scale

UBERON:0002542 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

A small rigid plate that grows out of an animal's skin to provide protection. In lepidopteran (butterfly and moth) species, scales are plates on the surface of the insect wing, and provide coloration. Scales are quite common and have evolved multiple times with varying structure and function. — UBERON

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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
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals > Integumentary system > Scales 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Fish > Integumentary system > Scale 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

surface structure UBERON:0003102
Integumentary system habitatmech:GOLD.56e0776270
Integumentary system habitatmech:GOLD.d980919c41

Also called

Scales — GOLD
scale (sensu Metazoa) — UBERON
scale tissue — UBERON
scales — UBERON

Provenance

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