A fluid that is composed of blood plasma and erythrocytes.
Comment:
[homology-note] "Recent findings strongly suggest that the molecular pathways involved in the development and function of blood cells are highly conserved among vertebrates and various invertebrates phyla. (...) There is now good reason to believe that, in vertebrates and invertebrates alike, blood cell lineages diverge from a common type of progenitor cell, the hemocytoblast.[well established][VHOG]" xsd:string {date_retrieved="2012-09-17", external_class="VHOG:0000224", ontology="VHOG", source="DOI:10.1146/annurev.cellbio.22.010605.093317 Hartenstein V, Blood cells and blood cell development in the animal kingdom. Annual review of cell and developmental biology (2006) ", source="http://bgee.unil.ch/"}