Review annotations under GO:0044703 multi-organism reproductive process

[hattrill]

Q from Pascal: "For some reason GO:0044703 multi-organism reproductive process is in the fly slim; any reason for this? I’d like to obsolete the term, in part because it looks like many children of GO:0022414 reproductive process should in fact be children of ‘multi-organism reproductive process’, but are not, as as it is, it’s not a useful grouping class. Also, we don’t have the corresponding ‘single-organism reproductive process’ – what would it be? Asexual reproductive process? "

A from me: "The reason I chose this is that I didn't want reproduction - in terms of all the spermy/eggy things (flies have lot of of things purely for sex) to be mixed up with the bahavioural stuff (mainly brain) and meiotic cell cycle and so GO:0044703 provides a nice split point - for us these processes are separate in time, place and evolutionary pressures."

Talked with Pascale and Val about this and we agreed that we could probably more things under sexual reproduction and obsolete this class so that the cell cycle, behavioural and spermy/eggy things could be distinguished.

Task

• [ ] Review and move annotations under GO:0044703

[hattrill]

See github tickets: Obsolete multi-organism process & 'multi-organism' descendant classes Obsoletion notice: 'multicellular organism reproduction' and 'reproduction of a single-celled organism'

[hattrill]

GO:0032504 multicellular organism reproduction GO:0044703 multi-organism reproductive process are in fly slim

GO:0044703 multi-organism reproductive process - no direct annotations

• [x] GO:0032504 multicellular organism reproduction are from HEP from accessory gland proteomics - could move these to 'sexual reproduction'.

• [x] check where sperm competition is in GO - looks like QuickGO might be lagging behind updates to GO. Shouldn't be part of behavoiur branch.

• [ ] revise fly slim

[hattrill]

Emailed Pascale/Val: "I think that I can move most/all of the annotations to GO:0032504 multicellular organism reproduction to GO:0019953 sexual reproduction.

Looking at things under GO:0007617 mating behaviour, could you move GO:0046692 sperm competition to under the sexual reproduction branch, as it's not part of a behaviour.

Also, could I request that GO:0007321 sperm displacement be obsoleted - this is more of a mechanical/fluid mechanics thing, rather than molecular or behavioural. Only one annotation - a TAS from PINC."

[hattrill]

Asked Alex to: Replace annotations to:

GO:0032504 multicellular organism reproduction

with

GO:0019953 sexual reproduction

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