Week 9 zoology Flashcards
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pseudocoelom
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body cavity filled with fluid in between the mesoderm layer of the external body wall and the endoderm layer of the gut in invertebrates. The mesodermal tissues do not line completely
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Phylum Rotifera
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- Triploblastic
- Pseudocoelomate
- Bilaterally symmetrical
- Unsegmented
- Small
- Protonephridia
- Eutely
- Through gut
- Lack cuticle
- Trophi and mastax
- Wheel organ
- Toes with pedal glands (temporary adhesion)
- Parthenogenesis
- No spiral cleavage
-Cryptobiosis
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Eutely
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Lack of mitosis upon completion of embryonic development
4
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Trophi
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jaws
5
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Wheel organ
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one or two corona of cilia used for locomotion and feeding
6
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Mastax
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pharynx
7
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Classes within Rotifera
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- Class Bdelloidea
- Class Monogononta
- Class Seisonidea
- Class Acanthocephala
8
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Rotifera Developmental Polymorphism
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- Summer: females of monogonont rotifers reproduce asexually, produces amictic ova (diploid) through mitosis
-Fall: amictic ova develop into mictic females, which produce mictic ova (haploid) through meiosis - Males are reduced and infrequent in comparison to females
9
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Cryptobiosis
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- During dry spells, bdelloid rotifers will aggregate and form tuns
- These stages can persist for years without water and will become active when water is reintroduced
- Some rotifers can survive extreme cold
10
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Tuns
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small dormant cysts formed by aggregate rotifers
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Class Acanthocephala
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- Gut parasites
- Medium sized
- Pseudocoelomate
- Bilaterally symmetrical
- Protonephridia and gut and wheel organ ABSENT
- Body divided (hook-bearing proboscis), neck and trunk
-Lack of cuticle
-Eutely
_ Gonochoristic (dioecious) - Acanthor larva
- Life cycles involve several hosts
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Phylum Gnathostomulida
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- Triploblastic
- Acoelomate
- Bilaterally symmetrical
- Unsegmented
- Worm-like, small
- monociliated epidermal cells
- Protonephridia
- Mouth and through gut
- Eyes absent, sensory ciliary pits at head
- predatory
- Spiral cleavage? (only one case reported)
- Direct development
-Hermaphroditic
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Phylum Micrognathozoa
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- One species
- Small
- Triploblastic
- Acoelomate
- Bilaterally symmetrical
- Body divided (head, thorax, abdomen)
- Temporary anus
- Numerous sensoria and ciliary structures
- Eyes
- Protonephridia
- Complex jaws
14
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Micrognathozoa life history/biology
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- Limnic, lives on mosses
- Selective microphagus
- Parthenogenetic or protandrous hermaphrodites ? No males found yet
- Two egg types, cleavage unknown
- Direct development
- Only found in Arctic/sub-Antarctic regions
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Problems for phylogenetic analysis of spiralian relationships
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- Missing data (genes)
- Missing terminals (phyla)
- Uneven representation of taxa (basal branching points not sampled)