caste determination, influence by genetic factors

id: GO:0048649
name: caste determination, influence by genetic factors
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The process in which individuals, having the potential to develop any of several distinct developmental paths, have their individual developmental fate determined in response to genetic cues. Individuals with distinct developmental fates perform different functions in a colony of social insects.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0048648caste determination
GO:0048652polyphenic determination, influence by genetic factors