Dear GO Consortium members,<br><br>I am curating at AspGD and am wondering what your policy is on adding new cell wall terms for Aspergillus. During asexual development, Aspergillus generates conidiophores that consist of several types of individual specialized cells. These cells are conidia/spores, phialides, metulae (phialides and metulae are also known as sterigmata), vesicle cells and stalks. I am curating a paper in which the protein of interest is localized specifically to the cell walls of the conidia and the phialides within the conidiophore (PMID14599891). <br>
<br>I am wondering if it would be appropriate to request new cell wall terms under Cellular Component specifically for these cell types ("spore cell wall" and "phialide
cell wall"). Currently there is a term "fungal-type cell wall" and terms for more specialized cells walls such as "yeast form cell wall" and "hyphal cell wall." Within the Aspergilli, the individual cells of the conidiophore are developmentally distinct from hyphal cells so I think it might be appropriate to add these terms.<br>
<br>Please let me know what your policy is on adding these terms.<br><br>Thank you!<br><br>Diane Inglis<br>*********************************<br>Diane O. Inglis, Ph.D.<br>Scientific Curator, Candida and Aspergillus Genome Databases<br>
Department of Genetics<br>Stanford University School of Medicine<br>Stanford, CA 94305-5120<br>Phone: 650-736-0075<br><a href="http://www.candidagenome.org/">http://www.candidagenome.org/</a><br><a href="http://www.aspgd.org/">http://www.aspgd.org/</a><br>
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