User:JDinauer/Group Sandbox

Week 13: Final Edits and Submission
Blake's Final Edits

Hagfish are in the group Cyclostomata which includes jawless fish. The group Cyclostomata is characterized by two significant characteristics; keratinous tooth plates and movement of postotic myomeres to the orbitals. According to fossil record, Hagfish and Lampreys have been estimated to have diverged from one another during the Paleozoic period. An experiment used an estimation of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions for nucleotides and supplemented that data with pre-existing data into a clock that would calculate divergence times for the taxons Myxine and Eptatretus. This data found that the lineage diverged around 93-28 Mya. Hagfish are excluded from the subphylum Gnathostomata because of morphological characteristics including the Hagfish arched tongue. Hagfish embryos have characteristics of Gnathostomes and may be plesiomorphic, however these characteristics drastically change morphologically as the Hagfish matures. The following Hagfish and Lamprey phylogeny is an adaptation based on the 2006 work by Shigeru Kuratani and Shigehiro Kuraku.

Original

The following Hagfish and Lamprey phylogeny is an adaptation based on the 2006 work by Shigeru Kuratani and Shigehiro Kuraku.

Article Being Edited
The Wikipedia my group is editing is called, "Hagfish." Here is the link: Hagfish.

Original Version from the "Slime" Section
Hagfish are long and vermiform, and can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus from some 100 glands or invaginations running along their flanks. The species Myxine glutinosa was named for this slime. When captured and held, e.g., by the tail, they secrete the microfibrous mucus, which expands into up to 20 litres ($5 1/4$ US gallons) of sticky, gelatinous material when combined with water; one litre of slime has about 40 milligrams of mucus and proteins. If they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot, which works its way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime as it goes and freeing them from their captor. Rheological investigations showed that hagfish slime viscosity increases in elongational flow which favors gill clogging of suction feeding fish, while its viscosity decreases in shear which facilitates scraping off the slime by the travelling-knot.



Edited Version
Hagfish are long and vermiform, and can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus from about 100 glands or invaginations running along their flanks. Hagfish are able to produce a lot of slime, which combines with seawater, when they are in danger as a defense mechanism. This slime that hagfish excrete has very thin fibers that make it more durable and sticky than the slime excreted by other animals. The fibers are made of proteins and also make the slime flexible. If they are caught by a predator, they can quickly release a large amount of slime to escape. If they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot, and work their way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime and freeing themselves from their captor. Rheological investigations have shown that hagfish slime viscosity increases in elongational flow which favors gill clogging of suction feeding fish, while its viscosity decreases in shear which facilitates scraping off the slime by the travelling-knot.

Original Version from the "Nervous System" Section
The origins of the vertebrate nervous system are of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists, and cyclostomes (hagfish and lampreys) are an important group for answering this question. The complexity of the hagfish brain has been an issue of debate since the late 19th century, with some morphologists believing that they do not possess a cerebellum, while others believe that it is continuous with the midbrain. It is now believed that the hagfish neuroanatomy is similar to that of lampreys. A common feature of both cyclostomes is the absence of myelin in neurons.

Edited Version
The origins of the vertebrate nervous system are of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists, and cyclostomes (hagfish and lampreys) are an important group for answering this question. The complexity of the hagfish brain has been an issue of debate since the late 19th century, with some morphologists suggesting that they do not possess a cerebellum, while others suggest that it is continuous with the midbrain. It is now considered that the hagfish neuroanatomy is similar to that of lampreys. A common feature of both cyclostomes is the absence of myelin in neurons. The brain of a hagfish has specific parts similar to the brains of other vertebrates. The dorsal and ventral muscles located towards the side of the hagfish body are connected to spinal nerves. The spinal nerves that connect to the muscles of the pharyngeal wall grow individually to reach them.

Kalina's Work Regarding Images
I have already added an image to my article. Here is the link: Hagfish. You can also see it in my 1st and 2nd drafts of my edits.

