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Ultrastructure of coelomic lining in echinoderm podia: significance for concepts in the evolution of muscle and peritoneal cells

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Ultrastructural data are presented on the histological organization of coelomic lining in the podia of ten species of the five major groups of extant echinoderms. Further evidence of the incorporation of podial retractor muscle cells (myocytes) into a monociliated myoepithelial coelomic lining is provided. In the podia of the crinoid Nemaster rubinginosa and the ophiuroid Ophiophragmus wurdemani as well as in the feeding tentacles of the holothurian Leptosynapta tenuis, coelomic linings are organized as simple myoepithelia consisting of non-contractile peritoneal cells (peritoneocytes) and myocytes. Coelomic linings in the holothurian Thyonella gemmata, the echinoids Eucidaris cf. tribuloides and Lytechinus variegatus, and the asteroids Asterias forbesi and Astropecten sp. are pseudostratified or bipartite pseudostratified myoepithelia consisting of subapical myocytes and apically situated peritoneocytes. The ophiuroid podia of Ophioderma brevispinum and Ophiothrix angulata exhibit transitions from simple myoepithelia to partially pseudostratified epithelia. Intermediate forms between the extremes in myoepithelial organization also occur in the podial lining of single species (e.g. Eucidaris cf. tribuloides). These data supplement recent ultrastructural studies on the podial lining of echinoderms and, in conjunction with published ultrastructural data on the myoepithelial organization of other coelomic linings in echinoderms and in other coelomates, suggest myoepithelial organization of the coelomic lining is a plesiomorph feature in Bilateria.

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Rieger, R.M., Lombardi, J. Ultrastructure of coelomic lining in echinoderm podia: significance for concepts in the evolution of muscle and peritoneal cells. Zoomorphology 107, 191–208 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312261

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