AmiGO 2: Term Details for "posterior abdomen determination" (GO:0007359)

Accession: GO:0007359
Name: posterior abdomen determination
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The regionalization process in which the posterior (abdominal) regions of the embryo are specified by the gap genes. Source: GOC:dph, http://fly.ebi.ac.uk/allied-data/lk/interactive-fly/aimain/1aahome.htm, GOC:isa_complete, ISBN:0879694238
Comment: Note that this process is exemplified in insects by the actions of the knirps gene product.
History: See term history for GO:0007359 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to posterior abdomen determination (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to posterior abdomen determination (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for posterior abdomen determination (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
posterior abdomen determination	BFO:0000050	zygotic determination of anterior/posterior axis, embryo (GO:0007354)
posterior abdomen determination	is_a	anterior/posterior pattern specification (GO:0009952)

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