adolescent stage?

Hi Chris,

we would like to propose an 'adolescent stage' with the following draft definition:
"A life cycle stage during which the completion of development and growth of the
sexually mature organism occurs."

This will match with the design of Uberon (see below) and will precedes UBERON:0018241 ! prime adult stage [def: "A life cycle stage that starts at completion of development and growth of the sexually mature adult animal, and ends before senescence."]

currently in Uberon:

• post-juvenile adult stage (def: "The stage of being a sexually mature adult animal." [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165])
  -- prime adult stage
  -- late adult stage

Our suggestion is based on many references, here an example:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15251870
"adolescence appears to be a highly conserved developmental stage, its
characteristics sculpted to meet common evolutionary pressures that
include the avoidance of inbreeding at this time of sexual emergence"

New proposition for Uberon design:

• post-juvenile adult stage
  -- adolescent stage
  -- prime adult stage
  -- late adult stage

For the usage of 'adolescent' in non-humain animals, please see:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21169902
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24102398
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15251892
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25204637

Open to discussion, best regards,

Anne

Review the proposed adolescent stage against Uberon's existing post-juvenile adult stage hierarchy and the cited PubMed references. Follow the issue's design discussion first, then determine whether the definition and placement have enough agreement for an ontology update; done requires a settled term definition and hierarchy position.