FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term adult salivary gland ID (Ontology) FBbt:00003135 (Fly Anatomy)
Definition The salivary gland of the adult. It consists of two slender long, unbranched epithelial tubes of secretory epithelium that taper to form narrow ducts at their anterior end, which join to an unpaired duct (FBbt:00003137) in the neck region. The common duct connects to the salivary canal which runs through the hypopharynx and opens at its tip into the labial groove. The posterior ends of the lobes of the gland extend straight through the thorax on either side of the ventriculus and end in compact blind coils in the base of the abdomen. A suspensory muscle (FBbt:00003542) is attached to the anterior end of each lobe, near the cardia. (Miller, 1950 pg 440-1, 451).[ FlyBase:FBrf0007735 ]
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Alleles (FBal)  PHENOTYPE_MANIFEST_IN       7
Insertions (FBti)  EXPRESSION_STAGE_TISSUE_POSITION       6
Insertions (FBti)  PHENOTYPE_MANIFEST_IN       2
Constructs (FBtp)  PHENOTYPE_MANIFEST_IN       4
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 adult salivary gland (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       7      7      4      8     20
     adult salivary gland | heat sensitive       1       --       --       --       --
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 |__adult digestive system_______
digestive system                 |
 |__adult digestive system_______|
foregut                          |
 |__salivary gland_______________|
ectodermal derivative            |
 |__ventral ectoderm derivative__|
gland                            |
 |__salivary gland_______________|
                                 adult salivary gland  71 rec.
                                  |__adult common salivary gland duct 4 rec.
                                  |   |__salivary pump 4 rec.
                                  |__adult salivary gland duct 5 rec.
                                  |__adult salivary gland epithelial cell 22 rec.
                                  |   |__adult salivary gland secretory cell 12 rec.
                                  |__adult salivary gland proper 12 rec.
                                  |   |__adult salivary gland secretory cell 12 rec.
                                  |__adult salivary gland suspensor muscle cell
                                  |__salivary canal
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Is a salivary gland
ventral ectoderm derivative
Develops from salivary gland imaginal ring
Part of adult digestive system
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