Mapping of ABO terms to external ontologies

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ABO contains terms that are not behaviors. Many of these are equivalent to terms in GO. For all of these, terms should be obsoleted and GO terms used in their place. This should be documented in recommendations for curation.

Life history transitions are the obvious case.

• metamorphosis is in GO (there are also developmental stage ontologies that should be checked.)
  • Need to:
    • distinguish behaviors associated with life-history transition
  • Neural regulation of life-history

Other examples:

• body colour change: Should be in GO. But body color change behavior (see cephalopods and chameleons) belongs in NBO/ABO. (Question: What about revealing a color that is already on the body but not visible)?