Portion of tissue that is part of the anterior neural keel and will form the optic vesicle[ZFA]. A paired ectodermal placode that becomes invaginated to form the embryonic lens vesicles. [ ZFA:0000570 http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0046619 ]

Synonyms: optic placode eye placode ocular primordium occular primordium optic primordium optic placode of camera-type eye

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
  • ZFA:0000570
  • AAO:0011038
  • EHDAA2:0004431
  • XAO:0000227
  • EFO:0003541
  • TAO:0000570
  • XAO:0004090
Subsets

efo_slim

UBPROP 0000012

TODO - check that GO's optic placode is the same as ZFA's eye primordium; we may want to have separate term for ocular primordium precursor. XAO has both optic field and eye primordium.

hasAlternativeId

UBERON:0005060

has related synonym

eye field

eye anlage

optic placodes

optic field

id

UBERON:0003071