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CROSS-SPECIES ANATOMY - ANNOTATIONS

The Basic subset of the UBERON integrated, cross-species anatomy ontology is downloaded weekly from http://berkeleybop.org/ontologies/uberon/basic.obo. For more information about this ontology see the "About" page on the UBERON website at http://uberon.github.io/about.html.
Term:ear
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Definition:Sense organ in vertebrates that is specialized for the detection of sound, and the maintenance of balance. Includes the outer ear and middle ear, which collect and transmit sound waves; and the inner ear, which contains the organs of balance and (except in fish) hearing. Also includes the pinna, the visible part of the outer ear, present in some mammals.
Comment:[homology-note] "Both vertebrate and invertebrate auditory organs are thought to have evolved from primitive mechanosensors, but the nature of the ancestral structure and the evolutionary trajectories followed in distinct animal lineages remain unknown. In particular, we do not know how many types of mechanosensor existed in the protostome-deuterostome ancestor from which insects and vertebrates evolved or whether the PDA had an auditory organ.[well established][VHOG]" xsd:string {date_retrieved="2012-09-17", external_class="VHOG:0000330", ontology="VHOG", source="DOI:10.1002/dvdy.20207 Boekhoff-Falk G, Hearing in Drosophila: Development of Johnston's organ and emerging parallels to vertebrate ear development. Developmental Dynamics (2005)", source="http://bgee.unil.ch/"}
Synonyms:related_synonym: auditory apparatus;   auris
 xref: AAO:0011014;   BTO:0000368;   CALOHA:TS-1165;   EFO:0000826;   EHDAA2:0000423;   EHDAA:502;   EMAPA:16193;   EV:0100353;   FMA:52780;   GAID:62;   MA:0000236;   MAT:0000138;   MESH:D004423;   MIAA:0000138;   NCI:C12394;   SCTID:1910005;   UMLS:C0013443;   UMLS:C0521421;   VHOG:0000330;   Wikipedia:Ear;   XAO:0000189;   birnlex:1062;   galen:Ear
 relational_adjective: auricular


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  UBERON ontology 0
    anatomical entity 0
      material anatomical entity 0
        anatomical structure 0
          structure with developmental contribution from neural crest 0
            ear 0
              auditory bulla + 0
              ear epithelium + 0
              external ear + 0
              internal ear + 0
              left ear 0
              middle ear + 0
              otic opercular element 0
              otic placode + 0
              right ear 0
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  UBERON ontology 0
    anatomical entity 0
      material anatomical entity 0
        anatomical structure 0
          multicellular anatomical structure 0
            multicellular organism 0
              organism subdivision 0
                main body axis 0
                  body proper 0
                    craniocervical region 0
                      head 0
                        ear 0
                          auditory bulla + 0
                          ear epithelium + 0
                          external ear + 0
                          internal ear + 0
                          left ear 0
                          middle ear + 0
                          otic opercular element 0
                          otic placode + 0
                          right ear 0
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