Bibliographic record
Abstract
Vestimentifera inhabit hydrothermal vents, cold-water seeps and other marine reducing habitats. The objectives of this study were to analyse phylogenetic relationships among the extant species and their affinities to perviate and moniliferan Pogonophora and Polychaeta. The phylogeny was reconstructed using morphological characters to test phylogenetic hypotheses based on molecular data. Morphological characters were partly extracted from the literature and partly gained throughout study of gross morphological and anatomical investigations and light, transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Three aspects of morphology were examined in detail in nine vestimentiferan species. The excretory system differs among the vestimentiferan species in the number of excretory pores, absence/presence of excretory papillae and grooves and shape of the excretory ducts. The anatomy of the excretory system resembles that shared by the polychaete families Serpulidae, Sabellidae and Sabellariidae. Chaetal ultrastructure and chaetogenesis show patterns similar to uncini in polychaetes. Contrary to published accounts, the septa dividing the opisthosomal segments only bear musculature on their posterior faces. A rudimentary gut and anus are present in opisthosomes of specimens up to adult size. The blood vascular system includes an intravasal body in the dorsal vessel with ultrastructural characteristics similar to intravasal tissue in Terebellidae, Ampharetidae, Flabelligeridae and Serpulidae, and is probably involved in hemoglobin production. Hemocytes were detected in many blood vessels, most of them attached to the vascular lamina. The sinus valvatus is a specialised region of the anterior ventral vessel, apparently unique to vestimentiferans. The wall of the dorsal vessel is formed by myoepithelial cells, representing a coelomyarian type of double obliquely striated musculature. Phylogenetic analyses including a total of 17 vestimentiferan species and three perviate species as outgroups support molecular interpretations that the vestimentiferan species inhabiting basalt-hosted vents of the Eastern Pacific represent a derived monophyletic clade. According to the reconstructed phylogeny, the ancestral habitat of Vestimentifera was deep-water sedimented vent sites in the Western Pacific. Analysis of the relationships among Pogonophora and six polychaete families placed Pogonophora at the base of a clade including Sabellidae, Serpulidae and Sabellariidae. The Oweniidae represent the sister group to this clade.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".