The process in which relatively unspecialized cells acquire specialized structural and/or functional features that characterize the mature cells of the hindbrain. Differentiation includes the processes involved in commitment of a cell to a specific fate. [ GOC:jid GOC:dgh http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000021 GOC:cls GOC:dph ]
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- cell differentiation
- only in taxon some Craniata
- in taxon only Craniata
- occurs in some hindbrain
- part of some hindbrain development