FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term melanization defense response ID (Ontology) GO:0035006 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The blackening of the wounded area of the cuticle or the surface of invading pathogens, parasites or parasitoids, resulting from a proteolytic cascade leading to the de novo synthesis and deposition of melanin.[ PubMed:12408809 ]
Also Known As "melanization defence response"
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Genes (FBgn)  GO_BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS      18
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 melanization defense response (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       1     18
     involved_in | melanization defense response       --      18
 NOT | involved_in | melanization defense response       --       1
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immune response
 |__innate immune response____________________
phenol-containing compound metabolic process  |
 |__melanin metabolic process_________________|
secondary metabolic process                   |
 |__melanin metabolic process_________________|
pigment metabolic process                     |
 |__melanin metabolic process_________________|
defense response to symbiont                  |
 |__innate immune response____________________|
                                              melanization defense response  58 rec.
                                               |__melanotic encapsulation of foreign target 32 rec.
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