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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:head somite
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Accession:UBERON:0005594 term browser browse the term
Definition:Somite located in the head region, caudal to the otic vesicle.
Comment:[development-note] "They provide the epaxial and hypaxial muscles of the neck, the pharyngeal and laryngeal muscles that develop in the caudal branchial arches and the musculature of the tongue. Despite their localisation in the head, myogenic precursors from occipital somites essentially follow the trunk programmes (E. H. Walters and S. D., unpublished). during evolution, have been secondarily incorporated into the head (Gans and Northcutt, 1983)" xsd:string {source="PMID:11830559"}; [taxon-note] "in humans this includes somites 1-4"
Synonyms:exact_synonym: occipital somite
 related_synonym: cranial somite
 xref: EHDAA2:0003437;   EMAPA:16172;   XAO:0000313



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  UBERON ontology 0
    anatomical entity 0
      material anatomical entity 0
        developing anatomical structure 0
          embryonic structure 0
            head somite 0
              future diaphragm + 0
              tongue muscle + 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
              embryo 0
                embryonic structure 0
                  presumptive structure 0
                    presumptive paraxial mesoderm 0
                      paraxial mesoderm 0
                        trunk paraxial mesoderm 0
                          presumptive segmental plate 0
                            presomitic mesoderm 0
                              somite 0
                                head somite 0
                                  future diaphragm + 0
                                  tongue muscle + 0
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