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The Tree of Sex Ontology (TOSO) covers any trait related to reproduction included in the Tree of Sex database
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Add new term: ploidy #23

Open KamilSJaron opened 3 months ago

KamilSJaron commented 3 months ago

In which category is your new term request?

Preferred term label

ploidy

Synonyms

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Textual definition

A cellular quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's number of homologous sets of chromosomes in the nucleus or primary chromosome-containing compartment of the cell, each set essentially coding for all the biological traits of the organism.

Suggested parent term

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Attribution

0000-0003-1470-5450

Additional context

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Code of Conduct

KamilSJaron commented 3 months ago

work in progress, please don't do anything now.

ccaio commented 2 weeks ago

as an instance add: predicted ploidy: Ploidy estimate based on phylogeny or other algorithms rather than defined by direct cell observation of chromosomes. Examples include:

  1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2128-z
  2. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syp083
  3. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11606
  4. (check also strategies employed by the Kew Gardens staff to estimate ploidy based on genome size and closely related taxa observations).