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The role of heterochrony in the establishment of body plan in higher echinoderm taxa

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The analysis based on paleontological data shows that the body plans of higher echinoderm taxa were established through the combination of previously developed characters. These combinations appeared due to various heterochronies and resulted in more or less complete filling of the morphological space of logical capabilities. The maximum rank of new taxa decreased with time. New body plans of higher taxa did not replace the old plans but rather overlay them, extending the hierarchy of body plans and the respective hierarchy of taxa. The macroevolution of echinoderms and other metazoans progressed from the formation of an archetype (a general body plan) to individual details, the development of structural plans of lower levels. Heterochrony resulted in mosaic evolution and obscurity of intermediate forms.

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Rozhnov, 2009, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2009, No. 2, pp. 155–166.

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Rozhnov, S.V. The role of heterochrony in the establishment of body plan in higher echinoderm taxa. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 36, 117–127 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359009020046

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