New term request: insect prothoracic tergum (pronotum)

[ANiknejad]

Hello UBERON Team,

While it exists

id: UBERON:6004580
name: insect mesothoracic tergum
def: "The dorsal sclerites (tergites) of the mesothorax." [FBC:DOS]
synonym: "alinotum" EXACT [FlyBase:FBrf0111704]
synonym: "mesonotum" EXACT [FlyBase:FBrf0166419]
synonym: "notum" BROAD []
xref: FBbt:00004580 {sssom:mapping_justification="https://w3id.org/semapv/vocab/ManualMappingCuration"}
is_a: UBERON:6004552 ! insect tergum
relationship: develops_from UBERON:6006032 ! insect mesothoracic tergum primordium
relationship: part_of UBERON:6004579 ! insect dorsal mesothorax

, the insect prothoracic tergum is currently only available such as a FBbt class:

FBbt:00004561
name: pronotum (D melanogaster)
synonym: "prothoracic tergum" EXACT []

So could be worth creating

UBERON:xxx
name: insect prothoracic tergum
def: "The dorsal sclerite of the prothorax (T1) in an insect, forming the dorsal body wall of the first thoracic segment."
synonym: "pronotum" EXACT
xref: FBbt:00004561
is_a: UBERON:6004552 ! insect tergum
relationship: part_of UBERON:6000017 ! insect prothoracic segment

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31819237/

Thank you,
best regards,

Anne

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Hi @ANiknejad — I've created a PR (#3692) adding the requested term:

• UBERON:6004561 insect prothoracic tergum
  • parent: UBERON:6004552 insect tergum
  • part_of: UBERON:6000017 insect prothoracic segment
  • synonyms: "pronotum" (EXACT), "prothoracic tergum" (EXACT)
  • def: "The dorsal sclerite (tergite) of the prothorax (T1) in an insect, forming the dorsal body wall of the first thoracic segment."
  • dc-contributor: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3308-6245 (Anne Niknejad)

I used the UBERON:6xxxxxx namespace (mirroring FBbt:00004561) to match the convention used by the sibling class UBERON:6004580 (insect mesothoracic tergum); the FBbt ↔ UBERON bridge in src/mappings/fbbt.sssom.tsv will pick this up on the next upstream FBbt sync.

Please review #3692 and let me know if you'd like any adjustments (e.g., a different part_of such as an "insect dorsal prothorax" grouping to mirror UBERON:6004579, or a develops_from to a prothoracic tergum primordium if such a term exists).

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