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cilium or flagellum-dependent cell motility
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Cell motility due to movement of eukaryotic cilia or bacterial-type flagella or archaeal-type flagella. [ ]
Term info
Label
cilium or flagellum-dependent cell motility
Synonyms
- ciliary/flagellar motility
Subsets
gocheck_do_not_manually_annotate
comment
Note that we deem eukaryotic cilia and microtubule-based flagella to be equivalent, while the bacterial- and archaeal-type flagella have a different structure. The former are microtubule-based structures that lash back and forth and are present only in eukaryotes, while the latter achieve motility by rotation. Bacterial- and archaeal-type flagella are superficially similar but have a different molecular composition and fine structure. These three structures never co-exist in the same organism. Therefore, GO:0001539 'cilium or flagellum-dependent cell motility' is in the subset of terms that should not be used for direct gene product annotation. Instead, select a child term. Direct annotations to GO:0001539 'cilium or flagellum-dependent cell motility' may be amended during annotation QC.
has obo namespace
biological_process
has related synonym
ciliary or bacterial-type flagellar motility
id
GO:0001539