Term Name: compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death
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Definition: 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.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0046667]   QuickGO   AmiGO

Relationships
is part of: compound eye morphogenesis
is a type of: retinal cell programmed cell death
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death
positively regulated by: positive regulation of compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death
regulated by: regulation of compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death