The diverse morphogenetic patterns in spirotrichs and philasterids: Researches based on five-year-projects supported by IRCN-BC and NSFC

Xumiao Chen; Xiaoteng Lu; Xiaotian Luo; Jiamei Jiang; Chen Shao; Khaled A S Al-Rasheid; Alan Warren; Weibo Song

doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2017.05.003

The diverse morphogenetic patterns in spirotrichs and philasterids: Researches based on five-year-projects supported by IRCN-BC and NSFC

Eur J Protistol. 2017 Oct;61(Pt B):439-452. doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2017.05.003. Epub 2017 May 17.

Authors

Xumiao Chen¹, Xiaoteng Lu², Xiaotian Luo³, Jiamei Jiang⁴, Chen Shao⁵, Khaled A S Al-Rasheid⁶, Alan Warren⁷, Weibo Song⁸

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; Department of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China.
² Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; University of Innstruck, Research Institute for Limnology, Mondseestrasse 9, 5310 Mondsee, Austria.
³ Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China.
⁴ Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; College of Marine Ecology and Environment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China.
⁵ The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China. Electronic address: andrews1201@hotmail.com.
⁶ Zoology Department, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
⁸ Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; The Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China.

PMID: 28673472
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2017.05.003

Abstract

In the five years 2012-2016, the ciliate research group at Ocean University of China and their collaborators have performed several investigations on the morphogenesis of ciliated protists during binary division. Multiple samples were collected from 17 cities and cortical development studied in 42 species belonging to 32 genera and 13 families (Amphisiellidae, Euplotidae, Kahliellidae, Oxytrichidae, Philasteridae, Pseudokeronopsidae, Pseudourostylidae, Schmidingerotrichidae, Spirofilidae, Strobilidiidae, Uroleptidae, Uronychiidae and Urostylidae). Among these, 12 genera were investigated morphogenetically for the first time, revealing some unusual pattern formations and allowing four new genera to be established: Heterokeronopsis, Apobakuella, Parabistichella and Apoholosticha. The objective of this review is to: 1) summarize the morphogenetic studies supported by the IRCN-BC and NSFC projects during these five years; 2) summarize the patterns of development and document deviations from normal morphogenetic events within a group; 3) discuss how studies on morphogenesis have helped to advance understanding in the three dimensions of biodiversity, i.e. taxonomy, genetics and function; and 4) suggest potential future directions for the morphogenetic study of ciliated protists.

Keywords: Ciliates; Cortical patterns; Diversity; Morphogenesis; Ontogenesis.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biodiversity*
Ciliophora / classification*
Ciliophora / cytology*
Morphogenesis
Phylogeny
Research / trends