Paired organ that connects the primitive kidney Wolffian body (or mesonephros) to the cloaca and serves as the anlage for certain male reproductive organs. the Wolffian duct is what remains of the pronephric duct after the atrophy of the pronephros[WP]. In Zebrafish: Duct of the adult kidney (mesonephros), present bilaterally ventral to the somites and leading to the cloacal chamber[ZFA]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonephric_duct https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/28 http://zfin.org/curator ]
Synonyms: Wolffian duct
Term information
- ZFA:0000546
- TAO:0000546
- XAO:0000242
- MESH:D014928
- NCIT:C26469
- EHDAA:1590
- EHDAA2:0001243
- Wikipedia:Mesonephric_duct
- SCTID:308800003
- GAID:1315
- AAO:0000637
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core