compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0046667
Programmed cell death that occurs in the retina to remove excess cells between ommatidia, thus resulting in a hexagonal lattice, precise with respect to cell number and position surrounding each ommatidium. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12006672 ]
Term info
has obo namespace
biological_process
id
GO:0046667
Term relations
Subclass of:
- retinal cell programmed cell death
- results in maturation of some compound eye
- part of some compound eye morphogenesis