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Unlaid Xenopus eggs degrade by apoptosis in the genital tract

BACKGROUND: In several species with external fertilization, including frogs, laid unfertilized eggs were found to die by apoptosis outside of the animal body. However, there is no apparent reason for the externally laid eggs to degrade by this process, considering that apoptosis developed as a mecha...

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Autores principales: Iguchi, Sho, Iwasaki, Tetsushi, Fukami, Yasuo, Tokmakov, Alexander A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23452868
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2121-14-11