Victor Vacquier injecting sea urchin (left) and magnification of the egg fertilization (right)

• 1981

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography

This digital file is a surrogate of an item from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Technical Publications Office Records (Box 5, Folder 2).

At right, sea urchin sperm are shown detaching from the egg surface in the seconds following fusion of one sperm with the egg. An enzyme (discovered at Scripps) coming out of the fertilizing egg digests the bonds between the supernumerary sperm and the egg surface.

• Vacquier, Victor

• Portrait photography

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• Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Technical Publications Office Records

Photograph published in Scripps Institution of Oceanography's 1981 annual report, page 28.

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2024-04-22