Whitefke (talk) 02:37, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Week 12: Images
Original W/O image:

The hagfish skeleton comprises the skull, the notochord, and the caudal fin rays. The first diagram of the hagfish endoskeleton was made by Frederick Cole in 1905. In Cole's monograph, he described sections of the skeleton that he termed "pseudo-cartilage", referring to its distinct properties compared to jawed chordates. The lingual apparatus of hagfish is composed of a cartilage base bearing two teeth-covered plates (dental plate) articulated with a series of large cartilage shafts. The nasal capsule is considerably expanded in hagfish, comprising a fibrous sheath lined with cartilage rings. In contrast to lampreys, the braincase is noncartilaginous. The role of the branchial arches is highly speculative, as hagfish embryos undergo a caudal shift of the posterior pharyngeal pouches; thus, the branchial arches do not support gills. While parts of the hagfish skull are thought to be homologous with lampreys, they are thought to have very few homologous elements with jawed vertebrates.

Edited Version with image:

The hagfish skeleton comprises the skull, the notochord, and the caudal fin rays. The first diagram of the hagfish endoskeleton was made by Frederick Cole in 1905. In Cole's monograph, he described sections of the skeleton that he termed "pseudo-cartilage", referring to its distinct properties compared to jawed chordates. The lingual apparatus of hagfish is composed of a cartilage base bearing two teeth-covered plates (dental plate) articulated with a series of large cartilage shafts. The nasal capsule is considerably expanded in hagfish, comprising a fibrous sheath lined with cartilage rings. In contrast to lampreys, the braincase is noncartilaginous. The role of the branchial arches is highly speculative, as hagfish embryos undergo a caudal shift of the posterior pharyngeal pouches; thus, the branchial arches do not support gills. While parts of the hagfish skull are thought to be homologous with lampreys, they are thought to have very few homologous elements with jawed vertebrates.

Balakay29 (talk) 00:09, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Jacks Draft #2
Very little is known about hagfish reproduction. Obtaining embryos and observing reproductive behavior are difficult due to the deep-sea habitat of many hagfish species. In the wild females outnumber males, with the exact sex-ratio differing depending on the species. E. burgeri, for example, has nearly a 1:1 ratio, while M. glutinosa females are significantly more common than males. Some species of hagfish are sexually undifferentiated before maturation, and posses gonadal tissue for both ovaries and testis. It has been suggested that females develop earlier than males, and that this may be the reason for unequal sex ratios. Hagfish testis are relatively small.

Depending on the species, females lay from one to 30 tough, yolky eggs. These tend to aggregate due to Velcro-like tufts at either end. It is unclear how hagfish go about laying eggs, although researchers have proposed three hypotheses based on observations of the low percentage of males and small testis. The hypotheses are that female hagfish lay eggs in small crevices in rock formations, the eggs are laid in burrow beneath the sand, and the slime produced by the hagfish is used to hold the eggs in a small area. It is worth noting that no direct evidence has been found to support any of these hypotheses. Hagfish do not have a larval stage, in contrast to lampreys.

Hagfish have a mesonephric kidney and are often neotenic of their pronephric kidney. The kidney(s) are drained via mesonephric/archinephric duct. Unlike many other vertebrates, this duct is separate from the reproductive tract, and the proximal tubule of the nephron is also connected with the coelom, provided lubrication. The single testicle or ovary has no transportation duct. Instead, the gametes are released into the coelom until they find their way to the posterior end of the caudal region, whereby they find an opening in the digestive system.

The hagfish embryo can develop for as long as 11 months before hatching, which is shorter in comparison to other jawless vertebrates. Not much was known about hagfish embryology until recently, when husbandry advances enabled considerable insight into the group's evolutionary development. New insights into the evolution of neural crest cells support the consensus that all vertebrates share these cells, which might be regulated by a common subset of genes. Hagfish possess Gonadotropins which secrete from pituitary glands to the gonads to stimulate development. This suggests that hagfish have an early version of the Hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis, a system which once thought to be exclusive to the Gnathostomes.

Some species of Hagfish reproduce seasonally, stimulated by hormones from their pituitary gland. E. burgeri is known to reproduce and migrate annually.

JDinauer (talk) 01:47, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Article Being Edited
The Wikipedia my group is editing is called, "Hagfish." Here is the link: Hagfish.

Original Version from the "Slime" Section
Hagfish are long and vermiform, and can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus from some 100 glands or invaginations running along their flanks. The species Myxine glutinosa was named for this slime. When captured and held, e.g., by the tail, they secrete the microfibrous mucus, which expands into up to 20 litres ($5 1/4$ US gallons) of sticky, gelatinous material when combined with water; one litre of slime has about 40 milligrams of mucus and proteins. If they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot, which works its way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime as it goes and freeing them from their captor. Rheological investigations showed that hagfish slime viscosity increases in elongational flow which favors gill clogging of suction feeding fish, while its viscosity decreases in shear which facilitates scraping off the slime by the travelling-knot.



