2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Evolutionary morphology of arthropod volvation: morphogenesis involving tergite movment patterns
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25400496
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Stratigraphy/Paleontology
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| Research Institution | Shizuoka University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 形態形成 / 外骨格 / 接触感知 / 発生遺伝 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Rolling up all the tergites into a ball-like manner, known as volvation, is an effective defensive strategy, which is repeatedly adopted by numbers of arthropod groups over five million years. For effective volvation, an arthropod requires ball-socket interrelationships between tergites, so called coaptative devices. Based on morphological observations of an extant isopod and extinct trilobites, it appeared that coaptative characters accompany mechanosensory setae or these traces. In addition, ball-socket relationship of coaptative devices for distantly situated tergites corresponds to hardened-yet hardened gap caused by phases of exoskeletal shedding during molting. These lines of evidences imply the feedback from perception system adjacent the completion of tergite morphology, and further the exaptative potential on volvation in arthropod body plan.
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| Free Research Field |
進化古生物学・機能形態学
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