Growth and development

[Pascale Gaudet]

I am not sure why we need the 'prior to division' bit??

At 02:20 PM 5/25/2005 +0100, J Clark wrote:
>Hi Pascale,
>
>Yes that seems like a good plan. I could add that parentage.
>
>Do you think the term string is okay as it is or could we have a less 
>clunky version?
>
>Jen
>
>Pascale Gaudet wrote:
>
>>Jennifer,
>>This may be a bit off topic, but how does this term relates to 'cell 
>>proliferation'? In the case of Dictyostelium, unicellular organism growth 
>>should probably be a child of cell proliferation (if the definition of 
>>cell proliferation gets fixed to remove the "rapid expansion" bit).
>>Pascale
>>
>>At 03:05 PM 5/24/2005 +0100, J Clark wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've written to Chris several times over the last few weeks to ask if he 
>>>agrees with this proposal and I think he must just be too busy to get 
>>>back to us. In order not to hold things up any longer I propose now to 
>>>implement the proposal below (previous e-mail) in some form.
>>>
>>>Does anybody have any ideas for the term strings and sensu taxa for 
>>>these terms?
>>>
>>>Term: unicellular organism growth prior to division    (sensu x)
>>>exact_synonym: unicellular organism developmental growth
>>>prior to division
>>>def: The growth of single celled organisms, prior to division, for 
>>>organisms whose research community considers that that kind of growth 
>>>_is_ part of development.
>>>
>>>
>>>Term: unicellular organism growth prior to division
>>>(sensu y)
>>>def: 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Jen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>J Clark wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>I have rewritten the proposal clarifying the two terms of interest.
>>>>Does this seem like a better representation?
>>>>If it does then would Chris be happy with the use of a sensu 
>>>>designation so high up in the DAG?
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Jen
>>>>
>>>>Proposal:
>>>>Currently we are saying that some species research groups that study 
>>>>single celled organisms
>>>>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
>>>>  division of the single celled organsim 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 we're 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]unicellular organism growth prior to division
>>>>          (sensu x)
>>>>[i]growth
>>>>---[i]unicellular organism growth prior to division
>>>>       (sensu y)
>>>>---[i]developmental growth
>>>>
>>>>Term: unicellular organism growth prior to division
>>>>       (sensu x)
>>>>exact_synonym: unicellular organism developmental growth
>>>>              prior to division
>>>>def: The growth of single celled organisms, prior to division, for 
>>>>organisms whose research community considers that that kind of growth 
>>>>_is_ part of development.
>>>>
>>>>Term: unicellular organism growth prior to division
>>>>       (sensu y)
>>>>def: 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute,
>>>Gene Ontology Consortium,
>>>and Wolfson College, Cambridge.
>>>http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~jclark/
>>
>
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>EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute,
>Gene Ontology Consortium,
>and Wolfson College, Cambridge.
>http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~jclark/