Studies of fertilization VI The mechanism of fertilization in Arbacia
Studies of fertilization VI The mechanism of fertilization in Arbacia
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DOI：
10.1002/jez.1400160404
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1914-05-01
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Lillie, FR
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Lillie, FR
The fifth study of this series on “The behavior of the spermatozoa of Nereis and Arbacia with special reference to egg extractives” forms the prelude to the present study. In that paper I dealt with the phenomena of activation and of aggregation (chemotaxis) of spermatozoa and with their agglutination by egg secretions of the same species. Regarding fertilization as involving chemical interaction of the ovum ‘and the spermatozoon, I concluded from some of the modes of behavior of the spermatozoa, especially the agglutination phenomena, that “these small motile cells may prove better indicators of some of the reactions involved in fertilization than the slowly reacting egg” and that we might “confidently expect that study of the reactions of spermatozoa will break a new path into the field of fertilization.’’The results described in the present paper have been obtained largely by the use of sperm-suspensions as indicators, but also by the study of an inhibitor of fertilization contained in the blood of certain individuals of the same species. These methods reveal a striking series of facts which appear to me to justify a somewhat new point of view b regard to some, of the problems of fertilieation. I have already briefly presented this point of view in a rather special form with an outline of the main facts in a preliminary paper (Lillie’13).
