Sperm attractant in the micropyle region of fish and insect eggs

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Yanagimachi, Ryuzo ^a   Cherr, Gary ^b   Matsubara, Takahiro ^c   Andoh, Tadashi ^c   Harumi, Tatsuo ^d   Vines, Carol ^b   Pillai, Murali ^e   Griffin, Frederick ^b   Matsubara, Hajime ^f   Weatherby, Tina ^g   Kaneshiro, Kenneth ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^d ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^e SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Drosophila; Egg; Fertilization; Fish; Insect; Micropyle; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ANAZOLENE SODIUM; GLYCOPROTEIN; IONOMYCIN; LECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CHORION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FISH; FLOUNDER; GAMETE; HERRING; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; BUTTERFLIES; CALCIUM; CHORION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FISHES; FLOUNDER; GLYCOPROTEINS; INSECTS; IONOMYCIN; MALE; MUSCIDAE; ODONATA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; OOCYTES; ORYZIAS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; CLUPEIDAE; HEXAPODA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 84877018811     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.105072     Document Type: Article

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