Edited Version
Hagfish are long and vermiform, and can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus from about 100 glands or invaginations running along their flanks. Hagfish are able to produce a lot of slime, which combines with seawater, when they are in danger as a defense mechanism. This slime that hagfish excrete has very thin fibers that make it more durable and sticky than the slime excreted by other animals. The fibers are made of proteins and also make the slime flexible. If they are caught by a predator, they can quickly release a large amount of slime to escape. If they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot, and work their way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime and freeing themselves from their captor. Rheological investigations have shown that hagfish slime viscosity increases in elongational flow which favors gill clogging of suction feeding fish, while its viscosity decreases in shear which facilitates scraping off the slime by the travelling-knot.

Original Version from the "Nervous System" Section
The origins of the vertebrate nervous system are of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists, and cyclostomes (hagfish and lampreys) are an important group for answering this question. The complexity of the hagfish brain has been an issue of debate since the late 19th century, with some morphologists believing that they do not possess a cerebellum, while others believe that it is continuous with the midbrain. It is now believed that the hagfish neuroanatomy is similar to that of lampreys. A common feature of both cyclostomes is the absence of myelin in neurons.

Edited Version
The origins of the vertebrate nervous system are of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists, and cyclostomes (hagfish and lampreys) are an important group for answering this question. The complexity of the hagfish brain has been an issue of debate since the late 19th century, with some morphologists suggesting that they do not possess a cerebellum, while others suggest that it is continuous with the midbrain. It is now considered that the hagfish neuroanatomy is similar to that of lampreys. A common feature of both cyclostomes is the absence of myelin in neurons. The brain of a hagfish has specific parts in similar to the brains of other vertebrates. The dorsal and ventral muscles located towards the side of the hagfish body are connected to spinal nerves. The spinal nerves that connect to the muscles of the pharyngeal wall grow individually to reach them

Week 9: Feedback Responses
Blake's Peer Review Edits To Be Made:


 * I will be searching through Wikipedia for images of cyclostome phylogeny and using Wikimedia to do so.
 * I will correct grammar errors that I have made in my draft so that they can become public on the Wikipedia page.
 * I will correct some structural errors that I have made on my draft and try to make the sentences smoother.
 * I will include citation for "Hagfish embryos have characteristics of Gnathostomes and may be pleisomorphic".
 * I will add more images for phylogeny of Hagfishes.

Balakay29 (talk) 05:55, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Kalina's Plans
Note: I originally thought that we were supposed to start working on the second draft as well this week. I did not realize until later that we only had to make a plan. Instead of deleting it, however, I thought I would just leave it in.

Changes to Make for 2nd Draft Based on Peer Reviews

 * Rearrange my edit in the paragraph about the slime so that it flows better.
 * Make copy edit changes suggested by Knowl8dge. Fix any grammar errors and try to use better word choices.
 * Specify which sections from the article are being edited.
 * Expand on the paragraph about the nervous system more. Add more information.
 * I did not notice this before, but it seems like my citations and reference list got changed slightly somehow in our group sandbox. I will have to be careful it does not happen again with the second draft. I will be more careful when moving things to the group sandbox.
 * It was brought to my attention that two of the sources in the reference list may not be reliable. For my edits, I used three sources that were peer-reviewed journal articles. The other sources in the list were already in the original article. The main focus of my edits were to add more information and images to areas of the article that needed them. I will replace the sentences that use the unreliable sources with information from reliable sources, like peer-reviewed journal articles. I will find a reliable source to replace the unreliable ones.
 * Include a link to the actual article.
 * Double check to see if there is anywhere else I can cross-link to other pages.

Draft After Peer Reviews
Article Being Edited

The Wikipedia my group is editing is called, "Hagfish." Here is the link: Hagfish.

