DNA-based phylogeny of the marine genus <i>Heterodrilus</i>
 (Annelida, Clitellata, Naididae)

Mejlon, Erica; Wit, Pierre De; Matamoros, Lisa; Erséus, Christer

doi:10.1111/jzs.12092

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“…; Mejlon et al. ). Sets of species for which no prior phylogenetic data were available, or which presented no significant internal variation in regenerative and fission abilities and thus would not influence ancestral trait estimations, were assigned to polytomies in the tree.…”

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Phylogenetic distribution of regeneration and asexual reproduction in Annelida: regeneration is ancestral and fission evolves in regenerative clades

Zattara

Bely

2016

Invertebrate Biology

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Abstract. Regeneration, the ability to replace lost body structures, and agametic asexual reproduction, such as fission and budding, are post-embryonic developmental capabilities widely distributed yet highly variable across animals. Regeneration capabilities vary dramatically both within and across phyla, but the evolution of regeneration ability has rarely been reconstructed in an explicitly phylogenetic context. Agametic reproduction appears strongly associated with high regenerative abilities, and there are also extensive developmental similarities between these two processes, suggesting that the two are evolutionarily related. However, the directionality leading to this relationship remains unclear: while it has been proposed that regeneration precedes asexual reproduction, the reverse hypothesis has also been put forward. Here, we use phylogenetically explicit methods to reconstruct broad patterns of regeneration evolution and formally test these hypotheses about the evolution of fission in the phylum Annelida (segmented worms). We compiled from the literature a large dataset of information on anterior regeneration, posterior regeneration, and fission abilities for 401 species and mapped this information onto a phylogenetic tree based on recent molecular studies. We used Markovian maximum likelihood and Bayesian MCMC methods to evaluate different models for the evolution of regeneration and fission and to estimate the likelihood of each of these traits being present at each node of the tree. Our results strongly support anterior and posterior regeneration ability being present at the basal node of the annelid tree and being lost 18 and 5 times, respectively, but never regained. By contrast, the ability to fission is reconstructed as being absent at the basal node and being gained at least 19 times, with several possible losses. Models assuming independent evolution of regeneration and fission yield significantly lower likelihoods. Our findings suggest that anterior and posterior regeneration are ancestral for Annelida and are consistent with the hypothesis that regenerative ability is required to evolve fission.

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Phylogenetic distribution of regeneration and asexual reproduction in Annelida: regeneration is ancestral and fission evolves in regenerative clades

Zattara

Bely

2016

Invertebrate Biology

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Phylogenomic analyses reveal a Palaeozoic radiation and support a freshwater origin for clitellate annelids

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Clitellata is a major clade of Annelida comprising nearly all freshwater and terrestrial annelids as well as several marine species. We investigated clitellate phylogenetic relationships using transcriptomes sampled from 74 taxa (64 clitellates and 10 polychaetes), including multiple representatives of nearly all major clitellate higher taxa (Branchiobdellida, Capilloventridae, Crassiclitellata, Enchytraeidae, Haplotaxidae, Hirudinida, Lumbriculida, Moniligastridae, Naididae, Parvidrilidae, Phreodrilidae, Propappidae and Randiellidae). We used a number of filtered data matrices and phylogenetic analyses to examine the effects of data partitioning, missing data and compositional and branch‐length heterogeneity and used the resulting phylogenies for divergence time estimation and ancestral habitat reconstructions. All analyses and filtering methods produced a consistent, strongly supported topology in which (a) Enchytraeidae, Hirudinida, Hirudinea (here, Branchiobdellida plus Hirudinida), Lumbriculida, Lumbriculata (Lumbriculida plus Hirudinea), Phreodrilidae and Naididae are monophyletic, (b) a Parvidrilidae + Randiellidae clade is sister to the rest of Clitellata, (c) Phreodrilidae is sister to Naididae, (d) Haplotaxidae is non‐monophyletic, with some haplotaxids grouping with Crassiclitellata + Moniligastridae, (e) the Phreodrilidae + Naididae clade is sister to all other clitellates except Parvidrilidae + Randiellidae and Capilloventridae, and (f) Lumbriculata is sister to the Crassiclitellata + Moniligastridae + Haplotaxidae (in part) clade. Ancestral habitat reconstructions and divergence time analysis suggested that the most recent common ancestor of Clitellata lived in freshwater during the Devonian (419–359 million years ago) and that all major extant clitellate lineages arose over the next ~150 million years, with multiple lineages subsequently returning to marine habitats or invading land. This study provides a phylogenetic framework for further investigation of the geological, environmental and biotic forces and genomic changes that may have impacted clitellate evolution and enabled several major habitat transitions within this group.

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First Record of Ophidonais serpentina (Müller, 1773) (Oligochaeta: Naididae) in China: The Occurrence or Absence of Needles Are Intraspecific Differences

Zhou

Wang

et al. 2022

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A naidid oligochaete, Ophidonais serpentina (Müller, 1773) is redescribed based on specimens from the Xinkai River in Zhejiang Province, China. O. serpentina is very common in Europe and America. This study is the first record of the species in China. By integrating the previously morphological descriptions related to O. serpentina in the world, it can be divided into three morphological groups: a group with dorsal chaetae starting from VI, a group without dorsal chaetae, and a group with an unstable starting position of the dorsal chaetae. By comparing the mitochondrial DNA (16S rDNA, COI), nuclear DNA (ITS2), and histones (H3) from the three groups, Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses were performed based on the combined data set. Different analyses gave almost consistent phylogenetic trees. All of the genetic distances between the three groups were 0.00%. No genetic variation can be detected between the specimens regardless of the presence and starting position of dorsal chaetae. This result suggests that a single lineage of O. serpentina is widespread worldwide.

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DNA-based phylogeny of the marine genus Heterodrilus (Annelida, Clitellata, Naididae)

Cited by 4 publications

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Phylogenetic distribution of regeneration and asexual reproduction in Annelida: regeneration is ancestral and fission evolves in regenerative clades

Phylogenetic distribution of regeneration and asexual reproduction in Annelida: regeneration is ancestral and fission evolves in regenerative clades

Phylogenomic analyses reveal a Palaeozoic radiation and support a freshwater origin for clitellate annelids

First Record of Ophidonais serpentina (Müller, 1773) (Oligochaeta: Naididae) in China: The Occurrence or Absence of Needles Are Intraspecific Differences

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