Term Name: melanocyte differentiation
Synonyms: melanocyte cell differentiation, melanophore differentiation
Definition: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a melanocyte.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0030318]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is a type of: pigment cell differentiation
has subtype: early stripe melanocyte differentiation late stripe melanocyte differentiation
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of melanocyte differentiation
positively regulated by: positive regulation of melanocyte differentiation
regulated by: regulation of melanocyte differentiation