Taxis Response MeSH Descriptor Data 2025

MeSH Heading: Taxis Response
Tree Number(s): F01.145.113.780; F01.145.875.439.500; G07.568.500.590; G11.427.410.568.850
Unique ID: D000071442
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000071442
Scope Note: A behavior in free-moving organism that results in motion or orientation toward or away from an external stimulus.
Entry Term(s): Compass Orientation; Galvanotaxis; Heat Avoidance; Thermal Avoidance; Thermotaxis; Tropotaxis
Public MeSH Note: 2017
History Note: 2017
Date Established: 2017/01/01
Date of Entry: 2016/07/05
Revision Date: 2016/05/31

Allowable Qualifiers: classification (CL)

drug effects (DE)

ethics (ES)

physiology (PH)

radiation effects (RE)

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms [F01]
- Behavior [F01.145]
  - Behavior, Animal [F01.145.113]

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms [F01]
- Behavior [F01.145]
  - Spatial Behavior [F01.145.875]
    - Orientation, Spatial [F01.145.875.439]
      - Taxis Response [F01.145.875.439.500]
        
        Chemotaxis [F01.145.875.439.500.500]
        
        Escape Reaction [F01.145.875.439.500.688]
        
        Phototaxis [F01.145.875.439.500.875]

Physiological Phenomena [G07]
- Movement [G07.568]
  - Locomotion [G07.568.500]
    - Cell Movement [G07.568.500.180]
    - Taxis Response [G07.568.500.590]

Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena [G11]
- Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena [G11.427]
  - Movement [G11.427.410]
    - Locomotion [G11.427.410.568]

Taxis Response Preferred

Compass Orientation Related

Tropotaxis Narrower

Galvanotaxis Narrower

Heat Avoidance Narrower

Thermotaxis Narrower

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