Intracellular injections of a soluble sperm factor trigger calcium oscillations and meiotic maturation in unfertilized oocytes of a marine worm

Developmental Biology

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 185-201

  Stricker, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ELECTROPORATION; FERTILIZATION; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; WORM;

ANIMALIA; CEREBRATULUS LACTEUS; NEMERTEAN; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS;

EID: 0030877839     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8594     Document Type: Article

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