells cells moving into what had of of the In of the is while the real attractive events of In been the the Amsterdam, Netherlands, spiral cleavage, protostomes, gastrulation Introduction Basic position. developmental gene 30 Dorso-ventral organization of A the blastopore 32 32 Amphistomy ., broader perspective 34 Acknowledgements 35 References 35 as blasto- annelids or and almost exclusively In 1822, with What dorsal of the and in migration, This is side. hypothesis This a unified postulated formulated the body plan throughout the kingdom. Being animal a vertebrate himself, he that all animals would have vertebrae. In vertebrates, the vertebrae internal, whereas are the part into and in invertebrates the “vertebrae” ternal, in embryo dorsal more embryonic ventral initial blastopore moving were originally dorsal into an cells to a as as for instance in pothesized vertebrae rings. Thus, annelids, antero- were said to be to are arthropods visible as where the ex- resulting from hy- circular cuticular Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire arthropods, and vertebrates could be reduced body plan. However, in contrast to to the the verte- ani- brates, the dorso-ventral axis of annelids and cells crus- move fully explains the conservation of expression patterns initially dorsally specified of coupled part moving not extended and the the Saint-Hilaire Geoffroy uneven embryo, uneven initial anterior- such Introduction same is bent, 29 embryology devel- original antero-posterior embryonic lateral larva is of this while the protostomes, of the of the ofthis developing ventral for Biodiver- move- body plans of protostomes less evenly or the embryonic mal-vegetal position. toa course of evo- morphogenetic the original ventral side spatially posterior axis or deuterostomes, extremely inside position. Because ide deuterostomes, spatial inversion a adult is extended more animal-vegetal s the in deuterostomes However, patterns remains located posteriorly. the Institute blastopore is formed with exactly gastropods, the growth with of inverted during the suggestion ignores differences in in gastrulation limited 1092 AD, 1 the onset ofgastrulation in deuterostomes protostomes posterior axis poie axis have in proposed protostomes, i.e., what a opmental architecture versus first idea, embryonic, antero-posterior/dorso-ventral polarity. Subsequent ment old dorso-ventral is in protostomes its simplicity, the the of has been embryogenesis. During as well [email protected]; Utrecht, Smithsonian Institu- nl the field of developmental genetics resurrection early 19th century, that the such Smithsonian Marine Station, Contents Recent discoveries to 2 Amsterdam, Mauritskade 57, Abstract lead CH University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 ' J.A.M. is animal during (1/3) Publishing bv, presumed by Geoffroy Saint Hilaire as of inversion 71 Zoology, to SPB Academic a shift secondarily ventral po- taceans would have had to be what is the dorsal surface inverted such that in deuterostomes is the ventral in protostomes. sition. The surprising between genes conservation of pattern forming vertebrates and invertebrates has recently revived the discussions of the unity of body plan, including the centuries old idea of dorso-ventral axis inversion Arendt et ah, (Arendt 2001; and Niibler-Jung, Gerhart, 2001). 1997; JAM. 30 Basic embryology In the great majority trical animals, van den Biggelaar etal - Improbable dorso-ventral hemisphere contribute the central etal the of the blastulae polarity. Generally, to the where the pole cells of the animal thelial living, bilaterally have the animal polar an are hemisphere form animal-veg- covering of the future adult (cf. whereas the cells of the ah, 2001), pole way formed. The the Henry opposite be et inside the move in which self is epi- outer and the inversion development of mesoderm. During gastrulation the cells around the vegetal symme- pole corresponds bodies gut tube to the axis gastrulation common assumed embryo. that evolution in the that gastrulation 1 A) into a changed a ing, the blastopore, at the can embryos of the bipolar bipolar gastrula (Fig. it- gastrulation occurs, to almost all animals. Thus, it ancestors of the bilaterians resulted in veg- of the Irrespective a process blastula 1B) with one of (Fig. open- vegetal pole. This blas- topore opening persists and can the formation of the mouth, function either in the anus, or both, or neither. In the at the the Deuterostomata, 1A) and is transformed into Tagawa I. Median Fig. oriented with sections with of gastmlae anterior-posterior doro-ventral axis initiation of from top axis in amphioxus; from left to to bottom. A, that will right become B. advanced the anus. at the dorsal blastopore lip presumptive chorda-mesoderm. (Modified from as 2. be to other hand, the In 3C) anus (Fig. IB) (cf. a In protostomes Blastula in of 32-cell A. stage (Modified in Patella from van den the the anterior mouth open- due to rotation from the posterior near end of the Nelsen, vulgata prior on initially posterior blastopore (Fig. embryo to an anterior-ventral position. One way to achieve this rotation involves indicated mouth secondarily towards the embryo. 