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DEUTEROSTOMES
- not as numerous as protostomes but act as key predators and herbivores in most marine and terrestrial habitats
- similar embryonic development
- Adult body plans, feeding, movement, and reproduction are highly diverse
Four Phyla
- Echinodermata
- Hemichordata
- Xenoturbellida
- Chordata
ECHINODERMS
"Spiny-skins"
- spines or spikes
- larvae are bilaterally symmetric, but adults are radially symmetric
- water vascular system: series of branching, fluid-filled tubes that constitute a hydrostatic skeleton
- endoskeleton
- fluid-filled tubed feet
- podia: extended sections of tube feet that project outside body and facilitate movement
CHORDATES
4 morphological features
1. Pharyngeal Gill Slits
2. Notochord
3. Dorsal, Hollow Nerve Cord
4. Muscular Post-Anal Tail
Chordates
Pharyngeal Gill Slits
openings to throat
Chordates

Nerve Cord
- dorsal and hollow
- bundle of nerve cells
Chordates

Notochord
- supportive but flexible rod that runs next to nerve cord
Chordates

3 SUBPHYLA
1. Urochordates
2. Cephalochordates
3. Vertebrates
Chordates

UROCHORDATES
(Tunicates)
- pharyngeal gill slits in larvae and adults
- tail, nerve cord, and notochord only present in larvae
Chordates

CEPHALOCHORDATES
(lancelets)
Small, mobile suspension feeders that lok like fish
Chordates

VERTEBRATES
- Nerve cord turns into spinal cord
- Pharyngeal pouches present in embryos develop into gills for marine animals but not terrestrial
- vertebrae and cranium
Vertebrae
cartilaginous or bony structures that form a column along dorsal side of most species, protecting the spinal cord
Crandium
skul, a bony, cartilaginous, or fibrous case that encloses and protects the brain
Brain
-allowed coordinated movements of vertebrates
1. forebrain → smell
2. midbrain → vision
3. hindbrain → balance and hearing
Cartilage
stiff tissue that consists of scattered cells in a gel-like matrix of polysaccs and protein fibers
Vertebrate Fossil Record
- bone: exoskeleton enveloping body
- jaws: first bony fishes
- tetrapod: appearnce of animals with limbs
- amniotic eggs: first animals with amniotic eggs appeared 20 million years after emergence of tetrapods
Diversification

FEEDING
- Suspension feeders, deposit feeders, mass feeders
- Podia in echinoderms play key role
- Evolution of the Jaw
Feeding

JAW
- allowed mass feeding
- origin: mutation and natural selection modified GILL ARCHES, curved regions in tissue below the gills
- PHARYNGEAL JAW located in mack of mouth making food processing effecient
Diversification

MOVEMENT
- fin-to-limb evolution
- limbs evolution allowed tetrapods to move on land in search of food
- echinoderms: water vascular system
- wings and ability to fly evolved independently for insects, pterosaurs, and birds
Diversification

REPRODUCTION
- tetrapods were the first vertebrates that could reproduce on land
- major evolutionary innovations:
1. amniotic egg
2. placenta
3. elaborate parental care
Reproduction

AMNIOTIC EGG
- water tight shell
- amnion: protective inner membrane
- yolk sac: nutrition
- allantois: waste
- chorion: gass exchange between yolk and albumen
- albumen: protein-rich solution with membrane-bound supply of water
Reproduction

PLACENTA
- organ in Viviparous mammals
- rich in blood vessels
- facilitate flow of oxygen and nutrients from mom to embryo
- Outer→Inner:
Placenta, Chorion, Amnion, Allantois, Yolk Sac
Reproduction

PARENTAL CARE
- encompasses any action by parent that improves ability of offspring to survive
- mammals provide the most
- mammals lactate
- placental mammals invest the most energy and time in offspring
Key Lineages

ECHINODERMATA
- water vascular system with tube feet
- endoskeleton
- radially symmetric adult with bilaterally symmetric larva
- 5 major lineages:
1. feather stars and sea lilies
2. sea stars
3. sea urchins and sand dollars
4. brittle and basket stars
5. sea cucumbers
Echinodermata

ASTEROIDEA
(Sea Stars)
- bodies with 5 or more long arms radiating from center

FEEDING
- center contains mouth, stomach, anus
- predators or scavengers

REPRODUCTION: separate sexes →sexual reproduction
Echinodermata

ECHINOIDEA
(Sea Urchins and Sand Dollars)
FEEDING
- Sea Urchins are herbivores, Sand Dollars use mucus covered podia to collect food particles in sand
- mouthpart with 5 CaCO3 teeth

REPRODUCTION separate sexes→sexual reproduction
Key Lineages

CHORDATA
- at some stage, must have: notochord, dorsal and hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal gill slits, post-anal tail
- 3 subphyla:
1. urochordates
2. cephalochordates
3. craniates and vertebrates
- All vertebrates are craniates, but not all craniates are vertebrates (hagfish and lampreys)
Chordata

