Dexiothetism

Dexiothetism refers to a reorganisation of a clade's bauplan, with right becoming ventral and left becoming dorsal. The organism would then recruit a new left hand side.

Details

If a bilaterally symmetrical ancestor were to become affixed by its right hand side, it would occlude all features on that side. When evolutionary pressures again favored bilateral symmetry, the new left and right hand sides would be derived from the features remaining from the original left hand side. The end result is a bilaterally symmetrical animal, but with its dorsoventral axis rotated a quarter of a turn.[1]

Implications

Dexiothetism has been implicated in the origin of the unusual embryology of the cephalochordate amphioxus, whereby its gill slits originate on the left hand side and the migrate to the right hand side.[2]

In Jefferies' calcichordate hypothesis, he supposes that all chordates and their mitrate ancestors are dexiothetic.[1]

More recently, dexiothetism has been cited outside of the calcichordate theory in a proposed evolutionary history of echinoderms.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Gee, Henry (1996). "Jefferies' Calcichordate Theory". Before the backbone: views on the origin of the vertebrates. London: Chapman & Hall.
  2. ^ Jefferies, R. P. S.; Brown, Nigel A.; Daley, Paul E. J. "The Early Phylogeny of Chordates and Echinoderms and the Origin of Chordate Left-Right Asymmetry and Bilateral Symmetry". Acta Zoologica. 77 (2): 101–122.
  3. ^ Ezhova, O. V.; Malakhov, V. V. (2022). "Origin of Echinodermata". Paleontological Journal. 56 (8): 938–973. Bibcode:2022PalJ...56..938E. doi:10.1134/S0031030122080020. (Note citations of Jeffries on pages 962–963)

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