Phenotype: photoperiodism disrupted, abnormal
Note: This statement combines anatomy and/or ontology terms with phenotype quality terms to create a complete phenotype (EQ) statement. For detailed information on individual terms, click the hyperlinked term name.
Name: photoperiodism
Synonyms: response to day length, response to night length, response to photoperiod
Definition: Any process that results in a change in state or activity of an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of detection of, or exposure to, a period of light or dark of a given length, measured relative to a particular duration known as the 'critical day length'. The critical day length varies between species.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0009648]    QuickGO    AmiGO
Name: disrupted
Synonyms:
Definition: A quality of a single process inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's being interrupted of its normal course.
Ontology: Phenotypic Quality Ontology [PATO:0001507]