Fertilization is not a single event but a series of interactions between the egg and sperm which lead to the eventual joining of nuclear materials to establish the hereditary constitution of the early embryo. Many of the events comprising the phenomenon of fertilization are fundamentally the same throughout the animal kingdom and provide a common thread tying together aspects unique to different groups. In this book, the author employs a comparative approach by highlighting the differences and similarities between fertilization mechanisms in mammals, non-mammals and invertebrates. Since the...
Fertilization is not a single event but a series of interactions between the egg and sperm which lead to the eventual joining of nuclear materials to ...