#11140 NTR: tail spike morphogenesis

[KM Van Auken]

Hi--

Following on from our previous item on nematode tail morphogenesis terms, I'd like to request a new term specifically to annotate genes that are involved in formation of the nematode tail spike, initially found in both sexes.

-anatomical structure morphogenesis (GO:0009653)
--[I]tail spike morphogenesis (GO:new)

Proposed definition: The process in which the nematode tail spike is generated and organized. In C. elegans, the tapered tail spike is formed during embryogenesis by a filamentous process that passes posteriorly through hyp10, the tail ventral hypodermis; the filamentous process is formed by a binucleate cell, the tail-spike cell, that subsequently undergoes programmed cell death.

References:
PMID:6684600
PMID:17329362

Xrefs:
WBbt:0008072
WBbt:0006979

Thanks,
--Kimberly

[Jane Lomax]

Added:

GO:1990522 Label: tail spike morphogenesis