[Go] sporulation rearrangement

Pankaj Jaiswal pj37 at cornell.edu
Fri Jun 13 06:36:41 PDT 2008



Midori Harris wrote:
> I much prefer the original proposal over these suggested changes -- 
> GO:0030435 is defined as a cellular process, so it's better to make its 
> name match its meaning than change the meaning.
> 

At some point majority of BP terms are cellular. In this particular case 
the tree is being modified/corrected to identify the multicellular form. 
Therefore the term names must identify cellular (generic) to uni/multi 
cellular forms. You may want to consult Barry on this.

> 'Multicellular' and 'syncytial' are not synonymous, so maybe there 
> should be two new sporulation terms, but we certainly shouldn't have one 
> term with 'multicellular' in the name and 'syncytial' in an exact synonym.
> 
Not an exact synonym but a related/narrow synonym considering they are 
structures with multi-nucleate cells formed by the fusion of neighboring 
cells.


Pankaj


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