Eye-spots which may be set into a pit to reduce the angles of light that enters and affects the eyespot, to allow the organism to deduce the angle of incoming light. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye#Pit_eyes ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
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definition
- Eye-spots which may be set into a pit to reduce the angles of light that enters and affects the eyespot, to allow the organism to deduce the angle of incoming light.
has exact synonym
- pit eye
has obo namespace
- uberon
id
- UBERON:0000046
never in taxon
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7742
Term relations
Subclass of:
- simple eye
- in taxon some (not Vertebrata
)