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Project hosting resources used for annotating relations of similarity between anatomical structures
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Ctenophores have anal pores, are they homologous? #15

Closed cmungall closed 8 years ago

cmungall commented 8 years ago

anal pore in cteno: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CTENO_0000033

New evidence that this is functionally an anus: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/why-watching-comb-jellies-poop-has-stunned-evolutionary-biologists

No publication yet, this is a report of a meeting Ctenopolooza (which is an awesome name, and looks like it was a fascinating meeting too, cc @beroe).

Of course, even with evidence that this is functionally an anus, it doesn't follow it's homologous to the bilaterian anus (if the bilaterian anus is homologous..), but it seems a possible hypothesis that should be recorded in bgee)

ANiknejad commented 8 years ago

Thank you, Chris, now this amazing stuff is recorded. Cheers, Anne