2B) eventually becomes the the deuterostomes, formed anterior end of the the 1953). Fig. ah, 2001). opening has are gastrula Note et ing (Fig. position ofneurogenic ectoderm the anad Young gastrula with blastopore formation beginning. posterior blastopore sections blastopore is formed vegetal (posterior) pole of the embryo (Fig. to the Biggelaar, 1977; initiation van den of gastrulation. Biggelaar and A. vegetal view. Guerrier, 1979). B. median-section a com- of same Contributions Fig- 3. ventral of cell view. 2d, which B. plex series of 1997). ages The over dorsal cell and the course the migration Iyy ar|d dorsal 2002 of 24-28 hour trochophore 32-cell deduced stage from A (Damen and Dictus, of cell lin- blastopore gastrulation such that are internalization of an lineages and of the 31 in the position median-section there is spatially replace a corresponding D-quadrant them. The midline line- more lateral A- lineages of the blastopore lip pull migrate dorsally to occupy what had been D-quadrant midline. Fhe specifics eral - post gastrulation, a spatial dynamics C-quadrant away, (1/3) movements midline ages to of has view. C. least in spiralians external 71 Zoology, Schematic drawings progeny at to steps and can of these be v entrally from of the migrations clearly dciivatives of cells their seen 2d grow (Fig. (in part), eternally (Figs. 2B, 3C), involve in Patella original embryo 2b and larva of Patella shown B. (A in Fig. 2, vulgata. has Cell attained and B modified a lineages marked. ventral from Damen sev- (Damen, posteriorly position 3A, C). on the Second, 3a, and 3b move and another part of the position in and 2b lineage 3). Third, the derivatives of the moves Dictus, Note the that the A. larva. 1997). laterally and dorsally (Figs. 2B, macromeres move internally (Figs. 2, 3C). Thus, the ventral midline itself of and spiralians, which separates the stomodeum is anus, age, located quadrant, derived specifically from the 2d lineat the initially midline of the of these movements, tain an anterior the ventral Wilson, 1892; reveals that general cases, blastopore pore the by across 1967; morphogenetic feature of some spiralian migrates to 90 an a As a comes D- result to at- position. Examination of Akesson, this results in tal axis embryonic dorsal, blastopore lip. published cell lineage work 4). First, derivations of cell dorsal side as the Spiralia (cf. Anderson, transformations development. In 1966) are a most bending of the animal-vege- degrees, as the antero-ventral B-quadrant midline. In vegetal blastoposition along embryos of the oligocha- JAM. 32 Tubifex (Penners cte and of the 1999) the cells of the ventral (Stent, also derived from the Dorso-ventral the organization of a bilateral symmetry with mental architecture, antero-posterior, by extension termed 1982) nerve cord are a blastopore gastrulae already tri-axial develop- embryonic dorso-ventral axes, could infer that in the metazoan ground pattern the gastrula also might have had three embryonic This axes. of such opore a onic dorsal, ventral, and a dorsal it has means that lateral two the an as is same It is nelids, the cells of also have Second, stome the MAPK in blastopore the the Third, cells a Brachyury around the annelid blastopore, i.e., in blastopore stomes in both indicates protostomes and the in is animals the dorsal (2001) gene is first have expressed blastopore expression protostomian rostomian vulgata, the macromere strong and homologous the all Platynereis dumerilii. on the a spatial polarity of similarity of deuterostomes. The inversion of of dorso-ventral embryos embryos is in a patterning genes in comparison with deuteresult this of differences in an alterna- openings particular mode of gastrulation, cells on sition. The lateral two openings: the mouth, come an and the “dorsal” the gastrula relocates blastopore lips side of the to