Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny

Orr RJ, Martino ED, Ramsfjell MH, Gordon DP, Berning B, Chowdhury I, Craig S, Cumming RL, Figuerola B, Florence W, Harmelin JG, Hirose M, Huang D, Jain SS, Jenkins HL, Kotenko ON, Kuklinski P, Lee HE, Madurell T, McCann L, Mello HL, Obst M, Ostrovsky AN, Paulay G, Porter JS, Shunatova NN, Smith AM, Souto-Derungs J, Vieira LM, Voje KL, Waeschenbach A, Zágoršek K, Warnock R, Liow LH (2022)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2022

Journal

Book Volume: 8

Pages Range: eabm7452-

Journal Issue: 13

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm7452

Abstract

Phylogenetic relationships and the timing of evolutionary events are essential for understanding evolution on longer time scales. Cheilostome bryozoans are a group of ubiquitous, species-rich, marine colonial organisms with an excellent fossil record but lack phylogenetic relationships inferred from molecular data. We present genome-skimmed data for 395 cheilostomes and combine these with 315 published sequences to infer relationships and the timing of key events among c. 500 cheilostome species. We find that named cheilostome genera and species are phylogenetically coherent, rendering fossil or contemporary specimens readily delimited using only skeletal morphology. Our phylogeny shows that parental care in the form of brooding evolved several times independently but was never lost in cheilostomes. Our fossil calibration, robust to varied assumptions, indicates that the cheilostome lineage and parental care therein could have Paleozoic origins, much older than the first known fossil record of cheilostomes in the Late Jurassic.

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National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) / Taihoro Nukurangi New Zealand (NZ) Smithsonian Environmental Research Center United States (USA) (US) University of Otago New Zealand (NZ) University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs universitet Sweden (SE) Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU) / Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет (СПбГУ) Russian Federation (RU) Florida Museum of Natural History United States (USA) (US) Heriot-Watt University United Kingdom (GB) Universität Wien / University of Vienna Austria (AT) Natural History Museum London United Kingdom (GB) Technical University of Liberec (TUL) Czech Republic (CZ) University of Oslo Norway (NO) Oberösterreichische Landes-Kultur GmbH Austria (AT) Museum of Tropical Queensland Australia (AU) CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM) Spain (ES) Institut Pythéas: Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers France (FR) Kitasato University / 北里大学 (Kitasato Daigaku) Japan (JP) National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore (SG) Marine Biological Association United Kingdom (GB) Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAN) Poland (PL)

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APA:

Orr, R.J., Martino, E.D., Ramsfjell, M.H., Gordon, D.P., Berning, B., Chowdhury, I.,... Liow, L.H. (2022). Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny. Science Advances, 8(13), eabm7452-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm7452

MLA:

Orr, Russell J.S., et al. "Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny." Science Advances 8.13 (2022): eabm7452-.

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