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Subdivisions of the autopod

Chris Mungall edited this page Jul 10, 2013 · 2 revisions

Autopod subdivisions

Status: initial draft

Authors and contributors:

  • Nizar Ibrahim (contributor)
  • Chris Mungall (contributor)

Date: 2012

Document Type: biological_modeling

Abstract

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We consider the autopod as consisting of 3 segments, divided according to the following jointly-exhaustive mutually-disjoint part-hierarchy, listed distal to proximal

  • skeleton of autopod (aka 'autopod')
    • skeleton of acropodium (aka 'acropodium')
    • metapodium skeleton (aka 'metapodium')
    • mesopodium skeleton (aka 'mesopodium')

Note that in this document and in the ontology we currently use the unambiguous skeletal-prefixed terms, and phenoscape-preferred terms in parentheses.

Hoever, it is also possible to first group the acropodium and metapodium - confusingly, this is sometimes called the acropodium (e.g. Wagner and Chin 2001). We accomodate this group, and introduce a new label 'digitopodium' (Ibrahim and Sereno) to group the proximal-most two elements

This gives us a second hierarchy (also part-wise JEPD):

  • skeleton of autopod (aka 'autopod')
    • skeleton of digitopodium (aka 'digitopodium', 'acropodium (Wagner)')
      • skeleton of acropodium (aka 'acropodium')
      • metapodium skeleton (aka 'metapodium')
    • mesopodium skeleton (aka 'mesopodium')

This second hierarchy is consistent with the first, but includes an additional mereological sum for grouping purposes

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