PMID- 33819384 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210927 LR - 20210927 IS - 1552-5015 (Electronic) IS - 1552-5007 (Linking) VI - 336 IP - 3 DP - 2021 Apr TI - From the individual to the colony: Marine invertebrates as models to understand levels of biological organization. PG - 191-197 LID - 10.1002/jez.b.23044 [doi] AB - The developmental and evolutionary principles of coloniality in marine animals remain largely unexplored. Although many common traits have evolved independently in different groups of colonial animals, questions about their significance for colonial life histories remain unanswered. In 2018 (Nov. 25 - Dec. 8), the inaugural course on the Evolution of Coloniality and Modularity took place at the Center for Marine Biology of the University of Sao Paulo (CEBIMAR-USP), Brazil. During the intensive two-week graduate-level course, we addressed some of the historical ideas about animal coloniality by focal studies in bryozoans, tunicates, cnidarians, and sponges. We discussed many historical hypotheses and ways to test these using both extant and paleontological data, and we carried direct observations of animal colonies in the different phyla to address questions about coloniality. We covered topics related to multi-level selection theory and studied colonial traits, including modular miniaturization, polymorphism, brooding, and allorecognition. Course participants carried out short research projects using local species of animals to address questions on allorecognition and regeneration in ascidians and sponges, fusion and chimerism in anthoathecate hydrozoans, and evolution of polymorphism in bryozoans. Although many questions remain unanswered, this course served as a foundation to continue to develop a developmental and evolutionary synthesis of clonal and modular development in colonial marine organisms. CI - (c) 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Hiebert, Laurel S AU - Hiebert LS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7756-1066 AD - Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto Biociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. AD - Centro de Biologia Marinha (CEBIMar), Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Sebastiao, Brazil. FAU - Vieira, Leandro M AU - Vieira LM AD - Laboratorio de Estudos de Bryozoa (LAEBry), Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Biociencias, UFPE, Cidade Universitaria, Recife, Brazil. FAU - Tiozzo, Stefano AU - Tiozzo S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2822-2783 AD - Sorbonne Universite, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biologie du Developpement de Villefranche-sur-mer (LBDV), Paris, France. FAU - Simpson, Carl AU - Simpson C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0719-4437 AD - Department of Geological Sciences and Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Colorado, USA. FAU - Grosberg, Richard K AU - Grosberg RK AD - Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA. FAU - Migotto, Alvaro E AU - Migotto AE AD - Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto Biociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. AD - Centro de Biologia Marinha (CEBIMar), Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Sebastiao, Brazil. FAU - Morandini, Andre C AU - Morandini AC AD - Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto Biociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. AD - Centro de Biologia Marinha (CEBIMar), Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Sebastiao, Brazil. FAU - Brown, Federico D AU - Brown FD AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9250-5011 AD - Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto Biociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. AD - Centro de Biologia Marinha (CEBIMar), Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Sebastiao, Brazil. AD - Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia em Estudos Interdisciplinares e Transdisciplinares em Ecologia e Evolucao (IN-TREE), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20210405 PL - United States TA - J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol JT - Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution JID - 101168228 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Aquatic Organisms/growth & development/physiology MH - Invertebrates/*anatomy & histology/*growth & development/physiology OTO - NOTNLM OT - allorecognition OT - ascidians OT - bryozoans OT - budding OT - clonality OT - cnidarians OT - modularity OT - polymorphism OT - regeneration OT - sponges OT - tunicates EDAT- 2021/04/06 06:00 MHDA- 2021/09/28 06:00 CRDT- 2021/04/05 17:24 PHST- 2021/03/05 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/03/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/04/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/09/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/04/05 17:24 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/jez.b.23044 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2021 Apr;336(3):191-197. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.23044. Epub 2021 Apr 5.