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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:vomeronasal organ morphology trait
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Accession:VT:0002243 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any measurable or observable characteristic related to the shape, structure, color or pattern of the specialized portion of the nasal septum that is composed of chemosensitive cells and lies anteriorly in the nasal cavity.
Comment:this organ is believed to function in sensing pheromones



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  vertebrate trait 2911
    organ system trait 1991
      respiratory system trait 12
        respiratory system morphology trait 0
          nose morphology trait 0
            nasal septum morphology trait 0
              vomeronasal organ morphology trait 0
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  vertebrate trait 2911
    organism subdivision trait 211
      head trait 22
        head morphology trait 22
          craniofacial morphology trait 22
            facial morphology trait 22
              nose morphology trait 0
                nasal septum morphology trait 0
                  vomeronasal organ morphology trait 0
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