molluscan gill intracellular environment
An environment associated with an animal part or small animal which is determined by the intracellular compartment of a symbiont-bearing gill cell in a mollusc.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Host-associated > Mollusca > Respiratory system > Gills > Intracellular | 1 | ORGANISM |
Broader habitats
Related terms
- intracellular anatomical structure
GO:0005622
Also called
- Intracellular
Curation
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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. GO:0005622 'intracellular anatomical structure' kept as an xref. Non-habitat screen review (#108): the full path Host-associated > Mollusca > Respiratory system > Gills > Intracellular denotes the intracellular compartment of gill tissue, a real microbial habitat. The GO term describes the spatial compartment but is not itself a microbial-habitat identity, so it is retained only as an xref. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.0ac09185d9)
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DEFINED
Defined as 'molluscan gill intracellular environment' under ENVO:01001055 'environment associated with an animal part or small animal'. Definition authored from the existing item-level #108 decision and the committed Mollusca and Bivalves reports under research/habitats/, read against Roeselers and Newton 2012 (PMID:22354364; DOI:10.1007/s00253-011-3819-9); no new paid research was commissioned. GOLD's Host-associated > Mollusca > Respiratory system > Gills > Intracellular source denotes the intracellular compartment of symbiont-bearing molluscan gill bacteriocytes, not GO:0005622 'intracellular anatomical structure' as an identity, the whole gill, the extracellular gill-tissue compartment, the gill surface, or intracellular annelid trophosome endosymbionts. ENVO:01001055 'environment associated with an animal part or small animal' is the tightest safe vendored genus because ENVO lacks a general intracellular host environment or symbiont-bearing gill-cell environment class; unlike whole-host invertebrate term requests that avoid importing an animal-part restriction, that restriction is true here because the determinant is a molluscan gill cell (#345). parent_mode=REPLACE drops the source-inherited Gills parent because the intracellular environment lies within gill cells but is not a kind of gill.