nurse cell apoptosis

id: GO:0045476
name: nurse cell apoptosis
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The process in which nurse cells undergo apoptosis. During late oogenesis, following the transfer of substances from the nurse cells to the oocyte, nurse cell remnants are cleared from the egg chamber by apoptosis.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006915apoptosis
GO:0048610cellular process involved in reproduction