Uberon definition : Muscle tissue which is unstriated, composed primarily of smooth muscle fibers surrounded
by a reticulum of collagen and elastic fibers. Smooth muscle differs from striated
muscle in the much higher actin/myosin ratio, the absence of conspicuous sarcomeres
and the ability to contract to a much smaller fraction of its resting length[GO].;
Uberon narrow term : visceral muscle tissue; visceral muscle;
Uberon Homology note : (...) the first bilateral animals possessed only smooth muscles with the molecular
repertoire necessary to build a striated muscle. (...) it is more parsimonious to
regard striated muscle cells as a sister cell type to the smooth muscle cells. In
this scenario, striated and smooth muscles would have arisen in the stem lineage that
led to the Nephrozoa (i.e. all Bilateria exclusive the acoelomorphs) (Hejnol et al.,
2009), from an 'acoel-like' smooth muscle, by segregation and divergence of functions
and through differential recruitment of additional genes[well established][VHOG];
Uberon Terminology note : GO uses visceral and smooth interchangeably. However visceral can also be used in
the sense of the viscera. Many fly annotations to smooth muscle terms. If we want
to be inclusive of insects have to have a general definition of tissue that includes
cells.;
Muscle tissue which is unstriated, composed primarily of smooth muscle fibers surrounded
by a reticulum of collagen and elastic fibers. Smooth muscle differs from striated
muscle in the much higher actin/myosin ratio, the absence of conspicuous sarcomeres
and the ability to contract to a much smaller fraction of its resting length[GO].