AmiGO 2: Term Details for "taxis" (GO:0042330)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0042330
Name: taxis
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: directed movement in response to stimulus
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The directed movement of a motile cell or organism in response to an external stimulus. Source: GOC:jl, ISBN:0192801023
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0042330 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to taxis (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to taxis (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for taxis (excluding "regulates").

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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0050896 response to stimulus
GO:0040011 locomotion
GO:0009605 response to external stimulus
GO:0042330 taxis
GO:0006935 chemotaxis
GO:0009453 energy taxis
GO:0042332 gravitaxis
GO:0021844 interneuron sorting involved in substrate-independent cerebral cortex tangential migration
GO:0043052 thermotaxis

Parents of taxis (GO:0042330)

subject	relation	object
taxis	is_a	locomotion (GO:0040011)
taxis	BFO:0000050	response to external stimulus (GO:0009605)

Children of taxis (GO:0042330)

subject	relation	object
thermotaxis (GO:0043052)	is_a	taxis
energy taxis (GO:0009453)	is_a	taxis
gravitaxis (GO:0042332)	is_a	taxis
chemotaxis (GO:0006935)	is_a	taxis
interneuron sorting involved in substrate-independent cerebral cortex tangential migration (GO:0021844)	is_a	taxis

Wikipedia: Taxis