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Sexual reproduction in animals and plants

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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.

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571.8 SEX s

Publisher

Tokyo : Springer Open., 2014

Collation

xii, 480p. : ill.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9784431545897

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571.8

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Subject(s)

Cytology
Life sciences
Botany
Developmental biology
Reproduction

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edited by Hitoshi Sawada, Naokazu Inoue, Megumi Iwano

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