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In deuterostomes, the original dent becomes the anus, while the gut eventually tunnels through the embryo until it reaches the other side, forming an opening that becomes the mouth. [1] It was originally thought that the blastopore of the protostomes formed the mouth, and the anus formed second when the gut tunneled through the embryo.
Early deuterostomes and their modern counterparts. Bilateria, one of the five major lineages of animals, is split into two groups; the protostomes and deuterostomes. Deuterostomes consist of chordates (which include the vertebrates) and ambulacrarians. [20] It seems likely that the Kimberella was a member of the protostomes.
Protostomes evolved into over a million species alive today, compared to ca. 73,000 deuterostome species. [6] Protostomes are divided into the Ecdysozoa (e.g. arthropods, nematodes) and the Spiralia (e.g. molluscs, annelids, platyhelminths, and rotifers). A modern consensus phylogenetic tree for the protostomes is shown below.
Bilaterians can be divided, based on events that occur very early in embryonic development, into two groups called protostomes and deuterostomes. [20] Deuterostomes include vertebrates as well as echinoderms and hemichordates (mainly acorn worms). Protostomes, the more diverse group, include arthropods, molluscs, and numerous types of worms ...
Animals called protostomes develop through schizocoely for which they are also known as schizocoelomates. Schizocoelous development often occurs in protostomes, [1] [5] [6] as in phyla Mollusca, Annelida, and Arthropoda. Deuterostomes usually exhibit enterocoely; [7] however, some deuterostomes like enteropneusts can exhibit schizocoely as well ...
The distinction between protostomes and deuterostomes is based on the direction in which the mouth (stoma) develops in relation to the blastopore. Protostome derives from the Greek word protostoma meaning "first mouth" (πρῶτος + στόμα) whereas Deuterostome's etymology is "second mouth" from the words second and mouth ...
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Its appearance is a matter of debate, for no representative has been (or may or may not ever be) identified in the fossil record.Two reconstructed urbilaterian morphologies can be considered: first, the less complex ancestral form forming the common ancestor to Xenacoelomorpha and Nephrozoa; and second, the more complex urbilaterian ancestral to both protostomes and deuterostomes, sometimes ...