fried-egg-shaped colony

METPO:1007069 · CLASS · SEEDED

A colony shape that has a raised opaque centre and a translucent peripheral zone, resembling a fried egg.

Trait evidence (1)

DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0068373
TR colonies showed the typical “fried egg” appearance, with a small opaque center surrounded by a large translucent peripheral area.

Bertin et al. describe the opaque-center, translucent-periphery colony appearance that underlies the MICRO-derived fried-egg colony definition.

Provenance

Identifier source: METPO (2026-06-12)
Author: Marcin Joachimiak
Definition source: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MICRO_0000349

Parent traits (1)

colony shape METPO:1007063

Synonyms (1)

fried-egg colony EXACT_SYNONYM · metpo.owl

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Curation history

2026-09-11T13:40:39Z · SEEDED_FROM_METPO · seed_from_metpo
imported from data/raw/metpo.owl (CLASS)
2026-09-11T13:41:36Z · ENRICHED_FROM_LITERATURE · codex
Enriched the seeded METPO fried-egg-shaped colony phenotype with stable MICRO definition provenance and DOI-backed opaque-center, translucent-periphery evidence after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files.