Caeca: Bacteriome

habitatmech:GOLD.2d506b9526 ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·NARROW REVIEWED

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 > Arthropoda: Insects > Digestive system > Midgut > Caeca: Bacteriome	5	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

cecum BTO:0000166
Midgut habitatmech:GOLD.67c565f695

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND_AS_PARENT 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
BTO:0000166 'cecum' attached as a parent, not adopted as the identity (NARROW). A bacteriome is a specialised symbiont-housing organ associated with the caeca. Path: Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Digestive system > Midgut > Ca (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.2d506b9526)

Provenance

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