apocrine sweat gland

BTO:0001458 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A type of large, branched, specialized sudoriferous gland (glandula sudorifera) that empties into the upper portion of a hair follicle instead of directly onto the skin surface; found only on certain areas of the body, such as around the anus and in the axilla; after puberty they produce a viscous secretion that is acted on by bacteria to produce a characteristic acrid odor. — BTO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Apocrine sweat glands 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

apocrine gland BTO:0001162
sweat gland BTO:0001331
Integumentary system habitatmech:GOLD.dc86c8917c

Also called

Apocrine sweat glands — GOLD

Curation

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GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to BTO:0001458 'apocrine sweat gland' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the BTO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Integumentary system > Apocrine sweat glands (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.f3c6dc4883)

Provenance

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