Possible causal relation between the acrosome reaction and cross‐fertilization in the sea urchins hemicentrotus pulcherrimus and pseudocentrotus depressus
作者:
Kenji Aketa,
Tadayuki Ohta,
期刊:
Gamete Research
(WILEY Available online 1979)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 1
页码: 15-23
ISSN:0148-7280
年代: 1979
DOI:10.1002/mrd.1120020103
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
关键词: fertilization;acrosome reaction;sea urchins;cross‐fertilization;species specificity
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractSperm of Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus undergo the acrosome reaction in the jelly coat or on the surface of the vitelline layer of Pseudocentrotus depressus eggs and can fertilize the latter, whereas those of P depressus do not undergo the acrosome reaction even after they strike the vitelline layer of H pulcherrimus eggs and cannot cross‐fertilize.In the latter combination, however, if cross‐insemination is performed in the presence of homologous egg water, cross‐fertilization becomes less difficult than in normal seawater, and percentage cross‐fertilization rises as does percentage acrosome reaction. It is suggested that the cross‐fertilizability of this combination depends highly on the inductivity of the acrosome reaction. The reason why such a causal relation is observed is
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