This movement allows for gas and nutrient exchange. An open circulatory system does not use as much energy to operate and maintain as a closed system; however, there is a trade-off with the amount of blood that can be moved to metabolically-active organs and tissues that require high levels of oxygen.
In fact, one reason that insects with wing spans of up to two feet wide 70 cm are not around today is probably because they were outmatched by the arrival of birds million years ago. Birds, having a closed circulatory system, are thought to have moved more agilely, allowing them to obtain food faster and possibly to prey on the insects. Learning Objectives Summarize circulatory system architecture. This lesson uses lac operon as an example.
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The circulatory system is effectively a network of cylindrical vessels: the arteries, veins, and capillaries that emanate from a pump, the heart. In all vertebrate organisms, as well as some invertebrates, this is a closed-loop system, in which the blood is not free in a cavity.
In a closed circulatory system , blood is contained inside blood vessels and circulates unidirectionally from the heart around the systemic circulatory route, then returns to the heart again, as illustrated in Figure As opposed to a closed system, arthropods—including insects, crustaceans, and most mollusks—have an open circulatory system, as illustrated in Figure In an open circulatory system , the blood is not enclosed in the blood vessels but is pumped into a cavity called a hemocoel and is called hemolymph because the blood mixes with the interstitial fluid.
As the heart beats and the animal moves, the hemolymph circulates around the organs within the body cavity and then reenters the hearts through openings called ostia.
This movement allows for gas and nutrient exchange. An open circulatory system does not use as much energy as a closed system to operate or to maintain; however, there is a trade-off with the amount of blood that can be moved to metabolically active organs and tissues that require high levels of oxygen. In fact, one reason that insects with wing spans of up to two feet wide 70 cm are not around today is probably because they were outcompeted by the arrival of birds million years ago.
Birds, having a closed circulatory system, are thought to have moved more agilely, allowing them to get food faster and possibly to prey on the insects. The circulatory system varies from simple systems in invertebrates to more complex systems in vertebrates. The simplest animals, such as the sponges Porifera and rotifers Rotifera , do not need a circulatory system because diffusion allows adequate exchange of water, nutrients, and waste, as well as dissolved gases, as shown in Figure Organisms that are more complex but still only have two layers of cells in their body plan, such as jellies Cnidaria and comb jellies Ctenophora also use diffusion through their epidermis and internally through the gastrovascular compartment.
Both their internal and external tissues are bathed in an aqueous environment and exchange fluids by diffusion on both sides, as illustrated in Figure Exchange of fluids is assisted by the pulsing of the jellyfish body.
For more complex organisms, diffusion is not efficient for cycling gases, nutrients, and waste effectively through the body; therefore, more complex circulatory systems evolved.
Most arthropods and many mollusks have open circulatory systems. In an open system, an elongated beating heart pushes the hemolymph through the body and muscle contractions help to move fluids. The larger more complex crustaceans, including lobsters, have developed arterial-like vessels to push blood through their bodies, and the most active mollusks, such as squids, have evolved a closed circulatory system and are able to move rapidly to catch prey.
Closed circulatory systems are a characteristic of vertebrates; however, there are significant differences in the structure of the heart and the circulation of blood between the different vertebrate groups due to adaptation during evolution and associated differences in anatomy. Figure A variety neurohormones have been shown to control regional hemolymph flow see McGaw and McMahon [ 39 ], Wilkens [ 29 ], McGaw and Reiber [ 26 ] either by direct actions on the cardioarterial valves or by altering downstream resistance of vessels [ 40 , 41 ].
Such ability to modulate cardiac function and regional blood flow rivals that of vertebrate systems [ 42 , 43 ]. In-line with physiological control mechanisms, the anatomy of the system is equally complex.
Five arterial systems seven individual vessels originate from the heart, each splitting into smaller arteries and finally into capillary-like vessels that ramify within the tissues.
Some of these vessels are similar in size diameter-wise to those of vertebrate capillaries and form a true closed loop within the brain [ 44 , 45 ] and antennal gland [ 27 ] Figure 5. Nevertheless, decapod crustaceans lack a complete venous system; instead the hemolymph collects in sinuses before flowing into large veins and back to the heart. In part, it is the presence of these sinuses that has defined the system as open.
However, recent evidence has shown them to be more complex than previously described, forming a network of lacunae with a morphology similar to capillaries [ 27 , 47 ], the only difference being the lack of a true endothelial lining. One hundred and fifty years ago Haeckel [ 48 ] proposed that no unbounded lacunae exist in the crustacean system. Major sinuses are bordered by fibrous connective tissue and the lacunae by basal lamina directly on the organ which they bathe [ 49 ].
The distinction between lacunae and capillary then becomes less distinct, suggesting a more organized structure. Thus, the definition of the open system of decapod crustaceans is really a histological term rather than a functional one.
This will clarify some of the confusion associated with the highly complex open systems with a complete series of vessels, versus those that are simple and sluggish with few associated vessels or control mechanisms. Reiber and Iain J. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Article of the Year Award: Outstanding research contributions of , as selected by our Chief Editors. Read the winning articles. Journal overview. Special Issues. Reiber 1 and Iain J. Academic Editor: Stephen Tobe. Received 03 Jul Accepted 29 Oct Published 26 Jan Figure 1. Solid lines represent defined vessels or a muscular pump or heart.
Arrows represent general patterns of blood flow. Background color is a general indicator of arterial versus venous hemolymph or blood. Figure 2. The annelid circulatory system, though a low pressure system, contains contractile vessels for pumps and a highly branched vascular system. It lacks an endothelial lining. Brusca and G. Brusca, [ 4 ]. Figure 3. The fine structure of the annelid Polycheata circulatory system. The center diagram shows the general anatomy of the segmentally based vascular system.
A cross-section through the body wall of the polycheates is shown on the left with body wall, epidermal, and coelomic vessels identified. The highly branched parapodial vasculature is outlined on the right adapted from [ 11 , 12 ].
Figure 4. A generalized schematic of the cephalopod molluscs circulatory systems top and a more anatomically correct view bottom , showing the well-developed hearts a ventricle and two branchial hearts and complex, endothelial-like lined vascular systems peripheral and branchial.
Figure 5. The cardiovascular system of decapod crustaceans is highly developed with a globular heart capable of delivering hemolymph at relatively high pressures and flows into capillary-like vessels supplying metabolically active tissues. The complexity of the decapod crustacean vasculature is seen in a corrosion cast of the antennal gland b from McGaw and Reiber [ 26 ] and a highly magnified image of the capillary like vessels serving this structure d CCA—coelomosac artery [ 27 ].
A transmission electron micrograph of a cross-section through the gills also clearly shows well-defined hemolymph channels that maximize branchial exchange c from McGaw and Reiber [ 26 ] CH—chitinous exchange surface of lamellae; HC—hemolymph channels; PC—pillar cells. References P.
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