aperture a leaving that will become the blastopore de- velops into both anal and mouth openings. is amphistomy an often Nielsen & opore, and the (Arendt and Niibler-Jung, 1997). lips of the blast- formation of the ventral midline the fused lateral lips, as described by Nielsen originated from descriptions an Norrevang, 1985), invoked in molecular considerations The idea of fusion of the lateral ment of an of the onychophoran, early develop- Peripatopsis (Manton, Pontonema (Malakhov, arthropod, Lucilia (Davis, (2002) also assume an 1967). by (2001) annelid, Polygordius (Woltereck, nematode, Such feature of the Trochea integral Theory (Nielsen, 2001; early “ventral” po- opening that will be- posterior Under this scenario, anus. exten- then said to fuse are anterior a of axis inversion deuterostomes and proto- initial In In Brachyury development as of two during gastrulation has not yet been considered (Fig. and is Fig. 2B). Such dorso-ventral discussion, amphistomy of dorsal side of the 3D (cf. early the adult. tive method for the sion of the proto- Lartillot et al. (2002) have demonstrated first expressed note Nelsen, 1953). Amphistomy in Brachyury gene closing that in the mollusc, Patella gene is into 5). involved in Arendt et al. Recently, embryo of the addition, embryo al, 1978). lip and in the elongation of the poste- axis. vegetal as is mesoderm formation in demonstrated that in well 2001), especially evident (Technau, body as expression et pathway of the organizer (Lambert 2001). Nagy, an- lip of the blastopore in both deuterostome embryos, involved rior the dorsal organizer function (Guerrier an signaling and molluscs and as from movements that transform the morphogenetic In the above such (Modified are relevant. First, in protostomes, of gastrulation in the amphibian embryo, of Spemann’s organizer. However that in proto- Several observations true. position organizer, the an sufficiently recognized been the 4. Initiation Fig. embry- “lips.” Spemann’s organizer (Fig. 4). not blast- least in chordates the at blastopore lip functions stomes that creature must have had generally recognized so-called axis inversion Biggelaar- Improbable dorso-ventral Theremyzon here the left-right, one den dorsal cell 2d. originally in most recent animals the Since have 1924; Shimizu, 1922, leeches Helobdella and van 1994), 1904), 1949), and Lartillot et a an al. amphistomous gastrulation in the mollusc Patella. We suggest that the amphis- derives tomy hypothesis mistakenly the protostome Contributions F 'g. 5. to Amphistomy. anterior part v 1 cage to mouth. separate up occurs (1/3) of 2002 - stages to gastrulation 33 of the (Modified stomoproctodeal midline from cell blastopore What lng a 71 sequence into migration leading cntial e A. develops “‘astopore closes, U1 Zoology, in annelid, Polygordius from slit Nielsen, 2001), opens of in annelids? In gastrulation. position at the 4a and 4c grow a ustopore. The lateral micromeres of from posterior aspect Manton, 1949). blastopore closes, only C. have come to will persist opening as note that as in cell means the stages an hourglass. Af- touch each other, the blastopore is effectively divided into The anterior of (Fig. 5A), by which achieves the form of both cells moseleyi, sequence Schierenberg, 1997). towards each other ter of stages of Peripatopsis from blastopore Polygordius, accord- micromeres 4a-4d have that note Caenorhabditis elegans (Modified Woltereck (1904), the four cells of the fourth quartet of sp., sequence anteriorly (Modified lineages forming lips of at the onset B. two openings. becomes the prostoma, which the mouth opening to the separately 34 J.A.M. Wol- developing midgut. Then, curiously enough, tereck states that the explicitly posterior within later 5A). Only amongst appear completely ess does the actual on derivatives with corresponds above for Patella. Instead of and anus, the the velops of blastopore anal 2d. of cell giving ogy the only de- an on an in Peripatopsis. The of study blastopore and out germinal disc from this in the diversification of life. original Manton embryol- develops level of highly disparate genes sog/chordin dcnn 5B). This the neural midline is closed, and or opening appears opening separate, slightly a later during development, mo-proctodeal slit. This in anterior verge turn and fuse leaving dence that these anterior and the an There is no a hard evi- as an that appears example (Schierenberg, prior postero-dorsal to gastrulation the and the D cell a 1973). 