Gamete binding and fusion

Cell Fusions: Regulation and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 185-201

  Yi, Young Joo ^a,b   Zimmerman, Shawn W ^a   Sutovsky, Peter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrosome; CD81; CD9; egg; eqatorin MN9; exocytosis; fertilization; Izumo; membrane fusion; SNAREs; sperm; vesiculation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900161736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9772-9_8     Document Type: Chapter

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