Growth and development

[David Hill]

Whoah, I missed this too. There shouldn't be a bacterial growth sensu dicty!

David

Pascale Gaudet wrote:

> 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.
>
> ??
>
> Pascale
>
> At 12:00 PM 4/28/2005 -0400, David Hill wrote:
>
>> 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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>> -- 
>> David P. Hill, Ph.D.
>> Senior Scientific Curator
>> Gene Expression Database
>> Gene Ontology Consortium
>> Mouse Genome Informatics
>> The Jackson Laboratory
>> 600 Main Street
>> Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1500
>> tel:207-288-6430
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-- 
David P. Hill, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Curator
Gene Expression Database
Gene Ontology Consortium
Mouse Genome Informatics
The Jackson Laboratory
600 Main Street
Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1500
tel:207-288-6430
htpp://www.informatics.jax.org