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Invertebrate Zoology Lecture 3: Bauplans (cont.)
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Lecture outline Animal Bauplans Key features of body plans (cont.) Excretion and osmoregulation Circulation and Gas Exchange
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Bauplans: key features Excretion and osmoregulation: overview Excretion, defined: ridding body of metabolic wastes Carbon dioxide Water (if in excess) Nitrogenous and other wastes (=many are toxic) Excretion usually tied to osmoregulation CO2 often excreted separately Excretion ≠ removal of solid waste
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Bauplans: key features Excretion and osmoregulation Nitrogenous wastes & water conservation Protein digestion nitrogenous wastes Excess amino acids are “deaminated” Amine groups incorporated into waste molecules
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Bauplans: key features Excretion and osmoregulation Osmoregulation and habitat
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Bauplans: key features Excretion and osmoregulation Osmoregulation and habitat What if osmolarity changes? Osmoconformers Osmoregulators Estuary: fresh water seawater
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Bauplans: key features Excretion and osmoregulation Osmoregulation and habitat What if osmolarity changes (cont.)? Most osmoconformers can osmoregulate (a bit) Most osmoregulators have limits to osmoregulation Osmoregulation can occur at the cellular level Example: Cell placed in hypotonic solution might initially swell, then respond by excreting salts. (Why would this help?)
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Bauplans: key features Excretion and osmoregulation Specialized structures Water expulsion vesicles (as in various Protista) Accumulate water expel it to the outside Requires energy. Mechanism? Possibly in Porifera?
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Bauplans: key features Excretion and osmoregulation Specialized structures Nephridia: Tubules acquire water/and or ions at one end and excrete wastes through pores
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Bauplans: key features Excretion and osmoregulation Specialized structures Nephridia Protonephridia: proximal end closed Metanephridia: proximal end open
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Bauplans: key features Circulation and gas exchange Overview Nutrients, wastes, and gases move through the body Transport systems allow for movement beyond diffusion Origin of fluid for transport Internal body fluids; external fluids (i.e. Porifera) Movement of fluids through/within body cavity may occur instead of or in addition to movement within a “true” circulatory system.
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Bauplans: key features Circulation and gas exchange Circulatory systems (true) CLOSED: blood remains within vessels Associated with well-developed coelomic cavity Composition of blood vs. coelomic fluid differs Exchange of dissolved materials occurs within capillary beds (single cell layer to promote diffusion)
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Bauplans: key features Circulation and gas exchange Circulatory systems (true): OPEN: vessels exist, but open into hemocoel Associated with reduced coelom, peritoneum Less efficient than closed system? Additional functions (i.e. hydrostatic) Secondary systems have evolved to compensate
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Bauplans: key features Circulation and gas exchange Hearts and other pumping mechanisms Pump blood/hemolymph; maintain blood pressure Several types Contractile vessels (Annelida) Ostiate hearts (Arthropoda) Allows entry of hemolymph back into heart from the hemocoel Chambered hearts (Mollusca)
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Bauplans: key features Circulation and gas exchange Other key concepts (circulation) Myogenic vs. neurogenic control of contraction In general, freshly oxygenated blood/hemolymph is first circulated to the head. Vessel diameter and flow Paradox: diameter flow rate Problem: need low flow at capillaries (why?) Solution: total cross-sectional area at capillaries flow rate!
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Bauplans: key features Circulation and gas exchange Gas exchange and transport O 2 uptake from air or water over moist membrane (body surface or specialized structures) Why moist? Often diffuses into a “circulatory body fluid”, then to cells CO 2 moves in opposite direction
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Bauplans: key features Circulation and gas exchange Gas exchange and transport Body fluids have relatively low O 2 -carrying capacity Respiratory pigments increase that capacity O 2 binds to a metal, usually copper or iron
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Bauplans: key features Circulation and gas exchange Gas exchange and transport CO 2 primarily converted to carbonic acid and bicarbonate Requires carbonic anhydrase CO 2 + H 2 O H 2 CO 3 H + +HCO 3 -
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