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Progress: Now using PATO to classify muscles according to striation type. This
brings myotube under striated muscle.
Adding 'somatic muscle cell' will require the addition of a somatic muscle term
to Uberon.
Arthropod somatic muscles are similar to vertebrate skeletal muscles
(multinucleate, transversely striated) and are often referred to as myotube
(https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=arthropod+myotube&oq=arthropod+myotube).
They also share a lot of GO annotations. I suggest using myotube as a
general term covering multinucleate, transversely striated muscle cells, and
using 'skeletal muscle fiber' for the myotubes of vertebrate muscles.
Arthropod somatic muscles can be covered by a class 'somatic muscle myotube'
that does explicitly mention taxa:
myotube
% skeletal muscle fiber
% somatic muscle myotube
somatic muscle
% transversely striated somatic muscle
% somatic muscle myotube
% obliquely striated somatic muscle # (examples include the somatic muscles of nematodes)
Any objections?
Original comment by dosu...@gmail.com
on 27 Sep 2013 at 2:06
More progress:
General class 'non-striated muscle'. Smooth muscle is reserved for vertebrates.
Bitten the bullet - broadened myotube to include arthropod somatic muscle as
described above. Will now be important to look over myoblast fusion in GO -
may need some more specific terms for myoblast fusion in skeletal muscle dev.
See https://sourceforge.net/p/geneontology/ontology-requests/10400/
Also added striated visceral muscle classes. Now closing ticket
Original comment by dosu...@gmail.com
on 27 Sep 2013 at 4:11
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
dosu...@gmail.com
on 9 Sep 2013 at 4:02