Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants /

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Imprint:Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint : Springer, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (463 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13397414
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Other authors / contributors:Sawada, Hitoshi., editor
Inoue, Naokazu., editor
Iwano, Megumi., editor
International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants.
ISBN:4431545891
9784431545897
9784431563518
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
English.
Summary:This book contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants, where many plant and animal reproductive biologists gathered to discuss their recent progress in investigating the shared mechanisms and factors involved in sexual reproduction. This now is the first book that reviews recent progress in almost all fields of plant and animal fertilization. It was recently reported that the self-sterile mechanism of a hermaphroditic marine invertebrate (ascidian) is very similar to the self-incompatibility system in flowering plants. It was also found that a male factor expressed in the sperm cells of flowering plants is involved in gamete fusion not only of plants but also of animals and parasites. These discoveries have led to the consideration that the core mechanisms or factors involved in sexual reproduction may be shared by animals, plants and unicellular organisms. This valuable book is highly useful for reproductive biologists as well as for biological scientists outside this field in understanding the current progress of reproductive biology.
Other form:4431545883
Standard no.:10.1007/978-4-431-54589-7.