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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF LIFE-HISTORY EVOLUTION IN ASTERINID STARFISH
Michael W. Hart,
Maria Byrne,
Michael J. Smith,
Michael W. Hart
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6 Canada
Present address: Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California 95616; E-mail: [email protected].Search for more papers by this authorMaria Byrne
Department of Anatomy and Histology, F-13, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006 Australia
Search for more papers by this authorMichael J. Smith
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorMichael W. Hart,
Maria Byrne,
Michael J. Smith,
Michael W. Hart
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6 Canada
Present address: Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California 95616; E-mail: [email protected].Search for more papers by this authorMaria Byrne
Department of Anatomy and Histology, F-13, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006 Australia
Search for more papers by this authorMichael J. Smith
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Editor: S. Palumbi
Abstract
We analyzed phylogenetic relationships among 12 nominal species of starfish in the genera Patiriella and Asterina (Order Valvatida, Family Asterinidae), based on complete sequences for a mitochondrial protein coding gene (cytochrome oxidase subunit I) and five mitochondrial transfer RNA genes (alanine, leucine, asparagine, glutamine, and proline) (1923 bp total). The resulting phylogeny was used to test a series of hypotheses about the evolution of life-history traits. (1) A complex, feeding, planktonic larva is probably ancestral for these starfish, but this is not the most parsimonious reconstruction of ancestral larval states. (2) The feeding larval form was lost at least four times among these species, and three of these losses occurred among members of a single clade. (3) Small adult size evolved before both cases of hermaphroditism and viviparous brooding, but viviparity was not always preceded by an intermediate form of external brooding. (4) An ordered transformation series from feeding planktonic development to viviparous brooding has been predicted for starfish, but we could not find an example of this transformation series. (5) Viviparity evolved recently (< 2 Mya). (6) Both species selection and transformation of lineages may have contributed to the accumulation of species with nonfeeding development among these starfish. (7) Neither Asterina nor Patiriella are monophyletic genera. Larval forms and life-history traits of these starfish have evolved freely under no obvious constraints, contrary to the widely assumed evolutionary conservatism of early development.
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