AmiGO 2: Term Details for "metamorphosis" (GO:0007552)

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Term Information

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: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to metamorphosis (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to metamorphosis (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for metamorphosis (excluding "regulates").

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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0032502 developmental process
GO:0048856 anatomical structure development
GO:0032501 multicellular organismal process
GO:0007275 multicellular organism development
GO:0007552 metamorphosis
GO:0007560 imaginal disc morphogenesis
GO:0035069 larval midgut histolysis
GO:0035070 salivary gland histolysis

Parents of metamorphosis (GO:0007552)

subject	relation	object
metamorphosis	is_a	multicellular organism development (GO:0007275)
metamorphosis	RO:0002162	cellular organisms (NCBITaxon:131567)

Children of metamorphosis (GO:0007552)

subject	relation	object
larval midgut histolysis (GO:0035069)	BFO:0000050	metamorphosis
salivary gland histolysis (GO:0035070)	BFO:0000050	metamorphosis
imaginal disc morphogenesis (GO:0007560)	BFO:0000050	metamorphosis

Wikipedia: Metamorphosis