gaster environment

habitatmech:GOLD.623ff8e506 ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An animal-associated environment which consists of the gaster of an apocritan hymenopteran, the posterior part of the metasoma formed by all abdominal segments behind the petiole or postpetiole, sampled as an intact body region rather than as dissected organs. — HabitatMech

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 > Abdomen > Metasoma > Gaster	—

Broader habitats

animal-associated environment ENVO:01001002
metasoma environment habitatmech:GOLD.93f0f7b66d

Related terms

Terms a source linked to this concept without this record claiming to be one of them, or to be narrower than one. A cross-reference, not a grounding.

HAO:0000369

Curation

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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-09-18 · codex-gpt-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. HAO:0000369 'gaster' kept as an xref. Disjoint-grounding review (#62) remains correct: GOLD's Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Abdomen > Metasoma > Gaster path denotes the gaster of an apocritan hymenopteran, not UBERON:0000945 'stomach' or BTO:0001307 'stomach'. Definition research confirmed it is an intact body-region sampling unit containing gut, glandular, reproductive, intracellular, and cuticular niches; HAO:0000369 'gaster' is an exact unvendored anatomy match retained only as an xref until HAO is vendored or ENVO gains a gaster environment class. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.623ff8e506)
DEFINED 2026-09-18 · codex-gpt-5
Defined as 'gaster environment' under ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. GOLD's Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Abdomen > Metasoma > Gaster source denotes the whole gaster as a sampling unit and not UBERON:0000945 or BTO:0001307 'stomach' from the Latin false-friend label, the whole metasoma parent, a digestive-tract-only compartment, a petiole or postpetiole, or a head or mesosoma structure. ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment' is the tightest vendored genus until insect-associated, metasoma, and gaster environment intermediates exist; HAO:0000369 exactly names the hymenopteran anatomy and stays only as an external xref because it is an unvendored anatomy term rather than an environment identity.

Provenance

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