A novel trans-complementation assay suggests full mammalian oocyte activation is coordinately initiated by multiple, submembrane sperm components

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 747-755

  Perry, A C F ^a   Wakayama, T ^a   Yanagimachi, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033062013     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.3.747     Document Type: Article

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