Previous studies of fertilization on root biomass have reported similar findings to our study.
Cellular fusion as a source of genomic instability in cancer is an idea that developed originally from studies of fertilization.
These findings have important implications for our understanding of the role of epididymal sperm maturation in eutherian conception and for the interpretation of previous studies of fertilization conducted in vitro.
The study of fertility also encompasses pregnancy, especially the early weeks following fertilization.
This is exemplified here in a correlative study of male fertilization success in a large colony of American barn swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster).
Studies of mouse fertilization have suggested that the analysis of such cytoplasmic movements (i.e., to report the simultaneous Ca2+ transients) may provide an early and effective indication of zygote viability after IVF (16).
There are also conflicting results for studies of timing of fertilization and sex ratio (reviewed in Martin (12)).
In follow-up to an earlier study of in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes in Europe and the U.S. for the year 2001, the present study reports on 2002 outcomes in an attempt to determine diverging practice trends.
An efficient manual crossing procedure has been developped based on a microscopic study of pollination and fertilization kinetics in relation to the intact flower morphology of M. truncatula (E.-P. Journet, unpublished).
