Term Information

Accession
GO:0021509
Name
roof plate formation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
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Alternate IDs
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Definition
The formation of a single row of glia at the dorsal midline of the developing neural tube. This region provides inductive signals for the specification of neuronal cell types and of the specification of neural crest cells. The cells comprising the roof plate are the precursors to radial glial cells. Source: GOC:cls, GOC:dph, GO_REF:0000021, PMID:15936325, GOC:dgh, GOC:jid
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History
See term history for GO:0021509 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of roof plate formation (GO:0021509)
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roof plate formation [is_a relation] is_a  anatomical structure formation involved in morphogenesis (GO:0048646)
roof plate formation [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  neural tube formation (GO:0001841)

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