A tissue-specific, membrane-bounded cytoplasmic organelle within which melanin pigments are synthesized and stored. Melanosomes are synthesized in melanocyte cells. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0042470 ]
A tissue-specific, membrane-bounded cytoplasmic organelle within which melanin pigments are synthesized and stored. Melanosomes are synthesized in melanocyte cells. [ ]
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Term information
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2569-1939 | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7535-4407
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2569-1939 | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7535-4686
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- intracellular membrane-bounded organelle
- existence overlaps some asexual adult
- existence overlaps some Stage 8
- part of some pigment cup cell
- contained in some anterior region of the whole animal
- contained in some head
- contained in some dorsal region of the whole animal
- existence overlaps some adult hermaphrodite
- existence overlaps some Stage 7
- existence starts during or after some Stage 7
- existence overlaps some juvenile