loading...| Preferred Name |
primary circulatory organ |
| Synonyms |
heart dorsal tube adult heart |
| Definitions |
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood or analogs[GO,modified]. Gene notes: Bmp, Nkx, Gata |
| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0007100 |
| comment |
Gene notes: Bmp, Nkx, Gata |
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| database_cross_reference |
TADS:0000147 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/313/5795/1922/F1.large.jpg SPD:0000130 |
| definition |
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood or analogs[GO,modified]. |
| has narrow synonym |
heart dorsal tube |
| has part | |
| has related synonym |
adult heart |
| has_obo_namespace |
uberon |
| id |
UBERON:0007100 |
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| label |
primary circulatory organ |
| notation |
UBERON:0007100 |
| prefLabel |
primary circulatory organ |
| taxon_notes |
note we reserve the subclass 'heart' from the vertebrate multi-chambered heart. 'The first heart-like organ is believed to have appeared 500my ago in an ancestral bilaterian'. Amniotes: four-chambered heart. Amphibians: two atria, one ventricle, pulmonary; fish: single atrium and ventricle; amphioxus: tubular, non-striated, closed, unidirectional; ascidians: tubular, striated, open, bidirectional; arthropods: tubular, open; C elegans: contractile pharynx; Cnideria: striated muscle cells associated with gastrodermis |
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