Growth and development

[Pascale Gaudet]

unicellular growth then??

Really, bacterial growth is fine.

Pascale

At 05:25 PM 4/28/2005 +0100, Jennifer I Clark wrote:
>Hi Pascale,
>
>
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>>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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>When I said 'bacteria' I really meant single-celled organism.
>
>I meant to make two terms:
>
>1) one to cover the growth of single celled organisms, prior to division, 
>for organisms whose research community considers that that kind of growth 
>is part of development
>2) one to cover the growth of single celled organisms, prior to division, 
>for organisms whose research community considers that that kind of growth 
>is _not_ part of development
>
>Does that help?
>
>Jen
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>
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>>??
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>>Pascale
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>>At 12:00 PM 4/28/2005 -0400, David Hill wrote:
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>>>I think this is consistent with what we were thinking.
>>>
>>>David
>>>
>>>J Clark wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>It sounds as if we have a proposal here.
>>>>
>>>>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).
>>>>
>>>>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:
>>>>
>>>>[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
>>>>
>>>>Is this a reasonable summary of the proposal we have?
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Jen
>>>>
>>>>P.S. I have now added documentation to the website on the difference 
>>>>between differentiation and cell development.
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>>>
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>>>David P. Hill, Ph.D.
>>>Senior Scientific Curator
>>>Gene Expression Database
>>>Gene Ontology Consortium
>>>Mouse Genome Informatics
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