anterior/posterior pattern specification

id: GO:0009952
name: anterior/posterior pattern specification
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The regionalization process in which specific areas of cell differentiation are determined along the anterior-posterior axis. The anterior-posterior axis is defined by a line that runs from the head or mouth of an organism to the tail or opposite end of the organism.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0001756somitogenesis
GO:0007355anterior region determination
GO:0007356thorax and anterior abdomen determination
GO:0007359posterior abdomen determination
GO:0007366periodic partitioning by pair rule gene
GO:0007386compartment pattern specification
GO:0007448anterior/posterior pattern specification, imaginal disc
GO:0021512spinal cord anterior/posterior patterning
GO:0021797forebrain anterior/posterior pattern specification
GO:0021903rostrocaudal neural tube patterning
GO:0034672anterior/posterior pattern specification involved in pronephros development
GO:0035054embryonic heart tube anterior/posterior pattern specification
GO:0060423foregut regionalization

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0003002regionalization