nurse cell

BTO:0000953 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

Cells accessory to egg and/or sperm formation in a wide variety of organisms. Usually thought to synthesize special substances and to export these to the developing gamete. — 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	nurse cell	1	TAXON

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
Candidatus Westeberhardia cardiocondylae `NCBITaxon:1594731`	PREGO	1	1

Also called

nurse cells — PREGO

Provenance

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