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. [ http://zfin.org/ZDB-PUB-041029-8 ]
Synonyms: pharyngeal pouches
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Subclass of:
- pharyngeal epithelium
- pharyngeal pouch
- multi-tissue structure
- embryonic structure
- part of some pharyngeal arch
- end stage some unknown
- existence starts during or after some segmentation:14-19 somites
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