The site of fertilisation determines dorsoventral polarity but not chirality in the zebra mussel embryo

Zygote

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 125-135

  Luetjens, Craig Marc ^a   Dorresteijn, Adriaan W C ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centrifugation; Dorsoventral polarity; Embryo; Nocodazole; Sperm entry

Indexed keywords

DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; SPIRALIA;

NOCODAZOLE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CELL DIVISION; CENTRIFUGATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIVISION; CENTRIFUGATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NOCODAZOLE; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0032060306     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199498000045     Document Type: Article

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