head kidney

BTO:0005189 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

The kidney of the channel catfish is completely separated into the head and trunk kidneys. The head kidney is involved in endocrine and hemopoietic functions and the trunk kidney functions primarily as part of the excretory system. — BTO

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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
PREGO	head kidney	1	TAXON

Broader habitats

kidney BTO:0000671

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool	Corroborated
Piscirickettsia salmonis LF-89 = ATCC VR-1361 `NCBITaxon:1227812`	PREGO	1	1

Also called

head kidneys — PREGO

Provenance

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