contractile vacuole

A specialized vacuole of eukaryotic cells, especially Protozoa, that fills with water from the cytoplasm and then discharges this externally by the opening of contractile vacuole pores. Its function is probably osmoregulatory.

Source:http://purl.uniprot.org/go/0000331

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rdfs:comment	A specialized vacuole of eukaryotic cells, especially Protozoa, that fills with water from the cytoplasm and then discharges this externally by the opening of contractile vacuole pores. Its function is probably osmoregulatory.
rdfs:subClassOf	http://purl.uniprot.org/go/0005773, http://purl.uniprot.org/go/0016023
rdfs:label	contractile vacuole
skos:exactMatch	http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/geneontology/id/GO:0000331, http://www.geneontology.org/go#GO:0000331
skos:narrower	http://purl.uniprot.org/go/0031164