Category:OMP:0000101 ! microbial communication phenotype

name: microbial communication phenotype
def: "A multi-organism phenotype where microbial organisms communicate and coordinate their activities through chemical signals that either diffuse through the environment or remain cell associated." [OMP:JCH]
subset: qc_do_not_manually_annotate
is_a: OMP:0005116 ! multi-organism process 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.