Set of morphological features common to members of a phylum of animals
Modern groups of animals can be grouped by the arrangement of their body structures, so are said to possess different body plans.
A body plan, Bauplan (pl. German: Baupläne), or ground plan is a set of morphological features common to many members of a phylum of animals.[1] The vertebrates share one body plan, while invertebrates have many.
This term, usually applied to animals, envisages a "blueprint" encompassing aspects such as symmetry, layers, segmentation, nerve, limb, and gut disposition. Evolutionary developmental biology seeks to explain the origins of diverse body plans.
Body plans have historically been considered to have evolved in a flash in the Ediacaran biota; filling the Cambrian explosion with the results, and a more nuanced understanding of animal evolution suggests gradual development of body plans throughout the early Palaeozoic. Recent studies in animals and plants started to investigate whether evolutionary constraints on body plan structures can explain the presence of developmental constraints during embryogenesis such as the phenomenon referred to as phylotypic stage.
^Valentine, James W. (2004). On the Origin of Phyla. University of Chicago Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0226845487.
A bodyplan, Bauplan (pl. German: Baupläne), or ground plan is a set of morphological features common to many members of a phylum of animals. The vertebrates...
takes up space Body (biology), the physical material of an organism Bodyplan, the physical features shared by a group of animals Human body, the entire...
that lived on the bottom of the ocean floor. The fossils have a fractal bodyplan and were frond shaped, meaning they resembled broad-leafed plants such...
convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like bodyplan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile...
highly proliferative clade whose members have a bilaterally symmetric bodyplan. The vast majority belong to two large superphyla: the protostomes, which...
thought of as groupings of organisms based on general specialization of bodyplan. At its most basic, a phylum can be defined in two ways: as a group of...
images of each other) during embryonic development. This means their bodyplans are laid around a longitudinal axis (rostral–caudal axis) with a front...
Three physical features separate insects from other arthropods: they have a body divided into three regions (called tagmata) (head, thorax, and abdomen),...
Supernumerary body parts are most commonly a congenital disorder involving the growth of an additional part of the body and a deviation from the bodyplan. Body parts...
synapomorphies, the notochord, which plays a significant role in chordate bodyplan structuring and movements. Chordates are also bilaterally symmetric, have...
underwater surface and secretes around its body a mineral tube, into which it can withdraw its entire body. Tubeworms are found among the following taxa:...
or monoplane bodyplan, only the pectoral fins are enlarged to provide lift. Fish with this bodyplan tend to have a more streamlined body, higher aspect...
point of attachment. In all cases, the usage of terms is dependent on the bodyplan of the organism. Anatomical terms of location in a dog Anatomical terms...
tiny, less than 1 mm (0.04 in) in length, and have a simple, unsegmented bodyplan. The small size of most species makes them easily overlooked; some species...
have bodies composed of differentiated tissues. There is also typically a digestive chamber with one or two openings to the exterior. The bodyplans of...
important evolutionary developments: the bilaterian bodyplan, the coelom, and metamerism, in which the body was built of repeated "modules" which could later...
organisms. The echinoderms are mainly distinguished from other phyla by their bodyplan and organization. While the organisms in this phylum may not all look...
are similar in bodyplan, though usually lighter in build; however, the wings of most dragonflies are held flat and away from the body, while damselflies...
environmental and physical constraints act on all life, there is an "optimum" bodyplan that life will inevitably evolve toward, with evolution bound to stumble...
manufacturing and marketing points of view in that they had the same basic bodyplan but could be differentiated by one or two distinguishing accessories....
terrestrial vertebrates have a bodyplan that consist of four limbs. The phylogenetic inertia hypothesis suggests that this bodyplan is observed, not because...
of animals which do not show any symmetry (i.e. are asymmetrical), the bodyplans of most multicellular organisms exhibit, and are defined by, some form...
Goldstein, Bob (1 January 2016). "The Compact BodyPlan of Tardigrades Evolved by the Loss of a Large Body Region". Current Biology. 26 (2): 224–229. Bibcode:2016CBio...
homeobox genes, are a group of related genes that specify regions of the bodyplan of an embryo along the head-tail axis of animals. Hox proteins encode...
but instead of experiencing complete loss of the sternum the turtle bodyplan repurposes the bone into the form of the plastron, although other analyses...
on land and in the air, marine invertebrates have a large variety of bodyplans, and have been categorised into over 30 phyla. They make up most of the...
vault of the mouth and serving to open and close it and is part of the bodyplan of humans and most animals. In arthropods, the jaws are chitinous and...
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