Cinematographic observation of an ?activation wave? (AW) on the locally inseminated egg ofXenopus laevis
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Wilhelm Roux' Archiv für Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen
- Vol. 186 (1), 91-94
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00848113
Abstract
Shortly after local artificial insemination, but well before egg rotation,Xenopus eggs show a wave-like propagation of dark-light-dark zones from the site of sperm entrance. This presumably reflects the movement of the front of cortical granule breakdown.Keywords
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