FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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General Information
Term retina ID (Ontology) FBbt:00004200 (Fly Anatomy)
Definition The array of photoreceptors and the cells that support them in a compound eye.
Comment This is a very loosely used term. Definition based on consensus usage in literature.
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VFB:FBbt_00004200
Annotations
Records annotated with this term OR any of its CHILD TERMS
Records annotated with this exact term (annotations to child terms are NOT included)
Data Class Field Records
Alleles (FBal)  PHENOTYPE_MANIFEST_IN     644
Insertions (FBti)  EXPRESSION_STAGE_TISSUE_POSITION      19
Insertions (FBti)  PHENOTYPE_MANIFEST_IN      94
Constructs (FBtp)  PHENOTYPE_MANIFEST_IN     313
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 Alleles Genes Insertions Constructs
 retina (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)     646     80    113    324
     retina | adult stage     109       --      16     69
     retina | adult stage | conditional       1       --       --       --
     retina | adult stage | light conditional       5       --       3      2
     retina | adult stage | progressive      17       --       --      12
     retina | adult stage | progressive | conditional       4       --       1      2
     retina | adult stage | progressive | somatic clone       1       --       --       --
     retina | adult stage | progressive | somatic clone | conditional       2       --       --       --
     retina | adult stage | somatic clone      15       --       1       --
     retina | adult stage | somatic clone - tissue specific       9       --       3       --
     retina | cell autonomous | conditional | somatic clone       1       --       --       --
     retina | cell autonomous | pupal stage | somatic clone       1       --       1       --
     retina | cell autonomous | somatic clone       4       --       2       --
     retina | cell non-autonomous | somatic clone       1       --       --       --
     retina | conditional      18       --       1      3
     retina | conditional | somatic clone       2       --       --       --
     retina | drug conditional       2       --       --       2
     retina | ectopic       3       --       --       1
     retina | heat sensitive      11       --       1      5
     retina | larval stage       2       --       --       2
     retina | P-stage      20       --       2     16
     retina | P-stage | cell autonomous | somatic clone       1       --       --       --
     retina | P-stage | somatic clone       5       --       1       --
     retina | pharate adult stage       2       --       1       --
     retina | pharate adult stage | somatic clone       1       --       --       --
     retina | progressive      27       --       1     21
     retina | progressive | conditional       1       --       --       --
     retina | progressive | somatic clone       2       --       --       --
     retina | progressive | somatic clone | conditional       1       --       1       --
     retina | pupal stage      23       --       2     12
     retina | pupal stage P6       3       --       --       5
     retina | pupal stage | heat sensitive       2       --       --       --
     retina | pupal stage | somatic clone       9       --       2       --
     retina | somatic clone      64       --      21     12
     retina | somatic clone - tissue specific       4       --       --       --
     retina | temperature conditional       3       --       --       3
     retina | ventral       4       --       --       4
Spanning Tree (Parents/Children)
Only view relationship:
adult head
 |__eye______________________________
adult nervous system                 |
 |__adult peripheral nervous system__|
adult sense organ                    |
 |__eye______________________________|
peripheral nervous system            |
 |__adult peripheral nervous system__|
photoreceptor                        |
 |__eye______________________________|
external compound sense organ        |
 |__eye______________________________|
anterior ectoderm derivative         |
 |__eye______________________________|
ventral ectoderm derivative          |
 |__eye______________________________|
multicellular structure              |
 |__portion of tissue________________|
                                     retina  9231 rec.
                                      |__dorsal rim area 52 rec.
                                      |   |__dorsal margin ommatidium(+) 52 rec.
                                      |__interommatidial cell 327 rec.
                                      |   |__secondary pigment cell(+) 189 rec.
                                      |   |__tertiary pigment cell(+) 170 rec.
                                      |__ommatidium 5748 rec.
                                      |   |__cone cell(+) 494 rec.
                                      |   |__dorsal margin ommatidium(+) 52 rec.
                                      |   |__eye photoreceptor cell(+) 2910 rec.
                                      |   |__lens(+) 164 rec.
                                      |   |__pale ommatidium(+) 62 rec.
                                      |   |__primary pigment cell(+) 155 rec.
                                      |   |__yellow ommatidium(+) 61 rec.
                                      |__pigment cell 3439 rec.
                                      |   |__primary pigment cell(+) 155 rec.
                                      |   |__secondary pigment cell(+) 189 rec.
                                      |   |__tertiary pigment cell(+) 170 rec.
                                      |__retinal pigment granule 16 rec.
                                          |__cone cell pigment granule(+)
                                          |__photoreceptor cell R1 pigment granule
                                          |__photoreceptor cell R2 pigment granule
                                          |__photoreceptor cell R3 pigment granule
                                          |__photoreceptor cell R4 pigment granule
                                          |__photoreceptor cell R5 pigment granule
                                          |__photoreceptor cell R6 pigment granule
                                          |__photoreceptor cell R7 pigment granule
                                          |__photoreceptor cell R8 pigment granule
                                          |__primary pigment cell pigment granule 7 rec.
                                          |__secondary pigment cell pigment granule 10 rec.
                                          |__tertiary pigment cell pigment granule 6 rec.
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UBERON:0005388
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