Term Details for "chemotaxis" (GO:0006935) (original) (raw)

Accession

GO:0006935

Name

chemotaxis

Ontology

biological_process

Synonyms

taxis in response to chemical stimulus

Alternate IDs

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Definition

The directed movement of a motile cell or organism, or the directed growth of a cell guided by a specific chemical concentration gradient. Movement may be towards a higher concentration (positive chemotaxis) or towards a lower concentration (negative chemotaxis).Source: ISBN:0198506732

Comment

None

History

See term history for GO:0006935 at QuickGO

Chem. react.

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Subset

None

Link to all genes and gene products annotated to chemotaxis (excluding "regulates").

Link to all direct and indirect annotations to chemotaxis (excluding "regulates").

Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for chemotaxis (excluding "regulates").