Planteome: Term Details for "lifelong otolith mineralization" (GO:0031174)

Accession: GO:0031174
Name: lifelong otolith mineralization
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The formation and growth of otoliths throughout the life of the organism. Otoliths are the large extracellular ear-stones of the fish inner ear, produced by precipitation of specific crystal forms of calcium carbonate on organic matrices. The otolith enlarges throughout the life of the fish, as layers of calcium carbonate are added. Source: PMID:15581873, GOC:dsf
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0031174 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to lifelong otolith mineralization.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to lifelong otolith mineralization.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for lifelong otolith mineralization.
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