segment specification

id: GO:0007379
name: segment specification
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The process in which segments assume individual identities; exemplified in insects by the actions of the products of the homeotic genes.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0001757somite specification
GO:0007380specification of segmental identity, head
GO:0035292specification of segmental identity, trunk
GO:0072081specification of nephron tubule identity

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0007389pattern specification process