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GO: Biological Process
embryonic hemocyte differentiation
- Term ID
- GO:0035163
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- embryonic arthropod blood cell differentiation
- embryonic hemocyte cell differentiation
- Definition
- The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell derived from the embryonic head mesoderm acquires the specialized features of a mature hemocyte. Hemocytes are blood cells associated with a hemocoel (the cavity containing most of the major organs of the arthropod body) which are involved in defense and clotting of hemolymph, but not involved in transport of oxygen. 14602069
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