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Figure 3 in Apocrine secretion of the egg hull in oogenesis and exclusion of sperm organelles at fertilization make reproduction in Chitonida (Mollusca) unique
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Figure 3. (A) SEM of egg of Stenosemus albus exhibiting the spinous hull typical of Chitonina. Scale bar = 50 µm. (B) SEM of portion of egg of S. albus showing sperm (arrow) penetrating one of a series of pores in the hull (P) located at the bases of spines. Scale bar = 5 μm. (C) Tip of needle-like extension of sperm of S. albus, showing acrosomal vesicle (AV) and tip of nuclear filament (N). Scale bar = 0.1 µm. (D) Light micrograph (LM) taken with Nomarski optics of
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Published as part of Buckland-Nicks, John, 2014, Apocrine secretion of the egg hull in oogenesis and exclusion of sperm organelles at fertilization make reproduction in Chitonida (Mollusca) unique, pp. 2885-2897 in Journal of Natural History 48 (45-48) on page 2892, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2014.958113, http://zenodo.org/record/5194648
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