FB2026_03 , released September 17, 2026

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General Information

Term

compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death

ID (Ontology)

GO:0046667 (Gene Ontology)

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.[ PubMed:12006672 ]

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Data Class	Field	Direct annotations
Genes (FBgn)	GO_BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS

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compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)
involved_in \| compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death

Spanning Tree (Parents/Children)

programmed cell death involved in cell development
 |__retinal cell programmed cell death__
eye morphogenesis                       |
 |__compound eye morphogenesis__________|
 |__retinal cell programmed cell death__|
compound eye development                |
 |__compound eye morphogenesis__________|
                                        compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death  26 rec.
                                         |__regulation of compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death 14 rec.
                                             |__negative regulation of compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death 7 rec.
                                             |__positive regulation of compound eye retinal cell programmed cell death(+) 5 rec.

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Is a	retinal cell programmed cell death
Part of	compound eye morphogenesis
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