Portion of tissue that gives rise to the lens. The lens of the zebrafish forms by delamination of lens placodal cells and not through invagination. This results in a solid spherical mass as opposed to a hollow lens vesicle. Detachment of the solid lens vesicle of zebrafish at 24-26 hpf is accomplished in part by apoptosis, similar to mammals. [ http://zfin.org/ZDB-PUB-050701-15 ORCiD:CVS GOC:cvs ]
Synonyms: lens mass lens vesicle immature lens
Term information
- TAO:0002205
Dbxref for ZFIN changed to match actual database accession number. Old Dbxref ZDB-ANAT-090226-2 correct Dbxref ZDB-ANAT-090227-6.
Term relations
- lens vesicle
- portion of tissue
- end stage some pharyngula:prim-5
- develops from some lens placode
- part of some immature eye
- existence starts during or after some segmentation:20-25 somites