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Postovulatory cell death: why eggs die via apoptosis in biological species with external fertilization

Spawned unfertilized eggs have been found to die by apoptosis in several species with external fertilization. However, there is no necessity for the externally laid eggs to degrade via this process, as apoptosis evolved as a mechanism to reduce the damaging effects of individual cell death on the wh...

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Autores principales: TOKMAKOV, Alexander A., SATO, Ken-Ichi, STEFANOV, Vasily E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Society for Reproduction and Development 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5830352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29081453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1262/jrd.2017-100