Planteome: Term Details for "biofilm formation" (GO:0042710)

Accession: GO:0042710
Name: biofilm formation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A process in which planktonically growing microorganisms grow at a liquid-air interface or on a solid substrate under the flow of a liquid and produce extracellular polymers that facilitate matrix formation, resulting in a change in the organisms' growth rate and gene transcription. Source: PMID:11932229, GOC:di
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0042710 at QuickGO
Subset: gocheck_do_not_annotate; gocheck_do_not_manually_annotate; goslim_candida; goslim_pir
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to biofilm formation.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to biofilm formation.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for biofilm formation.
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subject	relation	object
biofilm formation	is_a	aggregation of unicellular organisms (GO:0098630)

subject	relation	object
multi-species biofilm formation (GO:0044399)	is_a	biofilm formation
surface biofilm formation (GO:0090604)	is_a	biofilm formation
submerged biofilm formation (GO:0090605)	is_a	biofilm formation
biofilm matrix assembly (GO:0098785)	BFO:0000050	biofilm formation
single-species biofilm formation (GO:0044010)	is_a	biofilm formation

biofilm formation