The assembly of a cilium, a specialized eukaryotic organelle that consists of a filiform extrusion of the cell surface. Each cilium is bounded by an extrusion of the cytoplasmic membrane, and contains a regular longitudinal array of microtubules, anchored basally in a centriole. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27350441 GOC:pr GOC:cilia http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13978319 GOC:BHF GOC:kmv https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0198506732 https://www.reactome.org/content/detail/R-HSA-5617833.2 GOC:dph GOC:vw ]

Synonyms: cilium formation ciliogenesis microtubule-based flagellum assembly

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Term information

RO 0002161

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_3398

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_3312

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_3378

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_4890

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_5782

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_3176

comment

Note that we deem cilium and microtubule-based flagellum to be equivalent.

hasAlternativeId

GO:0042384

hasOBONamespace

biological_process

has related synonym

cilium biogenesis

cilium organization

cilium morphogenesis

id

GO:0060271