detection of external stimulus

id: GO:0009581
name: detection of external stimulus
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The series of events in which an external stimulus is received by a cell and converted into a molecular signal.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0001563detection of protozoan
GO:0002231detection of oomycetes
GO:0009583detection of light stimulus
GO:0009590detection of gravity
GO:0009600detection of nematode
GO:0009601detection of insect
GO:0009602detection of symbiont
GO:0014822detection of wounding
GO:0016045detection of bacterium
GO:0016046detection of fungus
GO:0016048detection of temperature stimulus
GO:0050982detection of mechanical stimulus

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0009605response to external stimulus
GO:0051606detection of stimulus