milk gland

BTO:0005704 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Larval nutrition is provided via a modified accessory gland, a milk gland, that empties into the uterus. The milk gland is connected to the dorsal side of the uterus and expands throughout the abdominal cavity of the fly as bifurcating tubules intertwining with fat body tissue. The lumen of the milk gland is surrounded by secretory and epithelial cells. — 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 > Arthropoda: Insects > Reproductive system > Milk glands 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

gland BTO:0000522
Reproductive system habitatmech:GOLD.21eb1adab2

Also called

Milk glands — GOLD

Curation

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GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to BTO:0005704 'milk gland' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the BTO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Reproductive system > Milk glands (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.2e55228c7a)

Provenance

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