Pharyngeal pumping


Definition: The contraction and relaxation movements of the pharyngeal muscle that mediate feeding in nematodes.

ID: GO:0043050

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Articles referencing this term

Transcription regulatory networks in Caenorhabditis elegans inferred through reverse-engineering of gene expression profiles constitute biological hypotheses for metazoan development
Vanessa Vermeirssen, Anagha Joshi, Tom Michoel, Eric Bonnet, Tine Casneuf and Yves Van de Peer, Mol. BioSyst., 2009 , 5 , 1817
DOI: 10.1039/b908108a


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