tail tip morphogenesis

id: GO:0045138
name: tail tip morphogenesis
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The process in which the anatomical structures of the tail tip are generated and organized. The tail tip undergoes morphogenesis to form a copulatory structure. The most posterior hypodermal cells in the tail define a specialized, sexually dimorphic compartment in which cells fuse and retract in the male, changing their shape from a tapered cone to a blunt dome. An example of this process is found in Caenorhabditis elegans.

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