Category:GO:0007409 ! axonogenesis

name: axonogenesis
namespace: biological_process
alt_id: GO:0007410
def: "De novo generation of a long process of a neuron, including the terminal branched region. Refers to the morphogenesis or creation of shape or form of the developing axon, which carries efferent (outgoing) action potentials from the cell body towards target cells." [GOC:dph, GOC:jid, GOC:pg, GOC:pr, ISBN:0198506732]
comment: Note that 'axonogenesis' differs from 'axon development' in that the latter also covers other processes, such as axon regeneration (regrowth after loss or damage, not necessarily of the whole axon).
synonym: "axon growth" NARROW []
synonym: "axon morphogenesis" EXACT [GOC:bf, PMID:23517308]
synonym: "neuron long process generation" EXACT systematic_synonym []
is_a: GO:0048812 ! neuron projection morphogenesis
relationship: part_of: GO:0048667 ! cell morphogenesis involved in neuron differentiation
relationship: part_of: GO:0061564 ! axon development

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0007409</GOterm>
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