Growth and development

[Pascale Gaudet]

I am sorry, I think I missed a part of this.

Why can't we have "growth prior to division " rather than "bacterial growth 
prior to division"?
The terms "bacterial growth, sensu eukaryotes" seems a bit counter-intuitive.

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Pascale

At 12:00 PM 4/28/2005 -0400, David Hill wrote:
>I think this is consistent with what we were thinking.
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>David
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>J Clark wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>It sounds as if we have a proposal here.
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>>Currently we are saying that some species research groups define the 
>>relationship between growth and development differently from other 
>>species research groups.
>>e.g. one group may say that the growth that occurs prior to bacterial 
>>division is developmental growth (e.g. pombe), whilst other research 
>>groups say that that kind of growth is not developmental growth (e.g. dicty).
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>>The way were suggesting we'll deal with this is to represent individual 
>>instances of growth according to the view of the relevant research 
>>community and that we'll clarify things by adding synonyms. If a term 'x 
>>growth' needs to have a development parent as well as a growth parent 
>>then I add an exact synonym 'x developmental growth'. If a term 'x 
>>growth' does not need a development parent then it does not get the 
>>synonym. It seems to me that we might also need a sensu term as follows:
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>>[i]development
>>---[p]developmental growth
>>------[i]bacterial growth prior to division (sensu pombe?)
>>     exact_synonym: bacterial developmental growth prior         to division
>>[i]growth
>>---[i]bacterial growth prior to division (sensu dicty)
>>---[i]developmental growth
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>>Is this a reasonable summary of the proposal we have?
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>>Chris: Would you be happy with the idea that one bacterial species may 
>>get a developmental parent for the growth it carries out prior to 
>>division, whilst another bacterial species will not? Would that addition 
>>of the synonym help with obol?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Jen
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>>P.S. I have now added documentation to the website on the difference 
>>between differentiation and cell development.
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