Growth and Development

Russ Collins rtc26 at gen.cam.ac.uk
Thu Jun 23 03:49:05 PDT 2005


Hi Jen,

imaginal disc growth ; GO:0007446 (and its children) should move to 
developmental growth:

developmental growth ; GO:0048589
----% imaginal disc growth ; GO:0007446

That's all I see at the moment,

Russ




> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have just implemented the proposal to take growth out from 
> under development and make the new single cell terms (as 
> detailed at the bottom of this mail).
> 
> Would it be possible to check the growth terms that apply to 
> your species of interest and tell me if any connections need 
> to be made to the development terms? I guess some will be 'x 
> growth' and some may be 'x developmental growth'. If we can 
> figure out which are 'x developmental growth' then I can 
> make the necessary connections.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> New terms added:
> 
>   [Term]
>   id: GO:0048588
>   name: developmental growth of a unicellular organism
>   namespace: biological_process
> def: "The growth of a single celled organism prior
> to division\, where growth is aimed at the
> progression of the organism over time from one
> condition to another." [GO:curators]
>   is_a: GO:0016049 ! cell growth
>   is_a: GO:0048589 ! developmental growth
>   relationship: part_of GO:0008283 ! cell proliferation
>   relationship: part_of GO:0048468 ! cell development
> 
>   [Term]
>   id: GO:0048589
>   name: developmental growth
>   namespace: biological_process
>   def: "The increase in size or mass of an entire
>   organism\, a part of an organism or a cell \,
>   where the increase in size or mass is aimed at
>   the progression of the organism over time from
>   one condition to another." [GO:curators]
>   is_a: GO:0007275 ! development
>   is_a: GO:0040007 ! growth
> 
>   [Term]
>   id: GO:0048590
>   name: non-developmental growth
>   namespace: biological_process
>   def: "The increase in size or mass of an entire
>   organism\, a part of an organism or a cell \,
>   where the increase in size or mass is not aimed
>   at the progression of the organism over t ime
>   from one condition to another." [GO:curators]
>   is_a: GO:0040007 ! growth
> 
>   [Term]
>   id: GO:0048591
>   name: non-developmental growth of a unicellular organism
>   namespace: biological_process
>   def: "The growth of a single celled organism
>   prior to division\, where the growth does not
>   change the organism from one condition to another
>   condition over time." [GO:curators]
>   is_a: GO:0016049 ! cell growth
>   is_a: GO:0048590 ! non-developmental growth
>   relationship: part_of GO:0008283 ! cell proliferation
> 
> 
> -- 
> EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute,
> Gene Ontology Consortium,
> and Wolfson College, Cambridge.
> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~jclark/
> 

Russell Collins

Gene Ontology Curator, FlyBase
Department of Genetics
University of Cambridge




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