Finished Work
Finished Work
Tail tip morphogenesis
Comments:
The tail tip morphogenesis term appears to refer to morphogenesis of the nematode tail tip resulting in development of reproductive structures. Such a process does not occur in fish or vertebrates that I can think of. Fish won't need this term, so I think the resolution of this term can be left to Kimberly's discretion.
-Doug
Plan
For the tail tip morphogenesis term, I think that we can remove the sensu Nematoda suffix without any problems.
--Kimberly
Chromosome
chromosome organization and biogenesis (sensu Bacteria)
chromosome organization and biogenesis (sensu Eukaryota)
People:
Michelle
Jim Hu
Eurie
Questions:
What are the distinguishing features?
Do we lump mitochondrial and plastid with bacterial?
Plan:
Michelle speaking - It seems to me that these processes are really the same - yes different genes and proteins are involved in the different types of organism, but I don't see why there needs to be separate terms. Can these just be merged into their parent? I think you would want to keep mitochondrial and plastid terms separate as they are "auxillary" chromosomes, not the primary genome of the organism (not that they aren't important).
Eurie: I think these might be able to be merged. I think there is evidence for nucleosome-like particles in bacteria now. You guys can correct me if I'm wrong but bacterial chromosomes attaches to the cell wall? Eukaryotic chromosomes attach to the nuclear lamina at various points during the cell cycle. So as long as there wasn't any cell wall vs. nuclear lamina type terms that are children, should be ok.
cell polarity - DONE
establishment and/or maintenance of cell polarity (sensu Fungi)
establishment of cell polarity (sensu Fungi)
maintenance of cell polarity (sensu Fungi)
People:
David
Midori
Rex
Questions:
Plan:
Merge these terms with their non-sensu parents. Fungal cell polarity is the model system for everything on polarity.
Val confirms that merges also work for pombe; see SF 1796071.
Merge done 2007-09-18. [mah]
pigment
pigment cell differentiation (sensu Nematoda and Protostomia)
pigment cell differentiation (sensu Vertebrata)
People:
Kimberly
David
Doug
Victora
Susan Tweedie
Becky Foulger
Questions:
Should we have a sensu designation or should we just enumerate the types of pigment cells underneath the parent pigment term.
Look to the cell ontology for guidance.
Comments:
I vote for a single pigment cell differentiation parent term with individual cell type-specific differentiation terms as children. Merge the sensu Vertebrata (GO:0043358) and sensu Nematoda and Protostomia (GO:0043357) terms with 'pigment cell differentiation' (GO:0050931).
-Doug
A single, merged term should be okay with us, too. C. elegans doesn't really have pigment cells, so we will probably not annotate to this term anyway.
--Kimberly
I'm happy for a single term too. We haven't used this sensu term - our only current annotation is to the generic term.
-Susan
Plan: