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flexural organ

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A portion of tissue that is the most anterior portion of the notochord. The flexural organ secretes Reissner's fiber-related proteins, including F-spondin. [ https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=76834&atid=994726 ]

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flexural organ

database cross reference
editor note

we cannot classify as a secretory circumventricular organ, as this leads to unsatisfiability

id

UBERON:0011577

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7711

taxon notes

may be an ontogenetical remnant of the infundibular organ in cephalochordates