Original Version from the "Slime" Section

Hagfish are long and vermiform, and can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus from some 100 glands or invaginations running along their flanks. The species Myxine glutinosa was named for this slime. When captured and held, e.g., by the tail, they secrete the microfibrous mucus, which expands into up to 20 litres ($5 1/4$ US gallons) of sticky, gelatinous material when combined with water; one litre of slime has about 40 milligrams of mucus and proteins. If they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot, which works its way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime as it goes and freeing them from their captor. Rheological investigations showed that hagfish slime viscosity increases in elongational flow which favors gill clogging of suction feeding fish, while its viscosity decreases in shear which facilitates scraping off the slime by the travelling-knot.



Edited Version

Hagfish are long and vermiform, and can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus from about 100 glands or invaginations running along their flanks. Hagfish are able to produce a lot of slime, which combines with seawater, when they are in danger as a defense mechanism. This slime that hagfish excrete has very thin fibers that make it more durable and sticky than the slime excreted by other animals. The fibers are made of proteins and also make the slime flexible. If they are caught by a predator, they can quickly release a large amount of slime to escape. If they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot, and work their way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime and freeing themselves from their captor. Rheological investigations have shown that hagfish slime viscosity increases in elongational flow which favors gill clogging of suction feeding fish, while its viscosity decreases in shear which facilitates scraping off the slime by the travelling-knot.

Original Version from the "Nervous System" Section

The origins of the vertebrate nervous system are of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists, and cyclostomes (hagfish and lampreys) are an important group for answering this question. The complexity of the hagfish brain has been an issue of debate since the late 19th century, with some morphologists believing that they do not possess a cerebellum, while others believe that it is continuous with the midbrain. It is now believed that the hagfish neuroanatomy is similar to that of lampreys. A common feature of both cyclostomes is the absence of myelin in neurons.

Edited Version

The origins of the vertebrate nervous system are of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists, and cyclostomes (hagfish and lampreys) are an important group for answering this question. The complexity of the hagfish brain has been an issue of debate since the late 19th century, with some morphologists suggesting that they do not possess a cerebellum, while others suggest that it is continuous with the midbrain. It is now considered that the hagfish neuroanatomy is similar to that of lampreys. A common feature of both cyclostomes is the absence of myelin in neurons. The brain of a hagfish has specific parts in similar to the brains of other vertebrates. The dorsal and ventral muscles located towards the side of the hagfish body are connected to spinal nerves. The spinal nerves that connect to the muscles of the pharyngeal wall grow individually to reach them

References

Whitefke (talk) 00:21, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Jack's Response
Planned Edits:


 * Add a picture of hagfish eggs and/or hagfish reproductive organs. I already have a usable picture of hagfish eggs found, but I will have to look for a picture of the reproductive organs. This was the most common piece of feedback I got.
 * I'm also go to go through and edit some grammar and word choice based on the copy edits that I received. In particular, I will change how I list the three hypothesis of hagfish production in order for it to have better formatting.

JDinauer (talk) 02:31, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Week 6
Blake's Edit Draft:

Original:

The following hagfish and lamprey phylogeny is an adaptation based on the 2006 work by Shigeru Kuratani and Shigehiro Kuraku:

Simplified cyclostome phylogeny based on the work of Shigeru Kuratani and Shigehiro Kuraku; † indicates extinct

Edited:

Hagfish are in the group cyclostomes which includes jawless fish. The group Cyclostomes is characterized by two significant characteristics; keratinous tooth plates and movement of postotic myomeres to the orbitals. According to fossil record, Hagfish and Lampreys have been estimated to have diverged from one another during the Paleozoic period. An experiment used an estimation of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions for nucleotides and supplemented that data with pre-existing data into a clock that would calculate divergence times for the taxons Myxine and Eptratus. This data found that the lineage diverged around 93-28 Mya. Hagfish are excluded from the group gnathostomes because of morphological characteristics including the Hagfish arched tongue. Hagfish embryos have characteristics of gnathostomes and may be pleisomorphic, however these characteristics drastically change morphologically as the Hagfish matures The following hagfish and lamprey phylogeny is an adaptation based on the 2006 work by Shigeru Kuratani and Shigehiro Kuraku :

Simplified cyclostome phylogeny based on the work of Shigeru Kuratani and Shigehiro Kuraku; † indicates extinct.

