AmiGO 2: Term Details for "egg chorion" (GO:0042600)

Accession: GO:0042600
Name: egg chorion
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A protective, noncellular membrane that surrounds the eggs of various animals including insects and fish. Source: ISBN:0721662544, GOC:jl
Comment: Note that this term does not refer to the extraembryonic membrane surrounding the embryo of amniote vertebrates as this is an anatomical structure and is therefore not covered by GO.
History: See term history for GO:0042600 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: goslim_pir
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to egg chorion (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to egg chorion (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for egg chorion (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
egg chorion	is_a	external encapsulating structure (GO:0030312)

subject	relation	object
chrorion micropyle (GO:0070825)	BFO:0000050	egg chorion
structural constituent of egg chorion (GO:0005213)	BFO:0000066	egg chorion
egg chorion assembly (GO:0007306)	RO:0002588	egg chorion

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