Term Information

Accession
GO:0044399
Name
multi-species biofilm formation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
multi-species surface biofilm formation, multi-species biofilm formation in or on host organism, multi-species biofilm formation on inanimate substrate, multi-species submerged biofilm formation
Alternate IDs
GO:0090607, GO:0090608, GO:0044400, GO:0044401
Definition
A process in which planktonically growing microorganisms of different species grow at a liquid-air interface or on a solid substrate under the flow of a liquid and produce extracellular polymers that facilitate matrix formation, resulting in a change in the organisms' growth rate and gene transcription. Source: GOC:tb, GOC:cc, GOC:di
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0044399 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of multi-species biofilm formation (GO:0044399)
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multi-species biofilm formation [is_a relation] is_a  biological process involved in symbiotic interaction (GO:0044403)
multi-species biofilm formation [is_a relation] is_a  biofilm formation (GO:0042710)
Children of multi-species biofilm formation (GO:0044399)
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cell adhesion involved in multi-species biofilm formation (GO:0043710) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  multi-species biofilm formation
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