References:

Miyashita, Tetsuto; Coates, Michael I.; Farrar, Robert; Larson, Peter; Manning, Phillip L.; Wogelius, Roy A.; Edwards, Nicholas P.; Anné, Jennifer; Bergmann, Uwe; Palmer, A. Richard; Currie, Philip J. (2019-02-05). "Hagfish from the Cretaceous Tethys Sea and a reconciliation of the morphological–molecular conflict in early vertebrate phylogeny". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (6): 2146–2151. doi:10.1073/pnas.1814794116. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 30670644.

Kuraku, Shigehiro; Kuratani, Shigeru (2006/12). "Time Scale for Cyclostome Evolution Inferred with a Phylogenetic Diagnosis of Hagfish and Lamprey cDNA Sequences". Zoological Science. 23 (12): 1053–1064. doi:10.2108/zsj.23.1053. ISSN 0289-0003.

Ota, Kinya G.; Kuratani, Shigeru (2008-10). "Developmental Biology of Hagfishes, with a Report on Newly Obtained Embryos of the Japanese Inshore Hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri". Zoological Science. 25 (10): 999–1011. doi:10.2108/zsj.25.999. ISSN 0289-0003

Note: I would like to add pictures that way I can expand and add more detail but I do not think I can add from these scholarly articles.

Balakay29 (talk) 06:24, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Kalina's Edit Draft
Original Version

Hagfish are long and vermiform, and can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus from some 100 glands or invaginations running along their flanks. The species Myxine glutinosa was named for this slime. When captured and held, e.g., by the tail, they secrete the microfibrous mucus, which expands into up to 20 litres ($5 1/4$ US gallons) of sticky, gelatinous material when combined with water; one litre of slime has about 40 milligrams of mucus and proteins. If they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot, which works its way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime as it goes and freeing them from their captor. Rheological investigations showed that hagfish slime viscosity increases in elongational flow which favors gill clogging of suction feeding fish, while its viscosity decreases in shear which facilitates scraping off the slime by the travelling-knot. Edited Version

Hagfish are long and vermiform, and can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus from some 100 glands or invaginations running along their flanks. The slime that hagfish excrete contain very thin fibers that make it more durable and sticky than slime excreted by other animals. The species Myxine glutinosa was named for this slime. When captured and held, e.g., by the tail, they secrete the microfibrous mucus, which expands into up to 20 litres ($5 1/4$ US gallons) of sticky, gelatinous material when combined with water; one litre of slime has about 40 milligrams of mucus and proteins. If they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot, which works its way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime as it goes and freeing them from their captor. Rheological investigations showed that hagfish slime viscosity increases in elongational flow which favors gill clogging of suction feeding fish, while its viscosity decreases in shear which facilitates scraping off the slime by the travelling-knot.

Original Version

The origins of the vertebrate nervous system are of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists, and cyclostomes (hagfish and lampreys) are an important group for answering this question. The complexity of the hagfish brain has been an issue of debate since the late 19th century, with some morphologists believing that they do not possess a cerebellum, while others believe that it is continuous with the midbrain. It is now believed that the hagfish neuroanatomy is similar to that of lampreys. A common feature of both cyclostomes is the absence of myelin in neurons.

Edited Version

The origins of the vertebrate nervous system are of considerable interest to evolutionary biologists, and cyclostomes (hagfish and lampreys) are an important group for answering this question. The complexity of the hagfish brain has been an issue of debate since the late 19th century, with some morphologists believing that they do not possess a cerebellum, while others believe that it is continuous with the midbrain. It is now believed that the hagfish neuroanatomy is similar to that of lampreys. A common feature of both cyclostomes is the absence of myelin in neurons. The brain of a hagfish has parts in common with the brains of other vertebrates. The dorsal and ventral muscles located towards the side of the hagfish body are connected to spinal nerves.

References

Whitefke (talk) 17:41, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Original:
Very little is known about hagfish reproduction. Embryos are difficult to obtain for study, although laboratory breeding of the Far Eastern inshore hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri, has succeeded. In some species, sex ratio has been reported to be as high as 100:1 in favor of females. Some hagfish species are thought to be hermaphroditic, having both an ovary and a testicle (only one gamete production organ is in both females and males). In some cases, the ovary is thought to remain nonfunctional until the individual has reached a particular age or encounters a particular environmental stress. These two factors in combination suggest the survival rate of hagfish is quite high.

