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Term Information

Accession
GO:0030437
Name
ascospore formation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
ascospore biosynthesis, spore formation, sporulation
Alternate IDs
GO:0007151
Definition
The process in which cells that are products of meiosis acquire the specialized features of ascospores. Ascospores are generally found in clusters of four or eight spores within a single mother cell, the ascus, and are characteristic of the ascomycete fungi (phylum Ascomycota). Source: GOC:mcc, GOC:mah, GOC:di, PMID:16339736
Comment
Note that ascospores and asci are separate biological structures. The ascus is the structure that contain the ascospores, but the development of the ascus is a different process than the formation of the ascospores themselves; for instance, some mutations affect sporulation without affecting ascus development. For this reason, GO:0030437 ascospore formation and GO:0075317 ascus development are different terms and are not linked.
History
See term history for GO:0030437 at QuickGO
Subset
goslim_pombe
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Parents of ascospore formation (GO:0030437)
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ascospore formation [is_a relation] is_a  reproductive process in single-celled organism (GO:0022413)
ascospore formation [is_a relation] is_a  meiotic cell cycle process (GO:1903046)
ascospore formation [is_a relation] is_a  sexual sporulation resulting in formation of a cellular spore (GO:0043935)
ascospore formation [is_a relation] is_a  cell development (GO:0048468)
Children of ascospore formation (GO:0030437)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
ascospore-type prospore assembly (GO:0031321) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  ascospore formation
regulation of ascospore formation (GO:0034307) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  ascospore formation
negative regulation of ascospore formation (GO:0075297) [RO:0002212 relation] RO:0002212  ascospore formation
positive regulation of ascospore formation (GO:0075296) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  ascospore formation
ascospore wall biogenesis (GO:0070591) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  ascospore formation
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