term for movement

[gocentral]

Wondering whether a very general term for movement would be appropriate? I need a term or terms for defining phenotypes involving hyperactivity, hypoactivity and paralysis. It seems to me that locomotion is too specific:

id: GO:0040011 name: locomotion namespace: biological_process "def: "Self-propelled movement of a cell or organism from one location to another." [GOC:dgh]"

I can move without changing my location (although I guess all movement involves some change in location of some part of me...)

Reported by: dosumis

Original Ticket: geneontology/ontology-requests/7689

[gocentral]

Hi David,

There is a term for movement GO:0050879 multicellular organismal movement (it doesn't have many children)

Maybe what is also required is a grouping term for "locomotion in a multicellualr organism" under this term

i.e movement --multicellular organismal movement ----multicellular organismal locomotion ------various existing terms, i.e. flight ?

movement -locomotion ----multicellular organismal locomotion ------various existing terms, i.e. flight ?

to get the locomotion terms under the movement term

Original comment by: ValWood

[gocentral]

Hi David - this did come up fairly recently when someone needed to annotate flagella movement I think. A generic movement term was deemed too broad for GO, so we made sure there were terms for cell movement (cell motility ; GO:0048870) and multicellular org movement (GO:0050879 multicellular organismal movement).

Vals' right though, there doesn't seem to be a term specifically for multicellular org locomotion i.e. the movement of a whole multicellular org from one place to another - there's just the generic locomotion term that covers cells and multicellular orgs. I'll add that.

Presumably though, you can use 'GO:0050879 multicellular organismal movement' for your phenotype annotation?

Original comment by: jl242

[gocentral]

I agree, it sounds like you can refer to GO:0050879 for those movement phenotypes. I've also added 'multicellular organismal locomotion' GO:0071965.

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Original comment by: mah11

[gocentral]

• milestone: --> FlyBase
• assigned_to: nobody --> gomidori
• status: open --> closed-works-for-me

Original comment by: mah11