AmiGO 2: Term Details for "melanocyte differentiation" (GO:0030318)

Accession: GO:0030318
Name: melanocyte differentiation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: melanocyte cell differentiation, melanophore differentiation
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a melanocyte. Source: GOC:mah
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0030318 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to melanocyte differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to melanocyte differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for melanocyte differentiation (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
melanocyte differentiation	is_a	pigment cell differentiation (GO:0050931)
melanocyte differentiation	RO:0002315	melanocyte (CL:0000148)
melanocyte differentiation	RO:0002162	Craniata (NCBITaxon:89593)

subject	relation	object
early stripe melanocyte differentiation (GO:0050933)	is_a	melanocyte differentiation
late stripe melanocyte differentiation (GO:0050934)	is_a	melanocyte differentiation
positive regulation of melanocyte differentiation (GO:0045636)	RO:0002213	melanocyte differentiation
negative regulation of melanocyte differentiation (GO:0045635)	RO:0002212	melanocyte differentiation
regulation of melanocyte differentiation (GO:0045634)	RO:0002211	melanocyte differentiation

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