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An ontology of gross anatomy covering metazoa. Works in concert with https://github.com/obophenotype/cell-ontology
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Are molar and incisor terms mammal-specific? #221

Closed balhoff closed 3 years ago

balhoff commented 11 years ago

The definitions for 'molar tooth' and 'incisor tooth' seem to restrict these to mammals. However see the sheepshead fish (Archosargus probatocephalus):

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2013/03/21/the-sheepshead-fish-has-human-teeth-but-its-okay-because-it-wont-give-you-a-psychedelic-crisis/

cc @wdahdul

cmungall commented 11 years ago

The exiting defs could do with updating. Even though there is no explicit taxon restriction the defs do suggest mammal specificity.

We need a tooth expert to help with the defimitions

cc @skansa

alex-dececchi commented 11 years ago

Some archosaurs also have very mammalian like dentition, including incisors I believe, so we really should get a tooth expert. Unfortunately tooth experts are likely to be mammal centric, so we should then run it by Paul to ensure that we do not artificially restrict terms to clades. Alex

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Chris Mungall notifications@github.comwrote:

The exiting defs could do with updating. Even though there is no explicit taxon restriction the defs do suggest mammal specificity.

We need a tooth expert to help with the defimitions

cc @skansa https://github.com/skansa

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/cmungall/uberon/issues/221#issuecomment-15281295 .

wdahdul commented 11 years ago

yes, some fish also have molar-like teeth, as in Jim's example. I can provide more examples and check if there's any fish-specific terminology to include.

On Mar 22, 2013, at 9:33 AM, alex-dececchi wrote:

Some archosaurs also have very mammalian like dentition, including incisors I believe, so we really should get a tooth expert. Unfortunately tooth experts are likely to be mammal centric, so we should then run it by Paul to ensure that we do not artificially restrict terms to clades. Alex

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Chris Mungall notifications@github.comwrote:

The exiting defs could do with updating. Even though there is no explicit taxon restriction the defs do suggest mammal specificity.

We need a tooth expert to help with the defimitions

cc @skansa https://github.com/skansa

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/cmungall/uberon/issues/221#issuecomment-15281295 .

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

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