Depending on species, females lay from one to 30 tough, yolky eggs. These tend to aggregate due to having Velcro-like tufts at either end. Hagfish are sometimes seen curled around small clutches of eggs. If this constitutes actual breeding behavior is uncertain.

Hagfish do not have a larval stage, in contrast to lampreys, which have a long one.

Hagfish have a mesonephric kidney and are often neotenic of their pronephric kidney. The kidney(s) are drained via mesonephric/archinephric duct. Unlike many other vertebrates, this duct is separate from the reproductive tract. Unlike all other vertebrates, the proximal tubule of the nephron is also connected with the coelom, provided lubrication.

The single testicle or ovary has no transportation duct. Instead, the gametes are released into the coelom until they find their way to the posterior end of the caudal region, whereby they find an opening in the digestive system.

The hagfish embryo can develop for as long as 11 months before hatching. This is retarded in comparison to other jawless vertebrates. Information on their embryology has been obscured until recently, when husbandry advances enabled considerable insight into the group's evolutionary development. New insights into the evolution of neural crest cells, support the consensus that all vertebrates share these cells, which might be regulated by a common subset of genes.

The inshore hagfish is the only member of the hagfish family with a seasonal reproductive cycle.

Edited:
Very little is known about hagfish reproduction. Obtaining embryos and observing reproductive behavior are difficult due to the deep-sea habitat of many hagfish species. In the wild females outnumber males, with the exact sex ratio differing depending on the species. E. burgeri, for example, has a nearly 1:1 ratio, while in M. glutinosa females are significantly more common than males. Some species of hagfish are sexually undifferentiated before maturation, and posses gonadal tissue for both ovaries and testis. It has been suggested that females develop earlier than males, and that this may be the reason for unequal sex ratios. Curiously, hagfish tesis are abnormally small.

Depending on species, females lay from one to 30 tough, yolky eggs. These tend to aggregate due to having Velcro-like tufts at either end. It is unclear how hagfish go about laying eggs, although researchers have proposed three hypotheses based on observations of the low percentage of males and small testis. They are 1) Female hagfish lay eggs in small crevices in rock formations. 2) The eggs are laid in burrow beneath the sand. 3) The slime produced by the hagfish is used to hold the eggs in a small area. It is worth noting that no direct evidence has been found to support any of these hypotheses. Hagfish do not have a larval stage, in contrast to lampreys, and are born miniature versions of their parents.

Hagfish have a mesonephric kidney and are often neotenic of their pronephric kidney. The kidney(s) are drained via mesonephric/archinephric duct. Unlike many other vertebrates, this duct is separate from the reproductive tract. Unlike all other vertebrates, the proximal tubule of the nephron is also connected with the coelom, provided lubrication. The single testicle or ovary has no transportation duct. Instead, the gametes are released into the coelom until they find their way to the posterior end of the caudal region, whereby they find an opening in the digestive system.

The hagfish embryo can develop for as long as 11 months before hatching. This differs in comparison to other jawless vertebrates. Information on their embryology has been obscured until recently, when husbandry advances enabled considerable insight into the group's evolutionary development. New insights into the evolution of neural crest cells, support the consensus that all vertebrates share these cells, which might be regulated by a common subset of genes. Hagfish possess Gonadotropins which they secrete from pituitary glands to the gonads to stimulate development. This suggests that hagfish have an early version of the Hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis, which was once thought to be exclusive to the Gnathostomes.

Some species of Hagfish reproduce seasonally, stimulated by hormones from their pituitary gland. E. burgeri is known to reproduce and migrate annually.

JDinauer (talk) 22:51, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Week 5
Blake's Brainstorming ideas:

I will be taking on the part of the phylogeny and will find a new table that explains how Hagfish are still vertebrates. I will need to find new sources and try to explain some more information than what is given. Hagfish lost their vertebrate due to evolution but are still considered vertebrates.


 * 1) Recognizes the morphological independence of Hagfish and provides use of fossil record and identifies Hagfish and Lamprey as sister groups which once diverged during Paleozoic period.

2. This article is already used by the Hagfish Wikipedia page, however there is a lot of important information along with an experiment that separated Lamprey and Hagfish based on their genetic coding and used an estimation of when the two diverged from one another. The experiment that the authors conducted was a comparison based on the organism's cDNA sequences.

This article also has a great phylogenetic picture that the Wikipedia page did not use that I think would be a great addition.

