Major components of a sea urchin block to polyspermy are structurally and functionally conserved

Evolution and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 134-153

  Wong, Julian L ^a   Wessel, Gary M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEOLIAISIN PROTEIN, STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EVOLUTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; EVOLUTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEA URCHIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; EVOLUTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEA URCHINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; ZYGOTE;

ECHINOIDEA; LYTECHINUS; LYTECHINUS VARIEGATUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 2342636420     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2004.04019.x     Document Type: Article

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