Evolution of Lung Breathing from a Lungless Primitive Vertebrate

Overview

Journal Respir Physiol Neurobiol

Specialty Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2015 Oct 18

PMID 26476056

Citations 10

Authors

M Hoffman

B E Taylor

M B Harris

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Abstract

Air breathing was critical to the terrestrial radiation and evolution of tetrapods and arose in fish. The vertebrate lung originated from a progenitor structure present in primitive boney fish. The origin of the neural substrates, which are sensitive to metabolically produced CO2 and which rhythmically activate respiratory muscles to match lung ventilation to metabolic demand, is enigmatic. We have found that a distinct periodic centrally generated rhythm, described as "cough" and occurring in lamprey in vivo and in vitro, is modulated by central sensitivity to CO2. This suggests that elements critical for the evolution of breathing in tetrapods, were present in the most basal vertebrate ancestors prior to the evolution of the lung. We propose that the evolution of breathing in all vertebrates occurred through exaptations derived from these critical basal elements.

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