| Name: | pharyngeal pouch |
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| Synonyms: | pharyngeal pouches |
| Definition: | Outpocketings of pharyngeal endoderm that interdigitate with the neural crest derived pharyngeal arches. The pouches later fuse with the surface ectoderm to form the gill slits. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0001106] |
| Name: | adherens junction organization |
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| Synonyms: | adherens junction organisation |
| Definition: | A process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of an adherens junction. An adherens junction is a cell-cell junction composed of the epithelial cadherin-catenin complex at which the cytoplasmic face of the plasma membrane is attached to actin filaments. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0034332] QuickGO AmiGO |