1997), C cell has D to the posterior pole ventral lineage sal direction. So, also in position prior an a nematode one can original exclusively dor- gastrulation to move and then continue in antero- observe that cells with at the a moves antero-ventral ly whereas part of the C progeny later can be found and despite potential the ultimate fate of the tostome lineages, a blastopore differences in in different pro- closer examination of mor- phogenesis in protostomes reveals that the ventral midline of the adult is derived from cells with initially dorsal or inversion of the terians can dorso-lateral been used to resur- position. dorsal-ventral axis in adult bila- be attributed to differences in genetic transformation of embryo morpho- to adult. dorso- nerve cords has lead to inversion of axial-de- of as the ventral versus protostomes circular arguments and ancestry homology comparative a con- between dis- parate body plans. caution is we called hypotheses. The expressions on vorced issues of for firmly believe that in considering is a developmental ting edge,” where to radical genes have di- developmental genetics from critical manifestation of the development extreme such proponents of axis inversion based of embryological cell lineage “new work. Perhaps in part phenomenon and modern” research gets carried away in it of the “cut- its in enthusiasm supplant “old and staid” studies of embryology. have inversion Saint-Hilaire: of the mistake repeated much too phases of development attention is Geoffrey paid at the expense of axis of to later ignoring information from the earliest stages of ontogeny. Though an Thus the proto- (Wilkins, 2002), and Whatever the reason, modern proponents ventral side. Collectively, axial patterning protostome-deuterostome a Nevertheless, it posterior position (Fig. 5C). During gastrulation the cerning well-recog- network in gene structures between taxa, such dorsal al., 2000). et now dorsal-ventral axis of genetic network has deuterostomes, take Caenor- we or perspective, the topological versus instance, For (Gauchat, deuterostomes idea of previously presumed inversion of the dpp/bmp-4 versus this neural rect the fining mirrored situation that is stomes in genes patterning the primary adult ventral axis inversion. However, from con- openings correspond with the two happens in nematodes? If What an anterior stomodeal and great number of arthropods (cf. Anderson, habditis sto- elongates along posterior openings of the former blas- topore. This indeed is a anterior posterior axis while the lateral lips posterior proctodeal opening. in more in nized conservation but - a body plans. Within the Bilateria there is the proliferate (Fig. suggested eumetazoans across developmental homologous evidence for the conserved uti- beneath the ectoderm to form the endothen begins to shrink, has to axes homology between otherwise and axes increasing lization of Hox body axis on cells opening, related taxa distantly The body plans. and function of expression Fundamental and evolution of the adult homology between animal unrecognized stage. extensive tery highly divergent adult body plans the Eumetazoa is the great, unsolved mys- across there is happens in the onychophorans? carried (1949) described Polygordius at the blastula inversion perspective The evolution of this is the and the ventral midline is devel- mouth, position What opening rise to mouth oped from derivatives of cell 2d that had dorsal (Fig. This proc- that axis opening short time a Improbable dorso-ventral A broader does not become the anus! Rather, that part of the blastopore opening closes - den Biggelaar van is indeed the conservation of particularly and dissimilarities pretation of these developmental striking, given of bilaterian the genes diversity body plans, inter- expression patterns requires that they be tempered within an operant framework of Contributions to 71 Zoology, (1/3) multiple alternative hypotheses. in attractive to its gards its and simplicity 2002 - 35 while Inversion, compelling in the mosquito possibility. one sericata. Cell lineage studies that suggests of earliest of micromere derivatives alternative as an for dichotomous patterns of Pawlowski and based lineages is developmental genes eses, it will be focused few animals, absolutely on to necessary hypoththe expand comprehensive more of fewer even alternative evaluating of of expression patterns has base with knowledge nomic In knowledge our relatively on examination of our as gene J anterior Gerhart expression. J. 2000. 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