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A taxon X exhibits phenotype Y if phenotype Y has been observed in some organism which is a member of taxon X.
  
 
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Revision as of 17:17, 4 February 2009

In Phenoscape, we are annotating the phenotypes of species, as described in systematic literature. Because we are working within an ontological framework, we require a well-defined relation to link a taxon to a phenotype. This page describes the properties of, and issues related to, our proposed relation, exhibits.

Defining exhibits

Proposed definition

A taxon X exhibits phenotype Y if phenotype Y has been observed in some organism which is a member of taxon X.