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vertebral element

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Skeletal element that forms around the notochord and is part of the vertebral column. [ https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/294 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 VSAO:0000184 ]

Synonyms: vertebra element

Term info

database cross reference
  • VSAO:0000184
  • VHOG:0001143
UBPROP 0000003

In contrast to lampreys and jawed vertebrates, hagfishes were thought to lack vertebrae. Now, long overlooked vertebral rudiments have been analysed in hagfish, suggesting that vertebrae existed in the last common ancestor of all vertebrates.[well established][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000007

vertebral

UBPROP 0000008

Typically an endochondral element, in salamanders there is an argument that vertebral development is perichondral and not preformed in cartilage

curator note

we include a distinct subclass for bony vertebra

has alternative id

UBERON:0015005

has broad synonym

vertebra skeletal element

has narrow synonym

vertebral endochondral element, vertebra endochondral element

id

UBERON:0010913