A light sensing organ composed of ommatidia. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_eye http://flybase.org/reports/gg.html ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
database
cross reference
- BTO:0001921
- HAO:0000217
- TGMA:0000024
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_eye
- FBbt:00004508
Subsets
uberon_slim, organ_slim
definition
- A light sensing organ composed of ommatidia.
has obo namespace
- uberon
has related synonym
- insect eye
- adult compound eye
- zusammengesetztes Auge
- faceted eye
- Facettenauge
- Komplexauge
id
- UBERON:0000018
see also
- https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/457
taxon notes
- The term compound eye is sometimes used for the multi-unit eyes of annelids, bivalves, echinoderms. We follow Richter et al and restrict this class to the arthropod structure for these structures