Category:OMP:0005269 ! endomembrane system phenotype

name: endomembrane system phenotype
def: "A cellular component phenotype relating to the endomembrane, a collection of membranous structures involved in transport within the cell. The endomembrane system includes the nuclear envelope, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, vacuoles, vesicles, and the plasma membrane. Members of the endomembrane system pass materials through each other or through the use of vesicles." [OMP:JG]
subset: qc_do_not_manually_annotate
xref: GO:0012505 "endomembrane system"
xref: PMID:19121819
is_a: OMP:0007197 ! cellular component phenotype
comment: This is a high-level term whose primary purpose is to organize terms beneath it in the ontology, and we expect that it will not be used for direct annotations. Please consider using a more specific term to annotate each phenotype.