AmiGO 2: Term Details for "imaginal disc growth" (GO:0007446)

Accession: GO:0007446
Name: imaginal disc growth
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The increase in mass of imaginal discs by cell proliferation prior to metamorphosis. Imaginal discs are epithelial infoldings in the larvae of holometabolous insects that develop into adult structures (legs, antennae, wings, etc.) during metamorphosis from larval to adult form. Source: PMID:10679387, GOC:bf, GOC:jid
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0007446 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to imaginal disc growth (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to imaginal disc growth (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for imaginal disc growth (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
imaginal disc growth	is_a	developmental growth (GO:0048589)
imaginal disc growth	BFO:0000050	imaginal disc development (GO:0007444)
imaginal disc growth	RO:0002162	Insecta (NCBITaxon:50557)
imaginal disc growth	RO:0002343	imaginal disc (UBERON:0000939)

subject	relation	object
regulation of imaginal disc growth (GO:0045570)	RO:0002211	imaginal disc growth
positive regulation of imaginal disc growth (GO:0045572)	RO:0002213	imaginal disc growth
negative regulation of imaginal disc growth (GO:0045571)	RO:0002212	imaginal disc growth

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