Cephalic furrow formation

Definition: Formation of a partial necklace of inturning tissue on the lateral sides of the embryo, along the dorsal-ventral axis. This furrow demarcates head from thorax in the developing protostome.

ID: GO:0007376

Articles referencing this term

Building proteomic pathways using Drosophila ventral furrow formation as a model
Mamta Puri, Anupam Goyal, Nina Senutovich, Susan R. Dowd and Jonathan S. Minden, Mol. BioSyst., 2008 , 4 , 1126
DOI: 10.1039/b812153b