FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term ventral pharyngeal sense organ ID (Ontology) FBbt:00002719 (Fly Anatomy)
Definition Paired compound sense organ of the labial segment in the larval head, located on the floor of the atrium, anterior to the opening of the salivary duct (Campos-Ortega and Hartenstein, 1997). It is composed of 4 sensilla (Campos-Ortega and Hartenstein, 1997). Sensory neurons travel via the labial nerve and innervate area 2 of the embryonic/larval subesophageal ganglion (Colomb et al., 2007). Neurons of the ventral pharyngeal sense organ and labial organ form a large cluster flanking the salivary duct (Campos-Ortega and Hartenstein, 1997).[ FlyBase:FBrf0089570 FlyBase:FBrf0147119 FlyBase:FBrf0201176 ]
Also Known As "hypophyse" ; "hypophysis" ; "labial sense organ" (for all, see Synonyms field below)
Comment Python and Stocker, (2002) map VPS to V1-4 in Singh and Singh (1984), but V4 seems to far posterior (posterior to DPS), so might just be V1-3.
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Data Class Field Records
Alleles (FBal)  PHENOTYPE_MANIFEST_IN       2
Insertions (FBti)  EXPRESSION_STAGE_TISSUE_POSITION       4
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 ventral pharyngeal sense organ (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       2      5      1      4      6
     ventral pharyngeal sense organ | embryonic stage       1       --       --       --       --
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larval sense organ
 |__embryonic/larval head sense organ__
external sensory organ                 |
 |__external compound sense organ______|
compound sense organ                   |
 |__external compound sense organ______|
                                       ventral pharyngeal sense organ  18 rec.
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Is a external compound sense organ
embryonic/larval head sense organ
Part of larval labial sensory complex
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VFB:FBbt_00002719