3. Article looks at the developmental biology of Hagfish and looks at anatomical differences of reproductive anatomy for Hagfish to estimate lineage divergences.

With these 3 articles I believe I could help benefit this article in the phylogeny section. This section just needs more information. It is a problem to come to a conclusion with how these organisms are identified within a phylogenetic tree. With the above references I believe I could give a better explanation of the phylogeny of Hagfish.

References:


 * 1) Miyashita, Tetsuto; Coates, Michael I.; Farrar, Robert; Larson, Peter; Manning, Phillip L.; Wogelius, Roy A.; Edwards, Nicholas P.; Anné, Jennifer; Bergmann, Uwe; Palmer, A. Richard; Currie, Philip J. (2019-02-05). "Hagfish from the Cretaceous Tethys Sea and a reconciliation of the morphological–molecular conflict in early vertebrate phylogeny". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (6): 2146–2151. doi:10.1073/pnas.1814794116. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 30670644.

2. Kuraku, Shigehiro; Kuratani, Shigeru (2006/12). "Time Scale for Cyclostome Evolution Inferred with a Phylogenetic Diagnosis of Hagfish and Lamprey cDNA Sequences". Zoological Science. 23 (12): 1053–1064. doi:10.2108/zsj.23.1053. ISSN 0289-0003.

3. Ota, Kinya G.; Kuratani, Shigeru (2008-10). "Developmental Biology of Hagfishes, with a Report on Newly Obtained Embryos of the Japanese Inshore Hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri". Zoological Science. 25 (10): 999–1011. doi:10.2108/zsj.25.999. ISSN 0289-0003

Balakay29 (talk) 06:25, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Kalina's Brainstorming Ideas:

I am planning on focusing on hagfish anatomy. There are some sections in the article regarding hagfish anatomy that could use more information in general.

In regards to images, an image of a hagfish excreting slime to defend itself from a predator could be helpful. Using Creative Commons, I was able to find a possible image from Wikimedia Commons that could be used. Here is the link to Wikimedia Commons where the image can be found: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hagfish_Slime_Predator_Deterrence.jpg.

An example of an edit that could be made are adding some more sentences, such as:


 * The dorsal and ventral muscles located towards the side of the hagfish body are connected to spinal nerves.


 * The brain of a hagfish has parts in common with the brains of other vertebrates.


 * The slime that hagfish excrete contain very thin fibers that make it more durable and sticky than slime excreted by other animals.

References

Whitefke (talk) 07:56, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Jack Brainstorm

Area of Focus: Reproduction

Tentative Information:

This provides an image of how reproduction evolved for vertebrates.

 : Hagfish may reproduce seasonally, stimulated by GnRH. E. bugeri has an annual reproductive cycle with an annual migration.

Hagfish eggs are among the largest of those lain by sea-dwelling vertebrates. They posses velcro like hooks on both ends. The number of egg lain depends on the species. Hagfish testis have been observed to be incredibly small, and their sperm count limited. The amount of mature males recorded in some deep-sea hagfish populations are also very limited. There are three hypotheses based on the observation of the low percentage of males and small tests for deep-sea hagfish fertilization, but there is no direct evidence to support any one of theme. 1) Female hagfish lay eggs in small crevices in rock formations. 2) The eggs are laid in burrow beneath the sand. 3) The slime produced by the hagfish is used to hold the eggs in a small area. Dead-sea surveying equipment has been unable to detect eggs on the ocean floor.



Comment: Some of this information is already in the reproduction section, but is not cited.

Images:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_hagfish,_Eptatretus_deani_gonads_01.jpg

(not reproduction but its better than the current feeding picture) https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/62bd389b-999f-4d09-af4d-df6c53f6d5db

References

JDinauer (talk) 23:26, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

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I love how you are all drafting in your own sandbox first, using links AND adding citations and then adding to the group sandbox. I am also delighted to see that I can easily tell who is working on what. Great job contributing to talk pages as well! Do not be discouraged if you do not hear anything. In some cases that is actually a good thing because the page has been neglected for a long time. Your objective for next week is to create a working draft and this group is already well on its way. The one thing I encourage you to do is make sure that you are cross-checking for other articles that may be covering the topics you are all interested in Good work!Osquaesitor (talk) 21:11, 23 March 2021 (UTC)