Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-mwx4w Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-25T13:24:32.382Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Antiquity of the chordate pattern of exercise metabolism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

John A. Ruben  and
Julia K. Parrish
John A. Ruben
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331
Julia K. Parrish
Affiliation:
School of Fisheries, WH-10, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Vertebrates and cephalochordates generate significant quantities of lactic acid during intense exercise. This is associated with heavy reliance on anaerobic metabolism for intramuscular ATP formation. We report here exercise-related generation of lactate in the appendicularian Oiko-pleura longicauda (Tunicata: Appendicularia) and in the brittle star Ophioderma panamensis (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). The chordate-wide distribution of this pattern of activity metabolism suggests its presence in Early Paleozoic prochordates. The presence of the chordate pattern of activity physiology in Ophioderma suggests that very early (Ediacarian?) deuterostomes may also have generated lactate during intense exercise. Further investigation of activity physiology in other echinoderms is warranted.

Type
Research Article
Information
Paleobiology , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , Summer 1990 , pp. 355 - 359
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Literature Cited

Alldredge, A. L. 1977. House morphology and mechanisms of feeding in the Oikopleuridae (Tunicata, Appendicularia). Journal of Zoology, London 181:175–188.Google Scholar
Alldredge, A. L. 1982. Aggregation of spawning appendicularians in surface windrows. Bulletin of Marine Science 32:250–254.Google Scholar
Basurmanova, O. K. 1983. Ultrastructural studies on the caudal muscle of Appendicularia (Tunicata: Appendicularia) (in Russian). Cytology 25:1026–1030.Google Scholar
Bennett, A. F., and Licht, P. 1972. Anaerobic metabolism during activity in lizards. Journal of Comparative Physiology 81:277–288.Google Scholar
Berrill, N. J. 1955. The Origin of Vertebrates. Clarendon Press; Oxford.Google Scholar
Carroll, R. L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. Freeman & Co.; New York.Google Scholar
Durham, J. W. 1971. The fossil record and the origin of the Deuterostomata. Proceedings of the North American Paleontological Convention. Part H:1104–1132.Google Scholar
Gans, C. 1989. Stages in the origin of vertebrates: analysis by means of scenarios. Biological Reviews 64:221–268.Google Scholar
Garstang, W. 1929. Morphology of the Tunicata and its bearing on the phylogeny of the Chordata. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science New Series 72:51–187.Google Scholar
Graves, C. 1944. The larvae of Styela (Cynthia) partita: structure, activity and duration of life. Journal of Morphology 75:173–190.Google Scholar
Holland, N. D. 1988. The meaning of developmental asymmetry for echinoderm evolution: a new interpretation. Pp. 13–28. In Paul, C. R. C., and Smith, A. B. (eds.), Echinoderm Phylogeny and Evolutionary Biology. Clarendon Press; Oxford.Google Scholar
Jollie, M. 1973. The origin of chordates. Acta Zoologica, Stockholm 54:81–100.Google Scholar
Jollie, M. 1982. What are the ‘Calcichordata’? and the larger question of the origin of chordates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 75:167–188.Google Scholar
Makioka, A., Hirabayashi, T., and Watanabe, H. 1978. Distribution of antigenic sites common to vertebrate tropomyosin in tunicate muscle. Marine Biology 48:261–269.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McMahon, B. R. 1981. Oxygen uptake and acid-base balance during activity in decapod crustaceans. Pp. 295–335. In Herreid, C. F., and Fourtner, C. R. (eds.), Locomotion and Energetics in Arthropods. Plenum Press; New York.Google Scholar
Northcutt, R. G., and Gans, C. 1983. The genesis of neural crest and epidermal placodes: a reinterpretation of vertebrate origins. Quarterly Review of Biology 58:1–28.Google Scholar
Repetski, J. E. 1978. A fish from the Upper Cambrian of North America. Science 200:529–531.Google Scholar
Romer, A. S., and Parsons, T. S. 1986. The Vertebrate Body. Sixth Edition. Saunders Publishing Company; Philadelphia.Google Scholar
Ruben, J. A., and Bennett, A. F. 1980. Antiquity of the vertebrate pattern of activity metabolism and its possible relation to vertebrate origins. Nature 286:886–888.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schmidt-Nielsen, K. 1983. Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment. Third Edition. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge.Google Scholar
Zwan, A. de. 1983. Carbohydrate catabolism in bivalves. Pp. 138–175. In Hochachka, P. W. (ed.), The Mollusca. Academic Press; New York.Google Scholar