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VERTEBRATE TRAIT ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Vertebrate Trait Ontology (VT) is being developed as a collaborative effort between the Rat Genome Database at the Medical College of Wisconsin (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu), Mouse Genome Informatics at the Jackson Laboratory (http://www.informatics.jax.org/) and the Animal QTL database at Iowa State University (http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/index). For more information about this vocabulary, or to request additions or changes, please contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:pituitary gland development trait
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Accession:VT:0003816 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any measurable or observable characteristic related to the morphology or physiology during formation and differentiation of the compound gland suspended from the base of the hypothalamus, which secretes somatotropins, prolactin, TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone), gonadotropins, and adrenal corticotropin.


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  vertebrate trait 4
    organ system trait 4
      endocrine/exocrine system trait 0
        gland development trait 0
          pituitary gland development trait 0
            Rathke's pouch morphology trait 0
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