neuron fate specification

id: GO:0048665
name: neuron fate specification
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The process in which a cell becomes capable of differentiating autonomously into a neuron in an environment that is neutral with respect to the developmental pathway. Upon specification, the cell fate can be reversed.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0021518spinal cord commissural neuron specification
GO:0021519spinal cord association neuron specification
GO:0021520spinal cord motor neuron cell fate specification
GO:0021521ventral spinal cord interneuron specification
GO:0042667auditory receptor cell fate specification
GO:0043704photoreceptor cell fate specification

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0001708cell fate specification