The serial transformation hypothesis of vertebrate origins: Comment on "The New Head Hypothesis Revisited"

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 306, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 419-424

  Butler, Ann B ^a,b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EVOLUTION; EYE; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; EYE; FOSSILS; HEAD; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33749255618     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21108     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Butler AB. 2000a. Chordate evolution and the origin of craniates: an old brain in a new head. Anat Rec (New Anat) 261:111-125.
2. Butler AB. 2000b. Sensory system evolution at the origin of craniates. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B 355:1309-1313.
3. Butler AB. 2003. Sensory systems and brain evolution across the Bilateria: commonalities and constraints. In: Collin SP, Marshall NJ, editors. Sensory processing in aquatic environments. New York: Springer-Verlag. p 375-388.
4. Butler AB, Hodos W. 2005. Comparative vertebrate neuroanatomy: evolution and adaptation. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Liss.
5. Eldredge N, Gould SJ. 1972. Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. In: Schopf TJM, editor. Models in Paleobiology. San Francisco: Freeman, Cooper and Co. p 82-115.
6. Furlong RF, Holland PWH. 2002. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis supports monophyly of Ambulacraria and of cyclostomes. Zool Sci 19:593-599.
7. Gans C. 1989. Stages in the origin of vertebrates: analysis by means of scenarios. Biol Rev 64:221-268.
8. Gans C. 1993. Evolutionary origin of the vertebrate skull. In: Hanken J, Hall BK, editors. The skull, Vol. 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p 1-35.
9. Gans C, Northcutt RG. 1983. Neural crest and the origin of vertebrates: a new head. Science 220:268-274.
10. Holland ND, Panganiban G, Henyey EL, Holland LZ. 1996. Sequence and developmental expression of AmphiDll, an amphioxus Distal-less gene transcribed in the ectoderm, epidermis and nervous system: insights into evolution of craniate forebrain and neural crest. Development 122:2911-2920.
11. Jeffery WR, Strickler AG, Yamamoto Y. 2004. Migratory neural crest-like cells form body pigmentation in a urochordate embryo. Nature 431:696-699.
12. Lacalli TC. 1996a. Frontal eye circuitry, rostral sensory pathways and brain organization in amphioxus larvae: evidence from 3D reconstructions. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B 351:243-263.
13. Lacalli TC. 1996b. Landmarks and subdomains in the larval brain of Branchiostoma: vertebrate homologs and invertebrate antecedents. Israel J Zool 42:S-131-S-146.
14. Lacalli TC, Kelly SJ. 2000. The infundibular balance organ in amphioxus larvae and related aspects of cerebral vesicle organization. Acta Zool 81:37-48.
15. Lacalli TC, Holland ND, West JE. 1994. Landmarks in the anterior central nervous system of amphioxus larvae. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B 344:165-185.
16. Mallatt J. 1996. Ventilation and the origin of jawed vertebrates: a new mouth. Zool J Linnean Soc 117:329-404.
17. Mallatt J, Chen J-y. 2003. Fossil sister group of craniates: predicted and found. J Morph 258:1-31.
18. Mallatt J, Chen J-y, Holland ND. 2003. Comment on "A new species of yunnanozoan with implications for deuterostome evolution. Science 300:1372.
19. Noden DM. 1983. The embryonic origins of avian cephalic and cervical muscles and associated connective tissues. Am J Anat 168:257-276.
20. Northcutt RG. 1996. The origin of craniates: neural crest, neurogenic placodes and homeobox genes. Israel J Zool 42:S273-S313.
21. Northcutt RG. 2005. The New Head Hypothesis revisited. J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol) 304B:274-297.
22. Northcutt RG, Gans C. 1983. The genesis of neural crest and epidermal placodes: a reinterpretation of vertebrate origins. Quart Rev Biol 58:1-28.
23. Shu D, Morris SC, Zhang ZF, Liu JN, Han J, Chen L, Zhang XL, Yasui K, Li Y. 2003 A new species of yunnanozoan with implications for deuterostome evolution. Science 299:1380-1384.
24. Williams NA, Holland PWH. 1996. Old head on young shoulders. Nature 383:490.