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mx id: 865 | OBO id: HAO:0000933 | URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HAO_0000933

sensillum

Definition:

A sense organ embedded in the integument and consisting of one or a cluster of sensory neurons and associated sensory structures, support cells and glial cells forming a single organized unit with a largely bona fide boundary.

written by: Tweedie, S., M. Ashburner, K. Falls, P. Leyland, P. McQuilton, S. Marygold, G. Millburn, D. Osumi-Sutherland, A. Schroeder, R. Seal, H. Zhang, and The FlyBase Consortium. 2009. FlyBase: enhancing Drosophila Gene Ontology annotations. Nucleic Acids Research 37:D555-D559.

Relationships / properties:

The sensillum is a sense organ.

The sensillum is part of the body.

sensillum by Tweedie, S., M. Ashburner, K. Falls, P. Leyland, P. McQuilton, S. Marygold, G. Millburn, D. Osumi-Sutherland, A. Schroeder, R. Seal, H. Zhang, and The FlyBase Consortium. 2009. FlyBase: enhancing Drosophila Gene Ontology annotations. Nucleic Acids Research 37:D555-D559.

xref added over 15 years ago by Istvan Miko

Reference: Miko, I. 2009. -2019 Curator. Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology.
Cross reference: FBbt:00007152

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