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primary circulatory organ
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A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood or analogs[GO,modified]. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0007507 ]
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primary circulatory organ
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Gene notes: Bmp, Nkx, Gata
has narrow synonym
dorsal tube, heart
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
adult heart
id
UBERON:0007100
taxon notes
note we reserve the subclass 'heart' from the vertebrate multi-chambered heart. 'The first heart-like organ is believed to have appeared 500my ago in an ancestral bilaterian'. Amniotes: four-chambered heart. Amphibians: two atria, one ventricle, pulmonary; fish: single atrium and ventricle; amphioxus: tubular, non-striated, closed, unidirectional; ascidians: tubular, striated, open, bidirectional; arthropods: tubular, open; C elegans: contractile pharynx; Cnideria: striated muscle cells associated with gastrodermis