Growth and development

[Tanya Berardini]

Yes, this sounds ok.  What do you say, Chris?

Tanya

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, J Clark wrote:

> 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:
>
> [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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