branch fusion, open tracheal system

id: GO:0035147
name: branch fusion, open tracheal system
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Fusing of specific tracheal branches in an open tracheal system to branches from neighboring hemisegments to form a continuous tracheal network. Branch fusion is mediated by individual cells at the tip of each branch, which contact a similar cell and undergo a coordinated series of morphogenetic events that create a bicellular fusion joint.

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