AmiGO 2: Term Details for "sperm midpiece" (GO:0097225)

Accession: GO:0097225
Name: sperm midpiece
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The highly organized segment of the sperm flagellum which begins at the connecting piece and is characterized by the presence of 9 outer dense fibers (ODFs) that lie outside each of the 9 outer axonemal microtubule doublets and by a sheath of mitochondria that encloses the ODFs and the axoneme; the midpiece terminates about one-fourth of the way down the sperm flagellum at the annulus, which marks the beginning of the principal piece. Source: GOC:cjm, MP:0009831
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0097225 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
sperm midpiece	RO:0002162	Eukaryota (NCBITaxon:2759)
sperm midpiece	is_a	cellular anatomical entity (GO:0110165)
sperm midpiece	BFO:0000050	sperm flagellum (GO:0036126)

subject	relation	object
sperm mitochondrial sheath (GO:0097226)	BFO:0000050	sperm midpiece

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