Term: pharyngeal pouch adherens junction organization
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Name: pharyngeal pouch
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
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