UROCHORDATA
(tunicates)
- all found in ocean
- tunic: exoskeleton-like coat made of polysaccharides

FEEDING: suspension feeders
- u-shaped gut
- two siphons

MOVEMENT
- adult: sessile or float
- larva: swim with support of notochord

REPRODUCTION:
- asexual or sexual
- internal or external fertilization
- most produce sperm and eggs
Chordata

CEPHALOCORDATA
(lancelets)
- Marine sands
- look like fish but a blend between vertebrates and invertebrates

FEEDING: suspension feeders

MOVEMENT: notochord functions as endoskeleton and aids in movement

REPRODUCTION: separate sexes →sexual
Chordata

CRANIATA
(hagfish and lamprey)
- lack jaws but have crania
- lampreys undergo metamorphosis

FEEDING hagfish are predators, lamprey are ectoparasites

MOVEMENT hagfish have vertebral column, lamprey have a cartilage pieces along dorsal hollow nerve cord
Chordata

VERTEBRATA
- Chondricthyes
- Actinopterygii
- Coelacanths and Lungfish
- Amphibia
- Mammalia
- Reptilia
Vertebrata

CHONDRICTHYES
(sharks, rays, skates)
- cartilaginous skeleton
- jaws
- paired fins
- fresh water and mostly marine

FEEDING
- mostly predators, some suspension feeders

REPRODUCTION
- internal fertilization
- some are viviparous, some are oviparous
Vertebrata

ACTINOPTERYGII
(ray-finned fishes)
- long body rods support fins arranged in a ray pattern
- 96% of fish species are teleosts (most important lineage)
- oldest vertebrates with bony skeleton

MOVEMENT: swim bladder filled with gas to avoid sinking

FEEDING: most important herbivores, predators
Vertebrata

COELECANTHS AND LUNGFISH
(lobe-finned fishes)
- only 8 species alive
- important link between ray-finned fishes and tetrapods
- fleshy lob-shaped fins supported by linear arrangement of bones and muscles
- lungfish have lungs and can survive if water dries out
Vertebrata

AMPHIBIA
(frogs, salamanders, caecilians)
- most ancient tetrapods
- ponds, lakes, moist land
- gas exchange over some or all of moist, mucus-covered skin

FEEDING: carnivores on land

REPRODUCTION: must lay eggs in water
Vertebrata

MAMMALIA
(mammals)
- endoterms
- hair or fur
- mammary glands
- 3 subclasses:
1. Monotremata
2. Marsupiala
3. Eutheria
Mammalia

MONOTREMATA
(Platypuses and echidnas)
- most ancient group of mammals
- lay eggs and have lower metabolic rates
- platypuses feed on small animals in streams
- echidnas feed on ants, termites, earthworms on land
Mammalia

MARSUPIALA
(marsupials)
- females have placenta but young are bron poorly developed after short embryonic period
- young continue to develop attacted to mother's nipple until large enough to move independently
- convergent evolution in separate species
Mammalia

EUTHERIA
(placental mammals)
- 18 lineages (orders)
- size and shape of teeth and digestive tract correlate closely with diet
- internal fertilization and viviparous
Mammalia

REPTILIA
(turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodiles, birds)
-monophyetic group
- amniotes
- number and placement of openings in side of skull
- scales and well-developed lungs
- 4 major lineages:
1. turtles
2. lizards and snakes
3. crocodilesa nd alligators
4. birds
Reptilia

TETSUDINIA
(turtles, tortoises)
- shell composed of bony plates
- lack teeth but jawbone and lower skull for a bony beak
- carnivorous or herbivorous
- oviparous
Reptilia

LEPIDOSAURIA
(lizards, snakes)
- elongated bodies and scaly skin
- lizards: small are predators and large are herbivorous
- snakes: carnivores and poisonous fnags
- most lay eggs, some ovoviviparous
Reptilia

CROCODILIA
(crocodiles and alligators)
- sit and wait predators: eyes and nose above head→semi-submerged
- oviparous
Reptilia

AVES
(birds)
- feathers
- only endoderms in Reptilia
- omnivorous and predators
- oviparous
Key Lineages

THE HOMININ RADIATION
- Primates
1. prosimians ("before monkeys")
2. anthropoids ("humanlike")
- Hominids: Great apes
Hominin

AUSTRALOPITHECUS
4 species of small apes
Hominin

PARANTHROPUS
bipedal robust apes
Hominin

HOMO HABILIS
(early homo)
toolmaking
Hominin

HOMO SAPIENS
(homo-humans)
- Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals
- create art and bury dead in organized manner
- language and tool use -natural selection → large brains