The process of physically separating the septal cell wall material by enzymatic digestion, that occurs after daughter cells are separated by cytokinesis. [ GOC:vw GOC:mtg_cell_cycle ]
Synonyms: cell separation following cytokinesis
Term information
This term should not be used to describe the last step of cytokinesis in organisms without a cell wall, ie, the cell resealing of the plasma membrane via abscission. Consider annotating to 'GO:0061952 midbody abscission' to capture this process.
cytokinetic cell separation
daughter cell separation
cell separation after cytokinesis