AmiGO 2: Term Details for "prevention of polyspermy" (GO:0060468)

Accession: GO:0060468
Name: prevention of polyspermy
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: negative regulation of fertilization involved in egg activation, polyspermy block
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The negative regulation of fertilization process that takes place as part of egg activation, ensuring that only a single sperm fertilizes the egg. Source: GOC:dph
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0060468 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to prevention of polyspermy (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to prevention of polyspermy (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for prevention of polyspermy (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
prevention of polyspermy	RO:0002162	Metazoa (NCBITaxon:33208)
prevention of polyspermy	is_a	negative regulation of fertilization (GO:0060467)
prevention of polyspermy	BFO:0000050	egg activation (GO:0007343)

subject	relation	object
cortical granule exocytosis (GO:0060471)	BFO:0000050	prevention of polyspermy

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