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pharyngeal bar
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0034937
Term info
Label
pharyngeal bar
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
gill bar, branchial bar
id
UBERON:0034937
present in taxon
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7737, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_117569
taxon notes
Haikouella possessed a small number of pharyngeal bars that may have been composed of mucocartilage, as in modern lampreys (Holland and Chen, 2001). the pharyngeal bars of Haikouella were probably derived from neural crest, as were the sensory components of the cranial nerves that innervated its pharyngeal muscles[http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/4/743.full]