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Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China)
The exceptional fossil preservation of the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota provides a unique window on the interval of Earth history in which animal lineages emerged. It preserves a diversity of similarly ornamented encysted developmental stages previously interpreted as different developmental stages...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7292632/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32582859 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb0083 |
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author | Yin, Zongjun Sun, Weichen Liu, Pengju Zhu, Maoyan Donoghue, Philip C. J. |
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description | The exceptional fossil preservation of the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota provides a unique window on the interval of Earth history in which animal lineages emerged. It preserves a diversity of similarly ornamented encysted developmental stages previously interpreted as different developmental stages of one taxon. Although Helicoforamina wenganica is distinguished from other forms by a helical groove or canal, it has been interpreted as a developmental stage of cooccurring metazoan, nonmetazoan holozoan, or green algal taxa. Using x-ray microtomography, we show that Helicoforamina developed through one-, four-, and eight-cell stages, to hundreds and thousands of cells. Putative hatchlings are artifacts of incompletely preserved cyst walls. Our results preclude inclusion of Helicoforamina into life cycles assembled from other components of the Weng’an biota but support a holozoan affinity. The similarly ornamented encysted forms shared among the diverse Weng’an biota represent parallel adaptations to the temporally and spatially heterogeneous Ediacaran shallow marine environments. |
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spelling | pubmed-72926322020-06-23 Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) Yin, Zongjun Sun, Weichen Liu, Pengju Zhu, Maoyan Donoghue, Philip C. J. Sci Adv Research Articles The exceptional fossil preservation of the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota provides a unique window on the interval of Earth history in which animal lineages emerged. It preserves a diversity of similarly ornamented encysted developmental stages previously interpreted as different developmental stages of one taxon. Although Helicoforamina wenganica is distinguished from other forms by a helical groove or canal, it has been interpreted as a developmental stage of cooccurring metazoan, nonmetazoan holozoan, or green algal taxa. Using x-ray microtomography, we show that Helicoforamina developed through one-, four-, and eight-cell stages, to hundreds and thousands of cells. Putative hatchlings are artifacts of incompletely preserved cyst walls. Our results preclude inclusion of Helicoforamina into life cycles assembled from other components of the Weng’an biota but support a holozoan affinity. The similarly ornamented encysted forms shared among the diverse Weng’an biota represent parallel adaptations to the temporally and spatially heterogeneous Ediacaran shallow marine environments. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7292632/ /pubmed/32582859 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb0083 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Yin, Zongjun Sun, Weichen Liu, Pengju Zhu, Maoyan Donoghue, Philip C. J. Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) |
title | Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) |
title_full | Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) |
title_fullStr | Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) |
title_full_unstemmed | Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) |
title_short | Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) |
title_sort | developmental biology of helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early ediacaran weng’an biota (doushantuo formation, south china) |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7292632/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32582859 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb0083 |
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