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Any process specifically pertinent to the functioning of integrated living units: cells, tissues, organs, and organisms. A process is a collection of molecular events with a defined beginning and end. The chemical reactions and pathways involving a pigment, any general or particular coloring matter in living organisms, resulting in the deposition or aggregation of pigment in an organism, tissue or cell. The aggregation of coloring matter in a particular location in an organism, tissue or cell, occurring in response to some external stimulus. The deposition or aggregation of coloring matter in a cell. The deposition or aggregation of coloring matter in an organism, tissue or cell. The deposition or aggregation of coloring matter in an ocellus, a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates. null The developmental process that results in the deposition of coloring matter in an organism, tissue or cell.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: pigmentation
Acc: GO:0043473
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The deposition or aggregation of coloring matter in an organism, tissue or cell.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 68 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 256 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0043473 - pigmentation (interactive image map)
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