Trypsin-like enzymes during fertilization in the shrimp Rhynchocinetes typus

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 581-586

  Rios, M ^a   Barros, C ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

egg coat; fertilization; shrimp; sperm; trypsin like

Indexed keywords

TRYPSIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EXOCYTOSIS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINASE INHIBITION; SHRIMP; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TRYPSIN; TRYPSIN INHIBITORS;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GLYCINE MAX; RHYNCHOCINETES TYPUS;

EID: 0030972918     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199704)46:4<581::AID-MRD15>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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